FIRST MOTOR SHIP.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 16 May 1922, Page 8

FIRST MOTOR SHIP.

On her maiden voyage to New Zealand is. the motor ship Hauraki, the Union Steam Ship. Company’s first venture in motor vessels, already so- successful in other parte of the world. Built by Dennys, of Dumbarton, the Hauraki is 450 feet, between perpendiculars and hais ai moulded breadth of 58 feet. To the upper deck the meat surement is 34 feet. The- gross tonnage is 7500 tons and the deadweight capacity 10,850 tons. She has twin-screw engines, built by the North British Diesel Company, and developing 4660 horse-power. Shei is designed for a speed of 12J knots, and on her trials on the Clyde, over three days, she averaged 12.69 knots with an average consumption of 0.2971 b of oil per i.h.p., and a total consumption of oil per day of 14.92 tons.

From the description published in the “Motor Ship,” it appears that the Hauraki is designed for cargo work, and carries a limited number of passengers. She, is of the shelter-deck type of’vessel, and ha® five holds served by electrically-driven winches. Steering is of the electro-hydraulic type. Berths are provided for twenty passengers. The propelling engines; are of the eight-cylinder four-stroke type, with cylinders 26Jin diameter and 47in stroke, running at 96 revohitionis per minute. The, bunker capacity is 730 toiisi of oil. which would take the shlip half-way found the -world. The Hauraki left on her maiden voyage to New Zealand on March 17th, and was averaging 296 miles a day for the first week at an average speed of 12.33 knots and a daily consumption of 14 tons of oil. She is at present loading at Pacific Coast ports for New Zealland and Australia, and may be expected here in about a month’s time, and will be the, first motor-ship in New Zealand waters.