The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-12-18
THE MARAROA.
Description of the Union Company s
New Ship.
Hourly Expected at Honolulu VIII 4.
Mails and Passengers.

Through the courtesy Of Messrs. VIM.
e. Irwin & Co., agents for the Australian
and New Zealand Royal Mail Steamship
line, We are enabled TO print the follow
ing description OF the Mararoa, the new
and superbly-fitted steamship OF the
Union Company Of New Zealand which
is hourly expected at Honolulu. The
Mararoa is tie p.ocner boat of the
Australian and New Zealand subsidized
mail service, running between sydney
and San Francisco, via Auckland and
Honolulu, under the new contract:
The Mararoa, built by Messrs. William
Denny & Brothers, Of DumbartOn, for
the Union Steamship Company OF New
Zealand, went down the Clyde on Sep
TENDER 22d with II party oi nearly two
hundred gentlemen on board, mostly
shareholders. During the delightful run
out to sea, round Holy Island, the COM
pany had ample opportunity of inspect
ing this beautiful : eS@ei and its artistic
decorations. The saloon aud drawing
room are luxuriOuSly finished and decor
ated with pictures inserted in the panels
by David Murray, A. II. :. A, r. w.
Allen, Alfred East, William Young and
William Hackstoun, and series of ale
gorical representations of the seasons
and arts by Mr.. William Strang. The
saloon has fine glass dome, and the
corners are filled in with ornamental
brackets and vases, giving the facility
for fine display of flowers, etc. The
smoking room is spacious and light, ar
tistically fitted with bevelled plate look
ing-glasses, colored windows and paved
with AIinton tiles. The second saloon
has the walls panelled in beautiful speci-
mems of polished woods, and the vessel
is fitted with electric lights throughout.
THE SLEEPING CABINS
Are planned with everything most
studiously arranged for comfort and con-
venience. There are number of small
Pullman cabins on the deck, containing
two berths each, the upper one being
pushed up to the roof in the daytime
and the lower berth folded up, thus
forming private comfortable sitting
room, with table and easy chairs. Her
principal dimensions are: Length, 800
feet; breadth, AZ feet; and depth,
moulded, 26 feet; gross tonnage, 1900.
Above the upper deck is promenade
extending over three-fourths of the length
of the ship, and sheltered by roof deck
extending over the length of the engine
room and boiler spaces.
! SHE Is CONSTRUCTED OF STEEL,
According to Lloyd's rules for the 10(
Al three-deck class, having full poop
midship houses, and topgallant forecastle
straight steam and eliptical stern. The
vessel is rugged ~ two masted schooner
square-rigged on the foremost. She ha:
a double bottom on the cellular system
extending from peak bulkhead to peal
bulkhead, except under the boilers
where the ordinary floors are fitted
containing three hundred tons of waite
ballast. The double bottom is divided
into separate compartments, and is 81
!
and emptied independently. The en-
| gines, by Messrs. Denny d Co., of Dunn
barton, are direct-acting and surface
condensing on the triple expansion prin
ciple, having three cylinders, one low
| pressure, one intermediate and one higl
pressure. The diameters of the cylinder
are 81 inches, 81 inches and 81 inches
respectively, with a stroke of feet
inches, giving IN indicated horse-powe
of $500. Steam is raised by two double
ended steel boilers, having twelve O
Foxes corrugated furnaces. The work
ing pressure obtained is 100 pounds pc
square inch.
PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION.
The vessel will carry $50 first-class an,
12O second-class passengers. She wa
built for the New Zealand home trade
She is up to all the Admiralty require
ments, and fitted for Government ser
vice, being divided by eight transverse
bulkheads, five of which are water-tight
and extend to the upper deck. She
fitted with hydraulic gear for loading an,
discharging cargo and lowering ant
hosting her boats. Her carrying capacit,
is about 2,20O tons, with ample stabilit,
under ordinary conditions of loadin
even without the water ballast.
THE VOYAGE OUT FROM THE CLYDE.
The following particulars about tn
ship and report of the voyage of the Ma
raroa appeared in the Sydney "Mornin
Herald" November 28th:
The Union Company's new ship Ma
raroa arrived on the 9th from Glasgow
via the Cape and Hobart, with q mum
Der of passengers, but no cargo. TIL
Union Company have almost a world
wide reputation for the splendidly bull
and equipped vessels of their numerou
feet, and they are evidently determine
to maintain their prestige, as the Mara
roa is an improvement even on the bes
of the boats previously owned by them
In fact, the vessel is one of the finest c
her class that has ever yet been seen il
Sydney. She is equipped with ever
modern appliance for the efficient AM
economical working of the ship; he
accommodation is of the first class; he