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New Look To Ships
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, April 23.
Four 10,000-ton ships being built to carry meat, fruit, wool and dairy produce from New Zealand to Britain would give a new look to ocean shipping, the “Daily Tele-
graph” reported today. They would be the first to have a new type of derrick tested on Russian and Scandinavian ships, it said. The oddly-shaped Hallen swinging derricks required bipod masts. Operated by one man instead of two, the derricks could handle cargo much faster, could reach deeper into a hold, and were rigged in a few r minutes instead of an hour. They were a Scandinavian invention.
The ships were being built for the New Zealand Shipping Company and Federal Steam Navigation. London companies which were members of the P and O group. They would cost more than £Bm and could make 20 knots. The first would be launched at Bartram’s Sunderland yard in July and completed in October.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30733, 24 April 1965, Page 15
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