The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 861, 3 January 1930, Page 2

The Log Book

PERSONAL.—Mr. J. Melville has joined the Kaitoke as chief engineer in place of Mr. P. Morrison, who has gone on holiday leave. Mr. T. F. Reiman, sixth engineer of the Cambridge, has resigned his position and has been succeeded by Mr. J. H. Round. RAN Gl TATA FOR SOUTH.—Efforts are being made by the local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company to dispatch the liner Rangitata next Thursday for Wellington to complete her discharge of London cargo. THE CANADIAN TRANSPORTER.— Homeward bound to Halifax, the Canadian Government steamer Canadian Transporter, which left Auckland on December 5, arrived at Panama on Wednesday, according to cabld advice. TOFUA AT SUVA.—Cable advice has been received by the local office of the Union Company that the Island passenger steamer Tofua arrived at Suva on Wednesday evening from Auckland, and leaves again this afternoon for Tonga and Samoa. POOLTA WITH HARDWOODS.—Advice has been received by the local office of the Union Company that the steamer Poclta is to clear Grafton today for Newcastle, where she completes loading for Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington, Dunedin and New Plymouth. GOLDEN CLOUD COMlNG.—According to cable advice received by Henderson and Macfarlane, the O. and O. Line’s steamer Golden Cloud left Los Angeles last Tuesday with cargo for discharge at Auckland, Wellington. Timaru and Dunedin. She is expected here about January 27. LARGO LAW FROM ANTWERP.— With a cargo of basic slag from Antwerp for discharge at New Zealand ports, the steamer Largo Law left Dakar, French West Africa, on Wednesday, en route for Auckland, according to cable advice. Shortly after the vessel left Antwerp she had to put into Falmouth for repairs to her steering gear. RUAHINE TO LOAD. —Leaving Tokomaru Bay tonight for Auckland, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Ruahine is due here tomorrow afternoon, and will berth at the Queen’s Wharf to continue her loading for Home. From this port the vessel proceeds to Napier, where she completes loading, and finally departs on January 15 for Southampton and London, via Panama. KAREPO LEAVES COLON—The Union company has been notified by cable that the new cargo steamer Karepo left Colon last Sunday for "Wellington, in continuation of her voyage from Birkenhead. The vessel is due at Wellington on January 2S. She is a sister ship to the Kaimiro. which arrived at Wellington recently from Home.

A CARGO OF BITUMEN.—The George H. Scales Company, agents for the Andrew Weir Company’s steamer, Frances Massey, advises that the vessel left Tampico, Mexico, on December 10 with a cargo of bitumen to discharge at Auckland, Gisborne, Wellington, Lyttelton, Wanganiu and New Plymouth. The vessel is due at Auckland about January 20. The Shell Oil Company is the consignee of the cargo of bitumen.

PORT SYDNEY TO LOAD.—Cabled news has been received by Heather Roberton, Limited, that the C. and d! Line’s Port Sydney left Brisbane on Wednesday for Opua, where she is due on Sunday to commence loading for Panama. The vessel' will subsequently load also at Auckland, Gisborne < aikokopu, Napier, and Wellington. The Port Sydney will sail finally from Napier on January 31 for London, via Panama Canal. HORORATA’S SUCCESS.—As a result of the success attained with the pulverised coal-burning installation in the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Hororata all her boilers are to be fitted instead of only half of them. *This was stated at a general meeting of the Howden Buell Combustion Company, Ltd. It was further reported that a leading steamsnip company, in recently issuing specifications for the building of two new cargo steamers, driven by engines of 7,000 h.p., had specified the Howden-Buell system and designs for using pulverised coal. It would be of interest to know the company which has shown this enterprise (says the “Shipping World”). It would not be surprising to learn that it was the British India Steam Navigation Company, Ltd., which has just placed an order for two new vesesls with Messrs. Alexander Stephen and Sons. Ltd., of Linthouse. The 8.1. was one of the first companies, it is interesting to recall, to adopt the steam turbine, in the Llama, Lhasa and Linga, and its sister company, the P. and 0., owns the only British turbo-electric liner, the Viceroy of India.

PORT DUNEDIN WITH JARRAH.The C. and D. Line advises that the Port Dunedin will leave Sydney today for Wellington and Picton in continuation of her voyage,* with a cargo of hardwood, from Bunbury. The vessel is due at Wellington on Tuesday. Her cargo is for the Government. CUMBERLAND REPORTS. Radio advice received by the local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company states that the Federal steamer Cumberland is expected to arrive in the stream at Auckland at midnight tomorrow from Liverpool. She will berth at the Queen’s Wharf on Sunday morning to unload the local portion of her cargo before proceeding to Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Bluff and Timaru to complete discharge. THE CANADIAN CONQU EROR.—An alteration in the itinerary of the Canadian Conqueror is announced by the Canadian National Steamships. The vessel arrived at Dunedin on Wednesday from Lyttelton. She next proceeds to Timaru and Wellington, arriving at Wellington next Wednesday to load for New York, Boston and Halifax. The Canadian Conqueror will leave Wellington next Thursday for Napier and Auckland, and is to sail finally from this port on January 13. THE EXHAUST TURBINE.—A new variation of the exhaust turbine auxiliary drive has been fitted in the Ellerman liner City of Hongkong. The exhaust-turbine takes steam through a by-pass valve and separator from the low pressure cylinder of the 80 r.p.m., 4,400 i.h.p. triple-expan-sion engine. The output of the generator has been designed to supply ample current to the 1,300 s.h.p., 83 r.p.m. dualcurrent motor, which is mounted on an after section of the propeller shaft. The control of the by-pass valve which deflects the exhaust steam either to the exhaust turbine or directly to the condenser is effected by a hand-operated lever on an oil relay system. Suitable contact reversing switches are also provided, which enable the auxiliary propelling motor to be reversed with the engine. The capacity of the condenser has been adapted to meet the new conditions, and a steam ejector has been added to increase the working vacuum, and a new circulating pump has been installed. In comparative consumption trials which extended over a period of nearly three hours, the machinery was run with the propelling motor in and out of commission. With both the engine and motor working, a total of approximately 4,900 equivalent i.h.p. was developed, at a propeller speed of 84.5 r.p.m. With the engine alone a power of 3,190 i.h.p. was recorded at 75.2 revolutions a minute. The corrected steam consumptions, after allowing for the increase in back pressure caused by placing a steam separator between the engine and the turbine, showed that with the electrical plant in operation the actual steam consumption was 9,0851 b an i.h.p., compared with 12.121 b for the i.h.p. reciprocating engine alone, thereby showing a decrease in steam consumption due to the exhaust turbo system of 23 per cent. The endurance trials, reversing trials, and tests in heavy' weather to demonstrate the steadying effect of the auxiliary propelling machinery on the propeller w'ere equally satisfactory. MAUNGANUI’S PASSENGERS.—Besides mails and cargo the Union Company’s intercolonial passenger steamer Maunganui, which leaves Auckland at •> o’clock this afternoon for Sydney, is taking the following passengers:— First Saloon: Misses G. Jensen, R. E. Piercy, B. I. Clench, J. Abel, M. Hall, R. V. Vialoux, E. Eastment, D. O. Henderson, C. P. Yates, M. M. Eccles, J. E. Turner, E. Bendall, R. J. Lowe, Mesdames K. C. Waugh, W. Harcourt-An-drews, J. H. Holt, B. L. Bagnall, A. A. Tatnall, G. H. Abel, P. Buelens, E. M. Easdown, L. Griffin, M. J. Vialoux, S. J. Chant, I. M. Sealy, J. B. Westacott, K. P. Clarke and boy, C. W. Northrap, Gearin, E. W. Ackland, I. V. Henderson, F. W. Walker, J. R. Mence, G. R. Brakell, Swan, E. K. Eccles, E. Maloney, E. T. Gifford, C. M. Welch, A. Schramm, F. H. Quayle, Simms, E. B. Groves, S. A. G. Turner and child, J. Lowe, Messrs. A. J. Marshall, K. C. Waugh, M. W. Kneebone. F. Speight, C. B. Hull, W. HarcourtAndrews, S. Morpeht, J. H. Holt, A. C. and J. Hillrick, C. Hirst, A. Petrie, A. Derrick, B. L. Bagnall, G. H. Abel, P. V. Buelens, T. H. Levien, C. H. Jull, L. W. Chant, Rev. T. V. Gilfillan, J. B. Westacott, K. P. Clarke. C. W. Northrap, Gearin, E. W. Ackland, W. E. Ward, W. T, Saunderson, F. W. Walker, J. R. Mence, Swan, G. R. Brakell, V. S. Notan, S. W. Haffenden, R. R. Hackett, Simms, K. R. Hackett, Simms, A. Shannon, A. Young, E. A. Jones, T. R. Turner. Second Saloon: Misses J. Adair, A. M. Barnes, E. Moore, P. Wilson, L M. Mills, Mesdames F. H. A. Sayers, E. Baird, A. F. Marks, W. F. Frank, A. White, E. Wilson, M. Palmer, M. J. Fraser, B. MacLean, B. McElroy, G. Wardlow, V. Marshall and child, H. C. Edwards and daughter, M. H. Garaway, M. C. Kav, Messrs. N. Grant, A. C. Stead, T. E. Welton, R. H. Taylor, C. N. Boult, R. Pollock, N. J. Willsmore, F. S. Gore-Jones, G. Y. Birch, T. Marshall, A. Greenhalgh, J. Pearson, W. E. Nehoision. E. Baird, J. Adair, F. C. Gore, J. W. Edwards. A. F. Marks, W. F. Frank, H. C. Edwards, B. Heath, F. E. Wilton. I. Peake, four Chinese and 48 third-class, including six Indians and six Chinese.

PIAKO’S HOMEWARD TRlP.—Carryy ing New Zealand produce for dischnrgl at New York. Halifax and London, th* New' Zealand Shipping Company* steamer Piako, which left Auckland on November 26, left Newport News o* Wednesday. THE CANADIAN CONSTRUCTOR.-* The Canadian Constructor, which according to the latest radio report, will arrive at Wellington tomorrow from Montreal direct, has 3,500 tons of general cargo to discharge at Wellington. She will pro* eeed from there to Australian ports. SULPHUR AND PHOSPHATES.-TJM British steamer Benliolm, 5,026 tons, has been chartered to load sulphur at Galveston, Texas, for New Zealand and Australian ports. The Barrdale, 5,072 tons, has been taken up on a time charter for twelve months in the Nauru- Ocean Islands phosphate trade. PILOT’S EARNINGS.—An abstract of returns relating to pilotage in the United Kingdom, issued as a House of Commons White Paper, shows that there are 195 pilots in the Fort of London whose gross average earnings were over £ 1,000 a year. The number and average gross earnings were: 76 Channel pilots, £1,342; 69 Cinque Ports pilots, £1,097; 48 North Channel pilots, £1,018; two home trada pilots, £1,021. Some of these figures include earnings in deep-sea waters outside the district. Eighteen outward se* pilots stationed at the Isle of Wight haa a gross return of £1,134. Much the highest total in Scotland is for the Clyda, where 52 pilots had gross average earn* ings of £832 each. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected td be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations tonight:— Auckland.—Maui Pomare. Tofua, Cumberland, Dionyssios Stathatos, Maunganui, Elax. Narbada. Chatham Islands.—Tainui. Wellington.—Maori, Wahine, Tamahir.e, Arahura, Ruahine, Norfolk, Mai noa, Canadian Constructor, Armadale, Fort Dunedin, Ulimaroa, Marama. Awarua.—Makura, Tahiti, Sir J. C. Ross, C. A. Larsen, Southern Princess, Kosmos, Karetu. # PORT OF ONEHUNGA—DEPARTURES YESTERDAY NGAPLTHI (6.35 p.m.), 703 tons. Bark* for New Plymouth. ARAPAWA is scheduled to leave One* hunga at 3 o’clock next Monday after* noon for Wanganui. HAUTURU, sailing this afternoon fo f Hokianga, returns to Onehunga. on Sunday, and leaves at 4 p.m. on Monday fof Raglan, Kawhia and Waikato Heads. HOKIANGA is now to leave Onehunga tomorrow morning for Hokianga. KAITOA is due at Onehunga next Monday from Nelson to load for Nelson and West Coast ports. NGAPUHI is due at Onehunga tomorrow at 7.30 a.m. from New Plymouth, and leaves again at 4 p.m. on Monday on lief return trip.