-MAIERFORM AGAIN
One of the most interesting applications of the Diesel engine to coastwise trade is exemplified by a vessel building at Alblasserdam, Holland, for the United Netherlands Navigation Company. She is the first of her type to be constructed on the Maierform principle, and propulsion will be by a Stork engine of the two-stroke airless injection piston pattern recently evoived by this Dutch company. The new ship has an overall length of 211 ft and a length on the waterline of 197 ft, with a beam of 33.5 ft, and a depth of 15.3 ft. She has one mast, placed in the centre of the deck between ; the forecastle and the poop and between the two cargo holds. It is a strong steel structure, having two 2J-ton elec-trically-driven derricks forward end two* of 5£ tons aft; there is a 15-ton unit for heavy lifts. Each of the two holds is served by a hatch '36ft Bin long and 20ft wide. The exhaust from the main Diesels is taken up into^ a streamline type funnel. It is interesting to note that in spite of the peculiar shape of, the fore-end of this vessel, the rise of keel is not such that it in any way interferes with the cargocarrying capacity of No. 1 hold.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1935, Page 26
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214-MAIERFORM AGAIN Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1935, Page 26
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