ANOTHER MOTOR SHIP

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 175, 12 April 1923, Page 6

ANOTHER MOTOR SHIP

UNION COMPANY’S > LATEST • ' Further details' 6f the new motor ship, which is being built for the Union Company, for the V ancouver mail service, have been supplied ny the Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, which is ' building the vessel. She will be a quadruple screw motor ship, 600tt. in length, and having, accommodation for 900 passengers, and equipped with four Sulzer Diesel engines, each having, a normal output of 3175 brake horsepower at’ 135 revolutions per minute, riving a sea speed of between 17 and 18 knots. ' The engines will be of the six-cylinder typo, with cylinders 271 m. diameter, 39in. stroke, giving a piston speed of 880 ft. per minute. Each engine will weigh about 250 tons, the control station will be at the top of tho engine-room—an unusual arrangement —and the vessel will havo two funnels, one for exhaust gases and one for ventilating purposes. The installation ot motor engines gives' the vessel an additional passenger capacity of equal to 18 per cent. The consumption of fuel at 12,000 horse-power will be approximately 50 tons per day. and the bunkering capacity will be in excess of the requirements for a non-stop run of 36 days, or, about 2000 tons. ; An oil-fired, steamer would, consume this, amount on the voyage- one way, -while a burner would require to carry 4000 tons. Tho electric power required on board will be supplied .by a large generating plant consisting cf four. Sulzer 1-cylinder w. cyclo Diesel engines of 416 b.h.p.. coupled to generators of 250 kw., and running at 200 revolutions por minute.