SHAW-SAVILL LINER TAINUI.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13250, 19 October 1908, Page 9

SHAW-SAVILL LINER TAINUI.

THE OLD AND'NEW. In October, 1886, the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's old linex Tainui was launched, and in her day was one of the finest vesfe-> afloat. Captain E. J. Evans, at pie_e_*i Marine Superintecdent ia New Zealand for the S-haw-Savill Company, was a numberr of years in command oif the vessel. The eld Tainui, wbkh, on her first appearance, was referred to as a "gigantic vewscl,' was of 5-00 ton* register, 5000 horee-power, ■SUOJt in lets?th, and 46ft in beam. She was ! capable of doing- 15J knots aa hour, although usually 13J was her average, on a consumption of 56 tens of coal a day. Her engines were of the -triple-expansion type» with a cviiodsx pressure oi lGJib to the e-quaro inch. It -is stated that sho was capable of carrying 24.630 carcases frozen mutton, and, in addition, an enormous amount of general cargo. Thirtv-eisrbt day 3 ___r_ 55min, from Lyttelton to Plymouth (lt,llo miles) was, one of tho old Tainui's perfarinancee, and on that occasion the actual steaming* tamo was 37 days 20brs 37mir_ . Although, it is twenty-two yeais since the ihem "priganrtis liner" Tainui was launched, «izo _i:d comfort and not speed seem to havo boati tho principal con-sidcratioM in constructing the tew Tainui, tho latest addition to I the company's pass*enger 3e*t. Her diraen- : tior.9 ure as follow:—Leji-g-th 477 ft, breadth 603 ft, depth 42Ut, and tsho has 6500 horsepower. . , , Tho r.«w Tainui ha» a sea-going speed el 13 knots, and is propelled by two sets of triple-exo-in-iou engic« working at a cyltnilcr pressure of 2031b. Tho auxiliary machinery in connection with the engine and boiler equipment is of the most unproved type throughout, and includes a talent asih ho'tt with automatic tippin*-? buckot and internal shoot. Tho ballast pumping plant has a capacity of 2QO ton- per amd efficient ' fire-txlmjruißhing apparatus ihas been fitted 1 throughout the vessel. Whoreas the old Tainui w«*s only capable • ..f carryiw.* 25.000 rurcaios *-f mutton., • tho mew vessel will be able to comfortably > stow away 100,000 carcnseß. Her registered • tor,Ta&gt> (10,500 tons) is more than double > that of the crstwthilo Tainui, which, in hex J day, was considered a floating palace.