WONDER YEAR FOR SHIPS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16836, 27 December 1928, Page 11

WONDER YEAR FOR SHIPS

RECORDS IN SI7JS. AND SPEED BROKEN “The year 1928 will be notable for the remarkable progress which has been made in the construction of ships and propelling machinery,” states The Syren and Shipping. “There has been started at Belfast the building of the largest, if not the fastest, vessel the world has ever seen; another ship of, presumably,'.about the same size and of greater speed is projected, and may be ordered at any time; German owners are threatening the supremacy of Britain on the North Atlantic with their new liners Bremen and Europa. “The first British-built Diesel-electric ocean-going ship has passed into service ; tho first British-built turbo-electric liner has been launched and is now being fitted out; the first vessel. specially designed for the use of pulverised coal under steam boilers is being laid down on the Clyde, and the largest oil-tanker yet built at Belfast. “High-pressure boilers and steam turbines have taken an assured place in the propulsion of large and. fast liners, and such boilers are being used for the new turbo-electric ship. The exhaust steam turbine has been shown to bo a valuable auxiliary to the reciprocating steam engine, and the marine Diesel engine is being improved economically by exhaust turbo-charg-ing.” * _