Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tuesday 7 November 1905, page 6


THE MAHENO

.

NEW TURBINE LINER

DUE HERE DAILY.

The new turbine steamer Maheno, built specially to the order of the Union Steam-ship Company by Messrs. Denny Bros., of Dumbarton, is expected to arrive in Hobson's Bay to-day or to-morrow morning having left Durham in continuation of her maiden voyage from Glasgow 16 days ago. The Maheno is the largest vessel owned by the Union Company, and the second of the turbine type to enter Australian waters, having been preceded by the Loongana a little more than a year ago. When the com-pany with its usual enterprise, ordered the Loongana to be built the question of the superiority of the turbine system over the ordinary reciprocating engines in a compre-hensive sense was still being discussed by experts, although a number of vessels, notably the Channel ferry-boats Queen and Brighton, had given undoubted proof of the greater advantages of the new system, at least as regards the important aspects of speed and steadiness. Meanwhile, however, an almost unanimous expression of opinion in favour of turbines has been given by marine engineers and other nautical experts, with the result that they have been and are being freely adopted by some of the new leviathan steamers, built for the trade across The North Atlantic between Europe and America, notably the two great "Cunar-ders," each of which is to be 800ft. in length. it is noteworthy that the Maheno is the thirty-eighth steameri built foi the Union Company, the icombined tonnage of the fleet now reaching 71000 tons. One of its representatives - theRotomahams calls for special mention, as, although the 'greyhound,'

as she is called, was builti 26 years ago, there are few vessels running m Australian waters

which even now can 'show |

their heels.'I the rohomahana is still competing against vessels twice her sizei.in ithe New Zealand coastal service, but is such a favourite that passengers frequently wait a day in order to travel by her.

After more than a year's experience of the Loongana, the company has had ample opportunity of deciding the important queslion of economy in fuel as between that lessel amnd others of the fleet which are propelled

by reciprocating engines. In discussing this subject, .Mr. David .Mill«, the Melbourne manager, states that the results

shown by the- l.oongana are in every sense satisfactory. It is estimated that to get the same »peed .is that attained by the turbine vessel from another of tsimilar size fitted tnlh ordinary engines a «lightly greater tquantity of fuel than that consumed bv the Loongana would be used.therefore this, together nilli the comparative absence of tibifttioii, guater »tc.idiuci,«. and other minor inli.mt.igo, tluinu-tl for the tin hine system, lia» mole than justified the company m piniiccnng the ifay a« far ns the South-ern !Ii'Uii«plteic i« umuTiied in tin- nott' method of propulsion. With the exception Hut she i» iniiMilornhlv larger than the Manuka and Moeraki. the non- turbine liner is iibnost an o\.ict tbipheate of tbo«e ves-ets, nhioli, a« neally a» po»«iblc. represent per-

fection in the direction of comfort. The Maheno, aocoiding to " Lloyd's Kegisler," is of ¡..(tod tons gro-. or .ai*! ton» greller tbnn the Manuka, and fiOS (on- greater than i the Moeraki. .V « oinparisnn ns regards mci

j »tin milli» »lion, al»o that tile netf vessel

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