GENERATOR DAMAGED
Rangitane to be Laid Up
For Repairs
The New Zealand Shipping Company’s motor-liner Rangitane, now en route from London to Auckland and Wellington, will, on completion of discharge here, be laid up for repairs. The vessel has damaged the armature of one of her big 550 kilowatt electric generators, and the damage is to be made good at Wellington before she commences her Homeward loading. The Rangitane has four generators, two of 550 k.w. and a pair of .smaller ones. Only one pair of generators is necessary to simply power to the vessel’s refrigerating Phmt, winches, electric lighting, and numerous electric auxiliaries, the second pair being in reserve in the event of those in use breaking down as has happened in this case. The Rangitane’s refrigerating space will be full on her Homeward run from New Zealand to London, and the company considers it inadvisable to run any risk with the refrigerated produce by" not having a big generator in reserve. . The necessary parts ot a similar generator in the motor-liner Rangitata are being brought out to Wellington by the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s motor-ship Wairiingi, which left London last Friday, and is due at Wellington on August 12. The Rangitane is due at Auckland on July 31 and at Wellington on August 5. New parts to supply those removed from the Rangitata are being made in England. The Rangitane will in consequence of this mishap spend an extra four weeks in New Zealand, and the New Zealand shipping Company’s passenger sailings have had to be slightly altered. The Federal steamer Huntingdon is taking the Rangitane’s Homeward loading, aud is due at. Wellington on July 29 from Fremantle, the Rangitane leaving New Zealand at the end of September instead of the end of August. From London, the steamer Tongarlro has been substituted for the Rangitata on July 25, the Rangitata taking the sailing of the Rangitane on October 17, while the Rangitane will now leave London on November 14.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 247, 16 July 1935, Page 2
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332GENERATOR DAMAGED Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 247, 16 July 1935, Page 2
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