OIL DRIVEN LINERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3371, 27 December 1919, Page 5

OIL DRIVEN LINERS.

OCEAN GIANTS FITTED'WI'I‘«H NET/V APPARATUS.

In the “reconditioning”. of the Whiite Star liner Olympic at Belfast oil burning apparatus is being installed, land there -are indications that the time is not far distant when coal as a motive power willy disappear from the majority of ocean-going vessels (states a London paper). ’ It is undertstood that oil burning gear is also being introduced into the Mauretania and Aquitania, as Well as other vessels under construction for the Cunard and associated lines. The liners handed over by" the Germans to British companies will also probably be adapted. The great advantage. of oil-driven‘ ships, is, of course, the .-greater space made available for storage. Oil also ensures a higher driving power per ton. The Aquitania, for instance. in» stead of consuming 1000 tons of coal at day would burn only 500 tonsw of oil. and this could -be carried in thei tanks formerly used for Water bal-i blast.

Supply depots tire already in exist once on the Thames,-at Avonmouth, +Southamp’qon, ;Ma.nch'es,t)er,.. Livbrpooli. ~Bal'l'oW,WHhl'l, 2" ' Siln”clerla.nd; "Grange-‘