THE MOTOR SHIP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 5 April 1926, Page 6

THE MOTOR SHIP

W'ONDKlit'f'L PROORESS The ai'iKitinceinenl Ilia I the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co .has nrde-eil a ; twenty thousand-ton mulnr liner draws . atU'iiti,)!' to the wonderful progress 1 j:: ije Lv I be ,t:iolor skip .during the p.lst vcii.s\ .communis the irtuckjandl .iSt.ir it i h i |iU.l(. .mo.'- thin a year tr.nce the. tn ihe ! seas: her success gave an iminediiil e impel us tn I he l (>W mel hod. a lid she was a ship in a class by herself for jess i ban a year. The I inpsholm, of 17.300 tons, "rulercd the Iran.'! Allan I i<: service between I iotlicnhlirg and New York in December, and a bigger liner still, tin' Asturias. of 22.500 ions. built I fur Hie Royal Mail Steam Packet Line. I is now mi her maiden voyage beiween i Gothenburg and New Vork in December, and a lugger liner still, the As- , tunas, of 22.500 tons, built ft r the Royal Mail Steam Packet lane, is now r rti iiei' maiden voyage between Knglnnd and Rueros Ayrcs. When the Aorangi was built, some caution was exercised in her design, and though her horse-power. 14.000. was the highest ever provided in a motor ship, it was divided into four engines, each developing 3500 h.p. The capacity of ! these engines was well known, the new feature was in combining them inlfi cue ship, The later designers, satisfied j by the Aorangi's experience, were more j \ enturesome. and in the Asturias and the Oripsholm twin engines! were used, in the British liner of ten thousand horse-power each, and in the Swedish I craft, of 6750 horse power. Italian build j i is have now come into I he field, and the Saturnia, a nineteen knot 23.500 ton vessel for the South American service. , is uearlv reads' for sea. Ilei twin en-1 j gine.M will deevlop 24,000 h.p., the high-1 est [lowered of any motor vessel. She 1 will be followed by a sister ship. (lie : Crania. Another Kalian varil will ! shortly launch a 33.000 innncr. so thai! from Lite 17,500 lons nf the Aorangi the: size of tiie largest motor vcssvl afloat ' will practically 'have been doubled in ,-, j few months. Another British molorship, the Carnarvon Castle, of 22.500 ions, will take I up the regular service to the Cape lliisl season, and the Dutch liner I'ieter ('or -j i nelis/oo'i llooft. of 15.000 Inns, is com ! pleting al St. Nay.aire. She will he foll(,wed by a larger craft, the Chris I l itui Huygens, ~f 21.70!) i., M < 1!,,.-.- j j I , I

great met i liners strike lln imaeina tiou, but they are not the only direction in which progress is being made. Mo lur cargo carriers, such as the Port Dunedit':. which li;ip alrea.h visited New Zealand, and the I'pwoy dange are ~: ||ie . eas and the new l\ ;.e ha.also enlered lit- ci-.s, Channel service. Duruii; the i is! > i'j.' •': ■ tootorships ..I'oil au'-ieased from 234,00 tons to 2million lons Rut ;d though the Empire pio :■■•• • i C. ■ ir. - : *•: ■' •:> ;' i - d'S'.'-trb ':" idid tonnage built last ycai wjis iowei i ban an;, i i her , ~mitry. ' The (igure was .15 per it-ill iig.'iinsl iii! per relit in I ier iikii \ . 72 pel cent in llalv and 95 per (rnl' in Deniuark 'I he adopl it I the in i\ mi lb. I liv mi. i. great lines as ibe Shaw. Navili, -in.l ihe Lni.in Caslle. sh.add. 1... W. ver. redrew the balance bnI'ori coinpel.iion for new foreign motor Vi'SSp)« l.e'e,,me 100 ;i i lite.