NEW VESSELS NAMED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23221, 19 June 1937, Page 28

NEW VESSELS NAMED

MONTREAL-NEW ZEALAND TRADE The Port Line (Commonwealth and Dominion Line, Ltd.) has received advice that its three new motor ships, now building for the Montreal-Aus-tralia-Ncw Zealand Line’s service from Montreal to New Zealand, will be named Port Montreal, Port Halifax, and Port St. John. William Doxford and Sons, Sunderland, Joseph L. Thompson and Sons, Sunderland, and Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., are each building one of the three ships, which are expected to enter the M.-A.-N.Z. Line service about the end of the year. Of about 6000 tons gross, with a (deadweight carrying capacity of 9600 tons, the vessels arc single-screw motor ships with a service speed of about Kit knots. The M.-A.-N.Z. Line was formed last year by the Port Line, New Zealand Shipping Company, and the Elierman and Bucknall Company to acquire the service maintained by Canadian National Steamships, and each of the three companies is supplying three ships, all of approximately the same type, for the service. The New Zealand Shipping Company has two now building, one by Alexander Stephen and Sons, Linthouse, and the second by William Doxford and Sons, while the third ship will be the motor ship Ardenvohr. 5237 tons, bought some months ago, which is already well known on the New Zealand coast. The Elierman Bucknall Company has a number of vessels now under construction for its various services, and it is understood that three of them are for the M.-A.-N.Z. Line.