OVERDUE VESSELS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 947, 14 October 1910, Page 5

OVERDUE VESSELS.

STRATHNAIEN SEVEN DAYS OVER-' ;;.;;-,. ;; DUE,.';By Telegraph—Press ABSociatipnT-Copyiight. ■'■-.;■ '. ; .Hobart,,October 13. ; . All vessels are keeping a'sharp lookout for the steamer Strathnairn,' now seven days overdue on the .voyage from. Dunedin to Hobart; and for the barque Ester, thirty-four' days' out from Bruin Island, south-east of Tasmania,. to . Adelaide.':'- .'--;.' .Tho steamer' Stratlinairn.' which is now seven dayß overdue at Hobart from Dunedin, is a steel scrow ntcamer of 4556 tons register, commanded by Captain A. Jl'Ley. She is classed. 100 Al at Lloyd's,. and was built'by A;: Bodßor and.Oo, of Glasgow, in 1906, to order of her.owners, the Strathnairn S.S. Co. (Burrcll. and Son) at; Glas-:, gbw- The Strathnairn's leadinc dimensions aro: Length, 370 ft.; beam, .52ft.; draught, 17ft. when loaded. The vessel first arrived in .New Zealand wators at- Auckland -on August 25, with phosphates, from Hakodate, ; - Japan, after a passage ■of 27, days. She aiade call's at Napier,. Lyttclton, Timaru, and' Dunedin for purposes of discharge. She left the southern port, on October 1, for Hobart and Southport,, to load timber for California. The usual time: taken on this run is four days for a- steamer of tho Strathnairn's olass,-