Shipping Intelligence

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1037, 16 February 1882, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence

PORT or POVERTY BAY. . The schooner Columbia, Captain Conwar, ! arrived in the Bay, on Monday last, with a ; cargo of timber fur Mr W. F. Crawford’s resi- ! deuce. The depth of water on the bar being ; insufficient, she had to land the timber on the beach. The U.S.S. Co’s. Te Anau. Capt. Carey, will not arrive from Auckland until Saturday next, the 18th -Feb. She will sail for Melbourne, via the South, the -same evening at 6 o’clock. The last boat leaves the Wharf at 5 o’clock. The L .S.S. Co.’s Arawata, Capt. Sinclair, will arrive from Melbourne and Southern Ports on Sunday morning next early. She ■will leave for Auckland shortly after arrival. .Lust boat at 8 a.m. NEW STEAMER FOR THE UNION COMPANY. We quote the following from a Glasgow paper by the mail:—Messrs William Denny and Brothers have launched frum the Leven Shipyard. Dumbarton, the Manapouri, a steel screw steamer about 1,830 tons gross, for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand (Limited). The name Manapouri, which was conferred on the vessel by Miss Denny, of Helenslee, daughter of Mr Peter Denny, senior partner of the firm of William Denny and Brothers, is that of one of the numerous lakes-in the province of Otago, and is adopted in pursuance of a systematic appropriation of the names of New Zealand Lakes for this •Company's vesstfi. The dimensions of the vessel are: Length between perpendiculars, 285 feet ; breadth moulded, 36 feet; depth moulded, 25 feet. She has been built of Siemens-Martin steel under special survey of Lloyd’s and classed in their registry 100 Al, ■three-decked, her bottom being constructed •on the cellular and deep floor principle, and adapted for water ballast. She will be fitted for 136 first-class passengers, and 117 secondclass, while portable accommodation for a number of third-class passengers will be provided in ’tween decks. The vessel will be fitted by Messrs Denny and Co., with compound surface-condensing engines of 2000 horsepower indicated, the cylinders being 41 inches and 70 inches diameter. The vessel, while under construction, has been personally supervised by Mr John Darling, the superintendent for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand. It may be interesting to state 'that this is the seventh vessel built by Messrs Denny for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, within 5| years, and that at present they have on hand no less than ten steamers, with an aggregate tonnage of about 11,000 tons, for the same enterprising Company.