STREAMLINED SHIP

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 201, 22 May 1936, Page 6

STREAMLINED SHIP

Norwegian Tanker Visits Wellington OF MODERN DESIGN Flying the Norwegian ensign, the tanker Beduin, which arrived at Wellington recently after discharging petrol from Batum at Auckland, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, incorporates many of the latest ideas in marine design and fittings. Streamlined bridge and top-hamper give the tanker a distinctive appearance, while the officers’ quarters are very different from the average landsman’s conception of accommodation on a tramp steamer.

The captain has at his disposal a spacious day-roora, office, cabin, bathroom, and private pantry with fullsized refrigerator. Like those of the other officers, these apartments are furnished in the most modern style, more like houses ashore than the cabins of a ship. Pastel-tinted walls, chromium plating, frameless mirrors, and ultra-modern settees and easy chairs predominate. The Beduin is a single-screw motorship. Her average speed on her voyage from Batum (Russia) was 12J knots, and in ballast her speed is ex pected to reach 14 knots. The vessel has a gross tonnage of 8136. She was built at Gottsborg, Sweden, and was completed on March 14. She left the same day for Batum to load 12,600 tons of bulk motor spirit and kerosene for the Associated Alotorists’ Petrol Co., Ltd. She loft Batum for New Zealand on April 2. A fair weather passage was experienced throughout the voyage, with the exception of about four day’s after passing the Equator, when south-east winds were encountered. The Beduin arrived at Auckland on Alay 11. She will leave Wellington tomorrow for San Pedro.

Captain T. Tischendorf, who is in command, has visited New Zealand previously, calling at Dunedin in the Lincoln Ellsworth in October, 1927. The Lincoln Ellsworth was then on her maiden voyage, just as the Beduin is to-day.