AUTOMATIC CONTROL
New Feature Of Speybank Andrew Weir’s world-ranging cargo fleet of 54 ships, better known as the Bank Line, has been established a long time. One of the line's ships, the motor-vessel Speybank, now discharging Mexican Gulf cargo at Lyttelton, has several new features, The Speybank and her sister, the Marabank, are conspicuous for their lofty midship structure, containing bridge and accommodation. This bears a resemblance to a man-of-war’s bridge. In keeping with all modern vessels, the Speybank is comfortably appointed and equipped with the latest navigational and cargo equipment.
She is the only vessel, apart from her sister ship, St Andrew Weir’s fleet to have a specially designed engine-room ■ telegraph which operates a “servomotor.” When the bridge telegraph is rung and answered in the engine room, the telegraph below operates the servomotor and automatically sets the diesel engine for the correct direction, either ahead or astern. The engineer operates one control level.
The Speybank has a company of 59, of whom 42 are Pakistanis.
In command of the 15-knot vessel is Captain C. R. Aitken, of Penarth, Glamorganshire. His wife, who has travelled extensively with her husband, is with him on this voyage.
After completing discharging at Dunedin and Bluff the Speybank will go to Nauru to load phosphate for an Australian port. She will then load coal at Newcastle for Chittagong, Pakistan.
AUTOMATIC CONTROL
Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30528, 25 August 1964, Page 20
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