The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 816, 9 November 1929, Page 2

The Log Book

PORT HARDY DELAYED. —Owing to rain the departure of the C. and D. Line’s steamer Port Hardy from Auckland for Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin has been postponed until Monday evening. NGAKUTA FOR SYDNEY. —Advice received by the local office of the Union Company states that the collier Ngakuta, which was to leave Westport at 3 a.m. today for Auckland, after discharge here, proceeds to Greymouth to load for Sydney.

HAURAKi FROM PACIFIC COAST.— Due at Auckland next Thursday from the Pacific Coast, the Union Company’s motor-ship Hauvaki, after discharge here, proceeds to Wellington, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney to complete.

PIAKO AT WELLINGTON.—Now loading at Wellington, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Piako leaves on Friday next for Auckland, where she is due the following Sunday to fill up. The vessel is scheduled to sail finally from this port on November 23 for Halifax and London, via Panama.

PORT DARWIN FROM NEW YORK. — The C. and D, Line lias been notified by cable that the Port Darwin, en route from New York, left Hampton Roads on Monday with general cargo to discharge at Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru and Dunedin. The ship is due at Auckland on December 4, and Heather Robertson Limited will be the local agents.

lONIC REPORTS AGAIN.—A further radio message received by Shaw, Savill and. Albion Company states that the liner lonic is now expected to arrive at Wellington at 2 p.m. next Tuesday from Southampton and London. Originally she was expected to reach Wellington on Wednesday next.

DORINGTON COURT ARRIVING.-Due in the stream at 1.30 p.m. today from Chile, the steamer Dorington Court will later berth at the King’s Wharf to unload the local portion of her nitrates before proceeding about Tuesday to Australia to complete discharge. Henderson and Macfarlane will be the local agents.

KAITUNA FOR A USTRALI A.—The local office of the Union Company has been advised that the steamer Kaituna, which leaves Greymouth at 4 p.m. today for Napier and Auckland, after discharge here, proceeds to Westport, Greymouth and Bluff to load for Adelaide and Melbourne.

ULIMAROA FROM SYDNEY.—The Huddart-Parker . steamer Ulimaroa was dispatched from Sydney yesterday at noon, according to a cable message received, and is due at Wellington on Tuesday morning. She is the only Sydney passenger steamer arriving at or leaving New Zealand next week, and she is to leave Wellington for Sydney next Friday. CANADIAN TRANSPORTER REPORTS.—The Canadian Transporter will arrive from Montreal at eight o’clock on Monday morning, According to her wireless advice to the local office of the Canadian National Steamships. The vessel has a general merchandise cargo for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru and Dunedin. She has' been allotted a berth at Prince’s Wharf.

PORT HUNTER A R RIVIN G.—According to a radio message received by Heather Roberton, Limited, the C. and D. Line’s steamer Port Hunter is due at Auckland at 2 p.m. tomorrow from Bluff. Later she berths at the Queen’s Wharf to continue her loading. On Tuesday she leaves again for Tokomaru Bay, thence Gisborne, Napier and Wellington, to fill up, sailing finally from Wellington on November 27 for London, via Panama.

CANADIAN EXPLORER RETURNING. —Advice from the local office of the Canadian National Steamships states that the Canadian Explorer left Wellington for Auckland last night and she is expected to arrive here on Monday morning. The vessel is scheduled to berth at King’s Wharf at 7 o’clock that morning to complete loading for New Y'ork, Boston and Halifax, and is to be dispatched for those ports that night.

RON A COMING.—The Colonial Sugar Company’s steamer Rona is expected at Auckland about the end of this month with a full cargo of raw sugar from Fiji. From Auckland she will proceed to SydNIAGARA AT VANCOUVER.—The Union Company' reports that the Niagara, from Auckland, arrived at Vancouver yesterday. She is scheduled to leave again on November 13 for Honolulu, Suva, Auckland and Sydney', and is due at Auckland on December 1.

MAUI POMARE SAILS TUESDAY.— At 3 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon Spedding. Limited, is dispatching the Government motor-ship Maui Pomare from Auckland for Niue Island, and Apia. Samoa, to load for Southern ports. The vessel receives cargo on Monday at the King's Wharf.

MOTOR SHIP CRESSINGTON COURT. —The motor ship Cressington Court, nowon her maiden voyage to Adelaide, was built by the Northumberland ghipbuild-. ing Company (1927), Ltd., Howden-on-Tyne, for the United British Steamship Company, Ltd. Of the shelter-deck type, and the third to be completed of a series ordered from the Northumberland Company, by these owners, she is 419 ft in length, 55ft 6in in breadth, and 37ft 3in in depth from the shelter deck. The deadweight carrying capacity, on a moderate draft, is about 9,200 tons. The builders have complied with the requirements for Lloyd’s Register’s highest class, under special survey'. A large number of winches and a specially-arranged system of derricks and derrick gear have been fitted. The accommodation is steam heated, and the vessel is electrically' lit throughout. Wireless telegraphy- is installed. The propelling machinery was supplied bv William Doxford and Sons, Ltd., Sunderland, and consists of an opposed piston oil engine of the solid injection type.

NEW ITINERARY FOR WHITE EMPRESS.—It has been decided, states advice received from the Canadian Pacific Railways, that in future the “White Empresses’’ of the Canadian Pacific Line, comprising the Empress of Canada, Empress of Russia, Empress of Asia and the new Empress of Japan, which will make her initial voyage from Vancouver on July 10 next, will call at Honolulu on their outward voyages from T ancouver to the Orient. This is a new move by the Canadian Pacific Railway to capture a share of the tourist traffic to the Hawaiian Islands. This new departure was to have commenced with the Empress of Canada on her voyage from Vancouver to the Orient, leaving \ ancouver on December 7, but owing to the mishap that was reported in last Tuesday s newspapers, this sailing may have to be cancelled it the ship lias been damaged by going aground near Victoria, B.C. Hono fulu will not be called at on the voyage from the Orient to Vancouve 1 , but onhv on tbe outward voyage from Vancouver to the Orient. Reciprocal arangements have been made with the Canadian-Aus-tralasian Royal Mail Line, the Matson Steam Navigation Company and the Los Armeies Steamship Company for the ret.rrn passage from Honolulu to the Pacific Coast? ot : any passengers booked by the ••Empresses” to port. THE NEW ORONTES.-The present addition to the fleet of , L he v £t I<S 1 < Sl t Armof the Orontes, built by , Vlckcrs-Arm strong’s, Limited, well illustrates the progress which lias been made tish shipping within a period of about *1 miarter of a century. The ship l. named after a vessel belonging to the same owners, which was very Popular in her time, amt rendered fine seivice. The earlier Orontes was built in 19y-. and was just over 9,000 tons gross, with a. horse-power of 10,000. The new tes is of just 20,000 tons gross, with a horse-power of 20,000, so that the present ship is more than twice the size of her predecessor, while the horse-power is double. In the year before the war the Orient Line owned a fleet of nine ships, including six vessels which were comparatively new'. It owns the same number today', but the total tonnage is verv much greater. In 1913 the fleet consisted of six new ships of aoout 12,000 tons gross, and three of between 6 SOO and 9,000 tons. Today there are five vessels of about 20,000 tons, one of nearly 15.000 tons, and three of about 12,000 tons gross. The new ships of 20,000 tons, which, naturally', are very costly', have been found highly suitable for the route. Incidentally, the construction of the new vessels was an important factor in the decisions of tne Port of London Authority to build the new lock at Tilbury, which was officially opened on September 2G, and the newdry dock, the need of which for such vessels has been found to be urgent.

OCEANIC DEFERRED. The White Star Line announces that it lias been decided to defer work on the Oceanic — the new 60,000-ton express vessel for the mail and passenger service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York —and to give priority to the construction of a new motor-vessel of about 27,000 tons—a sister ship to the Britannic, which -was launched on August 6 for its Liverpool arid New York passenger service.

These two vessels will be the largest British motor-ships and the largest liners sailing from the port of Liverpool. The announcement was made on June 18, 1928, that Harland and Wolff had received an order from the White Star Line to proceed with the construction of the great vessel. It yvas subsequently stated that she would be I,oooft in length between perpendiculars. The keel plate of the Oceanic will remain undisturbed on its present slip until the problems that face both owners and builders, primarily with regard to the propelling power to be adopted, have been solved.

Lord Kylsant, the chairman of the White Star Line, lias already announced that the Oceanic will be electrically driven. The question of generating power, however. Is still under consideration, there being various alternatives which need further investigation and development in the light of the most recent experience before a decision can be arrived at that can be adopted yvith complete assurance of. success.

R EMU ERA DEPARTS.—A departure from Auckland last evening was the New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Remuera for Napier, w'here she completes her loading and finally departs on Tuesday for Southampton and London, via Panama. WELL" ON TAMAROA.—The Shaw. Savill and Albion Company reeeived a wireless message yesterday from the liner Tamaroa, which left \\ ellington on October 30 for Southampton and London, stating: “Moderate easterly ■winds since leaving. All well. NOBEL COMPANY’S SCHOONERS.— Mr C. E. Campbell advises that the Hma arrived at Tauranga on Thursday morning from Grafton, New South Wales, and is now engaged discharging part of her cargo of hardwoods there. The ' essel is to complete unloading at this port and is expected to arrive here on Tuesday. She will berth at Princes Wharf. The Piri is expected about the middle of next week from Melbourne with a cargo of explosives. Both vet sels, together with the Miro, are to lighter explosives from the Maliia when she arrives from London ana are to discharge same at Southern ports. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations during the week-end:— Auckland: North Pacific, Port Hunter, Dorington Court, • Port Hardy, Mahe_no, Golden Rod, Canadian Transporter. Canadian Britisher, Canadian Explorer, City of Mobile, City of Roubaix, Lady L< Weliington: Maori, Wahine. Tama.hir«e, j Ngaio, " Araliura. Rangitiki, West Mariston. lonic, Marama, Ruapehu, Ulimaroa. Remuera, Port Hardy'. Awsrua: Karetu, Sir J. C. Ross, Ivosmos C A. Larsen, Southern Princess, Makura, Pau, Waitemata, Ivaponga, Tahiti. Manuka, Kalingo. PORT OF ONEHUNGA—ARRIVAL TODAY NGAPUHI (9 a.m.), 703 tons, Bark, from New Plymouth. ARAPAWA is due on Monday' morning from Wanganui, and is announced to sail for Hokianga at 3 o’clock that afternoon. HAUTURU, due tomorrow morning from Raglan, Kawhia and Waikato Heads, is to be dispatched on the return trip at 3 p.m. on Monday. HOKIANGA, arriving tomorrow from Hokianga, is sailing for the same port at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. KAITOA is arriving at Onehunga on Wednesday next to load for Nelson. NGAPUHI arrived from New Plymouth this morning, and is scheduled to leave on the return trip at 3.30 p.m. on Monday. 1