THE RANGATIRA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 71, 26 March 1910, Page 9

THE RANGATIRA.

m SUCCESSFUL TRIALS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 11th February. The new tuin-screw steamer Rangatira, built ;vntl engined by Messrs. Workman, Clark and Co., of Belfast, for the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, left the builders' wharf at Milewater Basin on Monday morning, and proceeded down the Lough for adjustment of compasses and to undergo her speed trials. Ths steamer has been specially designed and equipped to meet the requirements of the owners' New Zealand trade. She is 494 ft in length, with a gross tonnage of about 7500, and has been built and'engined under the special survey for the lnghfjrt class in Lloyd's Register of Shipping, besides conforming to the Board of Trade .equircments for a passenger certificate. The five holdn into which the cargo space is divided have been arranged to as to be practically free of obstruction, and are therefore capable of receiving consignments of large dimenfionn. Three of these holdt hove been carefully installed, and fitted up. .for th« reception of cargoes of frozen mutton, for the preMrvAtion of which an installation of refrigerating machinery is provided. She can carry over 100,000 carcases of mutton. The deck machinery and cargo gea* is of the most iip-to-dnte character, and it capable of dealing with a full cargo in the most expeditious manner. A deckhouse on the bridge deck amidships has been fitted up for Ihe accommodation of a number of first-class passengers, the captain and officers, while the engineers and petty officers are accommodated iv n deck-house built round the engine and boiler coring* on the same deck. The propelling machinery consists of two sets of improved triple expansion enyine*, with all the necessary auxiliaries steam bcim; supplied by five single-ended steel boilers, woiking under forced draught. The results of the trisl run*, on the measured mile proved to be highly satisfactory, and the equipment of auxiliary machinery all worked smoothly tod well. Her first commander will be Captain Lowden, and the ltnnqihra is to leave Liverpool on tho 10th inst. for Adelaide and New Zealand.