LATE SHIPPING

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 37, 14 February 1919, Page 2

LATE SHIPPING

STEAMERS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Two of the standardised vessels completed in 1918 are due to arrive in New Zealand shortly to the agency of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company. The War Citadel, of 5720 tons, 400 ft long, 53ft beam, and 26ft deep, built at Newcastle-on-Tyne by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, is to leave Newcastle for Napier on the 16th inst., and is to load wool at that port for London. She will come to Wellington about the sth March to replenish bunkers, and will sail for London the following day. The War Castle, of 5800 tons, and of the same dimensions, was built by the same firm, and is to leave Newcastle on the 23rd inst. for a New Zealand port to load wool for London. She will probably also call in at Wellington to replenish her bunkers.

SPEEDY CONSTRUCTION.

A freight steamer was launched from the Mitsubishi Zosen Kaisha's Nagasaki works on the 2lst September, 191S, and was named the Toyo Maru No. 3. The steamer was one of several built at the Mitsubishi's Nagasaki yard as a speculative venture, and has created a record for speedy construction, as the keel was laid on the 10th August, and the vessel' completed for sea on the 12th October. The principal dimensions of the new vessel are:— LeugtU, 2ooft; breadth, 37ft 9in; depth, 20ft Cm; tonnage (gross), 1760 tons; horse-power, 1200; maximum speed, 12 knots. She will be fitted with a triple expansion engine, and will have a loading capacity of 2500 tons.

NEW SAILING VESSELS.

A number of sailing vessels are under construction in Canada and the United States, and in the case of most of the vessels, which are to have no auxiliary propulsive power, petrol motors of from 8 to 20 h.p. are to be installed to provide power for working the sails, raising the anchor, handling cargo, pumping, etc. Among such vessels recently huilt are the schooner William Duff, built by the Earnest Shipbuilding Company, Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, and the three-masted schoonei Barbara, of SOS tons, built by G. Gulliford, of Brentano, Newfoundland. The latter has a gasoline motor of 8 b.h.p.

The Suevic left Port Chalmers for Lyttelton, and is due in Wellington from the latter port about the 18th inst.