OIL – BURNING STEAMERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18663, 20 March 1924, Page 8

OIL - BURNING STEAMERS.

PRO VI FUEL SUPPLY. BUNKERING AT WELLINGTON. The use of ftwl oil instead of coal as 'a means of firing in steamers is on the increase, states the atonal report of,, the harbourmaster, Captain 3. G. Dawson,, to the Wellington Harbour Board, and a number of vessels trading' to ..the port have had their furnaces converted to burn oil. This has necessitated the need of regular supplies being maintained at. the port, so that steamers can get their' fuel oil tanks replenished when required. The bunk oil storage tanks which were erected some time ago at Miramar by ine Vacuum Oil .Company have now been taken over by the Union Steam Ship Company, and put into general use, so that regular supplies can /be obtained. To fill and replenish the tanks the Union Steam Ship Company chartered the bunk oil tanker Orowaiti, a steamer capable of carrying about "nine thousand tons of fuel oil. This vessel has so far 'made three consecutive voyages from San Luis Obispo, in North America, to this port and delivered her cargoes into the tanks at Miramar. The Orawaiti, on arrival, berths at the Miramar wharf, and from there she pumps her fuel oil cargo into the tanks. The method of transferring the fuel oil from the Miramar tanks is by the bulk oil hulk Adderley, from which the bunkering steamer receives her supply. ~ * .