THE CAIRNTOUL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 33, 10 February 1890, Page 2

THE CAIRNTOUL.

THE . UNION STEAMSHIP COM PANY'S NEW STEAMER.

A CARGO VESSEL.

The latest addition to the Union Stoaunship Company's fine " red-funnel " fleet, exclusive of the new steamer Moiiowai, which has not vet reached the colony, is the Cairntoul, a fine substantial cargo-carrier, of 1,668 tons gross register, of the typo of vessel now corning into favour so much at Home as large useful cargo boats. The Cairntoul is jusb now in Auckland Harbour for the first time, having- arrived hero yesterday morning from Westport with a load of over 2,000 tons coal, the largest cargo yet despatched from the West Coast in one bottom. She left Westport on the morning of the 6th inst. and had light S.E. hazy weather oil the trip round the coast. Her cargo of coal is partly for the Sliaw-Savill ship Canterbury and for H.M.s. Orlando and H.M. gunboat Lizard. To-day she was discharging gome 450 tons of coal into the Canterbury for thab vessel's refri-rOrtitins engines, and on the completion of tho work she will transfer about SSO tons into the bunkers of the two warships. iShe return's South on Wednesday. . The Cairntoul's registered tonnage is 1,663 tons gross and 1,071 tons net. She is essentially a cargo boat, having only accomodafcion aft for a couple- of passengers. She is capable of carrying somewhat over 2,600 tons of deadweight cargo on a draught of canteen feet of water. For cargo-carry-ing purposes she has four large hatches fitted with patent steam winches for the rapid reception and discharge of cargo, either coal or grain. All the latest inventions in the way of labour-saving appliances hfive been adopted by her owners. She is a shapaly-icoking vessel somewhat after the style of the Pukaki, of the samo fleet, and has steel decks. She is smartly ringed as a topsail schooner, fior : Length, 260 feet ; beam, 37 feet; with 16 feet 8 inches depth of hold. In the cabin affc there is comfortable accommodation for the master and officers, while the seamen and firemen are quartered forward. The steamer's engines, are of trie triple expansion type and of 155 nominal horsepower, the diameters of the cylinders being 20 inches, 33 inches, and 54 inches respectively, with a length of stroke of 36 inches. Steam is supplied by multitubular steel boilers. Her ordinary rate of speed is about 10 knots per hour, on a daily consumption of about 11 tons of coal. She is fitted with steam steering-pear, and in other respects her labour-saving contrivances are quite up to the mark. * The Cairntoul is quite a new vessel, having been built only about eight or nine months ago on tile Tyne , , in England, by Messrs Palmer and Company, the great shipbuilding firm. She was not, however, intended originally for the Union Steamship Company of New, Zealand. She was constructed to fcWdrder of Messrs D. and Li Cairns, of Loidb' who purposed placing her in the 'Baltic trade between Russian and Swedish ports, and England. | She did hofc start in fcli.W tiawtSv&r, for soon after her corrffclStion She was parcHatsed by the Union gjfSs GomTafiy ftr thencolonial trade. Her new owners sent her

to Cardiff to load for Calcutta, whence she came oub to' Port Ghalmersafew months ago.

Captain J. Richardson, a comparatively young master in the service of tho Union Steamship Company, and late of the Ohau, commands the Cairiibeul. Captain J. Stott was in cuanre of her in the South for a few months. The denk officers are :—Mr Dunlop, chief ; Mr S. A. Reay, second ; Mr W. H. Heard, third. The engine-room is in charge of Mr Dalrymple, Mr J. F. Scotfc being second, and Mr McGregor third engineer.