The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 892, 8 February 1930, Page 2

The Log Book

CORNWALL SAILED.—The loading of the Federal Line steamer Cornwall at Queen’s Wharf was completed at midday yesterday and the vessel sailed in the afternoon for London, Avonmouth, Liverpool and Glasgow.

MARAMA COMING. —Cabled advice received by the local office of the Union Steam Ship Company states that the company’s inter-colonial passenger steamer Marama cleared Sydney for Auckland at 3 p.m. yesterday. The vessel is due here on Tuesday morning and is scheduled to sail on her retui'n trip to Sydney at 3 p.m. on Friday next.

FERNDALE LEAVES SAN FRANClSCO.—Henderson and Macfarlane, Limited, has received advice that the Norwegian motor-ship Ferndale, en route from Galveston and New Orleans, cleared San Francisco for Auckland and Australia on February 5. She is due at Auckland about March 1 and has a cargo of sulphur and general American merchandise.

MAMILIUS DUE TONlGHT.—According to her latest wireless advice, due in the stream from Antwerp at 10.30 o’clock tonight, the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s steamer Mamilius is to berth at King’s Wharf at 9 a.m. tomorrow and on Monday w ; il start unloading her basic slag cargo, which is all consigned to this port. L. D. Nathan and Co. is her local agent.

BRUNSWICK DUE WEDNESDAY.— A radio message received by the local office of the Atlantic Union Oil Company from the tanker Brunswick states that the vessel will now not arrive in port from San Pedro till Wednesday next. She has a cargo of bulk oil for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne and Sydney, the local portion of which she will put out at Western Wharf into the company’s tanks at Freeman’s Bay.

THE PORT PIRIE.—The Farmers’ Cooperative Auctioneering Company has received advice that the Commonwealth and Dominion Line steamer Port Pirie is to leave Wanganui at midnight on Monday for Opua and Auckland to continue loading for London. The vessel is due at Auckland next Saturday and she is to sail for Gisborne and Wellington three days later to complete her cargo. From Wellington she is to be dispatched for London on February 26.

COPTIC LOADING.—A. S. Paterson and Company, Limited, have reecived advice that the Shaw, Savill and Albion motor-ship Coptic is to leave Napier at five o’clock this evening and is due at Auckland on Monday morning. She has been allotted a berth at Queen’s Wharf. The vessel will continue loading refrigerated and general cargo at this port and then go to Wellington, Timaru and Lyttelton to complete loading. She is to be dispatched from Lyttelton for London, via Panama, on February 28.

NIAGARA DUE MONDAY MORNING. —En route from Sydney to Vancouver, via Auckland, Suva, Honolulu and Victoria, the Union Steam Ship Company’s liner Niagara is due in port on Monday morning. She will berth at Prince’s Wharf to land her passengers, mails and cargo and to embark passengers and take on further cargo and mails for her trip to Vancouver. The Niagara is announced to resume her voyage at 11 o’clock on Tuesday morning.

CUMBERLAND TO LOAD.—Now discharging at Port Chalmers, the Federal Line steamer Cumberland will next go to Bluff to complete unloading cargo from West Coast ports of Great Britain. Afterward the vessel will load for her homeward voyage to London, Avonmouth, Liverpool and Glasgow at Wanganui, New Plymouth, Auckland, Gisborne, Wellington and Napier. She is due at Auckland on March 3 and is to be dispatched from Napier for London on March 15. The New Zealand Shipping Company is the local agent.

PERSONAL. —Captain M. J. Anderson is in command of the Federal steamer Westmoreland, which arrived at Wellington on Thursday from Brisbane, and his officers are:—Chief, Mr. K. A. Phillips; second, Mr. A. T. Weatherall; third, Mr. K. Lloyd Jones; fourth, Mr. T. S. Shillito; wireless operator, Mr. C. F. Ball; surgeon, Dr. B. W. Alexander; chief steward, Mr. E. A. Chapman; chief engineer, Mr. A. Mieback; second, Mr. J. A. Sternhouse; third, Mr. W. P. Jones; fourth, Mr. Z. Bain; fifth, Mr. R. Menard; sixth, Mr. Wolfe; seventh, Mr. E. Richardson; chief refrigerating engineer, Mr. L. Butterworth.

TAMAROA’S NEW RECORD. —When the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Tamaroa arrived at Auckland at 8.45 o’clock on Wednesday night from London, and Southampton, via the Panama Canal, she had broken the record for the run between Balboa and Auckland, and came very near to breaking her own record for the whole passage from England. The Tamaroa’s time from Balboa to Auckland was 17 days 19 hours 27 minutes, her average speed 15.24 knots, and the average distance travelled a day 366 nautical miles. From Southampton to Auckland the elapsed time record is 31 days 16 hours 52 minutes, which is held by this smart liner.