MODERN OIL BARGE
FOR WELLINGTON
HARBOUR
The port facilities of Wellington ■will £>c improved when a modern oil barge, the Shell, arrives from Singapore next ■month in. tow'of one of tho Shell Oil Company's tankers.
The Shell, which embodies all tho latest features in construction and in pumping facilities, was specially built to the order of the Shell Company by tho Hong Kong, and Whampoa Dock Company, and is at present en route from Hong Kong to Singapore, where sho will be taken in tow. The bargo is 135 ft in length overall, 25ft Gin in breadth, and lift Gin in depth. She has a carrying capacity of 500 tons, and will "carry crude bunker fuel oil and Diesel engine fuel oil. Tho barge has one big P'mip driven by a f>2 h.p. motor, and it is abltj to pump 300 tons an, hour. The Shell is solely for use in Wellington Harbour,'and will be berthed at Burnhatn Wharf.
Two ships converted into lnilks at present carry fuel oil in Wellington. Harbour. ■
An official call was made this morning on tlic Wellington Harbour Board by Hoar-Admiral G. Blake as Commodore- of tho Now Zealand Division of tho Royal Navy. The call was returned later by tho acting-chairman of the Harbour Board, Mr. H. D. Bennett.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 81, 2 October 1931, Page 9
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215MODERN OIL BARGE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 81, 2 October 1931, Page 9
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