CONVERSION TO OIL BURNER.
♦ THE LINER LEVIATHAN. The steamer Leviathan, it is learned on excellent authority, says an English newspaper, is to be converted in the near future from a coal to an oil-burner. The change, it is claimed, will do away with no less than 300 firemen. This decision of the Shipping Boafrd is in line with what most of the leading steamship companies are doing. The Aquitania, the largest of the Cunard liners, is to be converted to oil burning during the next few months. The Cunard Line's new passenger and freight vessels are all to be oil burners. With the Leviathan, the largest ship afloat, converted to oil burning, the development toward oil bunkers will undoubtedly be stimulated. She measures 54,282 gross tons, and has steam turbines. ; She was launched in 1914, from the Blohm and Voss yard, Hamburg.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17337, 8 December 1919, Page 8
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