Fridland - Launch

LAUNCH AT WEST HARTLEPOOL

SIDE BALLAST TANK SELF-TRIMMING STEAMER FRIDLAND.

(northern) Daily mail June 24/1910

Yesterday, Messrs. William Gray and Co., Ltd., launched the handsome steel screw steamer Fridland, which they have built to the order of Messrs. Axel Brostrom and Son, Goteborg.

She is built to the highest class in Lloyd’s and is of the following dimensions: Length over all, 415ft.; breadth, 52ft. 9in.; and depth, 28ft. 6in.; and is specially designed for the owners’ Swedish iron ore and general trade, having long, poop, extra long bridge, and top-gallant forecastle.

The cellular double bottom extends throughout, and large after and fore peak tanks and deep tank in the after hold are fitted for water ballast. These, with side ballast tanks of about 1,400 tons capacity give about 3,100 tons in all. Special pumps, pipes, and valves are fitted so that the whole of the ballast can be filled or emptied in less than ten hours. The side tanks (McGlashan’s patent) extend from the after hold to the fore hold, a length of 247ft., in way of which the ship has double sides, which add to her strength and safety. They are specially designed for self trimming, the wings being carried well into the hatch combings. They are also of advantage when ore or coal cargoes are carried, presenting a smooth surface which is easily cleaned down, and preventing the lodging of dirt which occurs in ordinary vessels behind stringers and between the frames.

The extra ballast improves the speed of the vessel when running light, and considerably reduces the “racing” of the machinery. It is under easy control, and saves the cost and delay of shipping other ballast, which ensures a safe passage in ordinary vessels.

Superior cabin accommodation for captain, officers, and engineers is provided in houses on the bridge, while the crew will be berthed in the forecastle.

Twelve extra powerful steam winches are fitted, two strong masts, four derrick posts, 12 derricks with strong derrick gear, and two strong derricks for 10 and 15 ton lifts, steam steering gear and hand gear aft, patent direct steam windlass, large horizontal multitubular donkey boiler of main boiler pressure, telescopic masts fore and aft rig, boats on deck overhead, extra ventilation, room for installation of wireless telegraphy, electric lighting, and steam heating throughout, and a very complete outfit for a first class cargo steamer.

The machinery consists of a first class set of triple-expansion engines and boilers capable of developing 1,800 h.p. with cylinders 27 ½ in., 43in., and 73in. diameter, having a piston stroke of 48in. There are two large steel boilers at work at a pressure of 180lbs. per square inch under Howden’s system of forced draught. Weir’s pumps and feed heater and a number of “CEMEW” donkey pumps are fitted, and also a bronze propeller and other specialities, all by the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders.

The hull and machinery have been constructed under the superintendence of Mr. Filip Lindahl, assisted by Mr. C. A. Olsen and Mr. D. Bore.

The ceremony of naming the steamer Fridland was gracefully performed by Miss McGlashan, West Hartlepool.

Amongst those present at the launch was the Swedish Vice-consul

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