Domby - Trial

NEW STEAMER

OFFICIAL TRIALS OF THE S.S. DOMBY.

Northern Daily Mail 04/04/1932
      
The steamer Domby, built by Messrs. William Gray and Co., Ltd., West Hartlepool, to the order of Messrs.  Sir R. Ropner and Co., Ltd., West Hartlepool, successfully ran her official sea trial on Friday.
      
The vessel is built to the highest class in British Corporation Register of Shipping, and has a length over all, 434ft. 3in., a breadth of 55ft 5in., and a depth moulded to the upper deck of 31 ft., with bridge, poop, and forecastle.
      
She is constructed on the cellular double bottom principle with fore and after 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 will be berthed in large steel houses alongside the casing, and the crew in cubicles in the poop with separate messrooms.
    
For the quick handling of cargo 11 powerful steam winches are provided which work 12 derricks. A direct acting steam windlass forward and steam steering gear amidships are also fitted.

                                              THE ENGINES
    
The Domby 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, 43 ½, 73in. diameter by 48in. stroke, and three large boilers working at a pressure of 200lbs. per square inch.
      
A number of auxiliaries of the “C.M.E.W.” type are also fitted, including centrifugal circulating pump, pair of independent feed pumps, winch condenser with duplex circulating pump, duplex general service and two ballast pumps, evaporator, and drain and scumming tank.
      
A “C.M.E.W.” thermocouple installation will also be fitted, by means of which the temperatures of the cases in the combustion chambers of the boilers, the smokeboxes, at the base of the funnel, and other points may be easily and conveniently read at one place in the engine room.
      
The owners were represented by Mr. J. B. Nicol under whose superintendence the ship and machinery have been constructed, and Mr. G. B. Chambers, assistant superintendent.
    
Mr. J.D. Stephenson of the British Corporation Register of Shipping, was also present.

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