LATE SHIPPING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18204, 27 September 1933, Page 11

LATE SHIPPING

JAPANESE LINER SCRAPPED Japanese shipbmakers have given half a million yen for the Nippon Y use u Kaislia, former Toyo Kiscn Kaisha liner Tcriyo Marti, and considerable interest' attaches to this sale by this being a record price for them to give, says the* Journal of Commerce. But the ship herself is of greater interest, for, although she has since been surpassed by the 'products of Japanese yards, she was the first really big liner to be built in Japan, and she made the shipping world realise that the building industry in Japan had entered a new phase, and that the country was no longer dependent on European yards for any ships that ’it might require. The Toyo Kiscn Kaisha maintained the service between Japan and San Francisco with the British-built ships of the America Marti type, clipperstemmed liners of rather more than 6000 tons gross, which were very similar to the Canadian Pacific Empresses. But the Tenyo Maru marked a new era, being a steal triple-screw turbine liner of 13,454 tons, with a speed of 20 'knots. It is .true that- the turbines and most of the material came from Europe, but the Mitsubishi yard showed that the Japanese were capable of building a first-class ship which was up to date in every particular, including oil-fired boilers, which at -that tim'd were something of a novelty.

NEW GERMAN LINER After successful ttrials, the IlnmburgAmcriean muior-linier Cordillera, sistership to the Caribia, has left on her maiden voyage, a pleasure cruise to the Atlantic, islands. Built at the Hamburg yard of Blohm and Voss, she is a -handsome twin-screw vessel of 12,300 tons gross and 10,400 tons deadweight, her principal dimensions being 528 ft. length, 07ft. ibeam, and 40ft. depth. Accommodation is provided for 170 first, class, 103 second class, and 110 tourist passengers. The first class public rooms include a spacious dining saloon, smoking-room, drawing-room (with dance tloor), nursery and tea pavilion, while there are ample sports decks and a large tiled swimming bath. In the second class tine re arc two verandah cafes, a (lining saloon, smoking-room, and ladies’ lounge, while a smokingroom and lounge are also provided for tourist class passengers. The vessel is propelled by two sets of eightcylinder double-acting two-stroke M.A.N. Diesel engines, developing a total of 11,000 h.p. and giving a service speed of 17 knots. Like her sistership, she will enter the owners’ express passenger and cargo service to Barbados, Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, and the east coast of Central America. / The I'oolta sailed at 12.30 p.m. today for Wellington. Auckland—Sept. 27: Arrived, Knlingo, 5.45 a.m., from Melbourne. Sailed. Gabriella, 12.30 a.m., for Newcastle. Lyttelton.—Sept. 27: Arrived, Maori, '{>.-4.5 a.m., and Canopus, S a.m., from Wellington; Fox ton, (1.15 a.m., Opilii, 10.15 a.m., and Storm, 10.40 a.m., from Timaru. Akers Mek. Verksted are to build a passenger and cargo vessel to the account of Bruusgnanl, Kiosteruds Dampskib A/S, Drainmen. The vessel will he 350 ft. in length and 49ft. beam, with a. deadweight 'capacity of 4100 tons, ami her propelling machinery will i-misisi of two B. and W. Diesel engines, each developing 2100 b.h.p. It is evident that the Oslo yards rare obtaining a good deal of repair work just now, for according to a recent advice tenders have been invited from other Norwegian yards for the construction of a floating dock with a lifting capacity of 12.000 tons.