ANOTHER ORIENT LINER.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 107, 7 May 1924, Page 7

ANOTHER ORIENT LINER.

' I AS LARGE AS AOKANGI. TO BE BUILT IN 18 MONTHS. Eighteen months is the contract time in which Messrs. Vickers, Limited, have undertaken to deliver to the Orient Co.; a new steamer of 20,000 tons, of the same design as the Orama and Oronsay, now building. This new liner win be equal in size to the largest vessels trading to Australia, and she will have a displacement as great as that of the new motor-ship Aorangi, that is being built for the Union Co.'s Canadian-Australian mail service. I She will have twin screws and be fitted : with geared turbines, using oil, instead of coal, as fuel. Her tonnage will approximate 20,000 tons, with the following dimensions: Length, 630 feet; beam, 75° feet: depth, 47 feet. A feature of the vessel will be the great number of single berth cabins in the saloons for a total accommodation of about 600 passengers, of whom 250 will be accommodated in the sinsrle-berth cabins. Altogether, the new liner will be able to carry about 1250 passengers, in three classes. The space for general cargo and the cargo- | handling appliances will be a considerable improvement upon the present Orient steomers Ormonde and Orvieto, ' which are 14,800 nrd 12.110 tOM srross ! register respectively. There will he ' accommodation in insulated holds for ', close on 4000 tons of refrigerated cargo.