SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2580, 14 July 1882, Page 2

SHIPPING

POUT OF LYTTELTON. WsijHiiK Skpobt —July 9 i.ra. Wasfchsr, overcast, gloomy ; w ed. N. 8., fresh breeze. Barometer,' £9.25 ; thermometer, 49. v High Water —To-MorrOW. ‘ Morning. 3.14 . evening, 3.39. Aebived —July 13. Cutty Sark, schooner, 52 iocs, Joss, from Thames. Master, agent. Akhited—July 14. Emerald, ketch, 40 tons, ilcoro, from Foxton. Caff and Graham, agents. Sailed—July 13. Napier, a.e., 43 tons, Fisk, for Kaikonra. Guff and Graham, agents. Bowen, s.s , BSI tons, Craig, for Hong Kong, via Wellington. Cuff end Graham, agents. Eotomab’.ni, a s.. 864 tons, underwood, for Wellington Passengers Mtvdatnea Piliiet, Thompson, Brown, i’aaooe, Mis es Ellam, Crowley, Howard, Banner, Harding, Messrs Thompson, Train. Wise, Burgess, Low, Kemp, Plffiot, M. ILK,, Tos, Prjn, Bckhold, Brown (2}, ni&Bcas, auiia, Kobe, Palmar, L;.chman, Ns pier. S.t3. Company, agents. Sailed July 14 Eewa'd, schooner. 41 tons, Andrews, for Belarus Sound. Caff and Graham, agents. The two “ crack ” boats, the Austral and the Sntlej, of the two great rival etoamchip compatties, the P. and O. and the Orient arrived, it appears, at Melbourne on the samo data, June 23th. Both vessels were upon their maiden voysgo'i, and both are grand specimens of marine architecture. The Austral can easily maintari a spaed of 16£ knots per hour, and Iter maiden passage from England to Australia has bean the fastest yet recorded. She was built by John Elder and Co., of Glasgow. It is claimed for the Austral that it will bo hardly possible to sink or burn her. Under the inner wlrin and the doubla bottom aho is divided into nineteen separata water-tight compartments, and above it into thirteen watertight compartmouta, of which ten are continued to the_ main desk. Above the maiu deck the vessel is divided into seven fireproof compartments. The pamping power avail able for flooding any of these holds or bulkheads, or exhausting them should th«y become waterlogged, is equal to 2928 tons per hour. As was the o .se with the Orient, the possible use of the nov? ship as a war cruiser has not been overlooked. With her great steaming capacity, the Austral might very readily be made serviceable for snob a purpose, and with her most vital parts defended from the enemy’s dhoS, she would in such a time of emergency prove of immense service to the Imperial it colonial authorities. The Austral brings up the fleet of the Orient Company to eleven fall-powered vessels. The Sntlej is the fifth of the new fifteen steamships built, or in course of construction, -for the P. and O, Company, and was built at Barrow in Furness. She is a sister ship to the ■Glanges of the same line, and the following are her dimensions: —Length, 390 ft; beam, 42ft; and depth of hold, 35ft. This gives her a gross measurement of 419 S tons.