SHIPPING.
The schooner Lucy James is busily engaged in discharging her cargo of coal. On Tuesday next the Southern Cross will leave Auckland for the south, and will arrive at this port about Thursday. The s.s. Te Anau may be expected up here early to-morrow morning, as she left Wellington last night for Napier. The schooner Minnie Hare, Capt. Nicolas, arrived in the Bay yesterday morning. She brings a full cargo of timber. The s.s. Manapouri, Captain Logan, left here last evening, for Napier, with a large number of passengers. With reference to the Victorian gunboats, we notice that contracts have been entered Into with Sir William Armstrong and Co. for the construction at the Elswick Works of two twin-screw steel unarmoured gunboats. The principle dimensions of the larger of the two are as follow : Length (extreme) 143 ft., on the water line, 140 ft.; breadth, 27ft.; depth, 13ft.: draught of water, lift.; displacement, 530 tons. Her engines will indicate about 800 horsepower, and the vessel will be capable of steaming 12 knots an hour. She will carry a powerful armament consisting of a 10-inch 25-ton Armstrong gun of the new Elswick type forward, two smaller guns aft, and two machine guns. Shejwill be rigged as a twomasted fore-and-aft schooner, with a flying square foresail. The cost of the vessel (which will be ready for trial in about 12 months) will not be much less than £40,000. The smaller gunboat will be 120 ft long, 115 ft on the waterline, 25ft broad, 12ft Gin deep, having a draught of 9ft 6in, and a displacement of about 350 tons. Her engines will indicate about 400-horse power, and the guaranteed speed will be 10 Knots. Her armament will not be so formidable as that of her consort, but she will carry one Sin Armstrong in her bows, a Gin gun at her stem, two smaller guns on her broadside, and two machine guns. She will also be schooner rigged. The builders guarantee to have her readv for trial within 12 . months, and her probable cost will be about £27,000.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1221, 9 December 1882, Page 2
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347SHIPPING. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1221, 9 December 1882, Page 2
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