SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 February 1916, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1916 •fHASES OF TIIE MOON FEBRUARY. 20.—Last quarter, 9.0 p.ia THE TIDES. High \, ater to-day at 5.47 a.m. and I sets at 0.45 p.m.; U-momnv, 7.20 and 17.33 a.m. ! THE SUN. The ■i'.uf vi.ies to-day at 5.33 a.m. and set.; at ili'i p.u.; to-morrow at 3/Mi a.m. and ti.24 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Raraw.i, from North, to-day. Karu, from Wellington Thursday, Rarawa, from North, Friday. SAILED. Oneluvnga, Feb. 2S.—-At 4.15 p.m., Rarawa, for New Plymouth. 1 TELEGRAPHIC ARRIVED. Arcklrrnd, Feb. 2K.—Arrived, at (i.25 a.m., Victoria, from Sydney and at C.40 a.m., Kumara, from Loudo% SAILED. ' Lyttelton, Feb. 28.—Sailed, nt 1.15 p.m., schooner Defiance, for Bellingliam, U.S.A. NOTES. The Union Company have received advice ihat the departure of the Corinna from Dunedin has been postponed until .to-day. It is reported that the famous steamer Anglo-Californian, which put up such a thrilling fight against a German submarine during the earlier, part of the war, has been sold to the Cunard line foi about £215,000. She was built at Sunderland in 1912, and is of 7333 tons grew.

The Vacuum Oil Company recently placed orders with the Harlan and Hollingsworth Corporation, of Wilmington, for the construction of an oil-tank steamer of 50,000 barrels capacity, to be built on- {Ji« Islierwood system, and a cargo steamer of 3500 tons capacity; and with the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, for an oil-tank steamer of 75,000 barrels capacity, to be constructed on the Islierwood system. • The Australian Steamship Co.'s steamer Peregrine, one of the bestknown inter-State traders, has changed owners, having been secured by an overseas firm at a price not stated. The Peregrine in her day was one of the "crack" vessels on the coast. She arrived in Australia first in ISill, and her steaaiing ami seagoing qualities gained for her a reputation that is even to-day well remembered. Some years ago, in order to meet the trade requirements, she was lengthened by about forty feet, the marvellous manner in which the werk was carried out—it being the first case, of ship surgery ever done in Australia—attracting great attention. Tlie Peregrine is a vessel of 1980 tons, and was built in 1801 by W. B. Thompson ■Hid Co.. Ltd., Dundee, for the General Steam Navigation Company of London, to be used in the Continental express trade between Harwich and Hamburg. However, before being placed in this trade she was purchased by' Messrs Howard Smith and Sons, and subsequently took up her running in the Australian passenger and cargo tnde as the commodore ship of the fleet at the time. Only one large passenger liner lias 'been, or is likely to be, turned out on the Clyde this year. This is the twin-screw-geared turbine steamer Aotea-roa, which is being fitted out in the Fairfield basin. She is a vessel of 15,000 tons, owned by the Union Company. All other vessels of this class have been delayed in construction owing to the war. There are at least iour of these high-class liners on hand—an Orient vessel at Clydebank, a Lloyd Sabaudo liner at Dalmuir, and the two Canadian Pacific liners, Melita and Minnedosa. which Messrs Pfarland and Wolff have sub-contracted at Whiteineh. Practically nothing is being done.oh these ships at present. Several good-class liners of smaller size have been turned out, says a correspondent of the London Shipping Gazette. There is the 10,000-ton geared turbine steamer which the Federal Steam Navigation Company had built at» Port Glasgow for mcat-carrving and nassenger trade. She Is still delayed at Glasgow. The P. and O. and the British India Company have had intermediate liners delivered to them —the Kashmir, built at Greenock, :ind the Mandala at Whiteineh. The Russian East Asiatic Company also got delivery some time ago of the Cznritza for their Libatr passenger trade. These, and the oil-engined vessels Botonian—which is now. ready, to leave for service—and the Montezuma are all rather notable ships.