SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 21748, 16 June 1934, Page 19

SHIPPING

ARRIVED.—June 16. ; , Totara, s.s. (I p.in.), 421 tons, Eden, from Wellington. ; MARAMA TO RESUME. After being idle at Auckland since April 10 the ! Union Company's steamer - Marama will resume in the intercomnial service on June 28, when she “will ■be despatched for Sydney. From. Sydney the vessel will proceed to Wellington, taking .. passengers for transhipment to the Royal Mail liner Maunga- ' nui, which is undergoing overhaul and survey and will leave Wellington for San. Francisco on July'lo. At Wellington" -the. Marama will relievo the Monowai,' which will withdraw from the intercolonial service for survey ■ when ' she reaches Wellington from Sydney and Auckland on July 12. The Marama "will remain in the intercolonial service until her arrival at Auckland from Sydney on August 6. The following day she will be despatched ‘on a winter cruise to the Islands with excursionists. Her ports of call will be Suva, Levuka, Apia, Vavau, and Nukualofa. From Nukualofa she will return to Auckland. . TANKER ATHELCROWN CHARTERED. The Union Company lias chartered the British motor tanker ‘ Athel- ■ crown to bring bulk fuel oil to Wellington. - The Athelcrown left San Pedro on June, 12 and is expected at " Wellington about July 6. The Athelcrown was built in 1929, and has a gross tonnage of, 11,999. She is the first “ Athel” ship to visit New Zealand for some considerable time. CARS AS CARGO. For the ■ past twenty, years it has been the general custom tb'_ ship motor cars inhuge cases, at considerable ex- , pense owing to the necessity of dis- ■ mantling and reassembling. The enterprise of the New Zealand Shipping Company, 'however, in carrying uncrated motor cars appears to be gaining its due reward, for increasing numbers are being sent, this way. American .shipping companies are reported to be ' following the same policy, and while • the outward-bound ships have a considerable amount of empty hold space available, there seems to .be much to ■•be said for the practice. Naturally, there arc advantages in the old style of packing, but. with a well-found ship having 1 a good reputation for taking care of cargo, the newer method should effect a saying in money and time.

. . , LINERS AND ROPES. It Jakes hundreds of tons of manila hawsers to moor tho Majestic/ the world’s biggest ship, to a landing stage. ' .Medium-sized ships of, say, 25,000 tons, carry between four and live thousand fathoms of cordage bn each voyage. 'These ropes, mostly 3Jin, are incoils of‘2oo fathoms each, and weigh ! 5001 b each. ; Such a liner carries in her ; regular equipment sixteen Sin hawsers, :each 120 fathoms long. Attached to them are much smaller ropes known as “ heaving lines,” each sixty fathoms long. The medium-sized liner carries fifty or sixty lifeboats, as well as rafts, .‘with, two “ falls ” of ninety fathoms each attached. These ropes, when low- . ering the boats, have a working strain of 4,0001 b, and a breaking strain of 15.0001 b. VESSELS IN WIRELESS , CALL. The following vessels are expected to bo within range of ’the undermentioned wireless stations to-night and Sunday: — Auckland.—Orari, Ruahine, H.M.S. i Dunedin, Filefjell, Hororata, Karetn, .H.M.S. Laburnum, Marit, Melbourne Maru, Monterey, Waikawa, Wanganolla. Wellington.—Kalingo, Rangatira, Tamahine. Wahine, Cambridge, Mariposa, Nucula. Rangitiki, llemuera, Westmoreland. Mataroa, Orari, Ruahine. Awarua. —Kaimiro, Canadian _ Scottish, Waikouaiti, Wainui, Waitaki, Yarravillo. ’ , TELEGRAMS AND CABLES. ' NAPIER, June 16.—Sailed: Westmoreland (4.30 a.m.), for Southampton. ... LYTTELTON, June 16.—Arrived: Titoki (7.50 a.m.), from Tarakohe. GLASGOW, June 14.-Arrived: Ne- ' braska, from Wellington. . . CURACAO, June 14.—Sailed: Fordsdale and Rotorua, for Home. HALIFAX, June 14.—Sailed: Hertford, for Home. LONDON, June 14.—Sailed: Matakana.