ROUND THE WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1927, Page 4

ROUND THE WORLD.

GOSSIP OF THE SHIPS. ITEMS OF interest. A contract was awarded recently for! what is stated to be the largest vessel, of any- type ordered in a Swedish yard, i It is particularly interesting to learn that the vessel is lor a new sh.ppinz : company which is being established by j ilr. Gtmnar Carlsson. who is the head of ( the Transatlantic Shipping Co.. of Goth- . enburg, and Mr. Eolf Sorman. the super- j intendent of the same concern. The United Slates Shipping Board has | sold the motor tanker Chestnut Hill.< of "000 tons deadweight capacity, to the'; Anglo-Chilean Consolidated Nitrate Cor-1 poraiion for conversion to direct Diesel j engine propulsion. j The motor passenger and cargo ship! ilinnipa, which has been busk lor the' Adelaide Steamship Co., by Messrs. Barmeistor and Wain. Copenhagen, is t©j be engaged in the coastal trade in Aus- J tralia. She is 252 ft 6in in length, with a j beam of 39ft 9in and a depth of 24ft 3in.the draught being loft 2in_ The tonnajr? is in the neighbourhood ofj IGOO and the deadweight capacity KOO tons of rarpo. The machinery installs-j tion is a 3GOO i-h.p. Burmeisier and Waini 'engine, mnning at 13S r.p.m. and having j eight cylinders, to give a service speed, j when fully laden of 14* knots. j It is reported that Messrs. Pusey and I Jones, of Wilmington, are to build aj | motor yacht of 2300 tons displacement. 294 ft overall, with a beam of 3*>ft Tlie machinery will be two ].>CO b±p., Bessemer Dit-xl tngines running a> 300 r.pjn. j The Finnish four-masted 1-arqnes-both been chartered to load timber at Hcrugomont and Herzogin Ceciiie have j Baltic ports for Melbourne. The Hongo-' mont. which arrived at London with: wheat from Port Lincoln, and her sister; ship the Archibald Russell, which arrived at Quee&sUi«n on May 12. axe frequent j visitors to Australia. It is interesting to note that Captain Lowe., who repre-j sen ted Andrew Weir and Co. in Australia for manv years, was at different times master of both these vessels. The -old Commonwealth lighthouse' steamer ivaniah. which was recently Isold by Mr. A. Peters, of Peters' Slip,; 'Kangaroo Point, is shortly to iea\e Bris-1 bane for Singapore. Her new owners are the Hua Kiow and Co.. of Mnar, in the Straits Settlements, and she will bp used lor trading between Singapore and the surrounding islands and ports. A new, single-screw hopper barge is now en route from Glasgow to BrisbaneShe was built by Ferguson Brothers.: Port Glasgow, to the order of the Govern-! ment of Queensland, and is intended for service at Brisbane. The vessel, which is named Dugong. left Glasgow on April 23 The death has taken place of Mr.' Henry T. Wallace, a director oi the ?<ea Insurance Company, who had served that company in various capacities lor 70 vears. He was in his STth year, and manv vears apt) he founded the "Wallace" Marine Insurance competitive examination for insurance clerks, for which he established a Tund in pcr-

petuity. Xot loag ago Burmeister asd Wain. Ltd., Copenhagen, issued a brochure dealing with their Diesel engines. They bare now published a very attractivelyII lustra ted booklet on die shipyard. The output of wiuch may reach 110.000 ions •deadweight in a year, whuss. incidentally. the total output of the engine works is in the neighbourbood oi 2/Xk<XK> h.p. ]>er year. Probably as a result of tiw coal strike, the price of Die?el oil •was increased by 12/G per ton last Xovespber. A reduction of 5/ per ton "was made in February lor Diesel oil ai British j>orta. a corresponding fall beinp noted in fuel oiL Boiler oil is now 80/ j>er ton. and Diesel oil 95/ per ton at British ports, bat it need hardly be remarked that these figures do not apply to contracts for large quantities. Two interesting British-built yachts were completed recently. One is the Crusader, and the other the Lady of ClenneL Th« latter is noteworthy arepresenting the first British yacht equipped with the Diesel electric drive. The machinery installation includes a 420 bJi.p. M_A_X. submarine-type D:e*el engine driving a dynamo which supplies power to the propelling motor. .She i; owned by Mr. Batcheior. Another interesting point about this yacht is that she was originally a steamer, and is a 51-year-old \esseL For service o£f the West Coast o; Africa. Messrs. James Pollock. Sons and

Co., Lt<L, *re 10 build a «win-?ATe'a motor vessel equipped with two oO ii.p BoliDder engine? nranin? at 500 r.p.21 Tbe vessel will he 70it loiip. The builders Lave received an order for t\rc l.>o b.b-p. Bolinder engines rurninr a: 300 r.p.ni.. *0 be fitted in a 300-ton sw; coaster building in this countrv for ser vice in Xew Zealand.