SHIPBUILDING ACTIVITY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 5

SHIPBUILDING ACTIVITY

TYNE’S ORDERS FOR 15 VESSELS .7ARROW, Aug. Hi. Shipbuilding prospects on the Tyne have boon further improved by the booking of an order by Hawthorn, Leslie and Company. Ilebburn, for a first-class naval sloop, for the Admiralty for service in Indian waters. This is the second contract .secured in one week by Hawthorn. Leslie and Company, who now have six vessels to build, including two destroyers and a sloop for the Admiralty and two sloops for tlie Portuguese Government.

Swan, Hunter, and Wig-ham Richardson, Limited, Wallsend, are building a cruiser and two destroyers, throe train ferry .steamers, a big motor ship for the Dominion and Commonwealth Liao, and a collier, and a fifteenth vessel building oil the Tyne is a cargo steamer by Messrs. Readhead and Sons, South Shields.

ORDER FOR BELFAST The New Zealand Shipping Company have placed an order for two large refrigerated cargo steamers with Messrs. Workman, Clark, and Company (1 !)2S), Limited, Belfast. Tenders had been invited from the leading shipbuilding centres' in the British Isles.

The new ships will be of about 15,000 tons, and will be Jilted with powerful Diesel motor engines. Several interesting innovations will be embodied in these refrigerated cargo vessels by the, builders, who have ennsidorabie experience in this clasri of construe! ion. The two vessels will give a large amount of employment to shipyard workers in Belfast during the coming winter.