Carperby - Launch

FOR ROPNER FLEET
 
ANOTHER FINE VESSEL LAUNCHED
 
Northern Daily Mail. 5/5/28

Yesterday Messrs. Wm Gray and Co., Ltd., launched from their Central Shipyards West Hartlepool,  the handsome steel screw steamer Carperby, which is being built to the order of the Ropner Shipping Co., Ltd., West Hartlepool.

The vessel will take the highest class in Lloyd’s Register, and is of the following dimensions: Length overall 418ft.; breadth, 53ft. 6in., depth moulded to upper deck, 29ft. 5 ½  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 six watertight bulkheads, together with a steel centre line bulkhead, and wood shifting boards dividing the holds for grain carrying.

                EQUIPMENT

Spacious accommodation for the officers is arranged in a steel house amidships. The engineers will be berthed in large steel houses alongside the casing, and the crew in cubicles in the forecastle, with separate mess rooms.

For the quick handling of cargo, ten powerful steam winches are provided to work 12 derricks. A direct-acting steam windlass forward and steam steering gear amidships are also to be fitted.

The topmasts will be telescopic, lowering to a height suitable for the Manchester Ship Canal Bridges.

The Carperby 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 having cylinders 26in., 43in., and 71 inches dia. x 48 in. stroke, and three boilers working at a pressure of 180lbs., will be supplied by the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders, and a number of auxiliaries of the “C.M.E.W.” type, will be installed.
 
                NAMING CEREMONY

The ship and machinery are being built under the supervision of Mr. J. B. Nicol on behalf of the owners, and the ceremony of naming the steamer Carperby was gracefully performed by Miss Clare A. Macgregor, daughter of Dr. A. V.  Mcgregor, of Durham House, West Hartlepool. The owners were represented by Mr. William Guy Ropner and Mr. J. Ropner. The builders were represented by Sir William Gray, Bart. (chairman), Mr. F. C. Pyman (managing director), Mr. A. McGlashan and Mr. J. H. Farmer, (directors), and Mr. T. S. Simpson (general manager).

Amongst those present at the launch were Dr. and Mrs. Mcgregor, Mrs. Wm Guy Ropner, Mrs. F. C. Pyman, Mrs. A. C. Waddy, Mrs. J. H. Farmer, and Mr. R. S. Stroyan, also Dr. A. Pickworth, and Mr. A. Daintith (representing Lloyd’s Register of Shipping).

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