FOR CARDIFF OWNERS
LAUNCH FRON THE CENTRAL SHIPYARD
Northern Daily Mail. 5/3/30
Messrs. William Gray and Co., Ltd., yesterday launched from their Central Shipyard the steel screw
steamer Bradburn, which is being built to the order of the Leeds Shipping Ltd., Cardiff.
The vessel will take the highest class in British Corporation Registry of Shipping and is of the
following dimensions: Length B.P. 400ft.; breadth, 54ft. 3in.; depth moulded to upper deck, 28ft. ½ in. with open shelter deck and forecastle.
The ship is constructed of deep channel framing, with double bottom carried right out to shell, and
has six watertight bulkheads, together with steel centre line bulkhead in the holds and ‘tween decks, with wood shifting boards in way of hatches for special carriage of grain cargoes.
Spacious accommodation for the captain and officers is arranged in steel houses amidships, the
engineers being berthed in large houses alongside casing, and the crew forward.
For the quick handling of cargo, 11 powerful steam winches are provided to work 11 derricks. A
direct-acting steam windlass forward and steam steering gear amidships are also fitted.
The topmasts are telescopic, lowering to a height suitable for the Manchester Ship Canal Bridges.
The vessel will be completed in all respects as a first-class cargo steamer; her equipment including
refrigerating plant, an efficient wireless installation, and electric light throughout.
THE MACHINERY
The propelling machinery will be supplied by the Central Marine Engine Works of the builders, and
will consist of reciprocating engines of the balanced quadruple inverted direct-acting surface condensing type, and three forced draught boilers working at a pressure of 260lbs.per square inch. The boilers will be fitted with superheaters and will be arranged to burn either coal or oil fuel.
A number of auxiliaries of the “CMEW” type, made by the Central Marine Engine Works of the
builders will be fitted, including centrifugal pump, pair of independent feed pumps, overhead direct contact feed heater, high pressure live steam surface, feed heater, gravitation filter, evaporator, auxiliary condenser, singlex harbour feed pump, duplex general service and ballast pumps, pair of oil fuel separators, oil transfer pump, drain and scumming tank and steam scrubber.
A “C.M.E.W.” thermocouple installation will also be fitted, by means of which the temperatures of
the gases in the combustion chambers of the boilers, the smokeboxes, the base of the funnel, and other points may be easily and conveniently read at one place in the engine room.
The ship and machinery are being built under the supervision of Mr. W. G. Liley and Capt. E. A.
Tamlyn, on behalf of the owners, and the ceremony of naming the steamer Bradburn was performed by Mrs. Priestly-Mitchell. Of Gledholt, Birkenshaw, Bradford.
The owners were represented by Mr. Willie Reardon Smith (Director), and Capt. E. A. Tamlyn, and
the builders by Sir Wm. Gray, Bt. (Chairman), Messrs. M. S. Gibb and A. McGlashan, (Directors), Mr. T. S. Simpson (General Manager) and Mr. W. Hird (Yard Manager).
Among those present were Mr. and Miss. Priestly-Mitchell (Bradford), Lady Gray, Mr. Frederick
Jones (Cardiff), and Mr. J. Aitken, (British Corporation Registry).
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