MOTOR-SHIP CARGO CAPACITY.
The .advantage of increase car-
carrying capacity, which is tained_. .by installing oil enies_ in ships instead of steam ichinery, is well illustrated in a corarison published in an issue o! the Motor Ship" between motor vessels id steamers of exactly similar dimenrasand engine power. The ships in -estion, which have recently been ilt, are 400 feet in length, and have ppee'd capacity of about 11 knots, all :ing engaged in the Eastern trade.
is found that whereas the motor-ship irries sufficient fuel in double-bottom inks for the round voyage from Europe ) the East and back, the steamer, even it fills all its reserved bunkers at a uropean port (in order to obtain coal
. its lowest price) will only just reach s Eastern destination. By doing this, 'ie cargo carrying capacity of the ;eamer is about 950 tons less than that
the motor-ship—a very large percenige of the total deadweight capacity.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 146, 21 June 1924, Page 24
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