SHIPPING RECORD.

Auckland Examiner, Volume 1, Issue 40, 17 September 1857, Page 2

SHIPPING RECORD.

EntDarDe. September 13 —Him, 20 tons, Hira, from Opotiki, with 2 kits potatoes, 100 bushels maize, 20 do., wheat. September 12— Gazelle, schooner. 212 tons, P. Jones, from Sydney, with a large general cargo. Passengers—Messrs. McFarlane, Hardington, Brown. Brown, Wrathall, Misa Hodgkinson, Mr. Steveneon, Bu»by, Mrs. Graham, H. Jaffa, D. Kirkwood, 3. Nicholls, Mrs. Holt and infant, Mr. and Mrs Carles. Henderson and McFarlane, agents. 6?ptem!w 12— Sybiil—, schooner, 103 tone, G. Kelly, arum Melbourne. Passengers—Mr. John R F. Peebles, David Roberts, Cu.pt. Jackson, T. Tomlins and wife. Thomas Redshaw.— Henderson and McFarlane, agents. September 14—Spray, schooner, 106 tons, H. T. Anderson, from Sydney. No passengers.—Bain, Grahame, and Co., agents. ©utmam. September ll—Mary Ann White, 15 tons, Nicholas, for the Thames with 1 bale merchandize, 10 cwt. shot, 100 lbs. gunpowder, 1 bale blanket*, 1 bale dungaree, 10 cwt. sugar, 1 hhd. rum, 1 case prints. September 11 —Rose Ann, 26 tons, Kauri, far the East Coast, with | keg tobacco, I cases gin, 10 bags sugar, 23 packages sundries. September 10—Raven, 24 tons, McLeod, for Russell, in ballast. Passengers—Messrs. McDowell and Wood. September 12 —Henry, schooner, 43 tons, J. Butt, tor Aorere, in ballast. Passengers—Messrs. P. King, Geo. Twambly. Martin May. Me Lennon, J. Golding, wife and daughter, Fred. Taylor, John Gough, E. Jones. G. Growcher. Wm. Kew, E. G. Woolcott, Thomas Rathbone, William Tugs, G. Miller, .lames McLarnon, R. White, Thomas O’Brien, D. Osborne, Wm. Donovan. P. Russell, V. Baldgrove- and wife. —Coombes and Daldy, agents. 0 THE GREAT EASTERN. This leviathan steam ship (to have been launched last August, at Millwall) is 13,000 tons larger than the largest ship in the world. Her length between the perpendiculars is 680 feet; length on the upjer deck, 699 feet—within 28 feet double the length of the height of St. Paul’s, and more than double the extreme length of the United State’s screw frigate Niagara, about which the Transatlantics are talking so much. The height from the bottom of the ship to the underside of the planking of the upper deck is 58 feet; the extreme breadth is 83 feet; breadth across the paddle-boxes, 120 feet. Length of forecastle, 140 feet; height of ditto, 8 feet; thickness ot iron plates in keel, 1 inch, Already, nearly 1000 tons, or 60,000 superficial feet of wrought iron have been used in the 3,000,000 of wrought iron rivets which have been welded in Her tonnage is within a few tons of 23 000. She will be propelled by paddle engines of 1500 horse power, and screw engines of 1809 horse power, giving a total of 3,300 horse power, at a pressure of 251 b.; if necessary, cui work up to 5000 horse power. She will have six masts and ten anchors. All the former will be of hollow wrought iron, except the mizen, on which, at a height of 84 feet from the deck, will be placed the compass. The masts will sptead together no less than 6,590 square yards of canvass. The rigging will be of wire. Bhe will carry twenty large boats on deck, some of them new patents. In addition to these she will also carry, suspended ftft of her paddle boxes, two small steamers, 100 feet long, and of between 100 and 70 tons burden. These will, of course, be raised and lowered by small auxiliary engines, several of which will be fixed on board for working pump?, hoisting sails, weighing anchor, &c. Quantity of coal which can be carried for voyages, 11,379 tons. She is fitted to accommodate eight hundred first class passengers, two thousand second class, and one thousand two hundred third class-in all four thousand passengers. She can carry, it is said, ten thousand troops. She will make her first.trial trip to America and back. She is expected to realise, at least, twenty miles an hour, or to accomplish the voyage from England to Australia (between which countries she is to run) in thirty days. Reckoning the post at so much per ton, it is said to be one of the cheapest vessels vet constructed.—Extract from the “ London Times.” O DEPARTURE OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE. The Golden Fleece, the pioneer ship of the European and American Company, left Southampton yesterday for South America. She took out 700 tons of cargo, 83,000 L in gold for the Rio Bank, 7o passengers, a heavy mail from Hamburg, jind a large ship mail from England. Sh,e is the finest screw steamer, and has the best accommodation of any ship that ever left the English shores for South America. She will call at Lisbon, Bahia, and Pernambuco on her way to Rio de Janeiro Amongst her snip mails are bags for the River Blate and the Falkland Islands. Since the Golden Fleece has come into the possession of the European and American Company she has been refitted and redecorated. Her cabins and Magnificent saloon are warmed with a hot-water apparatus of American invention ; this will prove a groat luxury to South American passengers coming from the warm climate of Brazil to England. The Golden Fleece is commanded by Captain Hall, who was the Commodore of the General Screw Company's fleet. The Queen of the Soutn will be the next of the European and American (Company’s ships to cross the Atlantic. She will be bound for New York. The Indiana will follow her to the same place. After her the Hydaspes will be the next ship of this Company’s fleet to leave Southampton ; she will go to the Brazils. Ihe fttamer Hermann left Southampton on Wednesday for New York; she took out 7o passengers, 'f he screw steamer Leopold 1., belonging to the Belgian Royal Mail Company, left Southampton also on Wednesday for New York. She took out 500 passengers, a Belgian mail, and a very large cargo, chiefly from Antwerp. The Duke of Brabant, another steamer belonging to the Belgian Royal Mail Company, will shortly be completed, and .two others are building, which will give the Belgian Company a fleet of six screw steamers.—Load. Express. O A SHIP’S CREW STARVED TO DEATH. The insurance clubs of the north-east ports and the owner of the bark Palermo, of South Shields, have received all the information that is likely to transpire of the wreck of that unfortunate vessel and the loss of her unfortunate crew and passengers, a portion of them by cold and hunger. The vessel belonged to Mr. John Cleugh, of South Shields, and was commanded by his son, Mr. William Cleugh. She left kernel in the middle of Jan., and besides her ordinary crew before she sailed there were shipped on board of her G. Gibson, J. Bell, G.iStorey, and J. Wislop, shipwrecked seamen, belonging to the Halcyon, of Hull, who-were returning to England, passengers ; so that when she left Memel for England she would have from fifteen to twenty hands on board. She passed Elsinore on the 31st of January, and no more was heard of her until last week. On the 14th of March a vessel, dismasted and waterlogged, was boarded off Norway by a pilot. Her decks were swept, and she was a perfect wreck, but on searching the forecastle, and among tire deals with which she was laden, he discovered the corpses of six seamen, who, to all appearance, had prrished of cold and hunger. The vessel was subsequently got to Battlen, fifteen miles from Bergen, and an attempt was made to discover her name. The master and chief officers appear to have lived in a round-house upon the deck; but |hc seas that had swept over the unfortunate bark had washed away every vestige of the house, and had carried away all the ship’s papers and boats. It was therefore impossible to make put the name of the vessel or her pqrt. On one of the bodies, however, an English prayer-book was found, which had evidently been used by the poor mariner in his hour of extremity. Upon it was inscribed “James Bell, Slot-street, Hull, 1840.” A certificate, signed by the British Consul at Memel, was also discovered upon another of the bodies, which, from a correspondence that has taken pjaqc with tfiat functionary, it is put beyond all doubt is the sanp certificate granted to the shipwrecked men put on board the Palermo before she sailed from Memel, and that the waterlogged vessel is the unfortunate bark. It is supposed that the principal portion of her crew was swept off her deck in the fearful gale that iag cd shortly after she passed Elsinore, and that, the provisions and other stores having been washed out of her along with the roundhouse, the poor fellows found dead on board had perished of cold and hunger. Captain W. Cleugh was the last of eleven fine stout men. whose death nis poor old father has to lament. Most of them perished at sea. The Captain also lost a fine young man, a son, before the vessel left Memel.—“ Liverpool Albion.” The ships Orwell and Palmerston have left Deptford to re. ceive the 77th Regiment on board for conveyance to Sydney, New South Wales. The’following ships have been chartered by the East India Company for the convey ince of troops to India, viz. For Calcutta : Bucephalus, July 1; Ellenborough, July 8; Drossy, July 11; uctavia, July 25. For Kurrachee : Bombay, July, 21; Albuera, July 21. The ships Palmaiseand Beechworth are to take the 95th Foot from Dublin to the Cape of Good Hope, the 89th Regiment fromthe Cape of Good Hope to Auckland, New Zealand, and return to Portsmouth with the 58th Regiment. Guichen Bay, 2nd July. I have only time to write these few lines, to inform you that the Dutch ship Koning Willem de Zweede, from Hong Kong, with Chinese immigrants, went on shore on the 30th ult. Within an hour of her striking, although on a sandy beach, she was a complete wreck. I regret to be obliged to add that fifteen lives were lost, and that the captain was only saved with great difficulty. The IConing Willem was of 800 tons, and had cleared out for Bata•?la> in ballast, at tbetimeAof-the A. Register.)

The Late XV to Shipowners and Masters — We beg to draw the attention of those interested to the 53rd section of the Merchant Shipping Act, which is as follows “Xf any registered ship is either actually or constructively lost, taken by the enemy, burnt, or broken up, or if by reason of a transfer to any persons not qualified to be owners of British ships, or of any other matter or thing, any such ship as aforesaid ceases to be a British snip, every person who at the time of the occurrence of any of the aforesaid events own such ship or any share therein,’ shall, immediately upon obtaining knowledge of any such occurrence if no notice thereof has already betn given to the registrar at the port of registry of such ship, give such notice to him, and he shall make an entry thereof in his registry book ; and except in cases where the certificate of registry is lost or destroyed, the master of every ship so circumstanced as aforesaid, shall immediately, if such event occurs elsewhere, tnen within ten days after his arrival in port, deliver the certificate of such 'ship to the registrar, or if there be no registrar, to the British Consular officer at such port or and such registrar, if he is not himself the registrar of her port of registry, or such Br.tish Consular officer, shall forthwith forward the certificate so delivered to him to the registrar of the port of registry of the ship; and every owner and master who, without reasonable cause, makes default »n obeying the provisions of this section shall for each offence incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.”—[Loyds Circular.] A French Ship op War in Belfast Lough.—Ninety-seven years ago—as the local chronicles of the North of Ireland tell—the little squadron of Commodore Thurot came to anchor in the roads of Carrickfergus. Since that peiiod French bunting has not fluttered from a ship of war, of any class, belonging to that nation, in these waters until Sunday morning, when the beautiful corvette Artemese, of his Imperial Majesty’s mvy, appeared in the offing. A pilot was, as soon as possible, put on board, and, in the course of the morning, the ship came to anchor in the roads, about three miles from Carrickfergus, closer to the Down than to the Antrim side of the Lough. The appearance ot the stranger caused no little excitement among maritime circles in the old fortress town—of a character, however, very different from that which met her less peaceable predecessors in 1770. The Artemese came to anchor on Sunday, strange enough, without tho exchange of those marine courtesies which are usual upon occasions when a foreign vessel of war comes within hail of a fortified town. Our reporter, who visited the ship yesterday, heard a good deal of amusing com-ments-upon this subject on board, as well as in Carrickfergus. Ihe breach of etiquette on the part of the garrison was very generally attributed—strange enough—to the want of powder in the castle, and we heard one old local tar exalaim, “He was d—d but the French bricks would have given the dust themselves for a blow off.” As it was, there was no salute on either side. The Artemese is a handsome, substantially-built craft, of about 1300 tons burthen. She is on her way out to Iceland, with supplies for tne French squadron protecting the fisheries on that .station, and vid, we believe, take the place of one of the vessels-of-war in sei vice on that coast. Nothing could have been more characteristic than the courtesy and attention'bestowed upon visitors to the ship. The crew numbers 250 hands. During the evening several parties from Carrickfergus visited the vessel, and seemed to be greatly delighted with their reception. We believe she will remain here some five or six days.—‘ Northern Whig.’