PATEA SHIPPING COMPANY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 25 September 1911, Page 5

PATEA SHIPPING COMPANY.

A NEW STEAMER. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, September 22. A steamer to the order of the Patea Shipping Co., Ltd., which Mr W. H. Brown is building, will be launched about the middle of next month. This boat is lOGft overall, 20ft beam, and 7ft Gin depth of hold. She is very strongly built on the diagonal principle. Her keel and kelsons are of ironbark, with kauri bilge kelsons. The engines and boiler are being supplied by Messrs Fraser and Sons, of Auckland. The former are compound, to indicate 200 h.p., and the boiler will have a working pressure of 1301 b. The vessel will be insulated and fictei with a refrigerator, while there will be some loOOi't of piping in ttho holds, capable of dealing with 1100 quarters of beef or 3500 carcasses of mutton which quantity the vessel’s holt- arc arranged to carry. On deck she will be fitted with two winches and the latest appliances for dealing with the large butter and cheese trade between Patea and Wellington The vessel will have steam steering goar supplied and fitted by Messrs J o. Niven and Co., of Napier. . She was designed by Mr L. Bennett, superintendent engineer to the Patea Shipping Company, and will bo ready for sea by the end of November.