TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 852, 21 December 1929, Page 2

TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICES

NEW AMERICAN LINERS LATEST IN SHIPBUILDING Keen competition in the trans-Pacific . services between San Francisco and Australia is foreshadowed by the plans of the , Oceanic Steamship Company (Matson, Navigation no. which in less than three vears from now will place in service two magnificent fast passenger liners of , about. 20,000 tons each. A contract for their construction was placed with tle j Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation on : October 25. The ships, which are to maintain an evpress service between San Francisco and Sydney, via Honolulu. Pago Pago and . Ruva will be built to the rules and regulations of the American Bureau of nin- and the United States Steambo it Inspection Service, as well as Urn Proposed rules recommended by the ~ ' national Conference on Safety of Life it Sea, adopted at a meeting held in Lo tdon in the early part of I *- i ; i The general particulars are as r low:—Length overall, 632 ft; Iche-th b - tween perpendiculars. bUoft. be..n. depth to "IV deck, 44ft; draft. -sft. nln.-o pent at 2Sft dratt. '-•■AN- 11

pacific coast loadings. - Tbe Dr-ion Company advises the loiwam loadings at Pacific Coast porte are approxtmatoly as ftrtlowThe \V alternate will load during January for A ueU!.i S' e « O Los B «s d 2^ ”-d F d e u brTnWeJatter part of January and earl} in ruarv lor Napier, Lyttelton, Dunedin. Nelson and New Plymouth. she ‘ s . clear Los Angeles on lebtuary S, and la °w n i.l M load U durin f the latter part of January and early February, for Auckland, Wellington and Australia. She isto clear Los Angeles on February 10. and is due at Aucklad on March 3. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected to be witliin ranfe of the tmdermentloned wireless stations during the week ena. Auckland: Tofua. Otokia, Wamtapu, Marama, Ulimaroa, Voco, vfahana, Golden fi rn sq Port Pirie, Saltersgate. Chatham Islands: Rimutaka, Rangita Wellington: Maori, Wahine Arahura, Maheno, Falsterbn Tutanekai, Plencruachan, Aorangi, Niagar.i, “ *• * Maunganui, Inyergordon. Goldw jC<«gt. Plume, Tamahine, Norfolk, Taranaki, Min, Port Campbell. Awarua: Kawatiri Sir J- c loss Kosmos, Southern Princess, C. A. LarPORT OFONEHUNGA — DEPARTURES YESTERDAY HATJTDKU (6.10 pm.), 270 tons, Jackson-Fowler, for Hokianga. ... HOKIANGA (6.40 p.m.), 271 tons, Ben. nedy, for Hokianga. ARRIVAL TODAY NGAPUHI (7.30 a.m.), 703 tons, Bark, from New Plymouth.

\RAPAWA was scheduled to leave for Raglan, Kawhia and Waikato Heads at n °HATJTURU, due at 6 o’clock tomorrow morning from Hokianga, is to lay up during the holiday season. „ HOKIANGA was dispatched iast evening - for Hokianga. . NGAPUHI arrived this morning from New Plymouth. She is sailing on tbe return trip at 4 p.m. on Monday. OREPUKI is now not expected to arrive in port from Dargavflle until Christmas Day. She is to load for Nelson and West Coast ports of the South Island.

an teed trial trip speed, m There will be nine decks* l* J* s compartment*. with double throughout, cruiser stern and r’k uo,l, 't» The bulk-healing arrungemen- i •’•'A that With two -f the largest ndtar.. . **:* partments of the vessel flooded sel will be perfeelv safe at ,ea. 1 * '»*■ Accommodation has been on Tl ,. _ 620 tlrst-clns*. and a large " tourist class passengers dn.be,. The cargo spat e will accommoda t. , tons of dry cargo, and 1.000 to"a. .*• erated cargo In six chambern. e:r tFUBLIC ROOMS The first-class public spaces 4V , , arranged on -he A deck with a ti*** writing room, lounge, theatre a full regulation size tenuis menade decks of selected teak 1 **oon the "A" and “It' decks m.i pionmnadTs’wn'h than any American-built slip There will be two indoor ’ t r . m , tanks of steel construction built ship, the first-class swimming tank? ts * located on the forward deck, and ist class swimming tank on ttf exposed deck. »tl» The first-class dining saloon located on the -K" defk 2> capacity of 412. The tourist clue sZr* saloon is located on the “E” d«ok "* a id Is provided with 12S chairs. In ti m to the dining saloon the tour!".? 1 ' will have a large lounge stnokij writing room and promenade sp*;» , & more area a passenger than ai v TC built in the United States. y **■* It is intended to have all of th„ a. games for both class pasesneerr deck spaces are well adapted * space to provide any amusement i?* other passenger services prev <3* There will be electrically-openue* enger elevators serving all d?ck& r 0 r ft first-ciass passengers. Th» for the entire ship will be of Ji© 'T W** tank” system, arranged for the tion of eitl er natural or heated air* \* the cooled air supplied for the saloons. The dining saloons will b> stw ? ally insulated to further injure able atmosphere going through Ll tropics.

The first-clas.s staterooms arr ... ranged above the dining salc-on all are exceptionally large, and n'ith u. exception of a few inside rooms at w! centre of the ship, they are all as outside staterooms, with no bibby rooms, or, in other word* tnyir, rooms with alleyways to tho port Every first-class rrom in th«f shi|> is JZ' vided with its private toiled and erer* room has either a private bath print, shower or connecting bath. AI bgfw, rooms throughout the ship £xe feted fa* hot ancl cold fresh water. Every -ooin <,p the tourist class is also fitted wltluw. tory with hot and cold running wr« There will be a special feature !t the fit' ting of all staterooms with ext:*i ]&*. twin beds

A complete telephone system will b*> installed throughout the ship, ard nA and every first-class and touriri clmh stateroom will be provided with £ print,! telephone.

PROPELLIN3 MACHINERY The vessel will be propelled ty twin propellers, and the main* pi jpelifm. machinerj' will consist of thi-ee urblnel and a set of single reduction g jars on each shaft. The normal shaft horse, power is 22,000, with a maximum f 15.0 H shaft horsepower. Steam will le tup, plied by 12 water-tube boildrs Tvhh t steam pressure of 3501 b a squaie inck and the steam superheated to & tem. perature of 600 degrees, which v ill teal to economy. The contr-act calls for the del very of the first vessel complete in 28 mcntl* from the date of signing, and the second vessel to be delivered 32 months i •om tht date of the execution of the contract

When these ships are completid they will, in the opinion of the official 1 of tht Oceanic Steamship Company, ■ ore pars favourably with the finest shirs afloat Regarding the large liner whhh is H be built for the Union Compiiny s.Vancouver service, it is understood that ns order has yet oe«n placed per dine & decision as to the system of propulsion to be adopted. It is stated that tie pkm for the ship are otherwise complete.