UNION COMPANY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 3, 19 August 1911, Page 5

UNION COMPANY.

LARGE STEAMER ORDERED. (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, August 18. Particulars have been received locally of a new steamer which lias been ordered by the Union Steamship Company from John Brown and Co., Clydebank, Scotland. The dimeimi ms will bo as follows;—Gross tonnage, between 13,000 and 14,000 tons; length, 522 ft Gin ; beam, GGft. She will ba/3 ton boilers, 17ft, and will be capable of maintaining a speed of 17 knoes at sea fully loaded. The method of pinpulsion will ho combination engines (turbines and reciprocating engines), which have been adopted for the Drama, the latest. Orient liner, and for the White Star Company’s Olympic, and have been proved to lie the best that marine engineers have yet evolved. The passenger acco.nm.ilotion will be modelled in accordance with the latest developments, provision being made for about B.JO passengers—3oo first-class, 250 secondclass, and 250 third-class. There will also he prevision for extra accommodation in times of heavy traffic. The now liner is for the Vancouver-Auck-land-Sydnoy service, the contract for which lasts five years. She is to ho completed in fifteen months, and will be the largest passenger steamer owned south of the line.