Marine Tattle

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 104, 23 July 1927, Page 2

Marine Tattle

STRIKING TRANSPORT Peat The Cunard Line last month 7. T " plished one of the most strikin. f2 >m - , port achievements since th e Ju ns ' | carrying some 3.000 American del£L,£ j to Lurope for the Whitsuntide rSJ? Convention at Ostend. This partv /P' biggest with the exception of the ivJr' ditionary Forces ever carried 2?*' | the Atlantic, travelled bv the ax li,. Carinthia. Samaria. Caronia. CarmTP’ I Lancastria. and Transylvania Xo2- ; the vessels proceeded to (others to Antwerp, from which the Rotarians continued their LESi to Ostend. I N , EW p - AND O. LINER._ The p I£? pla ce<r 1 an' 1 \>rder * vith ° Stephens and Sons Companv for senger liner of 19.000 tons for the com' pany’s London trade. Accommodation will be provided for about 400 f.iJr class and 200 second-class She is to be 600 ft. long, and will be pelled by high-pressure turbines okT tain mg steam from Yarrow boiled working at 3751 b. pressure. The most interesting feature is that electric transmission from the turbines to propeller shaft will be fitted, and sh! will be the largest ship thus to oe constructed in Great Britaik Turbo-electric drive has been tried in the United States with fair success n SUEZ CANAL TRAFFlC.— Statists recently published show that the total net tonnage of ships making transit of the Suez Canal during the firs, three months of 1927 was 7,285 000 which is only 178,000 tons less than in the corresponding period of 1925, when the maximum quarterly traffic hitherto attained was registered. In comparison with the first quarter of 1926, the results show an increase of 529,000 tons The principal national flags were represented as follow, the figures beinc given in net tons to the nearest thousand: British, 4,123,000; Dutch 764.000: German, 654,000; French* 469,000; Italian. 397,000: Japanese,’ 219,000: Norwegian, 193,000: and American. 191.000. ANOTHER NEW ZEALAND TEAM? —ln perfect weather and amid ideal surroundings, a most enjoyable cricket match was played at Old Malden, in England, last month between the Maori (New Zealand Shipping Company* Sports Club and a team representing the Baltic Exchange, The Maori hosts proved themselves experts at quiet organisation, reports “The Syren and Shipping,” and from the start, which entailed getting everybody into a charabanc in Leadenhall Street at midday to the finish everything went without the slightest hitch. The match, which was keenly contested, was eventually drawn owing to the lateness of the hour, but the scores were almost level at the close of play. It is also of interest that a century was scored on both sides. FOG SIGNAL DEMONSTRATION.— A demonstration of the Fellows system of duplex signalling for use during foggy weather was given at Newhaven last month, when a blindfolded man Was able to direct the helmsman of a tug by sounds he heard from two diaphones set one at each side of the entrance channel. The device has the merit of simplicity. One of the signals gives a single blast and the other two short blasts with a short interval between them, and the distance between the diaphones is such that the centre of the channel is indicated when the long blast is heard between the two short ones, giving almost one continuous note. The sounds in the case of Newhaven are emitted from the two stations at the same instant. The extent to which the vessel is off her course is indicated by the period of time elapsing between hearing the two signals, while the nature of the divergence, whether to port or starboard of the centre of the channel, is determined by which signal is heard first AMERICAN SHIPPING. More American merchant ships were employed in foreign trade on January 1, 1927, than at any other time during the past four years. On that date there were 727 American vessels, of 4.143,619 gross tons, in service carrying cargoes between the United States and foreign countries. The privatelyowned American merchant fleet included 1,225 steam and motor-driven vessels of 1,000 gross tons and over, with an aggregate gross tonnage of 5,924,480 tons, an increase of 10 vessels and 76,700 gross tons over the number and tonnage recorded on October 1, 1926. Of this total fleet. 379 vessels were employed in foreign trade and 712 in coastwise and intercoastal service, leaving approximately 11 per cent, of the fleet unemployed. On the same date the Government-owned merchant fleet consisted of 847 vessels of 4,563,000 gross tons. About 42 per cent, of this fleet was in active service, as against 31 per cent, on October 1. this increase being due to the number of Shipping Board boats put lßto service to relieve congested conditions in the export trade caused by the British coal strike and the diversion to the coal export trade of many vessels normally available for the transportation of other products. The total American fleet available for foreign* intercoastal, and coastwise trade eluded, on January 1, 2,072 vessels, * * an aggregate gross tonnage 0 10,487,000 tons. THE STAR OF ITALY. —The Syren and Shipping” has received som ® rj* teresting information regartnns the sailing ship. Star of one of the celebrated fl eet 0k Star clippers built by Messrs. j Harland and Wolff in the sev * I enties” for Messrs. J. P. Corry*~* j Co., whose identity is now merged , the Commonwealth and Dominion Dn • The Star of Italy was built at tne Queen’s Island in 1877, and after long and honourable career, chiefly the Liverpool-Brisbane wool trade, wapurchased by a Pacific Coast firm, an afterwards by the Alaska Packers ; sociation, together with the France and the Star of Russia. Tnese , vessels were used by the associa**®* j in the salmon cannery trade until j»- 3 - f since when they have been laid UP | San Francisco. The owners have DO' | sold the Star of Italy to the Daruiw j Singer Lumber Company, Portlann, ij who intend to use her as a fl° at .T° ] warehouse at Buenaventura, Colojnb* a - The ship is now being dismantled a Alameda, and will be towed to her fin destination as a barge. Although was built fifty years ago, the vess* l has been reckoned in recent >' earS ,p“ one of the fastest sailing craft the American flag.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA—ARRIVAL YESTERDAV TUTANEKAI (4 p.m.). 811 to** J Bollons, from Kaipara. ARRIVALS TO-DAY NGATIAWA (7 a.m.), 451 tons, ren, from Raglan. o,rk. RARAWA (8 a.m.), 1.077 tons, from New Plymouth. TUTANEKAI ARRIVES-The Se* Zealand Government steamer Tuta arrived at Onehunga yesterday aftern from Kaipara and Northern She is to sail at 8 a.m. on Monday W Wellington, via New Plymouth. The Rarawa arrived at Onehunga 1 u»j g morning from New Plymouth. seheduled to sail again at 3 p.m- on - day on the return trip. this The Ngatiawa arrived at Dnehung morning from Raglan, Kawhia an » Waikato, and is to be dispatched •* o’clock this afternoon for Hokianga- on riving back from Hokianga at b a-“' Tuesday next, she is to be | later the same day for Raglan, K* and Port Waikato again. o° § The Arapawa is to leave | Monday with a cargo of ooa 1 hunga, where she is due on vve next - iroitoa afl*? I The Anchor Line steamer Kaiu» bH( j g having been delayed in the Sou till ]§ w.-ather. will not arrive llt .l Friday next to load for . w f->l- J The Titoki is to be dispatchedlt” v r c g| ■ lowing week for Nelson, Ficton and * « Coast ports.