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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1755, 15 October 1887, Page 4

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' A magnificentrsteel screw steamer, July-fr<«ri rthe^shipbtriiaing yards of Messrs C. fr; Swan and Hunter, New r £ castle^bn-TvheV spSciilly designed for the 1 'New Zealand frozen meat trade ,to^the order of JVlepsrs. Turnbull, ■ ''MaTtiri, and Co., Q-lasgbw,' ma^&gers of the Elderslie' Steamship Company. «^Her J 'dimension's * J 'are r "as rtdllow,: — .^Length, 355 f t; breadth, 48ft ; depth 27ft, 'Classea ;100Al at : Ll6yds ? ; built of Siemens steel, on the r 'cellular double 1 Hbttomei principle, and brig-rigged. The steamer 1 has „been( ; fitted f^ith triple expansion fngines of 3000-hbrse power, driven %t j .three, multitubular steeL boilers, to. 1601b. pressure, and. exrpected, to de,velpp6 a speed of 12 knot* ! ;.^ii hour.* .j^ne holds are. insulated^as \, refrjgerating, chambers -for about V 30,000 carcass? the t refrigerating <na5 consisting of .two powerful '"- Universal dry-a^xefrigerators (Ligbtj. foot's patent)/ A large, handsome saloon, with state-rooms; for about' so t , .saloon; passengers, fea? been provided "in the poop. Tho steamer, has been fitted throughout with the electric .lightj on the Maxim Weston principle, ■ and. has all the latest improvements—steam steering gear, steam windlass'^ etc. On leaving the ways the vessel I was christened the . Fifeshire by Mrs. James Huddart, of Melbourne. Captain W. A. Millar, late of the El1 derslie, has been appointed commander The Fifeehire, is expected to arrrive in New Zealand about the middle of December, and as she is under charter to the New Zealand Befrigerating Company, Dunedin she will be with wool, meat, p»ssengerd, Ac, from Timaru, Oamafu, and Fort Chalmers, for London about Ist January, followed by the s.s. Elderslie about the end ot February. These steamers are not connected in any way with Messrs. Tyser's steamtars, but are quite an independent , line.— Lyttelton Times: