NEW MOTOR CARGO-SHIP REACHES AUCKLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 445, 29 August 1928, Page 1

NEW MOTOR CARGO-SHIP REACHES AUCKLAND

ON. MAIDEN VOYAGE HIGH-POWERED VESSEL One of four of the highestpowered motor cargo ships afloat, tne Shaw, Savill, and Albion Com* pany’e Coptic, arrived in the stream at Auckland this morning on her maiden voyage. , -The Coptic is the third to visit New Zealand of four vessels recently built for the company. The Taranaki and Zealandic have already been at Auckland. and the fourth, the Karamea, is at present fitting out at Glasgow. She leave Home shortly for the Dominion* and is to make Auckland her first P°rt of call. When fully loaded, the Coptic is capable of averaging 15 knots on a daily fuel consumption of about 35 tons of oil for all purposes. She is 500 feet in sngth, is of the complete superstructure type, and has a long bridge-house with top-gallant forecastle forward. In five of her six holds the 'essel has insulated cargo space of **04.000 cubic feet. Her general cargo space can stow 13,000 bales of wool. the holds are fitted with widely Paced cylindrical pillars for conveniace in stowing cargo. The propelling “\achinery consists of two six-cylinder . lesel engines of the Wallsend-Sulzer - ngie-acting two-stroke type, each deto develop 3,725 brake horsePower at a speed of 115 revolutions a and have been built by the ailsend Slipway and Engineering o J?P an y, Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne. 5 1 u Coptic ran official trials on July k'n en a maximum speed of 15.84 0 Wa s attained. She then prob«oHi from the Tyne to Glasgow to tak* 1 loadin §'- The vessel completed a. on general cargo at Liverpool, a sailed finally from the last-named van >»° n Jul y 23 * Fine weather preacross the Atlantic, and the of a C arrive <3 at Colon on the night Balh^ U&t She took on oil fuel at on ?? a ’ and cleared Panama eventually the morning of August 8. °°d weather continued till the veswh^ as a bout a week off New Zealand, a ran into north-westerly and hpa!* Wester ly winds, and a heavy hav SWeill - But for that she would nio ® a record run to the Domiknots. AS lt was, she averaged 13.5

the off icers are quite pleased with Performance of the vessel. M»hi a * n formerly of the and * s * n command of the Coptic, vessel * J- Cairns is travelling with the c.-.U 61 as the builders’ guarantee chief Whartf r * The vessel is at Prince’s