NEW MOTOR LINER
Port Chalmers Launched LEAVES HOME IN JANUARY The Commonwealth and Dominion Line has received cabled advice that its new cargo motor-liner Port Chalmers was successfully launched on October 3. She is to leave England toward the end of next January on her maiden trip, which will be to Australia. Built bv Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd,. Newcastle-on-Tyne, the Port Chalmers is 486.5 ft. in length, with a beam of 65ft. She will haveji deadweight carrying capacity of 11.250 tons, her refrigerated space totalling 463,000 cubic feet. Her service speed will be about 16j knots, and like th<i company’s other motor-ships she will be fitted with limited passenger accommodation. The new ship is the second Port-Chalmers the C. and D. Line has owned,-the first, originally the Whakarua, being a steamer of 6534 tons, built in 1907 by Workman. Clark and Co, Ltd., Belfast. The Port Chalmers, which was ordered in April, is the first of the seven new motor-liners now building for the New Zealand-England trade to ’be launched. •
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 19, 17 October 1933, Page 10
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