SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 574, 21 April 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. . April 21—Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Christian, from Dunedin, viaTimaru. Passengers —Saloon: Miss Sharp, Mrs Newton and child, Mr and Mrs Burke ; 6 in steerage. April 21—Ladybird, s.s., Evans, from Wellington. Passengers-Wheeler Troupe (4), Mr and Mrs Wright and chdd, Mrs Barber and four children, Mrs Johnson and child; Messrs Mcintosh, Patterson, and Fisher. „ -r, , April 21—Easby, s.s., 967 tons, from Port Chalmers. CLEARED. April 21—Easby, s.s., 967 tons, Kennedy, o Apnl 21-Rangitikei, ship, 1225 tons, Scotland, for London. Passengers- Saloon : Mr and Mrs Lee, Mr and Mrs Bromwich, Mr and Mrs Allen, Captain and Mrs Bailey, Or Wilson, Mr Draper. Second cabin : Mr and Mrs Howerson and four children, Mrs Hobbs, Misses Kilmeister and Wright; Messrs Richards and Smith. Steerage : Mrs Thomas and son, Mr and Mrs Harvey and five children, Mesdames Bush and Hewitt, Mr and Mrs Cowler and seven children, Mr Mr and Mrs Clarke, Mrs O'Neil and child ; Messrs Sheridan, Soames, Killsden, Blair, Hobbs, Cottenham, and Simpson. THE TE ANAU.S

Another and most important addition to the fleet of powerful first-class steamers hailing out of the port of Dunedin may be expected to arrive here at the latter end of July next. She will fly the house flag of the Union Steam Company, and has been constructed for special purposes of wide significance aa will be demonstrated when she frets fairly into work. She is named the Te Anau, her birthplace the Clyde. She has grown up under the. hands of those noted builders the Messrs Denn; and Co, of Glasgow, and is a vessel of some 1100 tons register, built iu accordance with the latest improvements, and the highest class going—loo A at Lloyd's. Her dimensions are—Length, 290 ft; beam, 33ft; depth of hold from spar deck, 25ft. She is built in two decks, spar, main, with bridge deck above, and in six water-tight comportments, which give five bulk-heads, constructed of 6-10ths and 5-16ths inch iron. Three of these run up to the spar deck, and three to the main deck. A peculiarity in her build is provuion for water ballast. A tauk, 34ft long by 10ft deep and extending right across her bottom, has been built in of heavy iron, its capacity being 300 tons. This feature is an economical arrangement for facilitating the movements of the steamer when she is preparing to leave port with short allowance of cargo. The tank room fills through bottom cocks, and thus supplies her with the needful stiffening, and by aid of steam pumps, is nearly as soon emptied. Abatt it are situated, firstly a coal bunker, then the boilers, then another coal bunker, and abaft that the engines. Forward by the first coal bunker is the mainhold, and abaft the engines the afterhold with roomy compartments, with forehold to match. From the specifications, it is evident that the steamer will be most substantially constructed. All outside plating is double nvetted, and butts of sheer strakes, and three strakes at bilge treble rivetted. She has two bilge keels. Lvery other part of her is proportionately strong and of best material. She is brig-rigged, lower masts of iron Amongst her appointments is a condenser capable of supplying 600 gallons of fresh water per diem There are two sets of steering gear— one att, the other on the bridge. The latter is on the crabwinch principle with double wheel six feet diameter. All the deck houses and offices are of iron, excepting the side houses under the bridge, which are of teak. The captain and officers' quarters are in the deck houses. Her windlass is one of Paul and Co's patent, to be worked by either steam or handpower, and her ground tackle comprises cables of regulation size, two of Bodgers patent anchors, and one of Trotman's. She is supplied with six boats, three of them constructed upon the life principle. Two of the lifeboats are fitted with Douglass patent lowering apparatus. She is liberally supplied with steam power for dealing with cargo. She has three hatchways and six winches, all of which are supplied with steam from a horizontal tubular boiler. There is also a donkey engine in the stokehole for washing decks, &c. We have now to deal with her passenger accommodation, which is arranged differently to that of the general run of steamers. The saloon is forward of the engine and boilers, and immediately abaft the main cargo hatch, which, according to the plan, is also the fore hatch. It is entered from a roomy companion on the spar deck, forming part of the house in which is the captain's cabin. The companion Stairs lead right into the Salle a manger. The ladies' apartments extend aft on the port side of the companion way, and on the starboard side of the companion way are the pantry, steward's room, and offices. A row of sleeping berths, entered forwards of the dining saloon ; on each side of the main cargo hatch, are baggnge and linen rooms. There are four cabins, of three berths on each side, all comfortably furnished with sofa, &c, as also are the other cai'ins lurthcr alt. The saloon is handsomely flushed off with maple veneered mahogany, with gilt cornices and trusses. Forty persons can be accommodated in the saloon. The second-class accommodation is situated right aft, on the same deck—the main—and is really superior of the kind, and provision for sixty passengers has been made. The Te Anau is a screw boat of speed guaranteed. She is fitted with a compound surface condensing engine of 220 horse-power nominal, specifications of which are uottoiiand. Messrs Denny and Co, of the Clyde, are the builders of it. The Te Anau is intended to run in the Dunedin, Sydney, and Newcastle trade, but, from her description, it is evident that she can be utilised to some purpose in other rfirectious. She has a 1500 tons capacity for coal, and is to bring passengers and cargo here from the Clyde, making the passage direct, under steam and sail. She is to leave June Ist. We wish her very much success.— "Otago Daily Times."