NEW STEAMER FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1037, 28 January 1911, Page 5

NEW STEAMER FOR NEW ZEALAND.

i/AUNCH AT- ANTWERP,

By Association-Copyright. Brussels, January 26. . The Ihumata,'a steamer built, for the Union 'Steam Ship Company of. New Zealand, has been launched at Antwerp.

, The Hoino shipping journal "Fairplay" announced recently that the Union. Company had. purchased :a steel screw steamer- with a. deadweight carrying, capacity of SOCIO tons on a draft'of 15ft. lOin. and a length 0f.229ft. 3in. by 35ft; 6iii., with a beam of 16ft." lOJin., at present buildr ing.by tho Antwerp .Shipbuilding Company, Hoboken, near Antwerp, with engines 17in., 28in., and 40in., by 33in. stroke,- by the North-Eastern Marino Engineering Company, Wallsend-on-Tyne. She has two, boilers ilft. Oin. by 10ft. 3in., will steam about 9}. knots, and will be ready for sea about February. The price, including;a largo number of extras, -.is believed to be .£IB,OOO. '. There seems to ba some misunderstanding some-, where about tho ownership of this particular vessel;. for exchanges to hand' etato that the Ihumata was being built for the now "I" Lino of steamers, which ■are.about to take the place of'the Craig Line of sailing vessels now trading bem.ce?, JJ S W Zwlandv and ..Australia. «t!i T? r Ihumata was built for tho I Line and sold to the Union Company on tho stocks or built by the "I" Line and sold to tho Union Company cou d not be ascertained last night The Ihumata is to load Baltic pine at Frederickstadt for Melbourne en route to New Zealand. •'.-..