UNION CO.'S ENTERPRISE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 49, 19 August 1911, Page 5

UNION CO.'S ENTERPRISE

LARGE STEAMER ORDERED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Particulars have been received locally of a new steamer which has been ordered by the Union Steamship Company from John Brown and Co., Clydebank, Sootland. The dimensions will be as follows: Gross tonnage, between 13,000 and 14,000 tons; length, 522 ft Oin; beam, 08ft. She will have ten boilers, 17ft, and will be capable of maintaining a speed of IV knots at sea fully loaded. The method of propulsion will be combination engines (turbines and reciprocating engines), which have been adopted for the Orama,' the latest Orient liner, and for the White Star Company's Olympic, and have been proved to be the best that marine engineers have yet evolved. The .passenger accommodation will be modelled in accordance with the latest developments, provision being ma'de.for shout 800 passengers—3oo first-class. 250 second-class, and 250 third-class. There will also be provision for extra accommodation in times of heavy traffic. The new liner is for the Vancomw-Auckland-Sydney service, the contract for which'lasts five years. She is to be completed in fifteen months, and will be the largest passenger steamer owned south of the line.