Bulk carrier's first visit
On her first visit tAtfartteiftn; the two-year-old bulA Temple Arch arrived _jron> Christmas Island yertertA .fISRi Ing with 21,550 tons « t*O* P The ll Ttople Arch, comnAmlJ} by Captain A. L. Davie? « Greenock, has a gross tonra*® of 13,543 tons and a erulsk ¥ speed of 15 knots. She V s equipped with cranes and carrin her own grabs for handling cargo, but yesterday harbour | cranes and grabs were used. The Temple Arch has automatic engine control from the bridge. A single-screw vessel, she has twin diesel engines with a variable pitch propeller on one abaft, generating 10,000 She will discharge about 0000 tons of phosphate at Lyttelton and the rest at Bluff.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32676, 4 August 1971, Page 20
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