PORT WELLINGTON

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 January 1946, Page 8

PORT WELLINGTON

NEW SHIFTS LAUNCHING WELLINGTON, January 24. Laay Freyberg, wife of General Sir Bernard Freyberg, Governor-General Designate o£ Now Zealand, has ac~ ceptea an invitation to launch the new ship building for the Port Line at the Clydebank yard of John Brown and Co., Ltd., Glasgow. The ship will be named Port Wellington. The launching ceremony will take place. on February 4. Cabled advice to this effect has been received by the Port Line from the head office, London. _Th e Port Wellington, which is one ox five new ships under construction m the United Kingdom for the Port

; Lino, will measure 12,000 tons gross, j with a deadweight carrying capacity of 11,800 tons, and a service speed of 16 knots. Specially designed to meet the exacting requirements of the New Zealand refrigerated cargo trade, the Port Wellington will have six holds, five of which will be fitted for the carriage of perishable produce, the total insulated space being 510,000 cubic feet. The chief feature of the new vessel will be her scientific equipment for storage and conveyance of foodstuffs. She is fitted with special gas-tight chambers for the carriage of chilled beef, a process which enables chilled beef to be carried over long distances ‘in carbon dioxide. The gas was developed at a low temperature station of the Department of Scientific Research, I Cambridge University. Accommoda- ' tion for officers ad crew will be of | the latest type, and there will be single and double berth State rooms for 24 passengers.