The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 835, 2 December 1929, Page 2

The Log Book

PERSONAL. —Mr. YY. S. Hall has joined the Kurow as chief engineer, relieving Mr. J. Rankine for holidays. Mr. D. H. McDonald has joined the Kaimanawa as second engineer, relieving Mr. F. McMaster for holidays. TUT AN EKAI SAILS. —The Marine Department’s maintenance steamer Tutanekai sailed early this morning to make her periodical trip round the Northern lights. KAITOKE FROM GL ADSTON E.— The Union Company's collier Kaitoke, which is due at Auckland tomorrow evening from Gladstone, Queensland, with a cargo of coal for discharge at this port, pays off at Auckland this trip. SCOW RANG! ON SLIP.— The Leyland O’Brien Timber Company’s scow Rangi, which settled on a log in Freeman’s Bay on Thursday last when the tide receded, is now slipped, having repairs effected to the hole, which was stove in her bottom. NAVAL MOVEMENTS. —H.M.S. Dunedin sailed this morning for the Hauraki Gulf, t.o go through gunnery and torpedo exercises. H.M.S. VERONICA is scheduled to follow H.M.S. Dunedin .at 5.30 a.m. tomorrow. R.F.A. XUCI’LA goes to an anchorage in the stream on Wednesday morning.

MAKURA AT WELLINGTON.—En route from Sydney to Rarotonga, Papeete and San Francisco, the Union Company’s R.M.S. Makura arrived at Wellington at 4.45 a.m. today. At 3 p.m. tomorrow she continues her voyage. CARGO FROM CANADA. —Advice from the local office of the Canadian National Steamships states that the next steamer of that line to sail with cargo for New Zealand ports is scheduled to clear Halifax on December 24. NIAGARA IN PORT. —Shortly before 1 2 o’clock this afternoon the Union Company’s R.M.S. Niagara arrived in the stream at Auckland from Vancouver, via way ports., Later she berthed at the Prince’s Wharf to land passengers, mails ' and cargo. At 3JL p.m. tomorrow she leaves Auckland for Sydney. MAUNGANUI FROM SYDNEY.—Due at Auckland tomorrow morning from Sydney, the Union Company’s intercolonial passenger steamer Maunganui later berths at the Central Wharf to land her passengers, mails and cargo. The Maunganui is now scheduled to sail from Auckland at midnight on Friday, instead of 3 p.m., on her return trip to Sydney. THE CANADIAN HIGHLANDER.— Cabled news has been received by tin* Canadian National Steamships that the Canadian Highlander left Halifax on Tuesday with general cargo to discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton. Timaru and Dunedin. The vessel is due at Auckland on January 8. NORFOLK'S PROGRAMME. Nowloading at Port Chalmers, the Federal steamer Norfolk later fills up at Timaru. Auckland, Gisborne, Wellington and Napier. She is due here on December 9, and is scheduled to clear Napier finally on December 27 for London, via Panama. The New Zealand Shipping Company will act as the local agents. FROM ANTWERP.—The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company reports that the Mamilius is fixed to leave Antwerp on December 22 for New' Zealand with a cargo of basic slag. Her ports of discharge are not disclosed. She is due in the Dominion about January 29. RUAPEHU SAILING.—The New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Ruapehu will sail from Port Chalmers at 4 p.m. today for Santa Arenas, Monte Video and Teneriffe. She Arrived at Port Chalmers at 8.50 a.m. on Friday from Lyttelton to complete loading. The snip is taking a shipment of stud sheep to Punta Arenas. CANADIAN TRANSPORTER RETURNING. —The local office of the Canadian National Steamships advises that the Canadian Transporter is expected to leave Napier this afternoon for Auckland. Due here on Wednesday morning, she will complete her loading for New York, Boston and Halifax and will probably sail for those ports on Wednesday evening. RUAHINE DUE THURSDAY.—The New' Zealand Shipping Company has rereceived a fufther wireless message from the Ruahine, reporting that she will arrive at Wellington daylight on Thursday from London-and Southampton. The ship will land passengers and part cargo at 'Wellington, and is to proceed from there to Lyttelton, Port Chalmers and Timaru to complete discharge. HARDWOODS FROM BUNBURY.Advice has been received by L. D. Nathan and Company that the Aberdeen-Com-monwealth • earner Herminius, now loading Australian hardwoods at Bunbury for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin, is expected to arrive here about the middle of December. MOERAKI DOCKS.—The Union Company’s steamer Moeraki, which is being overhauled at Auckland, was docked this morning for cleaning and painting. She is scheduled to sail on Thursday for Sydney to enter the Sydney-Fiji service, leaving there on December 13. No cargo or passengers will be taken by the Moeraki on Thursday, as the Maunganui will be leaving Auckland for Sydney the following day:

PORT DARWIN REPORTS AGAIN.— A further radio message received by Heather Roberton, Limited, states that the C. and D. Line’s steamer Port Darwin is expected to arrive in the stream at Auckland at midnight from New York. Early tomorrow she will berth at the Queen’s Wharf to unload the local portion of her cargo before proceeding to Napier. Wellington. Lyttelton. Timaru and Dunedin to complete discharge. The vessel has also 12 passengers for New Zealand. WRECK OF GARTH POOL.—Disaster has befallen the f our-mastejJ barque. Garthpool, the last big square-rigged sailing ship under the British flag. After a long life of 38 years this fine ship has been -wrecked at the Cape Verde Islands. One of the last sailing ships specially built for the Indian jute trade, the Garthpool was launched at Dundee in December, 1891, as the Juteopolis, her first owners being C. Barrie and Son, of Dundee, who, when sailing ships were finally ousted from the jute trade, sold her to the Anglo-American Oil Company in 1900. Under the house flag of this company, the ship was employed chiefly in the case oil trade from New York to the Far East. Her longest passage was when she left Hoilo on April 30, 1903. with a cargo of sugar for New York. She was becalmed for two months off the Caroline Islands. After putting into Honolulu for stores and water, on September 10, she resumed her passage and finally arrived at New York on February 11, 1904, 287 days out from Hoilo. . Shortly before the war, she was purchased by a Liverpool firm for £6,500. and after surviving the perils of 1914-1918 she was acquired with a number of other sailing ships (now all gone) by Sir William Garthwarte, who renamed her the Garthpool. Since the war the old ship has been chiefly employed in the Australian grain trade, usually sailing outward bound in ballast, and homeward with a yearly cargo of 4,100 tons of wheat.

The Garthpool has for several years been under the command of Captain David Thomson, who in the “good old days” of sail commanded such wellknown ships as the Euphrosyne and the Hinemoa. The Garthpool was a_ fourmasted barque of 2.542 tons gross "register. 310 feet in length, 45 feet in breadth, and 27 feet in depth.

CORNWALL DUE TOMORROW.—A wireless message was received yesterday by the New Zealand Shipping Company from the Federal Line steamer Cornwall stating that she expects* to reach Auckland at three o’clock tomorrow afternoon from Liverpool. The vessel has cargo from west coast ports of Great Britain for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. (She will berth at Queen’s Wharf on Wednesday morning.

TOURIST LINER IN PORT. —The .Matson tourist liner Malolo arrived at Auckland from Sydney shortly before seven o'clock yesterday morning and after pratique- had been granted berthed a*. Queen’s Wharf. The vessel left Sydney early on Thursday morning, and, except for a heavy swell for the first 24 hour. the conditions were moderate. Throughout the cruise the Malolo experienced fine to moderate weather, apart from a storm which .was encountered between Sun Francisco and Yokohama. The Malolo will resume her voyage at eight o’clock tomorrow evening, when she will leave for Fiji, Apia, Pago Pago and Honolulu. Henderson and Macfarlane, Limited, are the local agents.

Captain C. A. Berndtson is in command of the Malolo, and associated with him are the following officers:—Executive officer, Captain G. B. Wait; first, Mr. T. K. Whitelaw; second, Mr. C. Porta; third, Mr. D. Bowman; «chief engineer, Mr. R. C. Dwyer; first assistant. Mr. L. B. Kennedy; second, Mr. T. J. Kinslow, Mr. H. H. Van He edr an and Mr. H. A. Kelsall: third, Mr. O. B. Landgraf, Mr. R. C. Poynor and Mr. J. H. Clark; electrical engineer, Mr. J. F. Hooper: purser,’ Mr. J. C. Fischbeck: assistant, Mr. J. M. Ford: paymaster, Mr. O. O. Britton; surgeon. Dr. L. L. Stanley; chief steward, Mr. E. O. Ficliendey: chief wireless operator, Mr. A. S. De Silva.

PORT CAMPBELL FROM LONDON.— When the Commonwealth and Dominion Line steamer Port Campbell arrived in ! the stream yesterday afternoon from London, she had completed a smart passage of only 36 days front the Home port. The vessel cleared London on October 26 and Colon on the evening of November 10, when she was leading the Port Darwin, which is due in port at midnight tonight from New York, bv IS hours. The Port Campbell enjoyed fine weather until about a week ago, when she encountered heavy seas. Despite the retarding effect of these conditions the vessel maintained an average speed of approximately 13& knots throughout the voyage. The Port Campbell berthed at Queen’s Wharf to land her 11 passengers, and to discharge the local portion of her cargo. Captain W. S. Mason is in command of the vessel, and he has with him the following officers:—Chief officer. Mr. G. T. O. Harris; second, Mr. J. C. Goddard: third, Mr. J. G.* Thom: fourth, Mr. N. J. Dedmari: chief engineer, Mr. J. Fife; second, Mr. D. J. Dick: tJiird. Mr. T. G. Ha iris; fourth, Mr. C. IT. Strain; fifth, Mr. G. T. Long; sixth. Mr. .T. R. Wise; refrigerator engineers, Mr. W. Purvis and Mr. F. Dote; wireless operators, Mr. J. Downie and Mr. N. J. Rimmer; surgeon. Dr. I. Davis; chief steward, Mr. G. Hardaker. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company hopes to dispatch the Port Campbell on Saturday next for Wellington to complete unloading. From Wellington she proceeds to Australian ports to load, WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations tonight:— Auckland—Tofua. Port Darwin, Plume, Ulimaroa, Waipahi. Lawbeath, Brunswick. Kawatiri, Ventura, Tutanekai Cornwall. Sithonia. Chatham Islands.—Maaroa, Callandia, Parracombe. Wellington.—Maori, Wahine, Tamahine, Ngaio, Arahura. Marama, Ruahine. Hauraki, Otokia, lonic, Ranrritiki. Aorangi, Manuka, Golden Coast, Cambridge, Kai- !

warm. Awarua. —C. A. Laren. Kosmos, Southern Princess, Sir J. C. Ross, Tahiti, Maimoa. PORT OF ONEHUNGA—ARRIVALS YESTERDAY HAUTURU (8.30 a.m.), 270 tons. Jack-son-Fowler. from Hokianga. ARAPAWA ("11.15 a.m.), 251 tons, Pert from Wanganui. ALEXANDER sails this evening for Nelson and West Coast ports of the South Island. ARAPAWA is to be dispatched for Wanganui at 3 o’clock this afternoon. HAUTURU is sailing for Raglan Kawhia and Waikato Heads at 4 o’clock this afternoon. HOKIANGA is expected this afternoon from Hokianga and is announced to sail on the return trip at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. KAITOA is expected Upward the end ot this week to load for Nelson and Motueka. XGAPUH I is scheduled to sail for New Plymouth at 4.30 o’clock this afternoon. one hour later than her usual sailing time. . .

EASTERN CARGO. —Tabled advice lias been received by the Union Company that the steamer Durenda will replace the Janus, and* is to leave Calcutta on December 8 for Auckland and Wellington, via Sydney'. She is due at Auckland about the middle of January. They have also been advised that the Narbada will clear Calcutta tomorrow for Penang, Singapore and Samarang, to complete loading for A.uckland, Wellington. Lyttelton. Timaru, Dunedin and Bluff. The Narbada is also expected to reach Auckland about the middle of January. REPORTED SHOAL NOT FOUND.— A Marine Department notice states:— “The depths of 11 and IS fathoms, reported to have been obtained at posisitions with Cape Foulwind lighthouse bearing S.Bodeg. E. (mag.), distant le miles, and E.iX (mag.), distant 16 miles have„been searched for by Captain J. W. Burgess, Government lighthouse steamer Tutanekai, who reports: ‘Examined closely the locality of the reported shoal, and was unable to obtain a lesser depth than 75 fathoms, maximum depth S 3 fathoms, the bottom being of a very even nature, and composed of mud. No discolouration of the water v,*As observed.’ ” Discoloured water was recently reported at the entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound, at a distance of 4.09 miles from the Brothers lighthouse. Captain J. W. Burgess, of-the Tutanekai, recently examined the locality, and found a least depth of 33 fathoms at mean low water spring tide.