The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 795, 16 October 1929, Page 2

The Log Book

COAL FROM PORT KEMBLA. —With a full cargo of coal for Auckland, the Union Company’s collier Kawatiri is to clear Port Kerabla today for this port, ■ where she is expected next Tuesday. KAITOKE FOR GLADSTONE. —The local office of the Union Company advises that the collier Kaitoke is now to leave Auckland on Friday for Gladstone, Queensland, to load a full cargo of coal foi* New Zealand. TAIROA DELAYED.—Cargo operations on the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s steamer Tairoa have delayed the vessel at Auckland. She is now to leave here at daylight tomorrow for Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, to complete her discharge of Liverpool cargo. < TAHITI FROM 'FRlSCO.—Running a day late, the Union Company’s R.M.S. Tahiti is due at Wellington next Tuesday morning from San Francisco and way ports. She is announced to leave Wellington at 4 p.m. next Wednesday for Sydney. PORT HUNTER TO LOAD.—Heather, Roberton, Ltd., has been advised that the C. and D. Line’s motor-ship Port Hunter is due at Auckland on November 8 to load for London. Her other ports and her final port of departure have not yet been announced. WAIPAHI FOR APIA.—The local office of the Union Company advises that the Island fruit steamer Waipahi leaves Lyttelton on Friday for Auckland direct, where she is due on Monday. The following day the vessel is to leave this port for Apia, Samoa, to load fruit for Auckland. CORINTHIC FROM HOME.—With passengers, mails, and cargo, the White Star liner Cprinthic is due at Wellington next Tuesday from London and Southampton. Afterwards the vessel comes to Auckland to complete discharge, and to commence loading for her return voyage. A. S. Paterson and Co. will act as the local agents.

CUMBERLAND AT LONDON. —The Federal Bine steamer Cumberland, which sailed from Auckland for London and West Coast ports of Great Britain on August 31, is reported to have reached London on October 9. AORANGI FROM VANCOUVER. —The Royal Mail liner Aorangi is to leave Vancouver today on her return voyage to Honolulu, Suva, Auckland, and Sydney. She is due at Auckland on November 3, and at Sydney on November S. ( > TAINUI LEAVES COLON. —The Shaw. Savill and Albion Company has been notified by cable that their liner Tainui left Colon on Thursday evening for Southampton and London, en route from Wellington. She left Wellington on September 19. CARGO FROM PACIFIC COAST.— The local office of the Union Company advises that the Waihemo, from San Francisco, is due at Auckland next Tuesday, and after discharge here proceeds to Wellington, Nelson, Melbourne, and Sydney. The Hauraki is to leave Los Angeles on Friday for Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Sydney. CARGO FROM AUSTRALIA.— The Union Company’s steamer Kaikorni, from Edithburg, and Wallaroo, leaves Adelaide on Friday, and Melbourne next Tuesday, for Auckland direct, Portland, New Plymouth, Castlecliff, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. The Kaitangata is duo at Devonport, Tasmania, on Friday, to load for Auckland direct. MAUI POMARE FOR NORFOLK ISLANDS. —Spedding, Ltd., lias been advised that the Government motor-ship Maui Poraare, which arrived at Dunedin yesterday, from Xiue Island and Apia, left again the same evening for Lyttelton, Wellington and Auckland. She is duo here on Sunday, and at 5 p.m. on Monday is to be dispatched from Auckland for Norfolk Island. PORT MELBOURNE ARRlVES.—Arriving at Auckland shortly before three o’clock this afternoon from New Plymouth, the C. and D. Line’s steamer Port Melbourne berths later at the Central Wharf to continue her loading under the agency of the Farmers’ Co-op. Auctioneering Company. At 10 p.m. tomorrow she leaves here for Gisborne. Napier and Wellington to complete loading, sailing finally from Wellington on Oetobei* 23 for London, via the Cape Horn route. RANGITIKI CLEARS PANAMA.— Cabled advice received by the New Zealand Shipping Company states that the motor liner Rang! tiki reached Colon last Friday, and cleared Panama on the fol- , lowing day in continuation of her voy- ( ago from London and Southampton to Auckland and Wellington. The vessel is due at Auckland on October 30. She is making her second voyage to New Zealand, and is well up to schedule. VINEMOOR COMING. The vessel Vinemor, now at Wellington discharging portion of her cargo of hardwoods from Bunbury, Western Australia, is to leave there fox' Auckland tomorrow night. Due here on Sunday afternoon she will complete unloading at this port. A. G. Frankham, Ltd., is the local agent for the Vinemor, and after discharging is finished she is to be dispatched for the Pacific Coast to load timber for Australia. GUST A F E. REUTER ARRIVING.— No radio advice as to the time of her arrival has been received from the motor-tanker Gustaf E. Reuter, inward bound from Los Angeles. The vessel, which is under charter to the Atlantic Union Oil Company, is expected to arrive about Friday and will berth at Western Wharf to put out the local consignment of her cargo. She will latexsail for Wellington, Melbourne and Sydney to complete discharging. RARANGA AT WELLINGTON. —To continue her loading, the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's steamer Raranga arrived at Wellington this morning from Lyttelton. On Friday she leaves for New Plymouth and Auckland to complete. She is due here next Wednesday, and is to be dispatched from this port finally on October 29 for New York, Halifax, and London, via Panama. a! S. Paterson and Co. will act as the locai agents. TAMAROA DUE FRlDAY. —Advice received by A. S. Patex-son and Co. states that the Shaw. Savill, and Albion Company s liner Tamaroa, which arrived at Napier yesterday from Lyttelton, leaves at ten o’clock this evening for Auckland, where she is due on Friday morning to continue her loading. She will berth at the Queen’s Wharf, and it is hoped to dispatch her again next Tuesday for "Wellington, where she completes loading, and finally departs on October 30 for Southampton and London, via Panama. CANADIAN EXPLORER SAILING.— The local office of the Canadian National Steamships advises that the Canadian Explorer, now at Queen’s Wharf discharging the local portion of her cargo ti'orn Eastern Canada, is to be dispatched at 4 o clock this afternoon for Wellington, Lyttelton. Timaru, Dunedin and Bluff to complete unloading. While she is down South the vessel will start loading for New York, Boston and Halifax and will return to Auckland to complete filling up and sail for those ports. It is expected that she will leave here on about November 3. MOERAKI TO OVERHAUL. —The Union Company’s steamer Moeraki is to leave Suva for Auckland next Monday to undergo overhaul and survey at thi*s port. The vessel is due on October 25 and her passengers for Sydney will be transfex-red to the Marama, which is scheduled to leave for Sydney the same day. The Moei'aki has been engaged in. the Svdney-Fiji passenger and cargo service under charter to the Australian United Steam Navigation Companv since July, 1928. How long she will be at Auckland and what steamer will relieve her in the Fiji service has not been announced.

RONA WITH SUGAR. —The Colonial Sugar Company’s steamer Rona is expected at Auckland toward the end of November from Fiji with a cargo of raw sugar for the -works at Chelsea. TREDINNICK LEAVES.—In continuation of her voyage from New- York, the A. and A. Line’s chartered steamer Tre-dinnic-k left Auckland this morning at 6.50 o’clock for Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. SYDNEY STEAMERS. —The Ulimaroa leaves Wellington c>n Friday for Sydney, and the Marama and the Meheno both clear Sydney the same day for Auckland, and Wellington rspectively. All the three vessels are due at their arrival ports next Tuesday. RADIO FROM RUAPEHU. —The New Zealand Shipping Company received a wireless message on Monday from tlieir liner Ruapehu, en route from London and Southampton, reporting that she is expected to arrive at Suva on Sunday evening. The vessel will proceed thence to • Wellington, and is due there on October 27. NORFOLK FROM LIVERPOOL. —The Federal Line steamer Norfolk is scheduled to reach Auckland from Liverpool next Wednesday. The vessel has general merchandise from West Coast ports of Great Britain for discharge at Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, and Fort Chalmers. The New Zealand Shipping Company will act as the local agents. MAHIA LEAVES HOME.—Cabled news has been received by the Shaw*, Savill and Albion Company that the Mahia left London last Saturday morning with general cargo to discharge at Auckland, Wellington and Napier. The vessel is due at Auckland on November 19. and L. D. Nathan and Company will be the local agents. The vessel has 430 tons of explosives for Auckland besides hexgeneral cargo. REMUERA DEPARTS.—Late last evening the New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Remuei-a left Auckland for Wellington, where she completes her discharge of London cargo. Later she loads for London, Avonmouth. Glasgow and Liverpool at New Plymouth. Lyttelton, Auckland, Wellington, Napier. She returns to Auckland October 28 and is expected to clear Napier finally on November 9 via Panama for Home. BREMEN’S ENGINES.—Details regarding the machinery of the Norddentscher Lloyd liner Bremen are slowly becoming available. At the luncheon given to him in New York, Dr. Bauer, the designer of the machinery, gave it to be understood that she was equipped with 20 large watertube boilers, eleven of which were double-ended and nine single-ended. He also said that on her trial trip, the machinery output was 130,000 shaft horse-power, which is a very high figure. The average load equivalent for each boiler unit at this power therefore works out at 6.500 shaft horsepower, this being a record for mercantile work. The boilers are arranged in four separate boiler rooms and have a total heating surface of 161,460 square feet. Steam is generated at a pressure of 3371 b a square inch, and is superheated 1 to 700 degrees Fa hr. It is not without i intei-est to compare the load equivalent a boiler unit of the Bremen with that of H.M. battle-cruiser Hood and the Ameri- I can turbo-electric aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga. In the firstnamed, it is 6,300 shaft horse-power, and in the case of the other two no less than 11,250 shaft horse-power. There is no doubt that the development of the watertube boiler, whereby size is increased and weight is reduced. Is of particular importance in the case of ships such as the Bremen. The Scottish boilers of the Mauretania, for example, have a load equivalent a boiler unit of rather less than half that of the Bremen’s boilers. The saving in weight, the decrease, in space required and the increased power obtainable are all of advantage and in the case of the Bremen.- these advantages have not been got at the expense of economy in fuel. Her fuel consumption for ali purposes, including lighting, beating and hotel services, is given officially ns 0.6831 b of oil a shaft horse-power an hour. PORT OF ONEHUNGA—DEPARTURES YESTERDAY HATTTT7RTJ (4.30 p.m.), 270 tons. aniD'vS-”? er ,'- for Ra S lan and Kawhia. f«*w££2£i *° Pmo ’ 251 Pert ' ! fofita. <5 - 3 ° Pm ) < 3,9 tonFarrivals today (r,m?^ P ew Il l. b^o-a?h m - ) ’ 703 tonS ’ Bark ' nate^'w a “Si laSt n ' Bht f ° r °PUr, T £;_ RlT left yesterday afternoon for Raglctn, Kawhia and Waikato Heads. Due V?rt tomorrow, she will later be for Hokianga. HOKIANGA is to sail for Hokianga at « e clock this afternoon. KAITOA was dispatched vesterdav afternoon for Nelson. She is due back ih onfv tomorrow week to load for Pic ton NGAPUHI arrived from New Plymouth tins morning. At 3 p.m. tomorrow she | leaves on the return trip.

WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations tonight:— Auckland. —Tofua, Callandia, Misty Law. H.M.S. Laburnum, H.M.S. Veronica. Gustave, Reuter, Remuera, Canadian Explorer, Tredennick, Moeraki. Chatham Islands. —Corinthic, Norfolk. Wellington. —Maori, Wahine, Tara Rhine, Ngaio, Arahura, Flume, British Glory Spondilus, Sir J. Clark Ross, Tamaroa. Waihemo, Commandant Dcstremau, Waipahi. Awarua. —Makura, Tahiti, Manuka, Koemos, Tutanelcai, Southern Princess, Karetu, Maui Pomare.