UNION COMPANY’S NEW LINER

Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1922, Page 5

UNION COMPANY’S NEW LINER

LATEST TYPE MOTOR-VESSEL. TWELVE THOUSAND HORS V POWER. The Diesel-engined liner which the Pair field Shipbuilding and Engineering Coonpany, Glasgow, is to build for the Union Steam Ship Company, of New Zealand, is to be of about the length of the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Canada, and have a speed of 18 knots—not 16 knots, as was first reported. Her propelling machinery will consist of internal combustion engines of the Fairfield-Sulzer type, which will he constructed at the Fairfield Company's works under license from Messrs. Sulzer, of Winterthur, the decision to adopt this system of propulsion being the outcome of very careful consideration on the part of the Fairfield Company, Messrs Sulzer and the Union Company. A great deal of interest is naturally being taken in the projected vessel, says an English writer, partly owing to the fact that the long voyage between New Zealand and Vancouver —the new liner* is intended for this service—will be an exceptional test for a vessel fitted with large oil engines, and partly owing to the economies which the new systeni of propulsion make possible. Speaking during the sea. trials of the cargo vessel Eknaren, which is fitted with a 3000i.h.p. Doxford opposed piston oil engine, Mr. Robert Traill, the Fairfiild Company’s engineering director, asid that the oil engines of the motor liner whieh his company was to build for the Union Company would develop a total of 12,thx) i.h.p.. They had been able to increase the passenger accommodation by 18 per cent, by using Diesel engines, and there would 'also be a large increase of carrying capacity.