MORE WHALING VESSELS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19691, 7 August 1929, Page 18

MORE WHALING VESSELS.

THE OLD MEDIC. The Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Ltd., Jarrow and Hebburn, have secured. after keen competition, the contract (or the conversion of the Hektoria, tons gross, into a floating, whale-oil gays the "Sydney Shipping List. The | Hektoria was formerly the liner Medic, and was purchased from the White Star Line last _p. r u v Mr N. Bugge, of She hat been in the South Seas during the Reason. and was due to arrive at Palmer s.yard this month. The work, which is expected to occupy about three months, will include the installation of a considerable amount of gear &n The B tank steamer San Patricio, of about built 011 thr Tyne iu 1914 Mr Wilh. Wilhehnsen, of Tonsberg, and which was recently sold to the Anglo-Morse Company, A/S. is to be converted into a floating oil refinerv at Eriksbcrgs mek. \ erkstad, Gothenburg. The majority sb ®£eady the Anglo Norse Company, which airway owns an 8600-ton floating refanerj, four whalers and a 6000-ton transport vessel, are held bv the recently-formed Anglo-Nor-wegiun Holding Company, which also has; a large interest in the A/8 Tousbergs H va ' - fanseri. The latter company has an ll.OOOton refinery with three whalers, a land station with four whalers, and a 10,000-ton transport vessel. A new deck is to be constructed abovo the tank deck of the Maricopa, from poop to forecastle, upon which flensing operations will be carried out. Below this deck 24 blubber boilers and six Ilartmann installations will be provided, together with other necessary equipment. The vessel w*ill be fitted with six pole masts, with derricks of up to 50 tons lifting capacity. The bows are to be »*reugthened for navigation in ice. Accommodation for 150 to 200 men will be provided in the poop and forecastle, while a deckhouse for the officers will be constructed on the poop. According to the "Norses H&ndels eg Sjofartstidende," Messrs Lever Brothers have bought a sister-ship to the C. A. Larsen (ex San Gregorio) for conversion to a floating whale-oil refinery, which, it is stated, it is intended to use for pelagic whaling in the Koss Sea. . . The tank steamer San Patricio, of about 16,546 tons deadweight, built in 1915, and owned by the Eagle Oil Transport Company. Ltd., London, the sale of which vessel to the Southern Whaling and Sealing Company, Ltd., Liverpool, for about £IOO,OOO, for conversion into a whale-oi! refinery, has been renamed Southern Princess. The Norwegian ■ tank steamer San Joaquin, two decks, 6987 tons gross, 4421 tons net, carries about 10,350 tons deadweight, built by Sir J. Laing and Sons. Sunderland, in 1913, S.S. No. 3 in 1927. carrying petroleum in bulk and fitted for oil fuel, with engines 27in. 45iu, and 74in, by 54in stroke, by Messrs G. Clark, and owned by the A/S Tsnkfort (Mr W. Wilhelmsen), Oslo, has been sold to the Hektor "Whaling Company, Sandefjord, Norway.