NEW LINER

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 138, 8 December 1936, Page 12

NEW LINER

MANY IMPROVEMENTS

SUSSEX LAUNCHED

An announcement was made- this week by the P. and O. Company that it had placed an order with Messrs, Alexander Stephen and Sons, Ltd., Glasgow, for a vessel of a similar typ« , to the Corfu and Carthage, with such refinements and improvements as have i been developed since their building, wrote "The Post's" London.representative on November 21. For example, the new ship will be faster and also' somewhat larger than these two ye» sels and will have an additional passer* ger deck. Her passenger accommodS» tion will provid£ for first and second* class passengers totalling 470. He* total cargo space will be 7800 tor.# measurement, and she will have a prof portion of this capacity for insulated cargo. The machinery will be singli reduction geared turbines with wate* tube boilers., As regards luxury, sha will be of a similar type to the' Strath* more. There will be ample prome'nad^ spaces for passengers, as well as largtj sports decks, so that although a larger number will be carried than in tha Corfu-Carthage class there will actu-v" ally be more deck space than in thosa two liners. . NEW CARGO SHIP. With a complete absence of ceremony there was launched during ths week ended November 21 by Messrs. John Brown and Co., the 12,000-ton: i New Zealand Line refrigerating ship Sussex. The ship is equipped with, the most powerful heavy oil engines of their type ever built. The crew^s i quarters are equivalent to first-class; passenger accommodation on any liner.1 Each man will have a separate cabin i on the- top deck, and different colour schemes have been adopted in their, lay-out. The galley is equipped with electric cookers, and throughout the t ship the floors have been covered with, silencing material an inch thick. To1 keep cargoes of fruit and meat fresh ozone will be sucked in and dispersed through the cargo spaces. The Sussex is a sister ship to the Essex, which was launched from the same yard in September. Both will be placed in service in the refrigerated and general cargo trade between England and Australia and New Zealand. The dimensions of the Sussex are:— Length 530 ft between perpendiculars, breadth 70ft. and depth 47ft 6in. and the load draft is about 32ft.,6in. The gross tonnage is 11,000 tons. The vessel is built to.Lloyd's highest classification, and is of attractive appearance with a straight stem, cruiser stern, single funnel, two-pole masts, and the numerous derrick posts necessary for! her service. The 1..M1 structure is of the shelter deck typtl, with three continuous decks and an orlop • deck forward. There are eight main watertight bulkheads giving a sub-division of three cargo holds forward of the en-gine-room and three abaft iU