MOTOR PASSENGER VESSEL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 155, 1 July 1913, Page 6

MOTOR PASSENGER VESSEL.

—• BUILT FOR NORTHERN -STEAMSHIP COMPANY. (From Our Specia.l Correspondent.) LONDON. May 31. Recently there was completed by Messrs. Thornycroft an interesting twin-screw motor-driven passenger vesvel, for the Northern Steamship Co., ot Auckland. Her dimensions are 95ft. over-all by 17 ft. beam by sft. depth. With ten tons of cargo on board the draft is 2ft. 3in„ and the guaranteeds speed with this load is 11 knots. She is intended for harbour and river service, and the light draft will enable her to get over any ordinary " bar." The hull is built of galvanised mild steel plates and angles. A promenade deck, carried on steel framing, extends for about 60ft. of the vessel's length; above this there is an awning deck consisting of corrugated iron sheets fitted into light steel framework. A hold for cargo is arranged forward, ahaft which is the machinery space, while aft there is a small cargo hold. On the upper deck two deck houses are arranged. The propelling machinery consists of two sets of Thornycroft 100 h.p. fourcylinder paraffin motors driving solid propellers through Thornycroft reverse gears. Fuel is carried in two large tanks situated one

on either side of the engineroom. There is a complete installation of electric light, the current being supplied from a separate generator worked direct off a low-power paraffin motor. Combined on tbe same bed-plate and worked by the same motor are the bilge pump and auxiliary air compressor, giving a very compact arrangement.