MODERN CARGO VESSEL
UNION' CpJEPAJTJPJS WAIMAPJNO
-The last.of the Uiiioji CompanyVfive iiew cargo steamers,'..the : . Waimarino,: is expected 'to reach. ,'oii Monday from' Falm'outh, via Durbanj'whwe she was to; load -liark .and;inaize '"fpr New 'Zealand^,;. •■The other ships y^ere the Kaimiro and Karepb,.-':■ sister; ships,1 'of $400 tons, built by Messrs. .Cammell, Laird, and ;.Cp. :'at: rEirkbnhead; ■ the Wainui, 1650 ions, ;built'.by'; 'Messrs^ Hawthorne, Leslie and. Co. at ilebburii-. on-Tyue;'and the' Talune,'of!.3soo.tons, built.' by thp;.Blythswood, Shipbuilding Co.'; Scotstoun, Glasgow. .■•,' '■'•'■■. ■•'. Tho Wahnariiio, was laurichcft onMst, March! by the . Ardrossan ' Dockyard; Ltd., 'and fan, her., official trials.in tho Firth of Clyde on 16th April.' ; .The;.tests' wer« very successful,' 'and the vessel reached a speed of ; I4i; knots. '•'. She left Falmbuth .for : NeAV Zealand on 21st April under Captain iA. S. Dalgliesh, who has superintoiidod' the0 building of tho fivo ships/'..-.,'. -. 'r'-J-;-. ■ ;: '*-"■■■;'.'■•
:' The vessel is of the two-deck type, with top-gallant forecastle, poop, and bridge erections. Her principal dimensions are: Length, 320. feet; moulded breadth, 46 feot .8 inches; .moulded depth,1 25 feet 6 inches; loaded' mean draft, 21..'feet,:5'i inches.." There are. three cargo . holds and three cargo 'twoen decks. For' handling cargo there arc eleven steel:, derricks worked '-'.by coupled : wiriclics'.',; .] The .^Vaimarinp is intended cliicfly-.fbr the carnage of caso oil and general cargo, .but the afterend of the Upper- dcck f is.flttcd-for tho carriago. -of iiorsos .and tho fprceastlo for cattle. -: •...'."- • ... '■~-■.■;. ;
The ship is propelled.by triple:expansion ongiiien, and the furuaces burn oil fuel.' •• • "■-'; ; ■;C.^ ' "':-:-' : •'.•'. '■:
MODERN CARGO VESSEL
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 11
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