SPEEDING UP

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 670, 23 May 1929, Page 13

SPEEDING UP

NEW TURBINE STEAMER IN PORT NEWSPRINT VIA AMERICA _ , Since sh« last visited Auckland the • Port Auckland has Deen fitted with a Bauwach auxiliary turbine. This gives the vessel a faster speed, saves coal and allows voyages to be made in Quicker time. The Port Auckland is the second vessel of the C. and D. Line’s fleet to be fitted with a Bauwach turbine, the installation of which costs£2s,ooo. The work was done in eight weeks at Newcastle-on-Tyne before the vessel left on her long voyage to New Zealand, via Antwerp, Portland, New York and the Panama Canal. She arrived here yesterday at noon. The Bauwach auxiliary turbine is the invention of a German. It uses up the low pressure steam which comes from the main engines. Included in the Port Auckland’s cargo is the first consignment of Canadian newsprint, 1,150 tons, to be shipped from a United States port. Most of it is for Auckland, but -*ome will go on to Wellington. At Antwerp the Port Auckland loaded 2,500 tone of basic slag for Auckland. Motor-cars, machinery and general merchandise make up the rest of the cargo.