MOTOR LINERS

Grey River Argus, 6 November 1911, Page 2

MOTOR LINERS

THE COMING OF THE FUN'NELLESS SHIP.

' Such rapid progress . has been made at Whiteinch, Govan, with the construction .of the 500-ton ■ald-cngined liner fcr the Danish East Asiatic Company, Copenhagen/, thaii she may be running demonstration trials on the Clyde before th G end of the year.

The mo sfc serious of the problems: involved in Ohe const'ructioin of the new propelling machinery lias been solved. O.no of the sixteen cylinders has been in operation, witlh satisfactory results, .in ;he workshop for some weeks, and it only remains to make the, others on tJho "same model. TJie vessel is designed for a speed of 12 knots, and k is believed that she will run as far an 100 tons of oil as she would on 300 tons of coal, while the spaces, usually occupied .by "bunkera' will be filled with cargo.

Thcie will be no firemen, funnels, smoke ashes, -or ■ -dirt, ■ and the engines can be s.-airted In five minutes, as com pared with fifteen hours required to raisj steam with .boilers. " The only other boat or >ohe type in course of construction .in tTie United Kingdom is being~ buil'j at Middlesbrough' for a shipping company of which Lord Furness is chairman. She is a vessel -of 3jooo tons, -and will be. engaged in the North Atlantic tirade.

Other ocean-going oil vessels in course of cons^rucwon include two for the 'Haimburg-American Line — one of 60,500 tons being built on the Weser and anctHier of s.soo 'tons' on die Elbe, and cipa of 3,000 toma for the Ger-man-Levant Line, while lhe GermanAmerican Petroleum Company has placod a contract ig. Kiel 'for two ships with a- carrying, capacity of 7,900

tons each