The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 971, 14 May 1930, Page 2

The Log Book

WAIKAWA SAILED.—The transpacific steamer Waikawa sailed for Wellington, Melbourne* and Sydney yesterday afternoon to complete unloading cargo fiom Pacific Coast ports. THE MAUNGANUI.—The Union Company s intercolonial passenger steamer Man nganui reached Sydney from Wellington at six o'clock yesterday morning. The vessel is to sail on Friday and she is due at Auckland on Tuesday morning. THE ULI M A ROA. The HuddartParker Company’s intercolonial passenger steamer Ulimaroa is to be dispatched at 31 a.m. on Friday for Sydnev with passengers, mail?, and cargo. She is due at Sydney on Tuesday morning. THE RUAHINE.—The New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Ruahine is expected to arrive from Southern ports to compete her cargo for London late on Wednesday next. She is to sail from here at daybreak on May 27 for Southampton and London .via the Panama NARBADA SAILS TOMOR ROW.—The Union Company advises that its chartered Indian trader Narbada, at present at Queen’s Wharf discharging the local part of her Easetrn cargo from Calcutta and way ports, is to sail tomorrow afternoon for Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin to complete unloading.

HERTFORD SAILS DAYBREAK.— The New Zealand Shipping Com pan v advises that the Federal steamer Hertford, now at Central Wharf completing her cargo for London. Hamburg, Avonmouth, Liverpool and Glasgow, is to be dispatched at daybreak tomorrow for ports, via the Panama Canal. THE HORORATA.—After unloading general cargo for Fiji the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Hororata lelt Suva for Lyttelton, Port Chalmers Bluff and New Plymouth yesterdav morning, in continuation of her voyage from London. She is due at Lyttelton about Sunday. MAKURA AT SYDNEY.—An arrival at Sj’dney yesterday morning was the Union Company’s liner Makura from Auckland. The vessel has been withdrawn from the intercolonial run, and is to resume in the Pacific mail service. She is scheduled to leave Sy’dney tomorrow. and Wellington on Tuesday. for Rarotanga, Papeete and San Francisco. KARAMEA CLEARS LIVERPOOL.Cabled advice has been received by L. D. Nathan, .Ltd., that the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's motor-ship Karamea cleared Liverpool on May 12 with a cargo of general merchandise from West Coast United Kingdom ports for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. She should arrive at this port on June 14. PORT HUON REPORTS.—Wireless adv*ce received from the Commonwealth and Dominion Line motor-ship Port Huon states that she will reach Auckland from Liverpool at six o’clock on Friday evening, two days earlier than was expected. The vessel has general merchandise from West Coast ports of Great Britain for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. The Farmers’ Cooperative Auctioneering Company is the Local agent. RANGITATA AT WELLINGTON.-An arrival at Wellington at 10 o’clock this morning was the New Zealand Shipping Company s motor-liner Rangitata from London and Southampton. The vessel brought passengers and mails for New Zealand and general cargo from London lor unloading at Wellington, Auckland She should reach this port m about a week’s time to discharge the local consignment of her cargo. THE CANADIAN CONQUEROR.— The Canadian National steamer Canadian Conqueror is to leave Wellington for Lyttelton and Dunedin today to complete discharging cargo from Halifax and to load for her homeward voyage. The vessel is scheduled to return to Wellington on May 23 and Auckland on May 26 to complete loading. From this port she will be dispatched for New York, Boston and Montreal. THE CAMBRIDGE.—The docking of the Federal steamer Cambridge for repairs to her damaged propeller is proving a difficult matter on account of the vessel s width at her bilge. The time of her docking is at present quite indefinite, depending on what arrangements can be made to accommodate her bilgewidth. Jn the meantime she is remaining at Queen’s Wharf. It is hoped to be able to dock the vessel tomorrow. MATAROA SAILS TOMORROW. L*. D. Nathan, Ltd., advises that the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s liner Mataroa, now at Prince’s Wharf loading cargo tor London, is to sail p.m. tomorrow for Napier, Lyttelton, and Wellington to complete her cargo. The vesesl is scheduled to sail finally from the capital at daybreak on May 31 for Southampton and London, via the Panama Canal. Besides cargo, the Mataroa will take passengers and mails. NORFOLK TO LOAD.—The Federal Company advises that the Norfolk is due at New Plymouth on May 26 from Townsville to commence her homeward loading. She will subsequently load at Opua Auckland, Tokomaru Bay, Napier, Wanganui and Wellington. The vessel is due there on June 19, and is scheduled to clear that port on June 21 for London, Avonmouth, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow, via the Panama Canal. TARANAKI TO LOAD.—The Shaw. Savill Company has received a wireless message from the motor-ship Taranaki, reporting that she expects to arrive at New Plymouth at daybreak tomorrow' Irom Townsville, to commence her Homeward loading. She will subsequently load at Auckland, Napier and Wellington The vessel is due there on May 27, and is scheduled to clear that port on May 31 for Southampton and London, via the Panama Canal. MELBOURNE.NEW ZEALAND SERVICE.—The Union Company advises that its intercolonial steamer Maheno is to Melbourne at 10 a.m. tomorrow for Bluff and Dunedin only. On arrival at the latter port she withdraws for annual overhaul and survey. The Maheno is to resume in the service on Saturday, June 14, when she will leave Dunedin for Bluff and Melbourne according to schedule. Cargo on the vessel from Melbourne for Lyttelton will be transhipped at Dunedin. Passengers from Melbourne for ports north of Dunedin will proceed to their destination from Dunedin by train ferry. Cargo from Melbourne for W ellington will be forwarded by the Kaituna. Henceforth the vessel’s departure from Bluff for Melbourne will not occur until after the arrival of the train from Invercargill, with which the 8.35 a.m. Christ-church-Invercargill express will connect on Mondays. “PROTECTION" IN CANADA. —lt would appear from ‘a petition which is to he presented to the Canadian Federal Parliament by the Chamber of Commerce of the District of Levis, that efforts are *£•7? I ?3 de *° P rf »tect the shipping and shipbuilding industries of Canada. Shipbuilding there is in a far from nrosperour condition, and. in order to help the industry, it is proposed that the Canadian Customs Act should be amended so that there may be re-imposed the dutv formerly provided against foreign-built and registered ships seeking registry in Canada for any purpose—the duty suggested being 50 per cent.—also that repairs done and equipment purchased at a foreign port except to enable a ship to complete her voyage should bear a duty of aO per cent. It is further r-on-that the Canadian coastwise laws should be amended to read that "no goods or passengers shall be carried fiv water for the whole or any part of the transfrom one port in Canada to another except in British ships built and registered in Canada,’!

BRITAIN AND TARIFFS

“WORLD’S DOORMAT’ When other nations have lounged roughshod over us in th© matter of tariffs, territorial water reserves, and so on, they have taken it for granted that we like being treated as the world's doormat, writes the “Look-out Man" in “Fairplay." And we for our part know, of course, that It has not been lack of courage, but sincere faith in our own economic righteousness—coupled with the moral certainty that the devil would some day get his own—that has inspired us. Be that as it may, any change in our attitude will be a grievous shock to those who have learned to count on our placid acquiescence; and their irritation will grow in direct ratio to their surprise. I do not for one moment suggest that, if we could convince ourselves that it would be better for us to follow the example of others and to keep our altruism in our own larder, we should allow ourselves to be moved by what they may threaten. I would just as soon argue that because what others are doing is pressing us so sorely, we should permit our natural resentment to over-ride our better judgment. But before we can become a self-sup-porting Imperial unit, economically independent of the rest of the world and strong enough physically to protect ourselves, we shall have to do a lot of things which may unhappily tend to weaken the love which others have for us.

CORROSION IN TANKERS

SERIOUS POSITION EXISTS No subject is at the present time causing greater concern to those responsible for the upkeep of ships than the alarming rate at which corrosion is going on in vessels engaged in the carriage of oil in bulk, states “Fairplay,” the English shipping journal. More particular is this so in the case of those tankers which are allocated to the light oil trades, such as gasolene. To take a few examples to illustrate the magnitude of the subject:—A large and comparatively new tanker had undergone a thorough survey, all wasted parts being renewed, and yet, on changing hands some 18 months afterwafrds, it was found that the expansion trunks, summer tanks, and upper deck were a mass of rust, the structure being actually holed in a large number of places. Another instance was of a ship 10 years old, when it was found that the rivet heads could be knocked off with a sharp blow from a hammer, half the thickness of the material in the expansion trunks was eaten away, and the hatchway croamings were wasted to l-Bin. in thickness. In another case the bottom of a ship, in way of the oil tanks, was found to be in such a state, due to corrosion, as to cause serious leakage and damage to the cargo, and yet, only a few months previously, these very plates had been entirely renewed, on account of an accident. There is also a very interesting and instructive instance, in which a prominent firm of owners has decided to take the bull by the horns, and. instead of patching and tinkering at a badly corroded hull, is . building an entirely new section, comprising the whole of the oil tanks, which will be launched and joined on to the original forward and after ends, the latter being still in a comparatively good condition. Superintendents, and others. whose most unenviable duty it is to deal with this ugly problem, have to do so mostly in the light of their own unaided experience, with such help as they can derive from a few scattered papers and articles. What is really wanted is a clearing house for information on this subject. Is it too much to hope for that all our information on the momentous subject might be pooled and made available for common use? The problem would be solved much more quickly and thoroughly if this could be accomplished.

ELECTRIC STEERING GEAR

PROVISION FOR EMERGENCY When the subject of electric steering gear is under discussion the question is often asked: "What would happen if the electric current failed?" says a writer in “Fairplay.” This difficulty has been overcome in some vessels by the cost I v method of providing a storage battery which automatically comes into action when the electric generators fail. It can easily be se*n. however, that this is both a complicated and costlv method of arriving at rh‘- result, and Messrs. Ilastie. of Greenock, have introduced an emergency gear which is both efficient and eoonomicai. fo. this

gear two HeJe-Shau* pumps ar« provided —one driven by an electric motor and the other by a compressed air or steam engine. Under normal circumstances, the electrically driven pump steers the vessel, and the supply of air or Fteam i* cut off by means of a valve operated by an electrical solenoid. When for any reasoa the electric current fails, the ao.enoMi also fails, and the inlet valve of the engine opens. The pear in this way connects itself automatically, and th< engine takes up The st«*ering of the vessel without the intervention of anyone on the bridge or in the engine-ropm. Several sets of this gear are now at sea, and have been tested under all conditions with v/rj- encouraging reeult?. Messrs. IfastJe have at present on -rdcr more than a cozen sets for important vessels building in this country and abroad. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE—r The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations tonight:— Auckland.—Camoridge, City of ,/sak*. Hauraki, Hertford, Hororata, June, Lady Lewis, Maui Pomare. Moenki, Poolta, Port Huon, Taranaki. 'Waipahu Chatham Islands.—Mahia. Mahan a, Coptic. Wellington.—Maori, Wahine, Tamahine, Arahura, Aorangi. Niagara, Kaugitiki, British Stax, Maimoa, Kia. Ora, lonic, Tasmania. Wakakura, Tort Hardy, Tairoa, Waikawa. Port Sydney, Kalingo, City of Christiania, Canadian Conqueror. Awarua.—City of Winnipeg, Karetu, Kiwitea. PORT OF ONEHUNGA—ARAPAWA sails at 3 o'clock this afternoon for Wanganui. HAUTI’RU was to sail at 2 pjn. today for New Plymouth, and is due back st 7 a.m. on Friday. HOKIANGA is scheduled to leavs for Hokianga at 3 p.m. -tomorrow. ROXAKI is expected back at C o'clock tomorrow morning from Raglan, Kawhr., and Waikato Heads. She sails again st 3 p.m. the same day for Hokianga.