GENERAL SHIPPING NEWS
The steamer Napier has been sold to the syndicate which bought the stranded barque Antioco Accame, says our Dunedin correspondent.
A transatlantic steamer, carrying what is called “a full mail,” usually brings 200,(LO letters and 400 sacks of newspapers for London, to say nothing of the 500 and odd sacks for other places. Rumors are current respecting the alleged retirement from the Union Steam Shih Company’s service of one of their best known commanders. It is said that a final decision wili not be arrived at until the return of Mr J Mills, managing director, from England.
The new submarine boat built at Barrow for the British Navy has been successfully undergone the three hours test, with six of a crew on board sealed up. Air is supplied by means of compressed air cylinders. The submarine is lying high and dry on the depositing dock at Barrow and will in a few days undergo several trials in the water —rising, sinking, steaming on the surface, and travelling under water. Experts declare she will prove herself the best submarine yet built for any navy. Four other similar vessels will bo launched this year at Barrow.—Daily Telegraph, London, October 16. Mr George Nicol, of Auckland, has just completed a new scow, which is intended for the timber trade. The new vessel, which has not yet been named, has been constructed of kauri, with iron knees, and will carry about 75,000 ft of timber. She is 90ft long, 28ft broad, and 6ft deep, with a draught of 4ft. The vessel is to be rigged as a fore and-atter. The Royal Tar was a wooden vessel of 598 tons net, built in 1876, by W. Marshall, of Nambucra (N.S.W.), and her dimensions were as follows:—Length, 171 ft 2in; breadth, 31ft 4in; depth of hold, 17fc 2in. The vessel, it will bo recalled, conveyed the members of the New Australia party to Paraguay. After her second trip she was purchased by Mr J. Craig, of Auckland, and has been trading between this colony and Australia.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 3 December 1901, Page 4
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343GENERAL SHIPPING NEWS Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 3 December 1901, Page 4
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