An item reported the launching a day earlier at the shipyard Gusto (firm A.F.
Smulders), Schiedam, Netherlands of a coal transport with a cargo capacity of
1.000 tons for account of the Steenkolen handelsvereeniging (S.H.V.),
Rotterdam, Netherlands. She was able to unloaded her cargo into the coal
bunkers of seagoing ships with a speed of 250 tons/hour automatically weighing. Fitted out with an electrically/steam driven
loading bridge with bucket gripper. Dimensions 45 x 11,500 x 7,10 (hold)
metres. Fitted out with 2-250 ihp surface condensation engines. Both engines
could separately drive the bunker equipment. One boiler with a heating surface
of 150 square
metres and 9 atmosphere and further more the steam
winches for necessary tasks like lifting the anchors. She was the fourth vessel
built by the shipyard for the S.H.V. of this kind and was to be baptized Harpen
by Mrs. Van Beutener-Fenter van Vlissingen.(1)
Note
1. yard number 367.
