LUXURIOUS TRAVELLING
FRESH FISH FOE STEAMERS. An interesting departure has (says the "Scientific American”) been recently made on the Amerika, of tho HamburgAmerican line, by taking on board a special tank for keeping , about a ton of living river fish for use. It was a question whether or ndt.fihe fish would stand tho fatigue of the sea ’t yag©. A large tank of 5.85 cubic yards capacity (14.76 feet in length, 3.28 in width, and 8.28 m height! had been constructed on the boat deck of the steamer. This tank, which is of iron, and divided into two compartments, was protected. against th© escape of the water in cases of heavy oscillations by roofing, as well as perforated sheet-metal partitions similar to bulkheads. The two main compartments of the tank are intended, one for housing trout, and the other for larger fish. As this experiment has been “entirely successful, ocean steamers will in future’be able to carry fish instead of fish preserved on ice, as much as two tons being readily stored in tanks of the kind described.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6493, 13 April 1908, Page 3
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