TRIP TO NEW ZEALAND.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 192, 14 August 1931, Page 13

TRIP TO NEW ZEALAND.

Best in World, Says Master of Tanker. That the run to Australia and New Zealand is the best in the world, and that the people are the best to meet from either a business or a social point of view is the opinion of Captain P. A. Jorgensen, master of the Atlantic Union Oil Company’s tanker, Brunswick, which left Wellington recently for Melbourne and Sydney. The Brunswick, which was the first electrically-propelled tanker to be built, has been coming regularly to New Zealand for three years now, and Captain Jorgensen has just resumed command after being absent for fourteen months superintending the construction of two tankers at Greenock, Scotland. When this task was completed, Captain Jorgensen had the choice of taking command of any of the twenty-three sea-going tankers belonging to the Atlantic Union Oil Company, but. as he remarked to a reporter, he preferred to come back to his old ship because he liked her, and because he liked the run and the people. The two tankers, the construction of which was supervised by Captain Jorgensen, are the Parmian and the Winkler, the Parmian being a sister-ship to the Brunswick. Both are electricallypropelled. and Captain Jorgensen holds that tankers of this type are a decided success. The Winkler can carr)- thirty different kinds of lubricating oil without mixing them, and the Parmian is designed for the carriage of crude oil. During Captain Jorgensen’s absence, Captain Bormann, previously first mate, was in command. After completing his holiday in Norway, Captain Bormann will take command of the Parmian.