An item reported the launching a day earlier at the
shipyard Gusto of the steel hull of a coal transport with 2 screw built for foreign
account. Dimensions 42,400 x 10,00 x 5,250 metres. Fitted
out with 2-100 hp compound engines and a boiler with a heating surface of 80 square metres
and 8 atmosphere pressure. Electrically lightened. Cargo capacity 600 ton and
able to unload in seagoing ships with a speed of 250 ton/hour.(1)
Note
1. Identical to yard number 347 Prospero a seagoing
600 ton cola transport built for account of S.H.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands.
