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Description: | 1 in 96 scale model of ss 'Turakina' built by Hawthorn Leslie at Hebburn on the River Tyne in 1902. 'Turakina' was a cargo and passenger ship sailing between the UK and New Zealand. She had refrigerated holds for importing meat from New Zealand to Britain. Her foremast was fully square-rigged so she could take advantage of the strong winds in the Southern Ocean. She was owned by the New Zealand Shipping Company. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | made in the North East shipbuilding | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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