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SHIPPING.

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. WEDpSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1915, PHASES Of THE MOON. OCTOBER. 31—Last quarter, 4.16 p.m. THE TIDES. High water to-day at 11.53 a.m. and 12.11 p.m.; to-morrow, 12.15 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. THE SUN. The sun rises to-day at 5.10 a.m. and cts at 6.44 p.m.; to-morrow, 5.14 a.m. and 0.40 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa, from North, Wednesday. Rarawa, from North, Friday. Corinna, from South, Saturday or Monday. TO SAIL FROM LIVERPOOL. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company advise that the following vessels are ! fixed to leave Liverpool:— Pakeha, on October 31, for Australia; due in New Zealand about December 31. Delphic, on November 15, for Australia ; due New Zealand about January 25. Zealandic, on November 30, for Australia; due New Zealand about January 31. Waimana, on December 17, for Australia; due in New Zealand about February bo. tileoraphic. ARRIVED. Auckland, Oct. 26—At 7.15 a.m., Physa, from Sydney. Westport, Oct. 26.—At 11.30 a.m., Kittawa, from New Plymouth. Lyttelton, Oct. 26—At 11 a.m., Eebburn, from New 'Plymouth. thFpetone. Messrs Webster and McKellar advise that the Petone left Westport yesterday with 679 tons of coal, and is expected to arrive here about 9 o'clock this morning. A CANDID APPRECIATION. In a remarkably candid appreciation of six months of German submarine warfare which appears in the Berliner Tageblatt from the pen of Captain Persius, the following significant statement is ,made: —"Only a child would accuse the British of being bad mariners. They know how to defend themselves, so they have devised many kinds of protective measures. It becomes more and more difficult for U boats to get near hostile ships to launch a torpedo. Almost fabulous skill \s required to avoid all the pitfalls, etc., and get away from torpedo destroyers, and nevertheless make a successful attack." Admiral Von Tirpitz is Jnding out that not a few of his muchvaunted U boats have, for some reason or other, failed to return home.

PLANS TO RAJSE THE LTJSITAOTA. Engineers in England are seriously discussing the possibility that the Lusitania may bi raised from the ocean bed (says the Washington Times). She lies at a depth of 300 to 400 feet, on a bottom that is supposed to be hard enough to have prevented her becoming packed in mud and grown into the sea's floor. This is in many cases the greatest difficulty about raising a ship. The Lusitania and her cargo are estimated to weight about 40,000 tons, which is a greater weight than has ever been dragged up from the sea's bottom. Moreover, the depth at which she lies is perhaps 100 feet greater than any at which divers have ever successfully operated. But it is suggested that greater power and bigger appliances might cope with the greater weight; while there have bean recent improvemente in diving parapher ; nalia which might make the work possible, despite the great depth. Especially is it claimed that a spherical diving machine has been perfected, in which men could go to much greater depths and still work, using artificial light to guide them. Most plausible of the plans proposed is that which looks to attaching cables to the ship and lifting her a few feet and then towing her inshore to shallower water until she would again rest on the bottom; then lifting her again and taking another towing step upwards; and so on until she should be brought to such a depth of water that ordinary diving apparatus would serve the salvers. , The problem k considered to be, at one of whether the cost would be greater than the value of tin? salvage. A CURIOUS INCIDENT. A remarkable fate has overtaken an American Army transport ship, the M : Clellan. A terrific hurricane! in the (jiilf of Mexico drove her ashore anil the floods were so great that she floated over what .was dry land. But the floods subsided and left her stranded high and comparatively dry about half a mile inland. Von Tirpitz still believes in keeping German warships out of the danger zone; now here's a precedent for him.

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Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1915, Page 2

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SHIPPING. Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1915, Page 2

SHIPPING. Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1915, Page 2

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