SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 274, 11 April 1913, Page 2

SHIPPING.

roil OF NEW PLYMOUTH. FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1913. PHASES OTthE MOON. APRIL. D. H. M. S. New moon 7 5 25 14 a.m. First quarter 14 5 16 14 p.m. Full moon 21 9 9 19 a.m. Last quarter 28 5 46 14 p.m. THE TIDES. High water at New Plymouth to-day 11.40 a.m. To-morrow 0.3 a.m. and 0.27 p.m. THE SUN. Rises to-day 6.26, to-morrow 0.27. Sets to-day 5.34, to-morrow 5.35. ARRIVALS. Thursday.—Rarawa. s.s., 1072 tons, Xorbury, from Oneliunga. SAILED Thursday.—Regulus, s.s., 585 tons, for Westport. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa, from South, Thursday. Kittawa, from. West Coast, via Onehunga, Thursday. • ... from North, Saturday. Rarawa, from North, Tuesday. THE REGULUS. The Regulus completed the discharge of her cargo of coal yesterday and sailed in the afternoon for Westport. THE'RARAWA. The Rarawa brought SO tons of cargo from Oneliunga yesterday morning, in; eluding 18 tons of cement. Four horses and 2000 ft of timber were also landed. TIIE~eORIXXA, The Corinna, from southern ports, is due to arrive here this morning. She proceeds to Onehunga after discharging. THE KITTAWA. The Kittawa is, expected here this morning from Onehunga with a cargo of coal from Greymouth.

AX UN'SJXKABLft SHIP. • London, March 12. The White Star liner Olympic has been fitted with a steel shell inside the hull, and which extends nearly the full length of the; ship. By the adoption of this expedient the vessel has been rendered practically unsinkable, for if she were to collide with an iceberg or submerged rock and have her hull rippeld up she would not founder.

The alterations to the Olympic were, of course, the outcome of the Titanic catastrophe. Tlie investigation into that memorable disaster led to the wide-ly-accented conclusion that, although the construction of the ship was of the highest character and material as to workmanship, she was deficient in underwater protection. It was reeommended both by the Senate Committee which investigated ' the disaster, and by the Board of Enquiry under Lord Mersey, that certain structural changes should be made, chiefly below the water-line, \yhich would render ships of a design similar to tlie Titanic safe, if not against foundering under any conditions, at least against their foundering under a collision as" serious as that which sank the great ship. The most important recommendation was that future ships should carry an inner. skin, either in the form of plating on the inside of the main frames of the vessel, or in the form of longitudinal water-tight bulkheads, built several feet inboard, which would form the inner walls of the bunkers and extend throughout the boiler spaces. The owners Jost no time in following these suggestions on the sister ship Olympic. The principal change has teen the carrying of the plating of the double bottom up the sides of the ship. Below the lower deck the inner skin, as thus rivetted upon the frames, will be about 2ft flin distant from the outer skin of tlie ship. Formerly a rupture of tlie outer skin adimtted water entirely across the ship. In the future a rupture of this outer skin, unless- the penetration were very deep, would admit the water only to the cellular space between 'tlie two skins. It was cabled the other day that the improvement to the Olympic bad cost £250,(100.