NEW MOTOR SHIP

Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1928, Page 4

NEW MOTOR SHIP

The Shaw, Snvi!l' and Albion Company’s hew motor ship Coptic arrived at Lyttelton on Friday morning. The Coptic is the third of the four new 'sister ships built in England for the company's service between England, New Zealand and Australia. Two of the new motor ships, the Zoalandicand Taranaki, visited Lyttelton earlier in the year. The fourth vessel, the Karamca, will leave London on her maiden voyage on September 12, for Auckland and Wellington. The claim is made that the Coptic and her sister ships are the highest motor-powered cargo ships afloat, and when fully, loaded are capable of averaging 15 knots on a daily fuel consumption of 35 tons of oil. The Coptic’s length Is 500 feet over all, and siio is of the complete super structure type. The bridge house is amidships. In five of her six holds there is insulated cargo space of 40,000 cubic loot, equivalent to 136,000 carcases of mutton, while 13,000 bales of wool can ho stowed in tile general cargo space. Her cargo handling appliances include twenty electric winches. The vessel is practically an nil-electric ship, ns the is steered, lighted, and heated by electricity, and all the auxiliaries, including winches, capstans, windlasses, fuel pumps, refrigerators and air compressors are electrically driven. The propelling machinery was constructed hv the Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co.. Ltd., and consists of two six-cylinder Diesel engines of the Wallsend-Sulzer 'single acting twostroke type.

■! In a saloon house at the forward end of t'lie bridge deck are four doubleberth state rooms, together with a handsome saloon and smoke room.