SHIPPING SERVICES.
NEW MOTOR LINERS. LONDON, May 6. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, Ltd., has placed a contract with Harland and Wolff. Ltd., of Belfast, for two refrigerated 9000-ton motorships for the New Zealand and Australian trade.
The Commonwealth and Dominion Line has placed a contract with Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, for a motor-ship of similar size for the same trade.
Announcement of the above new ships was made some weeks ago. The Shaw, Savill and Albion motorships will be larger and faster ships than the company’s quartet of motorliners, Zealandic, Coptic, ICaramea and Taranaki, which are each 8280 tons gross register, and have a speed of 15 knots. The new ships of 9000 tons gross register and 12,000 tons deadweight capacity will probably have a sea-going speed when fully loaded of 16 knots or better. The new Commonwealth and Dominion liner will be similar in many respects to the company’s sister ships Port Alma and Port Fairy, but will be larger and faster than those ships. The new ship will be 486 feet in length and 65 feet in breadth—nine feet longer and two feet wider than the Port Alma.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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196SHIPPING SERVICES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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