SHIPPING.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 206, 23 December 1864, Page 2

SHIPPING.

ARRIVED. December 17— Effort, schooner, 32 tons, Karaitiana, from Wairoa, with 136 bushels maize, Richardson ; 27 kits do., Begg; 121 bushels do., 17,000 feet timber, 90 kits kumeras, Maories. Passengers—B natives.—Routledge and Co., agents. December 20 —Janet Grey, schooner, 25 tons, Stratford, from Auckland with 12,000 bricks. December 20— Greemvich, schooner, 16 tons, V\ arnes, from Auckland, with 10 casks beef, 4 do! sardines, 7 cases cheese, 4 cases bacon, 10 cases jam, do. do. currants, 5 boxes soap, 2 casks biscuits, 5 bags sugar, 1 bos tea, 1 pkg. groceries, 1 case confectionery, Marshall; 12 tons firewood, Warnes. December 21— Queen, schooner, 33 tons, Tamati, from Turanga, with 360 bushels maize, order! Passengers, 3 Maoris.—E. J. Touet, agent. December 21— Tawera, schooner, 55 tons, Kennedy, from Poverty Bay, in ballast. 1 passenger. Master, agent. December 22— Vivid, schooner, 25 tons, Schon, from Mahia, with 34 bales wool, 9 bushels maize, Watt, Kennedy, & Watt.—Watt, Kennedy & Watt, agents. SAILED. Decemberl9— Mary Cumminy, schooner, 106 tons, Fuller, for Auckland, with 220 bushels maize, Thornton, Smith & Co.—Watt, Kennedy, & Watt, agents. December 17— Eangitira, s.s., 174 tons, Mundle for Auckland, with original cargo and passengers from the South, and from Napier, Messrs. Otway and Haro.—V. Janisch, agent. December 20— Sea Serpent, 60 tons, Blair, for Wellington, with 5 tons wire, 137 standards, 1 stove, 1 case sundries. 1 box, 100 bushels oats J. D. Ormond.—Watt, Kennedy, & Watt,’ agents. December 20— Daring, 35 tons, Philpotts, for Picton, with H-tierce tobacco, order.—Stuart & Co. agents. December 20 —Ladybird, 19 tons, Baxter, for Wairoa,with6cwt. flour, 3do.sugar, Icask whiskey, 3 casks biscuits, 1 pkg. groceries, Lockwood ; 1 do. crockery, 11 barrels stout, 6 cases merchandise, 10 pkgs. do., 6 cases pipes, 5 cases old tom, 1 drum oil, i cwt white lead, 2 kegs nails, 2 jars rum, 1 tub and 2 cases, Moms ; 2 casks ale, 2 casks stout, 2 cases geneva, i-cask rum, 3 kegs whisky, 1 keg brandy, Moreton ; 3 pkgs. sundries, Stopford. Passsengers,—Mr. & Mrs. Moreton, Mr. & Mrs. Morris, Mrs. Baxter & child, & 2 natives.

December 21— Queen, 32 tons, Tamati, for Tn ranga, in ballast.

December 21— Joanna, 26 tons, Thompson, for Picton, in ballast. h December 21— Nautilus, schooner, 45 toney Holmes, for Wellington with 490 bushels maize, 30 bushels wheat, order.—Routledge & Co., agents.

A New Ship. —A bold and novel scheme, involving a revolution in the construction of vessels of war, has lately been submitted to the Admirality by Mr. A. M’Laine, a naval architect, of Belfast. Its main feature is the abandonment of broadside guns and even of revolving turrets, and the substitution of fore-and-aft guns,’ “ to fire only on the line of the keel.” The advantage alleged to be gained by the adoption of this expedient is carried into action would present to the enemy her breadth only instead of her length—that is, a front of some fifty feet instead of a front of some two hundred and fifty. She would become, as Mr. M’Laine contends, “ five times more difficult to bit, and where hit,” (owing to the difference in the angle of impact) “ perhaps five times more difficult of penetration.” In the second place, her aggressive power would beproportionably increased by the enormous weight that might be given to guns mounted on the new principle- The practical limit to the calibre of broadside batteries is the range of their “ lateral training,” but (Mr. M’Laine proposed that his guns should have no training at all, in the ordinary sense. They would be incapatiy of firing except in one direction, and while the elevation of each would still bo regulated by the captain of the gun, it would be virtually pointed by the steersman. Mr. M’Laine advocates the universal employment of twin-screws in ships of war, which would “ enable them to be turned on their keels and kept in the strongest position for defence.” The only objection which he recognizes is the supposed inferiority of the double screw in respect of speed, and this he undertakes to overcome “ by suitably designing the after end of the vessel,” and especially by keeping the screws deeply immersed. He does not, however, rely exclusively on the screws for rapid turning since he suggests the use of a centrifugal pump, at the bow to act as a supplementary motor. To effect the second object—that of making guns “of unlimited weight” perfectly available for attack—he contemplates the suspension of them on fore-and-aft railways, supported on stanchions or diagonal framework, and so laid that the gun could not be capsized by a roll of seventy degrees each way. For this purpose the rails must be wide apart and incline inwards, while the wheels of the gun-car-riage must be deeply grooved, and the gun itself must hang low. The recoil could be received on a hydraulic cylinder, and the captain of the gun—who would be the acting captain of the vessel, as he would have to control the steersman—would bo provided with a seat behind the gun, and would oscillate with it forwards and backwards. The loading woulcTbe performed by machinery, and Mr. M’Laine indulges the belief that two or four guns, at most, thus handled, “ with their muzzles depressed over an invulnerable bow,” would sink the strongest ship afloat in one discharge. Mr. M’Laine has designed a vessel of war on this theory, the estimated speed of which is fifteen knots an hour. —London Times.