Deerpool - Launch

FOR LOCAL OWNERS

LAUNCH OF THE STEAMER DEERPOOL

Northern Daily Mail 26/07/1930
      
On Friday, Messrs. William Gray and Co., Ltd., launched from their Central Shipyard, West Hartlepool, the steel screw steamer Deerpool which has been built to the order of the Pool Shipping Co. (Sir R. Ropner and Co., Ltd., managers) West Hartlepool.
    
The vessel, will take the highest class in Lloyd’s Register and is of the following dimensions :-  Length over all, 434ft. 4in.,  breadth, 54ft 3in.,  depth moulded to the upper  deck, 30ft 1in, with long bridge, poop, and forecastle.
      
Constructed on the cellular double bottom principle with fore and after peaks are for water ballast, the framing being of the deep channel type, she has eight watertight bulkheads together with a steel centre line bulkhead and wood shifting boards dividing the holds for grain carrying.
    
Spacious accommodation for the officers is arranged in a steel house amidships. The engineers will be berthed in steel houses alongside casing, and the crew in cubicles in the poop with separate messrooms.

                                               A FIRST CLASS STEAMER
    
For the quick handling of cargo ten powerful steam winches are provided which work 12 derricks, a direct acting steam windlass forward and steam steering gear amidships are also fitted.
      
The masts are telescopic, lowering to a height suitable for the Manchester Ship Canal bridges.
    
The Deerpool will be completed in all respects as a first-class cargo steamer, her equipment including an efficient wireless installation, and electric light throughout.
    
Triple-expansion engines are being supplied by the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders, having cylinders 26 – 43 ½ - 73inches diameter, by 48 inches stroke and three boilers 16ft. Diameter by 11ft. 6in. long working at a pressure of 200lbs. per square inch. will be supplied by the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders.
       
A number of auxiliaries of the “C.M.E.W.” type will be installed including centrifugal circulating pump, pair of independent feed pumps, winch condenser with duplex circulating pump, duplex general service and two ballast pumps, evaporator, and drain and scumming tank.
                     
                                              THE NAMING CEREMONY
      
A “C.M.E.W.” thermocouple installation will also be fitted, by means of which the temperatures of the gasses in the combustion chambers of the boilers, the smokeboxes the base of the funnel and other points may be easily and conveniently read at one place in the engine room.
    
The ship and machinery have been built under the supervision of Mr. J. B. Nicol on behalf of the owners, and the ceremony of naming the steamer Deerpool was performed by Miss. Wendy Talbot-Wilcox.
    
The owners were represented by Mr. W. Ropner and Mr. W.G. Ropner and the builders by Sir W. Grey, Bt. (chairman) Mr. J.H. Farmer, director.
  
Amongst those present were Mrs. W. Ropner and Mrs. W.G. Ropner, Mrs. Talbot-Wilcox, Mrs. J. Stephenson, and Mr. J. Stephenson (British Corporation Register of Shipping).

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