The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 192, 3 November 1927, Page 2

The Log Book

PERSONAL. —Mr. TI. Abernethy is being appointed third officer of the Ngatoro, to relieve Mr. T. Stevenson for ms holidays. Captain E. Evans has assumed command of the Oonah, relieving Captain A. T. Toten, who will go on holiday. Mr. M. R. Tregale lias joined the Ngatoro as chief officer, vice Mr. J. A. Pearson, who is on holiday leave.

Mr. T. W. White, chief officer of the Kaiwarra, has transferred to the Wingatui in a similar capacity. He has relieved Mr. H. C. White, -who has been appointed assistant harbourmaster for the port of Timaru.

GISLA AT NEWPORT NEWS. —A cable message to the New Zealand Shipping Company reports that the motor-ship Gisla arrived at Newport News on Sunday, en route from Montreal to Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton, Dunedin, Melbourne and Sydney.

NIAGARA DUE MONDAY.—Due at Suva to-morrow from Vancouver via ports, the Union Company advises that the R.M.S. Niagara leaves the same day for Auckland. She is due here next Monday and is announced to sail from Auckland at noon on Tuesday for Sydney.'

SYDNEY STEAMERS. —At 11 a.m. tomorrow the Ulimaroa leaves Auckland for Sydney. The Maheno leaves Sydney at noon to-morrow for Wellington and the Marama at 3 p.m. for Auckland. All the three vessels are clue at their arrival ports next Tues*day morning.

ANTONIO LEAVES WANGANUI. Henderson and Macfarlane have been advised that the tramp steamer Antonio sailed from Wanganui this morning for Westport, where she bunkers before proceeding to Oce°an Island ta load phosphates for Australia. *

CANADIAN SCOTTISH TO SAIL. —The local office of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine advises that it hopes to dispatch the Canadian Scottish at five o’clock this evening for New York, Boston and Halifax. The vessel arrived at Auckland early last month from Montreal with a general cargo and then proceeded South to discharge and commence loading for the Homeward trip.

WAIPAHI FOR FIJI. The Union Company advises that the Islaiid fruit steamer Waipahi leaves Auckland at 13 a.m. to-morrow for Fiji to load fruit for Auckland. The vessel is to leave Auckland again early in December for the same ports and is to load at Suva about December S for Auckland.

O. A. KNUDSEN AT WELLINGTON. —With a cargo of crude oil for the Union Company’s tanks at Miramar, the tanker O. A. Knudsen arrived at Wellington last evening from San Luis, California. After discharge the tanker returns to San Luis to load again for Wellington.

CARGO FROM LIVERPOOL.—CabIed news has been received by the New Zealand Shipping Company that the Federal steamer Cumberland sailed from Liverpool last Sunday with general cargo to discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers and Bluff. The vessel is due at Auckland on December

THE CANADIAN CHALLENGER.— Cabled news has been received by the Canadian Government Agency that the Canadian Challenger arrived at Panama on October 28, and sailed again at 9 p.m. on October 29 for New York, Boston and Halifax. She left Auckland on September 30.

ROTORUA SAILS.—The New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Rotorua sailed last evening for Tokomaru Bay, Napier and Wellington to complete loading for England. The company advises that the vessel is to be dispatched from Wellington with passengers and mail at three o’clock next Thursday afternoon for Southampton and London, via Panama.

KIRSTEN MAERSK FROM TEXAS. —The Danish motor-ship Kirsten Maersk, 2,252 tons, has been chartered to load case oil at Port Arthur, Texas, during November for optional ports in Australia and New Zealand. The Kirsten Maersk is controlled by A. P. Moller, of Copenhagen. She was built in 1920 at Odense by Staalskibs, Ltd.

BENDIGO’S PASSENGERS.—The P. and O. liner Bendigo, which broke one of her tail shafts when she was en route from London to Australia, put into Las Palmas on October 19 and then returned to Falmouth, where she arrived on October 26. Her passengers were afterwards transferred to the company’s liner Balranald, which left London for Australia on October 29.

PORT DARWIN’S ITINERARY.-A slight alteration in the loading itinerary of the Port Darwin is announced by the C. and D. Line. The vessel berthed at Bluff at 6 p.m. on Monday to commence loading for London. She will leave Bluff on Saturday morning for Lyttelton, Auckland, Gisborne, Wellington and Napier. The Port Darwin is to sail finally from Napier on November 25 tor London, via Panama. The Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Auctioneering Company, the local agent, advises the vessel is due here on November 10-

SITHONIA DAYLIGHT TO-MORROW. —A further radio message received from the master of the Sithonia states that the vessel will arrive in the stream at Auckland at daybreak to-morrow. The Sithonia has a full cargo of sulphur from Galveston, and after discharging 3,000 tons at King’s Wharf will proceed td Lyttelton, Dunedin, Wanganui, Sydney and Melbourne to complete. Robert Millar and Company are the local agents.

CORINTH 1C IN PORT. —An arrival in the stream at Auckland early this morning was the White Star liner Corinthic from London with cargo for discharge under the auspices of A. S. Paterson and Company. She was later berthed at the Queen’s Wharf. The liner is expected to leave here on Monday for loading at Gisborne, thence Wellington, Auckland

and Napier. She is due back here on November 16 and is scheduled to sail finally from Napier on November 26 for Southampton and London via Panama. PAUA ARRIVES.—ShortIy after seven o’clock this morning the British Imperial Oil Company’s new coastal tanker Paua arrived at Auckland from Wellington, via Napier, and berthed at the Western W harf to unload case oil and to load bulk oil for New Plymouth. The Paua was built specially for the coastal trade. She is the first ship to carry petroleum in bulk in New Zealand waters under the New Zealand flag. The vessel was built bv Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Ltd., at Govan, Glasgow, and is of the steel single-screw type, being a two twin-masted motor vessel, built on the combined transverse and longitudinal system of framing, straight stein," raised quarter-deck, etc. The ship has two longitudinal bulkheads and nine oil-tight compartments as cargo tanks, and is classed at Lloyd’s 100 A 1 for the carriage of petroleum in bulk and cases. She is 1,400 tons gross. The dimensions are:—Length, 205 ft: breadth (moulded), 36ft 6in; depth, 15ft; width, 21ft Sin. She has nine oil compartments —three centre tanks and six wing tanks, and has a capacity to load about 700 tons of motor spirit in centre tanks, and 000 tons in wing tanks, making a total of 1,035 tons. Centre tanks are fitted to load and discharge 18,000 cases of petroleum products. The vessel’s bunkering capacity is 115 tons of Diesel oil. while in the forehold the Paui can carry 2,700 cases of motor spirit. The propelling power consists of a Burmeister and Wain engine, built by Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Ltd. .The speed of the aPua is 101 knots. The consumption of Diesel oil is 3.5 tons per 24 hours. An SO b.h.p. auxiliary engine is provided for driving the cargo pumps and winches, while there is a donkey boiler to heat accommodation, drive steam steering gear, auxiliary pumps, etc. The tanker is fitted with gas ejectors, vapour lines, steaniing-out connections, and the latest type of chemical fire extinguishers. The two cargo pumps have a capacity of 400 tons each an hour, one being driven by auxiliary motor and the other by steam. The accommodation for the officers and crew of the ship is excellent, while the tanker is fitted to comply with New Zealand regulations regarding mess rooms for crew (of IS). Running hot and cold water. shower baths, eto.. are among the particularly fine appointments embodied in the vessel.-