NEW UNION STEAMER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1329, 5 January 1912, Page 7

NEW UNION STEAMER.

TO' BtiKlf LIQUID FUEL. ~ ■.. A -non' 13.500-ton -steamer for tile TJnion Stoain.Khip Company, of New Zealand ie now under construction in .Messrs. John 'Brown and Company , !) yard oh the Clydo, t-ays an exchange. .: Sir . J amos Mills says the new vessel will bo the largest and :mott luxurioudy-iUtcd British passenger steamer running south' of the. line, or in the Pacific.. Her dimensions, will he 522 ft. Mn. in length between'perpendiculars, and Hit. in breadth. She will be a triplescrew, driven by combination engines of hißh power; unci Elic will bo ■tlic" , first ■British ' mail steamer to be eouipped for the burning of liouid fuel. The bunkerswill, be constructed to carry between 4000 and. MOO'tons of oil. The quantity will'bo taken at Vancouver, and will bo sufficient for the round voyape. The vessel is oxpected to'consume between 80 and 100 tone of oil fuel per day. A ehippinp. correspondent comments oa follows:—"Sir James Hills has made a careful study on the spot of the actual working results of American and Jopauco steamers'running on the Pacific, and using liquid fuel. ' Tho bold lend taken by the New Zealand company speaks volumes- for the eu-tcrpriec and of its directors iii this important matter of sttamlakiiif- «i.' applied to' a. fast British paesender ship.