The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 856, 27 December 1929, Page 2

The Log Book

CANADIAN CONQUEROR’S MOVEMENTS.—Advice from the local office of the Candian National Steamships states that the Canadian Conqueror, at present loading at Southern ports, is now not expected to arrive back at Auckland to complete and sail for New York, Boston and Halifax until January 10.

PASSENGERS FROM ENGLAND.— The following passengers for New Zealand are on board the Orient liner Ormonde, which left London for Australia on November 23:—Misses J., D. and B. Badden, Mr. R. L. Banks, Misses Jessie C. and J. C. Banks, Mr. E. D. Blundell, Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Hammond, Miss C. Hammond, Miss E. W. Lancaster. Mrs. Pemrose, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Wynne.

SALTERSGATE WITH SUGAR. —With a cargo of raw sugar from Peru for discharge at the Colonial Sugar Company’s works at Chelsea, the steamer Saltersgate is due at Auckland tomorrow afternoon, according to a further radio message received by Spedding, Ltd. The vessel, which was originally expected today, has been delayed by stormy weather* _

KALIN GO SAILS TONIGHT.—The Lamb steamer Kalingo is expected to complete discharge of a cargo of hardwood timber at Central Wharf today and is scheduled to sail this evening for Dargaville and Hokianga to load a timber cargo for Sydney. PORT HUNTER LEAVES COLON.— Cabled news has been received by the C. and D. Line that the Port Hunter left Colon on Sunday for London, en route from Wellington. The vessel sailed from Wellington on Uovember 29. ROTORUA LEAVES LIVERPOOL.— The Hew Zealand Shipping Company has been notified by cable that the liner Rotorua left Liverpool on December 21 for Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. The vessel is due at Auckland about January 26. REMUERA AT SOUTHAMPTON.—The New Zealand Shipping Company has been advised by cable that their liner Remuera arrived at Southampton last Saturday from Napier, en, route to London. The vessel sailed from Napier on November 13.

PIAKO LEAVES COLON.—According to a cable message received by the New Zealand Shipping Company, the Piako arrived at Panama Canal on Saturday from Auckland, and left Colon on the same day for New York, Halifax and London. Th vessel sailed from Auckland on November 27.

TAINUI LEAVES BALBOA.—A cable messag has been received by the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company advising that the liner Tainui left Balboa on Monday night for Wellington and Lyttelton, en route from London and Southampton. The vessel is due at Wellington on January 12.

RUAPEHU AT PUNTA ARENAS.— A cable messagb to the New Zealand Shipping Company reports that the Ruapehu arrived at Punta Arenas, Chili, on December 18 from Port Chalmers and sailed again on December 3 9 for Montevideo, London, Avonmouth, Liverpool and Glasgow. ’ The vessel left Port Chalmers cn December 3.

THE BENCRUACHAN.—The Geo. H. Scales Company’s chartered steamer Bencruachan arrived at Napier on Tuesday from Tolago Bay to continue loading. She will leave Napier tomorrow for Wellington, and is due there on Sunday. The vessel will bunker at Wellington, and is to clear there on Tuesday for Timaru, and Port Chalmers to fill up for Dunkirk, London and Hull.

ARMADALE DUE TOMORROW. — With general cargo for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin, the A. and A. Line’s chartered steamer Armadale is due at Auckland from New Zealand at four o’clock tomorrow afternoon, according to her wireless advice. The New Zealand Shipping Company will be the local agent, and the vessel will berth at the Queen’s Wharf. RANGITATA DUE SUNDAY On her maiden voyage, the New Zealand Shipping Company's new motor liner Rangitata is due at Auckland from London and Southampton on Sunday at 6 p.m., according to a further radio message received. The vessel has passengers and mails for New Zealand and a cargo of general merchandise from England for discharge at Auckland and Wellington. She is one of the three new 18,000-ton liners built for the company, the other two being the Rangitiki, which has already visited Auckland, and the Rangitane, which is on her maiden voyage, en route from London to Wellington and Auckland, and is due at Wellington on Januay 22.

PASSENGERS BY RIMUTAKA. —The following passengers for New Zealand are on board the New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner, Rimutaka, which left Southampton for Wellington on November 15 and arrived there at 5.40 a.m. today:—Mrs. E. Brettargh, Miss E. M. Brettargh, Mr. and Mrs. E. Chrisp, Dr. and Mrs. G. V. Doyle, Miss P. Doyle, Mrs. E. M. Enderby, Master F. C. Enderby, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Fenwick, Mrs. S. S. Izard, Miss F. J. Izard, Mr. and Mrs. St. Clair Jounneaux, Mrs. K. R. Mahoney, Mr. G. Mahoney, Master D. J. Mahoney, Miss K. F. Mahoney, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Newton, Misses G. J., S. M., N. A. and Messrs. L. and B. E. Newton, Mr. and Mrs. IT. Walker, Mesdames A. Beaven, E. C. Dreaver, C. H. Lees, M. A. Marfell, I. L. Sharpe, L. A. Harverson, G. E. Wilkinson, Misses A. Allan, E. M. Brodie, Doherty, D. M. Dudley, E. M. Duff, O. M. Finch, V. L. Gibbons, F. L. Horrell, E. E. Hox*rell, F. E. Hulley, M. U. Innes-Jones, G. M. Innes.Tones, R. E. PaxTis, K. Sobey, E. M. Tayler, Messrs. E. J. C. Abbey, A. R. Atkinson, S. Baring, ,T. B. Gauntlett, W. N. Laws, A. Leslie, T. R. Marshall, R. S. Parris. S. C. Rittson-Thomas, R. A. R. Russell, W. J. W. Wallis.

BRITANNIC’S ENGINES. Some interesting facts and figures about the two sets of ten-cylinder Diesel engines which will propel the 27,000-ton liner Britannic now completing at Harland and Wolff’s yards at Belfast, are supplied by the White Star Line, which will operate the ship in the Liverpool-New York service, starting next April. In one day the twin 10-cylinder, four-stroke cycle engines of the Britannic will consume 80 tons of fuel oil. and so turn each propeller 140,000 times, while each inlet, exhaust and fuel valve will function 70,000 times, and each piston cover a distance of 280 miles! To keep the engines from overheating, 13,000 tons of fresh water is circulated through the jackets and cylinder covers, while 3 6,000 tons of sea water pass through the lubricating oil cooler, fresh water cooler, and exhaust manifold, before being discharged overboard. The heat given out by the exhaust gases of the engines is passed through boilers and generates sufficient steam at 1001 b pressure for ship’s use. The essential difference between the Diesel engine and that of the ordinary motor-car lies in the fact that whereas the latter is supplied with a magneto for firing the explosive gases of petrol, the engines in the Britannic, by their own compression, create the necessary temperatui-e to ignite the vaporised crude oil. In the ordinary motor-car engines, the motive power is developed from the top side of each piston, whereas the double-acting pi'opelling motors in the Britannic utilise the underside as well as the topside for their motive power. Despite the size, each engine with its 185-ton crank shaft and correspondinglv large connecting rods, crossheads, and pistons, can be manoeuvred by compressed air with the greatest of ease, and can be reversed in nine seconds. All the auxiliary machinery—with the exception of the air compressor for feeding the cylinders with fuel oil, which is driven by a four-cylinder motor-engine—is electrically driven, the power for this and the ship’s use being provided by four sixcylinder motor generators.