NEW MOTOR SHIP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 3 June 1938, Page 8

NEW MOTOR SHIP

MOST POWERFUL AFLOAT THE DOMINION MONARCH When completed the Dominion Monarch, the 27,000-ton motor passenger liner, now under construction at the yard of Messrs Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, for the Shaw Savill and Albion Company. Ltd., will be the highest powered motor ship afloat. The main dimensions and specifications cf the vessel are. Gross register, 27,000 tons; length. 682 ft; beam, 84ft 6in; dead weight capacity. 16,000 tons; machinery power. 32,000 British horsepower; maximum speed, 21 knots; scheduled speed, 19J knots; passenger accommodation (first class only), 525 persons. The Dominion Monarch is scheduled to make her maiden voyage in February, 1939. and will establish a new service to New Zealand for passenger traffic. The new service will Include calls at Madeira dr Teneriffe, Capetown, Durban. Fremantle. Melbourne, and Sydney, and the voyage, London-New Zealand will take 35 days. For the carriage of cargo 500,000 cubic feet of insulated space will be available, including 90,000 cubic feet for chilled beef. The passenger accommodation will comprise 167 single-berth cabins. 71 two-berth cabins and 30 two or three-berth cabins. Of the cabins, 36 will have private bathrooms, and there will be two complete suites To drive the nuadrnple screws of the new vessel, four Doxford Diesel engines, each comprising five cylinders. will be installed The power units will be the same as those Installed in the Circassia, namely with cylinders 725 millimetres in diameter. the combined piston stroke being 2250 millimetres The output of 8000 British horsepower per engine will be attained at 133 revolutions per minute and a service power of 25.000 British horsepower will be sufficient for the average speed of 19J knots For the provision of electric current five 600 kilowatt Diesel-engined generating sets will be installed in an auxiliary engine room forward of the main machinery space, and in order to eliminate vibration, the auxiliary generator seats, exhaust pipe lines, silencers, etc. are to be insulated. Each inboard engine will exhaust into a waste heat boiler and outboard engines into silencers. Of the many public rooms, the dining saloon and lounge are outstanding for their architectural and decorative features The dining saloon, which will seal 300 extends the full width of the ship, while unusually large side windows enhance the feeling of spaciousness The centre portion of the room is raised to form a covered dome The lounge. 73ft long by 58ft wide, is unique in that it is flanked on the outboard sides by four magnificent bay windows, extending the full height of the room, giving a finp expansive view.