ABOVE: Lady Olive Hutchins cutting the celebratory cake
BELOW: Dressed for the day, passengers waiting to board
Skilled mariners now boarding
Congratulations to our
Graduates of 2012
VIP.S91
S
S91
Industry training for
the maritime sector
RIGHT: Even the staff were all
dressed for the occasion
ZF FIXED PITCH PROPELLERS
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Custom made to order
CAD / CAM designed
Fully CNC machined
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Chatfield DRIVELINE SYSTEMS
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Commercial Dripless Blue Water Shaft Seals
o Fully water cooled & lubricated lip seal
��� Vesconite Stern & Rudder Bearings (NZ agents)
o Does not swell or delaminate ��� longer life
o We can manufacture to your requirements
��� Silverline Cutlass Bearings (NZ agents)
o Rubber ��� water lubricated bearings
��� Services
o Shaft machining and straightening
o Replacement bearings and stern tubes
o Seal refurbishment
o Marine quality machining
New Zealand���s Preferred Supplier of ZF propellers
CHATFIELD MARINE
9 Porana Rd
Glenfield, Auckland, NZ.
Ph: +64 9 444-9031
sales@chatfieldmarine.co.nz
www.chatfieldmarine.co.nz
VIP.S89
to Dunedin shipbuilders,
John McGregor & Son for
��20,850.
TSS
Earnslaw
was
designed by naval architect
Hugh McRae, with her keel
being laid in Dunedin on
July 4, 1911. By October the
steamer, and her two tripleexpansion jet condensing
locomotive steam engines
had been built and assembled
at McGregor���s yard. An estimated 70,000 to 80,000 rivets were
used in the prefabrication, holding some 140 plates and 78
frames together.
Following construction she was dismantled and transported
by rail to Kingston at the southern end of Lake Wakatipu where
the keel was once again laid on November 28, at a temporary
shipyard at Kingston. By December 14, the last frames were set
and the hull replated with her finishing rivets.
TSS Earnslaw, takes her name from Mount Earnslaw, the
9,250 foot peak at the head of Lake Wakatipu. She was launched
on February 24, 1912. There was little fanfare at this stage
and the hull was moored at the Kingston wharf where final
construction, along with the installation of the engines, boilers
and internal fittings, was carried out.
On August 3, TSS Earnslaw made a successful sailing as far
as the entrance to Queenstown Bay. Plans were made for her
maiden passenger voyage from Kingston to Queenstown on
October 18, and from Queenstown to the Head of the Lake on
October 19.
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