THE PORT LINE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 63, 14 March 1936, Page 15

THE PORT LINE

NEW VESSELS BUILDING TO BE NAMED PORT JACKSON. The Commonwealth and Dominion Line announce that the Board of Trade has agreed to their request that their new motor-ship building at Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd., Wallscnd-on-Tyne, should be named Port Jackson. Port Jackson was the name of the original steamer of the Port Line, and it has long been the wish of the company to call one of their vessels after her. The possesion of the name by a steam trawler has, however, prevented this until now, but since this small ship has disappeared from the register this objection no longer exists. The original Port Jackson was built inlBB3 by Messrs. Andrew Leslie and Co., on- the Tyne. She was an iron steamer with single screw. Her dimensions were 314 ft. 6in. by 37ft. 9in. by 29ft. 6in., and her gross tonnage was 2,644 tons. Her engines developed 350 h.p. The particulars which have been obtained from the old register which is in the hands of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, provide a strange contrast with her new namesake, which will be a vessel of over 9000 tons gross, with engines of 10,200 h.p. Port Jackson, as is well known, is the proper name for Sydney Harbour. There have, of course, been other Port Jackson’s besides the steamer referred to above; notably a fine sailing vessel used as a training ship by Messrs. Devitt and Moore.