NEW TANKER

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1930, Page 8

NEW TANKER

FOR NEW ZEALAND SERVICE

There arrived; in Auckland recently, on her maiden, voyage, the newest type of oil- tanker, to be placed in service between the. United States and cities in Australia ■ and New Zealand. The motorship, appropriately named the “New Zealand,” is operated by The Texas Company and run between chat organisation's refinery at Los Angeles, California,. U.S.A., and ports in Australia and New Zealand. The “New Zealand” has been con-

etructed on what’ is known as tlie t slier wood system, yand. is propelled by two Diesel engines. She is 500 feet over-all and 483 feet, between perpendiculars. Her extreme beam i c 65 feet 6 inches, and moulded depth 36 feet 9 inches. Her total cargo oil tank capacity in 640,000 cubic feet, or roughly 115,000 barrels of oil.

She has ten main tanks, port and starboard, and six Summer tanks, port and starboard, each tank having modern safety -deVic/as f° r !^ie handling of refined products. She is fitted with the usual cofferdams, pump-roomjs, oil-tight bulkheads, expansion trunks, vent and vacuum valves and a smothering system. She is equipped, with two main cargo pumps, each capable of handling 2,500 barrels of oil an hour. Suction lines are twelve inch with ten inch connections i,n each tank.

Two powerful Doxford engines of four cylinders each will propel the ‘■‘New Zealand,’’’ each cylinder being 480 m. bore by 1880 m. combined stroke.

The ship is designed for 11| knots an hour, with a 'fuel consumption oi fourteen tons per day, and a bunker capacity for 20,000 miles. She is equipped with two ‘donkey’ boilers to furnish the necessary steam for auxiliary machinery a.nd pumps. Each boiler is oil firing, but one is equipped, to utilise exhaust gasek from the main engines.

'Hie tanker was completed at Barclay Curie and Company’s yard, Glasgow, Scotland; and finished her trials on May 12th, 1930. She sailed the same day for Loe Angteles, California, to load for her maiden voyage to Australian and New Zealand ports. The vessel, which carries a crew o! forty men, is in command of Captain n V. Amundsen, and is a sister fihip to another of The Texas Company’s Tankers—the “South Africa.”