The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 865, 8 January 1930, Page 2

The Log Book

PERSONAL. —The Ngatoro has been placed in commission at Wellington under command of Captain E. R. Lowe. His deck officers are:—Chief, Mr. F W Young; second, Mr. G. M. Schofield; third’, Mr. H. J. Petty. Captain R. Huntly, who has been in command of the Oonah, has resumed holiday leave at Sydney . Mr. M. R. Tregale* chief officer of the Kawatiri, has been granted holiday leave at Sydney. Mr. W. A. Dorn, second officer of the Oonah, is now on holiday leave at Sydney. Mr. D. H. Richards, junior third officer of the Aorangi, has been relieved from the vessel at Sydney this trip for holidays. H.M.S. DUNEDIN SAILING. —Advice has been received that H.M.S. Dunedin leaves Auckland at 5.30 o’clock this evening for Suva. CUMBERLAND FOR SOUTH. —In continuation of her voyage from Liverpool the Federal steamer Cumberland is to be dispatched from Auckland at 5 p.m. on Saturday for Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Bluff and Timaru. NIAGARA RETURNING. —The local office of the Union Company advises that the R.M.S. Niagara leaves Vancouver today, via Victoria, Honolulu and Suva, for Auckland and Sydney. She is due here on January 27 and at Sydney on February 1. CARGO FROM CALCUTTA. —En route from Calcutta and way ports, the Union Company’s chartered steamer Durenda is to leave Sydney on Friday for Auckland and Wellington to complete her discharge of Eastern merchandise. She is due here next Tuesday. GABRIELLA COM ING.— Advice has been received by the Northern Company that the Lamb steamer Gabriella left Port Stephens for Auckland yesterday morning. The vessel has a timber cargo for discharge at this port. She is due next Monday. RUAHINE SAILS TO MOR RO W.—Now loading at Queen’s Wharf, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Ruahine is to leave Auckland at noon tomorrow for Napier, where she completes loading, and finally departs on January 15 for Southampton- and London, via Panama. WAIRUNA TO DOCK —Leaving Wellington this afternoon for Napier and Auckland, the Union Company’s transpacific cargo steamer Wairuna is due here next Saturday, where she will dock for cleaning and painting before proceeding to Fiji to load sugar for Vancouver. RANGITATA SAILS FRlDAY. —Efforts are being made by the local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company to dispatch the motor-liner Rangitata from Auckland on Friday for Wellington, where she lands the remainder of her London cargo. • POOLTA LEAVES GRAFTON. —Cabled news lias been received by the Union Company that the Poolta left Grafton on Sunday for Newcastle to complete loading for Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington, Dunedin, New Plymouth and Greymouth. She is to clear Newcastle today and is due here next Tuesday. RANGITANE LEAVES PANAMA.— According to advice received by the local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company, the new motor-liner Rangitane, en route from London and Southampton to Wellington and Auckland, arrived at Colon last Saturday, and left Panama the following day. She is due at Wellington about January 26. KAWAKAWA RACES. —The Northern Company advises that arrangements have been made for the Clansman to leave Auckland at 4 p.m. on Friday, January 17, with passengers for the Kawakawa races. The next day the vessel will call at Russell, Opua, Whangaroa and Mangonui. On the return trip she will leave Mangcnui and Whangaroa the same afternoon, and Russell at 9.30 in the evening, reaching Auckland at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday, January 19.

PORT DUNEDIN AT WELLINGTON. —The Commonwealth and Dominion Line motor-ship Port Dunedin arrived at Wellington from Bunbury, via Sydney, yesterday afternoon. After discharge of her Australian hardwoods at Wellington and Picton the vessel is to load in New Zealand. her loading ports being Picton, Port Chalmers, Wellington and Auckland. She is scheduled to reach Auckland on January 30 and to sail for Halifax and London on February 4. The Farmers’ Cooperative Auctioneering Company will act as the local agent. _

SALTERSGATE’S ITI N ERARY.—Spedding, Limited, advises that the steamer Saltersgate is expected to complete unloading raw sugar at Chelsea tomorrow evening and to go into dock to have her hull cleaned and painted on Friday morning. After the work has been completed the vessel will be dispatched for Westport to replenish her bunkers before she proceeds to Nauru Island to load phosphates for Australia. CANADIAN CONQUEROR RETURNING.—The local office of the Canadian National Steamships has been advised that the steamer Canadian Conqueror left Dunedin yesterday, and clears Timaru today via Wellington and Napier for Auckland. She is due here on January 16, and is scheduled to sail finally from this port on January 17 for New York, Boston and Halifax, via Panama. NEW PACIFIC SERVICE. —Advice has beep received by Spedding. Limited, that the steamer Brookwood, which is to inaugurate the General Steamship Corporation’s new service between Pacific Coast ports and New Zealand, is scheduled to leave Los Angeles on February 28 with cargo from Pacific Coast ports for discharge at Auckland. Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. She is due at Auckland about March 22. She is to be followed to New Zealand by the Goodwood and the Kingswood, which are to load at Pacific Coast ports in March and April, respectively. PORT SYDNEY ARRIVES.—The C. and D. Line’s motor-ship Port Sydney arrived at Auckland last evening from Australia, via Opua, and berthed at the Central Wharf to continue her loading under the agency of Heather, Roberton, Ltd. On Saturday she is to be dispatched to Gisborne. Waikokopu, Napier and Wellington to continue loading. From Wellington she is to return to Napier to complete her cargo, and to be dispatched for London on January 31. Captain AY. G. Higgs is in command, and the following are.the officers:—Chief, Mr. H. W. Hazelwood; second, Air. E. W. Rogerson: third, Mr. A. T. Cooper; fourth, Mr. R. Bettess; chief, Mr. A. MacKenzie; second, Mr. F. E. Grainger; third, Mr. J. Thomson; fourth, Mr. F. Kearney; fifth. Mr. J. Proudfoot; sixth, Mr. H. Dolling; seventh, Mr. E. Jones; chief refrigerating engineer, Mr. F. Duffy; second. Mr. F. G. Farmer; wireless operator, Mr. W. M. Bridges; second, Mr. J. IL Haslam; chief steward, Mr. R. G. Thomas; surgeon, Dr. H. Mortensen.

NAVIGATION IN FOG.—A recent invention by the engineer of the Clyde Lighthouse Trust experiments with which have bqen successfully carried out at the Oumbrae lighthouse, in the Firth of Clyde, seems to provide a«va:luable means of minimising the dangers which attend the navigation of ships in fog, especially in a busy waterway. The principle upon which the invention is based makes use of the fact that wireless signals are transmitted almost instantly while sound signals travel at slower and a uniform late. The inventor makes use of a wireless telephone placed alongside the ordinary mechanically operated foghorn. When the horn sounds the wireless telephone begins to emit counting signals, one—two—three, etc., the time elapsing between two consecutive numbers being chosen to represent the time necessary for a sound signal to travel a mile. The wireless operator on a ship receiving the signals, listens for the wireless count to begin and then waits for the sound signal from the horn; as soon as this is heard he calculates from the last wireless figure counted before the arrival of the sound signal, and is thus able to determine with a considerable degree of accuracy the distance in miles between the ship and the lighthouse. It is claimed that the new device will be extremely useful to navigators, and will supersede the old method of judging the distance by ear alone. NEW N.Y.K. LINERS.—One of the most important motor-ships completed within recent months is the Asama Maru, the first of three large express motorliners building in Japan for the San Francisco-Honolulu-Japan service of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. All three ship? Asama Maru, Tatsuta Maru. and Chichibu Maru, are 19-knot vessels, the two first-mentioned being quadruple-screw Sulzer-engined craft, while the third is propelled by two Burmeister and Wain double-acting four-stroke-cycle engines. The principal particulars of the Asama Maru, which was built at Nagasaki, are as follow; Length, between perpendiculars, 560 ft. Beam, moulded, 72ft. Depth, moulded. 42ft. 6in. Deadweight capacity, 8,000 tons. Gross register, about 16,500 tons. Service speed, 19 knots. Total power, about 15,500 b.h.p. Passengers: First, 200; second, 10 r «; third, 500. The propelling machinery of the Asama Maru comprises four sets of eight-cylin-der, two-stroke cycle, single-acting, SuJzer oil engines, each of which is capable of developing 3,875 brake horse-power at 115 revolutions a mfnute. Current for driving the scavenging air-blowers, deck and engine room auxiliaries, etc., is provided by four 450 k.w and one 100 k.w. Diesel-driven electric generators. On her trials the Asama Maru attained a speed of 21 knots. — —

TOYOHIKO MARU DUE.—A. S. Paterson and Company advises that the Japanese steamer Toyohiko Maru is expected from Japan about the ejid of this week. The vessel lias a sulphur cargo for discharge at Auckland, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Wanganui. She is a British built steamer of 5.265 tons, and was constructed at Glasgow in ISD9. Her former name was Upada. * WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations tonight:— Auckland.—Maui Pomare, Tofua, Golden Harvest, Southern Cross, Unoct>. 'Canadian Highlander, Charlbury, Indien. Chatham Islands.—Tainui. Wellington.—Maori, Wahine, Tamahine, Aral’ura, Port Campbell, Turakina, Mataroa, Canadian Constructor, Tutanekai, Flax, Golden Cross, Port Darwin, Maimoa, Cambridge. Norfolk. Awarua.—Waiotapu, Kartigi, City of New York, Sir J. C. Ross, C. A. Larsen, Southern Princess, Canadian Conqueror, Kosraos, Bencruachan. PORT OF ONEHUNGA—ARRIVALS YESTERDAY HOKIANGA (9.30 p.m.), 271 tons, Kennedy, from Hokianga. DEPARTURES YESTERDAY KAITOA (1 p.m.), 319 tons, Martin, for Nelson. AR A P AAV A (4.15 p.m.), 251 tons, Pert, for Wanganui. ARRIVALS TODAY XGAPUHI (7.55 a.m.), 703 tons. Bark, from New Plymouth. ARAPAWA, which sailed yesterday for Wanganui, returns to Onehunga on Saturday and leaves again at 3 p.m. next Tuesday for Wanganui. HAUTURU returns to Onehunga tomorrow morning from Raglan, Kawhia and Waikato Heads, and leaves again at 3 p.m. the same day for Hokianga. HOKIANGA arrived at Onehunga last evening and sails again at 3 p.m. tomorrow on her return trip to Hokianga. KAITOA sailed from Onehunga yesterday afternoon for Nelson, Westport and Greymouth. NGAPUHI sails from Onehunga at 4 o’clock tomorrow afternoon on her return trip to New Plymouth.