SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1916, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NEW (PLYMOUTH,-. THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1916. ■PHASES OF THE MOON. ' JUNE, 1916. 16th—Full Moon, 9.18 a.m. 23rd—Last Quarter, 0.53 a.m. THE TIDES. High water to-day at 1.48 a.m. and 2.09 p.m.; to-morrow, 2.37 a.m. and 3.06 p.m.' THE SUN. The sun rises at 7.24 a.m. and sets at 4.38 p.m.; to-morrow, rises at 7,28 a.m and sets at 4.36 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS; Rarawa, from North, Friday Karu, from Wellington, at end of week. • ARRIVED, .rone 20.—Tainui, from Puponga, with 100 tons of coal. SAILED. June 20.—Tainui, for Wellington. TELEGRAPHIC. ARRIVED. Wellington, June . 21.—At 0.3S a.m., Manuka, from Sydney Onehunga, June 21.—At 0 a.m., Rarawa, from New Plymouth; passed Manukau Heads 7.20 a.m. SAILED. Melbourne, June 21.—Orari, for New Zealand. A FAMOUS WIND-JAMMER

The presence of the iron, sailing vessel Antiope (Captain Tellick) in port at Melbourne, discharging a cargo of timber, deserves more than passing notice (says the Sydney Shipping List), for this famous old vessel recalls memories of long ago days when the tramp steam kettle was unthought of and the white-winged clippers had the trade almost to themselves in the passenger and cargo business between England and Australia. This renowned clipper, built on the Clyde in the year 1866, formed a unit of the then well-known fleet of sailing vessels owned by Messrs J. Heap and Son, of Liverpool, others of the same line well known in Melbourne being the Theophane, Eurynorne, Cassiope and Parthenope. The Antiope, on her maiden trip to Melbourne from Liverpool, in the year 1866, under the command of Captain Withers (who was afterwards lost in the Cassiope, of the same fleet) came through the Heads C 8 days out, and Captain Withers reported on arrival that only for being hung up ten days on the Line the Antiope would have completed the passage in 38 days, a feat that would have lowered the celebrated Thermopylae's record of 60 days, never since beaten. It is rather unique that a ship sold to be relegated to obscurity as a coal hulk should be fitted out again for sea service, and the old clipper may yet prove that her speed under sail will, when given a fair wind, be equal to that when, as a new ship, she very nearly broke all records in the oversea trade.