One of the most modern and best equipped cargo ships afloat is lying at the Shanghai and Hong-*kew Company's Hongkew Wharf—namely the motor vessel Teneriffa, of the Norwegian, Africa and Australia Line, O. Thoresen, Shanghai agents. Spick and span in her white paint touched up with blue, with a big funnel like any liner, her appearance surprises any one looking for the ordinary small craft which the term ''motor boat" suggests, As a matter of fact the Teneriffa is 444 ft. long, 55 ft. broad, and 38 ft. in depth, with a gross tonnage of 7,072 and nett tonnage 4,460. She boasts five holds and five hatches, has 13 electric winches, two derricks, one of which can lift 10 and the other 20 tons of ship's gear and is equipped with two oil-burning six-cylinder Diesel engines of 1,700 H.P, each, to run her dynamos. She consumes 10$ tons of oil in 24 hours when in action, but as she was stocked at Aden with sufficient fuel to last for six months there is no occasion for worry lest the supply should give out.
One of the distinguishing points of the Teneriffa is her funnel, an embellishment not seen before on motor vessels.. Besides improving the appearance of the ship and supplying an appropriate place for the line's emblem it serves a practical purpose in carrying off the exhaust from the engines and incidentally warms a large tank of water encased within it thus suppling continuous hot water for officers' and men's baths. Electricity, generated by dynamos run by the Diesel engines, is the motive power of the craft exclusively, ex cept that steam is used for keeping the oil thin in cold weather and for heating the boat. This is the only ship of its type at present and the largest motor vessel built in Norway, but another is being completed and four more will soon be turned out.
Her average speed is from 12} to 12: knots. She completed the trip from Antwerp to Singapore in 30 days and came up here from Hongkong in three days. Her cargo capacity in grain is 568,000 and in cubic bales 521,000, She brought a general cargo to Shanghai and will take the like to Yokohama, thence proceeding to Kobe, after which it is uncertain whether her destination will be Java or Australia.
This is her maiden trip and every item of equipment fairly glistens with newness while every cranny shows that a_ailor's re-"putation for meticulous house keeping is well deserved. Leaving Copenhagen, on May 3 she came round through the Suez Canal and wid Singapore and Hongkong to
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