The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 544, 22 December 1928, Page 2

The Log Book

ULIMAROA LEAVES SYDNEY.— Cable advice received by the local office of the Huddart, Parker Company states that the passenger steamer Ulimaroa left Sydney at noon yesterday for Auckland where she is due next Tuesday morning. ‘NIAGARA CLEARS SUVA.—The local office of the Union Company has been advised that the R.M.S. Niagara, en route from Sydney and Auckland. arrived at Suva at 3 p.m. yesterdav and left again at 9 p.m. for Honolulu, Victoria and Vancouver. LORNASTON'S MOVEMENTS.—Henderson and Mac-farlane advises that the Stea .i?L er Lornaston. which left Auckland on Thursday for Westport for bunkers later proceeds to Makatea Island to load for New South Wales.

~T HE TANKER YARRAVILLE. The \ acuum Oil Company's tanker Yarraville reached W ellington on Wednesday morning with a full cargo of bulk oil from San Francisco. She will unload portion of the cargo at Wellington, and 'the remainder at Melbourne and Sydney.

lONIC COMING—The Shaw, Savill. and Albion liner lonic is scheduled to clear Southampton for New Zealand on January 4, with passengers, mails, and cargo. The cargo will be unloaded at Auckland and Port Chalmers. The vessel is due at Auckland on February 11. WESTMORELAND FROM LIVERPO°L.—With general merchandise from West Coast ports of Great Britain, the t ederal Line steamer Westmoreland is to leave Liverpool for Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton and Dunedin on January is deu at Auckland on February

THE SOUTHERN CROSS.—Advice received by the Board of Missions states that the Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross was delayed during her cruise among the South-west Pacific Islands, and is not expected to return to Auckland until the first week in January.

CORINTHIC COMING.—With passengers, mails and cargo for New Zealand, the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Corinthic is scheduled to arrive at Wellington on January 14. After unloading portion of merchandise at Wellington she will come to Auckland about January 21 to complete discharge.

NOTICE TO MARINERS r J^ HE Superintendent, Mercantile Marine advises shippinq that the W h ite Cask Buoy marking Omoke Rock in Hokianga Harbour, his disappeared.

r»i HARDY.—Now loading at .Plymouth, the Commonwealth and Dominion Line steamer Port Hardv is to If 11 ,. Picton, Wanganui, Wellington, C ° rt Chhlmers, and Lyttelton on December 28, in continuation of her loading itinerary. She is to leave Lyttelton for London, via Panama, on January 11. THE CANADIAN CONQU EROR.-'The Canadian National steamer Canadian Conqueror, which left Auckland for New York, Boston, and Halifax on November 8, cleared Boston for Halifax on December 16. She is scheduled to leave Halifax on December 26 for Auckland. Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. TREKIEVE FROM NEW YORK.—The Aew Zealand Shipping Company has received advice that the A. and A. Line s chartered steamer Trekieve left New York on December 12. and Newport News on December 13. with cargo for discharge at Auckland. Wellington. Lyttelton, and Dunedin. She is due at Aucklandvon January 20.

SCHOONER HUIA'S ITINERARY.—The -Sobel auxiliary schooner Huia left Maraetai last evening with explosives for Napier, Dunedin, and Greymouth. At Greymouth the vessel will load timber for Sydney. After discharge at Sydney she will proceed to Melbourne, to load explosives for Queensland ports. Subsequently the vessel will load hardwood at Grafton for Auckland.

TOFU A RETURNING. The local office of the Union Company advises that the Island passenger steamer Tofua leaves Suva at 4 p.m. to-day for Auckland, where she is due next Thursday morning. The vessel is scheduled to leave here on Saturday. December 29, at 11 a.m.. on her return trip to Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.

ROTORUA LOADING—The New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Rotorua arrived from Lyttelton last evening, and berthed at Queen’s Wharf to continue loading refrigerated and general cargo for England. The vessel is to sail next ednesday morning for Tokomaru Bav. Napier and Wellington, to complete her cargo. With passengers and mails she is to be dispatched from Wellington for Southampton and London, via Panama on January 5.

PORT DENISON DUE WEDNESDAY. —-Heather. Roberton, Limited, have been advised that the c. and r>. Line's steamer Port Denison left Sydney at 5 p.m yesterday for Auckland, where she men ue ",' xt > morning to com! thi? oo?t er the adlngr , for Home - From tms port the vessel proceeds to • Cic don^vht 1 Pan*ama? n 23

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THE WAUNGANUI.-Pue ->r e , fr..: . Weliin S T,n M,nday. Company s inter* olonial steamer nui is to sail next Thursdav an/ » n6 *' A,:cklan<l °» THE SPEEDY MAURET AN lAIf vessel hus earned the title ~f the wondership it is the Mauretania. Jki , ! though she has attained her n'nwa' appears to go from strength to st'rSS; writes the "Syren and Shipping” latest performance is a round trip Southampton to New York and bL* Plymouth in 12i days, the time spent «" the other side being onlv 31 OY B Inuring this brief stay in port’the oT ? had to be thoroughly cleaned nm« ioned and bunkered with 5,000 tons of , fuel and generally prepared for her contingent of eastbound passengers. Tt

reason for the hurry was of coping with the heavy rush of tor* traffic. Though the whole of her accommodation was fully booked th« was a big waiting list for subs«iii' ships. The average speed of the vTu> tanias Atiantic crossing was 25 J tiw and there were periods when she 'did w 26}, a truly marvellous achievement. "*

AMERICAS 35-KNOT LlNEßS—Treport that the United States Sht*pj»! Board has characterised the plan of Trans-Oeeanic Company to build sir knot Ttlantic liners, designed to cro* in four days, as being oper. to technW criticism will not surprise British ntari-. engineers, as the scheme has always looked upon with a certain element rsuspicion, writes the ’Shipping 'World The proposed liners, it may be recall were to have a length of 900 ft., with gross tonnage of 35.000, and were to b* propelled by geared turbine machinery a 160,000 s.h.p., driving four propejUn* Steam was to be raised in 16 specia water tube boilers designed €o operate a a pressure of 4001 b.. and a total *«*» heat of 700 deg. Fahr. The weight po£ fe ratio of the installation worked out ven closely to that adopted in battleship prac tice. and was about half that emptoK in fast destroyer work. Despite tfc. moderate boiler and fuel rating* proposed, many were of the opinion thasuch machinery would not prove to fc* entirely free from trouble in regular Atlantic service.

WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following- vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations during the week-end:— Auckland.—Tofua, Maui Pomare, Martin. Ulimaroa, WaipahL Wellington.—Maori. Waipahl, Arahura. Xgaio, Paua, Canadian Britisher, Lornaston, Wahine, Tamahine, Aorangi, Xiagara, Maunganui, Port Curtis, Tarraville. Matakana, Taranaki, Pert "Wellington. Awarua.—Ruapehu. Sir J. C. Ross. C. A Larsen, X. T. Xielsen Alonso, City t* Xew York, Tahiti, Makura, Karetu, Manuka, Kawatiri. PORT OF ONEHUNGA—ARRIVAL TO-DAY RARAWA (7.45 a.m.), 1,077 tons. Bark, from Xew Plymouth. The Rarawa, which arrivea at Onehunga this morning from Xew Plymouth, sails again at four o’clock this afternooa for the same port. The Arapawa was to have arrived at Onehunga this morning from Wanganui. The Hauturu arrives at Onehunga tomorrow morning from Hokianga.