SHIPPING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20120, 14 December 1939, Page 3

SHIPPING

PORT OF GISBORNE TO-DAY’S ARRIVALS .Margaret W., m.v., 3.30 a.m., 394 tons, j. R. Owen, from Auckland. VESSELS DUE AT GISBORNE Kopara, Auckland, Saturday. Kapuni, Auckland, December 18. Pakura, Lyttelton and Wellington, December 19 Pukeko, Auckland, December 20. COASTAL TRADE The Pakura reached Lyttelton at 0.40 a.m. to-day from Gisborne. The vessel loads at Lyttelton to-day ano at Wellington to-morrow and on Saturday lor Napier and Gisborne, being due here next Tuesday. The Kopara left Auckland at (i. 15 p.in. yesterday -for Napier and Gisborne. The ship is to work Napier first this trip and will call at Gisborne on Saturday. The Margaret W., which arrived at Gisborne early this morning from Auckland, did not call at Tokomaru Bay and Tolaga Bay on the run south, but she is to leave Gisborne this afternoon for Coast bays, thence Auckland. The Kapuni loads at Auckland tomorrow for Gisborne and is expectea to discharge here on Monday. The Wainui is expected to load at southern ports for Gisborne and Napier early in January. The Totara (Captain Collins) left Picton at 1 a.m. yesterday for Tokomaru -Bay, where she is due to-mor-row morning to discharge coal..

The Poolta is expected to load coal at Greymouth about December 18, completing at Westport tor Napier and Gisborne. The Pukeko loads at Auckland on Friday and Saturday and at Portland on Monday for -Gisborne and Napier, working this port next Wednesday.

DOXFORD ENGINES HN U.S. SHIPS The American Scantic Line motor ship Mormacgull has been launched by the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corporation, Chester. Pa. The !Mormacgull is a sister ship of the Donald McKay, which recently visited Scandinavian ports on her maiden voyage front New York.

She is of particular interest on account of her machinery installation. Built by the Sun Company, licensees of Messrs. William 'Doxford and Sons, Limited, Sunderland, she is propelled by a Doxford-type engine of 8000 b.h.p., with four cylinders. The builders have, however, not hesitated to make a notable modification in the construction by employing a rotaryty.pe blower, gear-driven from the crankshaft.

In the Doxford engines built in Great Britain a piston-type blower is almost invariably employed, except in the few instances when turbo scavenging has been adopted.

Five similar ships with Sun-Doxford machinery are being built, and lour motor-ships of equal size, which are under construction at another yard, will be propelled by Nordtoerg engines, four four-stroke units in each ship being coupled to a single propeller through gearing.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS Lyttelton, Dec. 14: Arrived, at (i. 40 a.m., Pakura, from Gisborne.