NOW A MOTOR-SHIP

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 190, 8 May 1937, Page 12

NOW A MOTOR-SHIP

Conversion of Holmdale Completed Looking very spick and span, the well-known coastal vessel Holmdale is now ready for sea once more, and today will leave Wellington for Dunedin on her maiden voyage as a motor-ship. Tlie Holmdale has been laid up at Wellington since last December for conversion from steam to diesel-drive, and so extensive has been her overhaul that she is now practically a new ship. Her new engine is a Polar Atlas diesel of 625 brake horse power, which will give her a service speed of 114 knots, compared witli her 104 knots under steam. The change-over from steam to diesel-drive has also increased her cargo-carrying capacity by 65 tons, and she will now carry BS7 tons of cargo. _ Built at Belfast in 1921 by the Dublin Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., and engined in Glasgow by Beardmore and Co., the Holmdale was brought out to New Zealand by Captain S. Holm, manasing director of Holm and Co.. Ltd. The vessel arrived in Now Zealand in March, 1922, and since then lias been continuously engaged -in the trade from Dunedin via ports, to Wellinston, Picton, and Wanganui. During the course of her 15 years of service, the Holmdale has steamed 497,383 miles, and burned 32,264 tons of coal, her only mishap being a broken tailshaft in .1929. Captain A. Copland is master of the Holmdale. Mr. A. Campbell is chief officer, and Mr. T. Swede chief engineer.