NEW STEAMERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1916, Page 2

NEW STEAMERS.

UNION COMPANY'S LEITRIM. SHAW-SAVILL FLEET. Another steamer for the Union Company was recently completed in England. This is the Leitrim, with a deadweight capacity of about 13,000 tons. It has been reported .by cable to the Marino Underwriter.?' and Salvage Association, of Victoria that the vessel met with a mishap prior to her maiden voyage. The message read as follows:—"The Leitrim was in collision with the Mechanician on February 21. It was necessary to discharge 4000 tons of cargo, preparatory to docking. The Leitrim was loading at Liverpool for Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane." The Leitrim is a fine twin-screw turbine steamer, built at the Cleveland dockyards, Middlesborough-on-Tees, by Sir Rayiton Dixon and Co., Ltd. The vessel is of the three-deck type, with bridge and forecastle, her leading dimensions being '49lft -Tin by 60ft by 39ft 4in moulfled. The Leitrim follows the line of . steamers which includes the -Westmeath (8090 tons). Roscommon (7381 tons.) and Limerick (0827 tons), vessels on charter to the Federal Line. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Com. •pany 'have four new cargo steamers building—the Maliaria, 12,000 tons ■ register; Mahia, 11,500 tons; Matakana, 11,500 tons; and the Raranga, also 11,500 tons. All are twin-screw vessels fitted with refrigerating machinery for meat and general produce. They should have lieen finished by the end of last year, but owing to the pressure of Government work in the Home yards tliey are still far from complete.