i /WinnM / jh jfft ns //rtHi // ; i 1011? F Iw“i A llwiii The inside story / \ / | ‘Wr F"BaWo 4# You see her every day— you probably take her for granted. / \ / hlliPi® 8 She’s one of manyatypical 11 ,000-ton refrigerated cargo ship of / X PS • l ! |p ill Bi one of the Overseas Lines and a good example of the ships that / / X 'Hi .8 form the back-bone of the service. / / Xi But let’s take the lid off her and have a closer look: / from stem to stern, she measures 560 ft. Put her down in Christchurch and she’d stretch across Cathedral Square. y\ =s "~~s HER ENGINES develop 12,800 b.h.p. Set to work in a power station, i\ si \ hOfXfllr S they’d produce enough electric and power for a- city the size of \ 51 \/( OyBB il Timaru - \ \y ; f p£ S IN A SINGLE TRIP (London-Auckland) she uses 1,350 tons of oil. \ AB I siO !» B That’s enough, in terms of petrol, to give you 10 million miles of A\f o&!i |lb 1% motoring if you prefer it, to take you from Auckland to /d fls W H Wellington every day of the week for the next sixty-five years. \ . Xffid V-|k L |r it; 7>ooo tons of steel were used in her constructionthat’s more \~~|I — — ®J M h s steel than they’re using in the construction of Auckland Harbour feSI ii tailsSi Bridge. £&L|| Ig* g|i|hag§i|Bß to protect the steel from corrosion, her builders used 40 tons of \ || paint. With that quantity, you could paint 1,500 houses. she HAS 522,000 cu. ft. of refrigerated cargo space — only for Fi jOIAI L frozen and chilled meat, but also for butter, cheese, apples, pears X j —-4 ' L an deep-frozen vegetables. That’s big enough to take 35,000 l lHs |||Brqp W! ewes and 200,000 lambs—your whole farm and many of your . O'?< IJ SEI f Irft neighbours’ in a single ship.' , % >T" HER total cargo capacity is 775,000 cu. ft. which would At?Ap~:q XgT completely fill the Wellington Town Hall from floor to ceiling A jFT’h one-and-a-half times. There she isyour good and faithful servant; jf T ! ~HT lOffi and before she sails away, let’s look at one more figure. To build, ar.Sr§iW- RM! this ship cost over Al million, which is about five-and-a-half \ 0 times as much as she would have cost before the war. Her useful X< / /1| OsX *ll life is still only about 25 years —and who knows what will be the / /\/ y : : ig!p ||» cost of replacement in 1982? But, whatever the amount, it must / / || ijO? I|hi| somehow or other be set aside by the Lines out of the earnings ./ / / Ili during the short life of the ship. The task becomes no easier with (./ //\ '1 t somehow or other be set aside by the Lines must be done; always, / / \ | O during the short life of the ship. The task becomes no easier with /' / / the passing of time. But, easy or difficult, it must be done; always, I / /X ■ . -!* “ as a s hip comes to the end of its useful life, another must be - A ready to go into service . . . into your service. v \ \ yy IBBlr” 1 w —' — Vai ilili AM' ifr W W® Issued in the interests of mutual understanding by / .B|| NEW ZEALAND OVERSEAS J SHIPPING LINES SHAW SAVILL & ALBION CO. LTD THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO. LTD PORT LINE limited BLUE STAR line limited
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 94, Issue 6, 15 June 1957, Page 618
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