THE NEW GALE
Coaster’s Wellington Debut The Canterbury Steam Shipping Company’s new motor-coaster Gale made her Wellington debut yesterday. Steaming up the harbour iu the morning sunshine, she appeared to closely resemble the company’s other motor-ship, the Breeze. She berthed at the Queen’s Wharf, and left during the afternoon for Wanganui, being scheduled to return to-morrow. ' The new Gale is a 600-ton motorship, measuring 175 feet in length, beam 30 feet, mean draught 12 feet 5 inches. She has a raised forecastle and quarter-deck, and a bridge deck amidships, where the officers’ quarters are located. The vessel is equipped with six derricks, six steam winches, anchor windlass, and a capstan aft. An oil-fired boiler provides power for these units.- The main engine is a live-cylinder British Polar Atlas engine, developing 725 b.h.p. at 250 r.p.m. The freighter’s capacity is 37,000 cubic feet.
Although she has entered the company's coastal service in command of Captain J. Davies, the Gale was brought out from England by Captain J. B. Allsop. She left the Clyde on September 28, and after loading wattle bark at Durban for Dunedin and Lyttelton, reached the southern port last Wednesday. She had logged a total distance of 14.441’ miles.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 72, 18 December 1935, Page 10
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201THE NEW GALE Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 72, 18 December 1935, Page 10
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