TAMAROA’S SPEED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20592, 15 December 1928, Page 21

TAMAROA’S SPEED.

GREATLY INCREASED. RECORD VOYAGE FROM- ENGLAND. Extensive alterations to her turbines and the fitting of new propellers' have made the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company s steamer Tamaroa one of the fastest liners engaged in the New Zealand trade. By arriving at Wellington at ,9.11 pm. last Tuesday from Southampton she' lowered the record for the passage set up by the Mataroa in Octoifi hy nearly 24 hours. To average is.l knots on an ocean voyage of 11,200 miles is a wonderful performance, but to increase the speed of a 12,000-ton ship such as the Tamaroa from 13.5 to 16.26 knots is an achievement reflecting the credit, on the Wftllsend Shiplu an( * Engineering Company of the Tynoi which wag responsible fw-tho alterations, and, on the British entrineenng industry as a whole. The famous Wall send firm constructed the engines for the world’s fastest liner, the Mauretania, which after 20 years’ service is 8 ,, creating new records on the Atlantic. H.M.S. Nelson, Great Britain’s latest battleship, is also powered bv engines built by that firm. After loading at London the .Tamaroa called at Southampton to embark passengers, and sailed for New Zealand at 2.30 p.ra. on November 0. ■ For the first weelc strong head- winds were encountered, and the vessel only averaged 14 knots. More favourable weather was then experienced, and the steamer arrived at Colon at 6.40 a.m. on November 23, 12 days 21 hours 16 ‘ minutes after leaving Sduthampton. The speed lYnti parfc v °yage averaged knots. While in the Caribbean Sea the vessel covered 390 miles in the day, giving an average speed of 10.25 knots. The Tamaroa did not stop at ™ on > went on to Balboa at the otlier side of the Panama, where she loaded 3800 tons of fuel oil. She left Balboa at 6.45 a.m, on November 23 for Wellington. Fine weather and moderate seas were encountered across the Pacific. Her steaming time for the passage from Balboa to Wellington was 17 days 20 15.2 knots. r

The actual, steaming time of the Tamaroa from Southampton to Wellington was 30 clays 17 hours 32 minutes, and her average speed 15.1 knots. The record for the voyage from England to New Zealand is now 31 days 18 hours 41 minutes, as compared with the previous record of 32 days 18 hours 23 minutes set up by her sister-ship the Mataroa.