Arna

LAUNCH AT WEST HARTLEPOOL

(Northern) Daily Mail, March 1/11

Messrs. William Gray and Co., Limited, today launched the steel screw steamer Arna, which they have built to the order of Messrs. S. M. Kuhnle and Son, Bergen, Norway.
She will take the highest class in the British Corporation Register, and is of the following dimensions : Length over all, 422ft. 6 in.; breadth, 54ft., and depth, 26ft. 11in., with two decks laid, long bridge, poop, and top-gallant forecastle.
The saloon, state-rooms, captain’s, officers, and engineers’ rooms, etc., will be fitted up in houses on the bridge deck, and the crew’s berths in the forecastle.
The hull is built with deep bulb angle frames, clear holds, cellular double bottom, and large aft and fore-peak ballast tanks. 10 steam winches, exhausting into a winch condenser, steam steering gear amidships, hand screw gear aft, patent direct steam windlass, shifting boards, stockless anchors, telescopic masts with fore and aft rig, boats on deck overhead with Captain Gude’s patent chocks and releasing gear and ventilation for the Eastern trade, electric light, The vessel is fitted with electric light and all requirements for a first class cargo steamer.
Triple-expansion engines are being supplied by the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders, having cylinders 27 ½ in., 43 ½ in., and 78in. diameter, with a piston stroke of 48in., and four steel boilers for a working pressure of 180lbs. per square inch.
The hull and machinery have been built under the superintendence of Mr. Eide and Captain Jentoft, on behalf of the owners, and the ceremony of naming the steamer Arna was gracefully performed by Miss Ida Levinsohn, Gosforth, Newcastle.

TRIAL TRIP OF THE s. s. ARNA

(Northern) Daily Mail, April 7/11

Yesterday, the steel screw steamer Arna, built by Messrs. William Gray and Co., Ltd, to the order of Messrs. S. M. Kuhnle and Son, Bergen, Norway, was taken to sea for her trial trip.

Triple-expansion engines have been supplied by the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders, having cylinders 27 ½ in., 43 ½ in., and 78in. diameter, with a piston stroke of 48in., and four steel boilers adapted for a working pressure of 180lbs. per square inch.

The trial was witnessed by Mr. S. A. Eide and Captain Jentoft, who have superintended the construction of the hull and machinery. Mr. Arnold Jones represented the ship builders and Mr. J. B. Williams the engine builders. After adjustment of compasses, the vessel was put through the usual manoeuvres, and although a heavy sea was running at the time everything worked smoothly and well. On the conclusion of the trial the vessel proceeded on her voyage, under the command of Captain Jentoft.