THE STEAMSHIP CHIMBORAZO.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 256, 29 October 1877, Page 2

THE STEAMSHIP CHIMBORAZO.

The Chimborazo is the second of the line of steamships in the Australian trade, intended to accomplish the passage, via the Cape of Good Hope, in forty days, and although the trip in duration has just gone outside that limit, she is (says the Argus) j ust the description of vessel likely to accomplish the work easily, and with success. The run out of the Chimborazo from Plymouth to Adelaide, deducting thirty hours for the call in at St Vincet, and nine hours for difference in equation of time, was .made in forty-one days and three-quarters, and considering the retafding influence of persistent adverse winds, the steamer has acquitted herself most creditably. The Chimborazo is as suitably sparred and rigged as the Lusitania, but from start to finish of the trip there was but scant opportuuity of using canvas, and the yards were sent down for days together. The voyage is mainly due to downright hard steaming. Perhaps on no voyage of any other steamship from the United Kingdom to this colony has the weather been so singularly steady in its contrariness. "The engines during the voyage were stopped twice, or about seven hours in all, to tighten uj., as might be found requisite, from the constant strain ou brasses and bearings, and although there was a liberal demand made on the stock of fuel on board there is still sufficient coal in the bunkers to enable her, if necessary, to prosecute the voyage to Sydney. The distance voyaged from Plymouth to Adelaide waa 71,924 mile3, and to Port Phillip 12,400 miles, and the averaged speed maintained was as near as possible 12 kuots. On fourteen occasions the runs were 300 miles and upwards, and the best day's work was 33. miles.