EXPERIMENTAL STEAMER
In spite of some opposition to the scheme from certain quarters, plans are in hand for the construction of an experimental steamer with the object of demonstrating the advantages of coal as a marine fuel, states the “£yren and Shipping." A number of interests, including shipbuilders, boiler-makers, engine-build-ers, and coal owners, have combined and are to form a company with a view to building, at a cost of £BO,OOO, a vessel of 7000 tons gross. She will be fitted with every possible modern device for the economical raising of steam and its use for propulsive purposes. When completed she will trade as an ordinary tramp and her operating results will be published every three months. It is understood that the order for the hull is likely to be placed in the near future with a Clyde shipyard, and her engines will be high-pres-sure turbines, taking superheated steam from watertube boilers. One of the outstanding features of her equipment will be mechanical stokers constructed on a new principle.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 11
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169EXPERIMENTAL STEAMER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 11
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