NEW SHAW SAVILL LINER

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29238, 23 June 1960, Page 8

NEW SHAW SAVILL LINER

Launching By Mrs J. D. Ormond

A refrigerated cargo liner is to be launched at Belfast today for the Shaw Savill Line. It will be named Icenic and the launching ceremony will be performed by Mrs Ormond, wife of Mr J. D. Ormond, chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board. The Icenic will be the first ship operated by Shaw Savill to bear the name and, as the twenysecond vessel ordered bv the line since the end of World Warr II brings the total of new Shaw Savill tonnage in 15 years to well over 250,000 tons.

The Icenic is building at the Belfast yard of Harland and Wolff, which has launched seven other post-war vessels for Shaw Savill. They have included the 20,000 tons Southern Cross which was launched by the Queen in 1954 and is now engaged on timetable voyages round the world. Single-screw Ship

The Icenic will be a singlescrew motor vessel of approximately 11,250 gross tons, and is the third of her class. Her general design will be similar to the motor vessels lonic and Illyric, already successfully in service. She will have a service speed of 17 knots and her six cargo holds, four of which will be insulated, will have capacities of about 410.000 cubic feet bale capacity for refrigerated and chilled cargo and about 245,000 cubic feet for general cargo. Her propelling machinery consists of a single acting twostroke cycle opposed piston type Harland and Wolff diesel engine of their latest design. This engine is arranged to operate on boiler fuel. The eight cylinders are capable of developing 13,300 shaft horse-power when operating at 117 r.p.m. The layout of the machinery space has been designed, and the machinery is being installed at Belfast by Harland and Wolff. The Icenic should make her maiden voyage in December of this year, according to advice from the owners. The name Icenic derives from Iceni, an ancient British race who in early times lived in Norfolk and other parts of eastern England. They combined elements of the Bronze and Iron Age civilisations and were primitive agriculturalists living in hutvillages. At first they resisted Roman civilisation but shortly became one of the most Romanised tribes in Britain. The Iceni’s most famous ruler was Queen Boadicea, who led her people against the Roman* in A.D.61.