TASMAN LINER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22155, 8 July 1935, Page 12

TASMAN LINER

DETAILS OF VESSEL LUXURIOUS APPOINTMENTS ACCOMMODATION FEATURES SPEED OF TWENTY-THREE KNOTS [from our own correspondent] By Air Mail LONDON, Juno 15 Details aro now available of the passenger liner of 14,000 gross tons, with a speed of 23 knots, which is to be built by Messrs. Vickors-Armstrongs, Limited, at Barrow for tho Union Steam Ship Company. The liner will be 511 ft. long overall, with a beam of 74ft.; her displacement will be 15,000 tons. She will have accommodation on five decks, all connected by electric passenger lifts, for 400 first-class passengers and 160 tourist class, and a limited amount of steerage accommodation. Sports and promenade decks of generous dimensions will be provided. The public rooms will include a palm court, built around tho music room, library and writing room at the forward end of the promenade deck. This deck will be furnished with steel screens with large glass windows and will form an enjoyable space for observation at sea or entering harbour. Amidships will be a spacious lounge, with French windows opening on to tho deck, and a gallery around three sides. Men's and Women's Olubrooms Abaft the lounge will be a spacious smokeroom. Here also a men's clubroom on one side of the deck and a clubroom for women on tho other will form an agreeable innovation. At tho extreme after end of the enclosed promenade will be a verandah cafe and a dance room with ,a dais for the orchestra, and, beyond, this, promenade and sports decks for tourist class passengers. On the boat deck there will be a group of one-berth cabins with private baths and toilets. On a deck below will be first-class cabins, the bureau, hairdresser's shop and a number of twoberth cabins, each with a private bathroom. All first-class cabins will be furnished with bedsteads, hot and cold water, telephone—operating throughout tho ship and, in port, connected with the shore, wardrobe, dressing table and electric light. At the after end of A deck will be ' the public rooms of the tourist class, including a smokeroom, lounge, etc., about which will extend a promenade deck with steel weather screens fitted with large portholes. The remainder of B and C decks will be occupied by cabins of both classes. Talking Picture Equipment The first-class dining room on B deck will seat 280 people simultaneously and will be fitted with restaurant tables. Adjacent will be the children's room. On the same deck will be the tourist | class dining room, seating 124, with kitchens, pantries, etc., between. Mechanical ventilation, up-to-date talking picture equipment, with a system of loud speakers for occasional use, will add to the attractions of the vessel. The ship will be propelled by Parsons single-reduction-geared turbines. Watertube boilers will burn oil fuel under forced draught, and she is expected to steam 23 knots, -which will enable her to maintain 2J-day passages between Sydney and New Zealand. The navigation equipment will include a wireless direction finder, electric submerged log, gyro compass and a recording echosounding machine. An electric ship's progress indicator will be installed in the main vestibule. Stowage will include 50.000 cubic feet of refrigerated space. The ship is expected to be launched in February and to be ready for sea in August of next year.