The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 557, 9 January 1929, Page 2

The Log Book

OTOKIA AT SAN PEDRO—A cable message to the Union Company reports that their oil tanker Otokia arrived at San Pedro last Sunday from Auckland. The vessel was to sail on Monday for Wellington with a full cargo of fuel oil. KENNEDY BADLY DAMAGED —The Manawatu Shipping Company's coastal steamer Kennedy, which was stranded on the Foxto-n beach from November IS until December 11, lias on examination on the Wellington patent slip been found to have suffered extensile structural damage to her hull. The hull has been severely strained. and several plates badly dented under the forehold, boiler and engine-room. The question is undecided whether the cost of putting the vessel in seaworthy condition will be worth while.

RANGITOTO FOR GREAT BARRIER —The Northern Company advises that the excursion steamer Rangitoto leaves Auckland at S o’clock to-morrow morning for the Great Barrier, and returns here at 9 p.m. CARGO FROM NEW YORK.—The C. aind D. Dine advises that the Port Curtis is to sail from New York on February 23 with general cargo’ to discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. THE PORT AUCKLAND.—CabIed advice lias been received by the C. and D. Line that the Port Auckland left Panama on Saturday for London, en route from Wellington, She sailed from Wellington on December 11. WAIRUNA SAILS TO-MORROW—The local office of the Union Company advises that the cargo steamer Wairuna now leaves Auckland at 3 p.m. to-morrow for Wellington, Melbourne and Sydney to complete her discharge of Pacific Coast cargo. KARTIGI IN PORT—The Union Company’s collier Eurtigi arrived in the stream at Auckland early this morning from Melbourne, via Newcastle, and, after pratique was granted, berthed at the Prince’s Wharf, She is expected to leave here on Saturday for probably Westport. THE CANADIAN CONQUEROR — Cabled news has been received by the Canadian National Steamships that the Canadian Conqueror left Halifax on January 4 with general cargo to discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin and Bluff. She is due at Auckland about February 20. TREWIDDEN DUE SHORTLY.—rAn expected arrival at Auckland about Friday is the Hain Line steamer Trewidden from Montreal. The vessel is under charter to the Canadian National Steamships, and her general merchandise cargo will be unloaded at Auckland, Wellington and Geelong. CORINTH 1C DUE.—-With passengers, mail and cargo from London, and Southampton, the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Corinthie is scheduled to reach Wellington next Monday. The cargo will be unloaded at Wellington and Auckland. She is due at Auckland about January 21. AORANG! FROM SYDNEY—Leaving Sydney at noon to-morrow for Auckland, the local office of the Union Company advises that the R.M.M.S. Aorangi is due here on Sunday next. In the meantime the liner is scheduled to sail from this port at 3 p.m. next Tuesday for Suva, Honolulu, Victoria and Vancouver. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN AND TASMANIAN CARGO SERVICE—The local office of the Union Company has been advised that the cargo steamer K.ekerangu is to load at Wallaroo on January 22, Adelaide on January 25, Melbourne on January 23. and Hobart on January 31 for Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington, New Plymouth and Auckland. CARGO FROM LIVERPOOL.— The local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company has been advised that the Federal steamer Cambridge, which leaves Liverpool on March 2 with cargo for Zealand ports, will discharge also at Napier. The Norfolk, which leaves Liverpool on March 30, will also include New Plymouth in her itinerary. cI T EKOA „ TO LOAD—The New Zealand Shipping Company advises that the Tekoa arrived at New Plymouth yesterday from Brisbane to commence loading for London. 1 he \ essel will load subsequently at ton and Wellington. She is due at Wellington on January 23 and will afterwards fill up at Waikokopu and The Tekoa is timed to sail finally from Napier on February 4 for London, via Panama and Curacao. nnd A Vh < ?^ T ,° LOAD—The Shaw. Savill and Albion Company reports that the at rnlmL-i"* rr< ? l s . ent completing- discharge week p will commence loading next there f,! „ lort Chalmers, and win leave theie to-morrow week for Timaru. Lyttelton and Wellington. She is due 'at Wellington on .January 24, and will sail frdm there on January for fill lip. The vessel will sail finally from Panama 011 Februar y 2 for London, via -HivPti» E^ ANE i FROM CASABLANCA. i c cleared Panama on December reach iS e n r^ CreiJa o e is expected to f from Casablanca about n t sda -'j The vessel has a full cargo of phosphates for discharge at Macfarhl and L yt te lt°n- HendersJn and u-^ C^ rane are t,le loc &I agents. The vesse l is owned by the Limerick SteamS l '?, and she was built at Ue ~ on “Tyne in 1911. Her tonnage ihe 6 'Mogffeff S and her formcr nan ‘ e ENTON ARRIVES.—An arrival in the + v^ eam Auckland this morning was the motor-ship Enton, from New York via buva. She later berthed at the harf to unload the local porr , cargr ° under the agency of wssplUn' a i and sh iPPi n S' Company. The Ef’vS Swansea on October .16 for the voyage taking 16 days cwin . , 1° heavy gales which she experido£o d + n t n° !la nlic- Siiglit damage was A her ?eck fittings. The Enton lud American port on November 20 of W S “ Va ’ where she discharged l^ of her cargo. Frorn Nf*w 5? Auckland the vessel experienced good weather Captain A. Smith is in command of the Enton. The vessel is expected to leave here on Saturday. . C t A . l - CUTTA FREIGHT WAR. The freight war in relation to the carriage Nortb te A and burlap from Calcutta to North American ports is now over The d'hote began toward the end of 1927 when the L tilted States Shipping Board cut the rate from T. 90 dollars a ton to dh'lars, following the refusal of the other lines concerned to give them a cSfie 1 " fm ar<! the trade - Retaliation , ine nom the competing lines in tuc agr eemont ‘arrived" r f at ,l s - ™d“ Om Bucknall Lines 11 ’have'34' sailhigs ’“the ?e™'?f'' OC thL eb 5Si k T - ine e’TSldtoS the Isthmlan e L”ne saHlngs rates on jute and burlap will “be raised foe 'ts « r “ anrt 7 - 50 dollars respectHelv for the first six months of 1929 and to the°year. and S ' s ° f ° r tlle £econci half of

MANUKA AT MELBOURNE-Tlie Union Company received cable advice yesterday that their intercolonial passenger steamer Manuka arrived at Melbourne at 5.30 p.m. on Saturday from Wellington direct. The vessel was to leave Melbourne yesterday morning for Milford Sound and Wellington. She is due there next Monday, and will sail the following day for Lyttelton, Dunedin, Bluff and Melbourne. C. AND D.’S MOST POWERFUL LINER.—The Port Fairy, the highestpowered Commonwealth and Dominion motor-ship, recently launched from the yard of Messrs. Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, is equipped with twinscrew 8,000 i.h.p. machinery constructed by Messrs. William Doxford and Sons. There are four working cylinders, with tho scavenging pump located at the centre of the engine, and the standard Doxford design, utilising the two-stroke principle with opposed pistons and airless injection of fuel, is employed, the engines being reversed entirely by hand. The trials .of the vessel were completed in October, a speed of 15.6 knots being attained on the measured mile with the engines developing about 90 per cent, of their full power. The consumption of current for auxiliary pusposes is appreciably large, all the plant being electrically operated; this includes the refrigerating machinery. The total insulated space comprises about 360,000 cubic feet. Nos. 1,2 and 4 holds and lower ’tween decks being arranged for tho carriage of meat, butter, cheese and fruit from Australian and New Zealand ports. Insulated storerooms for the ship’s provisions are located at the forward end of No. 4 'tween deck. Two horizontal twin-compressor 002 machines are located in a compartment on the upper deck, aft of the machinery casing. The equipment includes four 002 condensers fitted with copper coils and the same number of evaporators containing steel -? oils *. The Port Fairy has a length of 475 ft 6in. between perpendiculars, a breadth of 63ft, and a depth of 43ft 4in to the upper deck. There are live holds and ’tween decks, considerable space being devoted to refrigerated cargo; the total dead-weight capacity is approximately 11,500 tons. The chart-room and vvheelhouse are on the flying bridge, with, the captain’s dayroom, bedroom and bathroom below. On the passengers’ bridge is a smokeroom, together with a cabin do luxe and a number of single and double-berth cabins. Below the bridge is the dining saloon, which is a choicely decorated apartment, cabins for the officers being on the port side. The engineers quarters are to port and starboard of the machinery casing on the upper deck, and a messroom is at the after end amidships. SHIPBUILDING DEPRESSION Sir Alexander Kennedy has repeatedly poured cold water on those optimists who, without knowledge of the conditions in the industry, have been suggesting that a revival in shipbuilding has begun, writes the ‘Shipping World.” Fie has now pointed out that tlie coming winter is likely to be much worse as far as shipbuilding conditions arc concerned than the last one. Altogether only about 36 per cent. of the building slips in this country (Great Britain) are now occupied, and there is every prospect that unemployment will unfortunately increase in coming months. There are 500,000 tons less shipping in hand than was the case a year ago. It would be a matter of interest if Sir Alexander could have indicated to what extent the industry is providing less work to-day than it was in tlie years immediately preceding the war yards were extended and a large number of additional men were taken on during the submarine campaign. But, though such statistics would be interesting, they would not affect the position. The fact that especially good harvests all over the world are recorded encouraged the hope that freights would go up this autumn and it was said that ship-owners would be tempted to consider the ordering of new ships. So far the movement of ireiglits has not been such as to stimulate a healthy flow of orders. On the other hand, if the freight market is not boommg, it can be said to be firmer tnan it has been for some time past. In view ot this improvement in the situation. feir Alexander appeals to shipowners to consider whether they cannot relieve shipbuilders of some of their anxiety this winter by placing work now m the faith of improved shipping conditions, even a little ahead of any progt amine which would be supported by an immediate prospect of a remunerative re- , r . n * Shipbuilders generally can now claim that they are builidng at bedrock prices. There are, indeed, few ships on ine stocks at the moment which will StT a £ y profit - The best of the yards Pav ®. beea reorganised. labour-saving machmery has been introduced, economies du ' ect . ion have been made, and it of shint S e I tam thuU though the prices Sot ron ay eo up ’ the >* certainly canw.L 'h ° n the other hand, the shipping cannot continue indefinitely. ® re already some signs of an j improvement.

WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Auckland.—Maui Pomare, Tofua, Canadian Transporter, Sawokla, Valacia, Tamaroa, Trewidden, Wairuna, Iria. Chatham Islands.—Port Wellington, Cornwall, Corinthie. Wellington.—-Maori, Wahine, Tamahin*. Xgaio, Arahura, Rotorua, Port Hardy. Tredinnick, Canadian Britisher, Malm. Tiitanekai, Mamilius, Ruapehu, Kawatiri, Bloemfontein, Somerset, Poolta, Undia, Surrey. Awarua.—C. A. Larsen, Sir J. C. Ross, X. T. Nilssen Alonso, City of New York, Makura, Tahiti, Manuka, Port Denison, Karetu, Cumberland. PORT OF ONEK JNGA—DEPARTURES YESTERDAY ARA PAW A (3 pm.), 351 tons, Pert, for Wanganui. ARRIVALS TO-DAY RARAWA (7.45 a.m.), 1,077 tons. Bark, from New Plymouth. The Rarawa arrived this morning at Onthunga from New Plymouth, and saus to-morrow at 4 p.m. on her return tripThe Arapawa, which left Onehungii yesterday afternoon for Wanganui, returns on Saturday. The .Hauturu is clue at Onehunga tomorrow morning from Waikato Head? Kawhia and Raglan, and leaves again at 3 p.m. the same day for Hokianga. The Anchor Company’s steamer Regulus is due at Onehunga on Monday ron. Nelson to load for Nelson and AVest ports.