The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 475, 3 October 1928, Page 2

The Log Book

WAIPAHI FOR SUVA. —The local office of the Union Company advises that the Island fruit steamer Waipahi leaves Auckland at 3 p.m., on Friday for Suva to load for this port. TO LOAD PHOSPHATES. The steamers Berwick Law and Morus have been chartered to load phosphates at Ocean Island for Australia or New Zealand. CARGO FROM MONTREAL. —The Canadian National Steamships advise that the steamer Eastmoor has been chartered by them to load at Montreal and to leave there on October 10 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. The vessel is due at Auckland on November 20. PORT NAPIER FOR AUSTRALIA. — The C. and D. Line advises that the Port Napier which is completing discharge at Bluff, will leave that port to-morrow afternoon for Port Kembla, preparatory to loading in Australia. MATAROA LEAVES SOUTHAMPTON. —Cabled news has been received by the Shaw, Savill Company that their liner Mat&roa left Southampton on Friday afternoon for Wellington. The vessel is due there on November 1 to disembark her passengers only, and will then pi'oceed to Port Chalmers, Lyttelton and Timaru to discharge her cargo. RARAWA’S LONG SERVICE.—The well-known passenger steamer Rarawa completed 25 years of almost continuous service in the New Plmouth-Onehunga trade last Friday. There are few vessels on the New Zealand coast which have served longer on one run. The Rarawa was first commissioned in the service in 1903, being brought out to New Zealand by Captain J. Blackrock, who was later drowned in the wreck of the Kia Ora at Rua Point. She made three trips weekly until the opening of the Main Trunk railway in 1908, after which she ran only twice a week. Captain W. Bark, the present master, has been in command since 1914, when he took over from Captain W. F. Norbury, who had piloted the vessel from the beginning of the service. The Rarawa, a twin screw steamer cf 1,077 tons, was built in Dundee by Gourlay Brothers in 1903 for the Northerh Steamship Company.

TRANS-PACIFIC CARGO SERVICE.— The Waitemata, from British Columbia ports, is due at San Francisco to-day, and is expected to clear Los Angeles on October 9, and is due at Auckland on November 3, and will go thence to Napier, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Nelson and New Plymouth. She will proceed from NeW Plymouth to Suva and Vancouver. The YVaihemo left Suva on September 22 for Vancouver direct, where she is due on October 13. She will proceed thence to San Francisco to complete loading for Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne, and Sydney, and will clear San Francisco about November 8. The Wairuna, from Lyttelton, arrived at Dunedin on Sunday, and will proceed thence to New Plymouth, Auckland, Apia, Fanning Island, and Vancouver. ..The Waiotapu, from Los Angeles, left Wellington on Saturday for Melbourne and Sydney. She is due at Melbourne on October 7 The Waikawa, from Los Angeles, via Apia, arrived at Auckland this morning, and will proceed thence to Nelson, Bluff, Melbourne, Sydney, Suva, and Vancouver. The Hauraki left Los Angeles on September 19 for Auckland, where she is due on October 11, and will proceed thence to Wellington, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, and Vancouver. WAIKAWA ARRIVES. At eight o’clock this morning the Union Company’s trans-Pacific cargo steamer Waikawa arrived in the stream at Auckland from Pacific Coast ports of America. She berthed at Prince’s Wharf, where the local portion of her cargo of lumber, case oil and general merchandise is to be discharged. The Waikawa loaded at Vancouver, New Westminster, San Francisco and Los Angeles, sailing finally from the last-named port on September 3. After a fine trip Apia was reached on September 20, and five days later, after putting out a large quantity of cargo, the vessel continued her way to Auckland. The first two days out from Apia southeasterly storms and heavy seas were encountered, but the conditions were not such as to damage the vessel, or delay her progress appreciably. Captain A. H. Davey is in command of the Waikawa, and associated with him are the following officers: Chief, Mr. C. C. Waters; second,* Mr. R. D. Brebner; third, Mr. D. W. Blacklaw; chief engineer, Mr. W. D. Taylor; second, Mr. W. F. Cameron; third, Mr. S. Head; fourth. Mr. Whyte; chief steward, Mr. A. N. Thorn; wireless operator, Mr. S. w! Stafford. While the vessel was en route to Vancouver before loading for this voyage a fireman named Edminston was lost overboard.

The local office of the Union Company advises that the Waikawa is to be dispatched from Auckland at five o’clock tomorrow evening for Nelson, Bluff, Melbourne and Sydney to complete the discharge of her cargo.

NORFOLK LEAVES LONDON. Cabled news has been received by the New Zealand Shipping Company that the Federal steamer Norfolk sailed from London last Saturday with general cargo to discharge at Suva, Auckland and Wellington. She is due at Auckland about November 9. GLENEDEN FROM JAVA. —Following the Danybryn, which reached Auckland on Monday night, the steamer Gleneden, 4,761 tons, has been chartered to load raw sugar at Java for Auckland. She is owned by the Gleneden Shipping Company, Glasgow, and was built at Greenock in 1909.

HAURAKI FROM PACIFIC COAST. — The local office of the Union Company expects the trans-Pacific motor-ship Hauraki to arrive at Auckland on October 11 from the Pacific Coast ports. After discharge here, the vessel proceeds to Wellington, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney to complete. “ALL WELL” ON CORINTHIC. “South-westerly; weather fine, all well,” was the text of a wireless message received by the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company on Sunday from their liner, Corinthic, which left Wellington last Wednesday morning for Southampton and London via Panama. PORT DUNEDIN SAlLlNG.—Heather, Roberton, Limited, expects to finish loading the C. and D. Line’s motor-ship Port Dunedin to-night and at daybreak tomorrow she will leave Auckland for New Plymouth; thence Wellington to fill up. She is .scheduled to sail finally from Wellington on October 13 for London via Panama. SULPHUR FROM TEXAS. —Having cleared Panama on September 16, the Norwegian motor-ship Lionel is expected at Auckland about October 14. The vessel is from Galveston, Texas, with a full cargo of sulphur for discharge at Auckland, New Plymouth, Adelaide and Port Lincoln Messrs. R. Millar and Company are the local agents.

PORT FREMANTLE LO ADI NG.'- I The C. and D. Line’s motor-ship Port Fremantle, leaves Timaru to-day for Bluff; thence Wanganui, New Plymouth and Wellington to complete her loading. She sails finally from Wellington on October 31 for London via Panama. The Port Fremantle is replacing the Port Napier on the loading berth in New Zealand. WESTMORELAND AT LYTTELTON. —Now loading at Lyttelton the Federal steamer Westmoreland leaves there tomorrow for Wellington; thence Auckland to fill up. She is due here on October 12 and is expected to clear this port finally on October 18 for London via Panama. The New Zealand Shipping Company will act as the local agents. lONIC’S MOVEMENTS.—Now loading at Auckland under the agency of L. D Nathan and Company, the White Star •liner lonic is expected to leave here on Monday evening for Port Chalmers; thence Lyttelton, Napier and Wellington to complete. The liner is scheduled to sail finallv from Wellington at daybreak on October 26 for Southampton and London via Panama.

AID TO NAVIGATION. —A new contrivance which automatically registers and draws the ship’s course on a chart has been invented by Mr. John Graftstrom. an engineer at Gothenburg. It is connected with the gyroscope compass and the log, and by delineating with mathematical exactitude on the nautical chart the exact movements of the ship enables the officers and passengers to see the correct position of the vessel at any given moment. MOTOR-SHIP AND STEAM SHIP TESTS.—The motor-ship Clan Macdonald Is the first Clan liner to be fitted with Diesel engines and the first cargo vessel to be propelled by a double-acting fourcycle engine of the Kincaid-Harland B. and W. Type (states the “Shipping World”). This engine is capable of developing 5,200 b.h.p., ensuring a speed of 14 knots, and being actually the first of its kind to be built at Greenock. On some of the many services which the Clan Line maintains all over the world in general, and in the East in particular, it has an opportunity of carrying out most interesting experiments in regard to the advantages or disadvantages of motorships over steamships. The Clan Line has gone a step further, for in a hull identical to that of the Clan Macdonald, 430 ft 3Jin by 57ft 6in by 39ft 6in, with a d.w. carrying capacity of 9,500 tons on a draught of 27ft, there will be installed triple-expansion machines with an exhaust stem turbine working on the Bauer-Wach system. If only the line could see its way to publishing the machinery data obtained from these two vessels on service over an extended period and on different trade routes, how much they would add to the sum of marine engineering knowledge, remarks the pdJfc>er. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Auckland.—Baron, Inchape, Moeraki, H.M.S. Veronica, Maui Pomare, Canadian Transporter, Vestvard. Chatham Islands. —Pakeha, Rimutaka, Ruahine. Wellington.—Arahura, Ngaio, Tamahine, Maori, Wahine, Niagara, Aorangi, Karetu, Antinous, Tutanekai, Port Hunter. Awarua. —Manuka, Sussex, Port Fremantle. PORT OF ONEHUNGA—DEPARTURES YESTERDAY OEEPUKI (5.10 p.m.), 575 tons, Pearson, for Nelson. HAUTURU (5.40 p.m.), 270 tons, Fowler-Jackson, for Raglan and Kawhia. ARRIVALS TO-DAY RARAWA (7.30 a.m.), 1,077 tons. Bark, from New Plymouth. ARAPAWA (8.30 a.m.), 291 tons, Robinson, from Wanganui. The Rarawa, which arrived at Onehunga at half past seven this morning, sails at 3.30 p.m. to-morrow on the return trip. The Arapawa arrived this morning from Wanganui. She was to be dispatched again at noon for Waikato Heads only, from which trip she is due back to-mor-row morning. At 3 p.m. the same day she is scheduled to sail for Wanganui.

The Hauturu is due at Onehunga tomorrow morning from Raglan and Kawhia. At 3 p.m. the same day she sails for Hokianga.