NEW SHIPS FOR NEW ZEALAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21054, 17 June 1930, Page 12

NEW SHIPS FOR NEW ZEALAND

LAST OF THE RIMUTAKA. . LIFE OF THIRTY. YEARS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, May 8. Some progress has been made with the three new- 12,000-ton.‘cargo -vessels which are being built for' the New Zealand Shipping Company. The first of the4e bo, ready for.launching towards the end of this year; the other two early in the new year. : The first is being, built by Messrs yickers at. Barrow, and is tobe fitted with .Doxford .engines. The Commonwealth and Dominion Line now has several of its vessels fitted with this particular typo of,engine; and has found them economical and fast. The; New Zealand Shipping .Company, however, has hitherto adhered to the Sulzer typo in its post-war building programme, and this will he its first ship with the Doxford. engines. r ; Although -■ some- engineers maintain that the principle of, these double-acting cylinders is wrong,,they seem to-have been a great success. It would appear that there is still something to learn about internal combustion engines. ■ The other, two ships are being built on the Clyde-at Messrs Stephens’s works, and are to be fitted with the Sulzer type of Diesel engine. During the 30 years the Rimutaka voyaged between New Zealand and the Home she steamed approximately ■ 1,54T,000 miles.' This is pro bakly a record - : fof a-New Zealand ship The New Zealand Shipping Company has sold the old vessel to'the well-known ship breakers, Messrs T. W/ Ward .and Co., of Sheffield*- anif'sho is no# at Pembroke, Wales, Up.'' ' . It was in 1000’that the Rimutaka was launched .from Messrs Denny’s yards, Dumbarton, and during her long life she completed 61 round voyages. In 1911 Captain F. A. Hemming was given’ command of the ship, and he continued in command until August, 1928, when he retired on pension after making 30. round voyages in Her. Throughout ’the war the Rimutaka was employed as a, troop carrier.

UNION COMPANY. Launched on March 1, the steam-rr Waimarino, which has been built by Ardrossan Dockyard, Ltd,, for the Union Steam Ship Company, set out for its home waters a few days ago, "and is due at Durban on*May 18. At Durban she is .to ■ load, bark and-maize for Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton.' The Waimarino is the last of the five, cargo vessels which; the/Union : Company has built in the last year'or.-twbi , There- were- -the'.-. Kalndro. and the Karepoj 'built- at ‘ Messrs; Gammell Laird and Co., Birkenhead. These were, sister ships of a tonnage of 3400: and a speedof 10 i knotg. Then there was the 1650 ton-.W ainui, ;built by -Messrs Hawthorne,Leslie, .and 'Co., -at Hebburn-on-Tyne. This took the place -'of- the Cotinna. The fourth was the Talune, built at Blyths-: wood Ship Building Company, Scotstoun, Glasgow—a .vessel of 3500 .tons with a speed of 12 J knots.! • ... .. . Finally,-there is the Waimarino! She earried'ottt highly successful official trials in ; the Firth of' Clyde on. April 16,! atT taining a Speed b£ 14| knots. The vessel’ is of the two-deck. type with top-gallant forecastle, poop, and bridge erections, and has ■ a length of 320 ft between perpendiculars, a moulded breadth of"46ft Sin, and a moulded depth of 25ft 6in from the,-,upper-deck. The loaded' mean draft, is 21Et sJin. The. structural arrange- < ments and scantlings ate to' Lloyd’s Register 100. A 1 class for a full scantling ’tween-deck; .vessel built' under special' survey, ' thcre'afc tliree .cargo holds, and three .cargo ’tween decks. The cargo handling appliances/ consist of 11 steel derricks worked by coupled winches. The vessel is intended chiefly for the : carriage of cased benzine add general bulk and deck cargo, ‘bat the .after-end of the upper,deck H is fitted ;;fdr : .-tHo-carriage of horses and the-forecastle for! cattle,- , ■; • oil ;.F'uEt: ; v : The accommodation-.is -steam heated; and the electrical; installation has been ' carried out by' the 1 Sunderland'Forge and Engineering . Co., Ltd., The , propelling . has. been constructed and installed by John G. Kincaid and Co., Ltd., Greenodk, and'consists of triple-expansion engines haying cylinders 24in, 41in, and 68in; in diameter respectively, by 45iu • stroke. The steam is supplied by two cylindrical; boilers .fitted.;.with Howden’s forced draught and..arranged for oilburning.. -Each boiler is 17ft 6in in dia-meter-by 12ft- 2in long, and the working pressure is 2CH)Ib. 'The fuel b|l is carried itt.tbe double bottom,’ and. there are settling tanks, at the fore end of the , boiler room. The machinery is installed aft - , A duct keel is fitted' from the boiler room to amidships,’ and the rudder is of the Turin balanced reaction type. 1 Captain Dalgleish, who has superintended the building of all five ships, is in charge of .the Waimarino,. ’, LEADENHALL STREET. Lcadenhall street, the.home of shipping companies,. is - gradually becoming an avenue pf; comparative skyscrapers. The latest ’ new building planned is Canard House, which is to ho the offices of the London staff of the Canard Company and the associated lines.. Included in the as : seriated lines is the Commonwealth and Dominion. Line. The building will be .. nine or ten storeys high, and it is to be comjileted and ready for occupation in