Heronspool - Trial

THE HERONSPOOL

TRIAL TRIP OF LOCALLY-BUILT VESSEL.

Northern Daily Mail. May 1st 1929

The steamer Heronspool, built by Messrs. William Gray and Co., Ltd., to the order of Messrs. The Pool Shipping Co., Ltd., West Hartlepool, successfully ran her official sea trials yesterday.

The vessel is built to the highest class in Lloyd’s Register, and is of the following dimensions: Length overall 434ft. 4in.; breadth, 54ft. 3in., depth moulded to upper deck, 30ft. 1 in.; with long bridge, poop, and forecastle.

Constructed on the cellular double bottom principle, with fore and aft peaks, for water ballast, the framing being of the deep channel type, she has seven 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 being berthed in large steel houses alongside casing, and the crew in cubicles in the forecastle, with separate mess rooms.

                                                FOR QUICK HANDLING OF CARGO.

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 topmasts are telescopic, lowering to a height suitable for the Manchester Canal Bridges.

The Heronspool is complete in all respects as a first-class cargo steamer, her equipment including an efficient wireless installation and electric light throughout.

The propelling machinery, supplied by the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders, consists of triple-expansion engines having cylinders 26 ½ -43 -73 inches diameter by 48 inches stroke, and three large boilers working at a pressure of 180lbs.per square inch.

A number of auxiliaries of the “CMEW” type, are also fitted, including an evaporator, general service pump, ballast pump, pair of independent feed pumps, combined drain and scum tank, and winch condenser with duplex circulating pump.

The owners were represented on the trials by Mr. J. B. Nicol, Superintendent Engineer, and Mr. G. B. Chambers.



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