BULK CARGO CARRIER
Arrival With Phosphate Although the 10.294-ton. single - screw motorship. Athelprincess has previously visited other New Zealand ports, she made her first call at Lyttelton when she arrived from Nauru yesterday morning to discharge 3000 tons of phosphates. The Athelprincess, which is nearly three years old, is on a phosphate charter, but normally trades between the West Indies and Britain carrying sugar in bulk. The Athelprincess is one of two bulk carriers owned by the United Molasses Company, which also owns 14 large tankers and two small tankers.
She has the funnel and engines aft and is fitted with six wing tanks (three port and three starboard) which can be used when carrying grain cargo. These will be filled with 3500 tons of fresh water for Nauru before she leaves the New Zealand coast.
Comfortably appointed and fitted with modern navigational apparatus, the 1444knot Athelprincess has a crew of 43 and is commanded bv Captain D. A. Churchill She will complete discharge of the balance of her phosphate cargo, about 8450 tons, at Ravensbourne. later this week.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29900, 14 August 1962, Page 7
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