Marine Tattle

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 152, 17 September 1927, Page 2

Marine Tattle

MAIDEN TRIP COMPLE--U new C.G.T. liner 11 .-de-Fran 2o --" 11 * pleted lier first round vmn». . Colrihe^arrtved 11 .-'* pi'y m rath’fnwS*?^ rpeed°o e f r M '°t^ e r Kers « wj o * be;=t day’s run beir.cr ;.T0 mitaj***' l ’ AN INTERESTING SALE.—Th. . , reported of the Span sh i» Nunez de Balboa. The identity of the celebrated old fnl. ,- u,t Scot. Built at Dumbarton in Messrs. William Dennv tmdßiothJ 51 ' ■ was sold by the Union-Castle rK 1 she 1905 to the Ilaznburg-Arierika. T i^ lne renamed her Oceana. qmred by the Campania Transa thJtiA Barcelona, and became ihe AlfonSCvt, r but upon the appearance of the • scl of that name, she was renim2J*- v,: - Nlines de Balboa. It is late that till- record she set i.p to the her maiden voyage, 14 Vvs li ‘7’ NEW AMERICAN CUTTERS-yj' United States Government has a contract for the construction oi ? M new cutters for the coastguard to n, 1 ' Fore River plant of th< Bethlehem building Corporation at Quincev The ships are to be :_’so feet long 10 s , will have a cruising radius of 8,000 mil?* The present building programme is f ; three ships, but initial appropriation, have been made by Congress for two j»ri ditional ships, all of which are to be com pleted before the middle of 1529 J?' cutters are to be driven by 011-burain* steam turbines and electricity, and win have the latest equipment. ' The r. r Al gramme is to rebuild the ranks of its major ships lost during the war and replace ships that have become obsolete UNPROFITABLE SALVAGE. Three thousand gallons of pure whiskv 75 over-proof, representing a total dut" able and salvage vale of over £15.000 ha\* been carried out to Aberdeen Bar bv Harbour Commissioner*.’ hopper and etnr tied into the sea. The spirit was contained in sixty fifty-gallon steel casks many of which had been salved at Various points along the north, \\e-t. and ea** coasts of Scotland, and others were picked up at sea by trawlers. Twenty the casks came from Strom teas. it presumed that they had formed part of the cargo of a vessel which, torpedoed and sunk during the war off the northwest coast of Scotland, had recently broken up and released the casks, it was stated that the whisky was immature spirit in its raw state, and was liable to the maximum duty of £‘s per gallon. The high duty, together with the salvag, charges, made it an uneconomic proposition for it to be sold. But one asks: How could whisky which must at least have bet?n ten years in cask be regarded as immature?