SEA TRAVEL TO-DAY

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 170, 14 April 1932, Page 11

SEA TRAVEL TO-DAY

Old and New Liners INTERESTING MODELS An exhibit in the Manners Street window of James Smith, Ltd., that is attracting great public interest is u superb model of the P. and O. Company’s new turbo-electric mail and passenger liner Strathnaver, which, with her sister ship, Strathaird, is the largest and fastest ship in the Australian trade. Some 12 feet or more in length, the model is built to scale, and incorporates every detail of the ship. Painted white with three yellow funnels, the model shows the striking change made from the traditional black hulls and funnels of the P. and O. Line.

In another case is a scale model of the Chusan, a tiny ship of 699 tons gross register, with which the P. and O. Company inaugurated in 1851-52 the first steam mail service to Australia. The two models demonstrate the remarkable changes In sea travel during the last SO years. The Chusan was 190 feet in length and 28 feet 8 inches in breadth, with engines of only SO indicated horse-power, a full suit of sails being set to supplement their propulsive effort. The Strathnaver, 664 feet long, and 80 feet wide, is 22.500 tons gross register, and her electric motors of 28,000 shaft horse-power give her a speed of 22 to 26 knots.