| Entry Text: | LAXON, W.A. Davey and the Awatea. 220p., illus., index. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1997. ISBN: 0864692897.
Arthur Davey captained the Union Steam Ship Company's Awatea, the fastest and most luxurious merchant ship in the southern hemisphere in the 1930's. This biography records the careers of both the ship and her most famous master. She was sunk off Bougie while acting as a troopship. Her war service is well recorded. |
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