The Union Engine.

Progress, Volume III, Issue 4, 1 February 1908, Page 121

The Union Engine.

The accompanying illustration depicts a large American four-masted schooner equipped with twm-screw Union 3-cylinder engines of a total of 300 h.p. running on crude oil, and a 4-h.p. electric light engine. The length of this vessel is 167 ft., beam 40 ft., depth 13 ft. 4in , tonnage 567, with carrying capacity of 800,000 square feet of timber. It is well to remember that New Zealand took the j lead in the Southern Hemisphere in adopting the oil engine as a motive pover for such vessels. The large expanse of smooth water in the Hauraki Gulf, and elsewhere m the Dominion makes this engine an ideal type for marine propulsion for trading vessels of all sizes, as it requires only a minimum of attention, and, on account of the few working parts, a small bill for repiirs.