SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 January 1918, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF NEW PLYMOUTH, FIRI'DAY, JANUARY 18, 1913. PHASES OFTHE MOON. JANUARY. 20th—First quarter, '2.14 a.m. 27th—Full moon, 2.51 p.m. THE TIDES. High water at New Plymouth to-day ftt 12.41 a.m. and 1.12 p.m.;«jto-morrow, at 1.31 a.m. and 1.51 p.m. THE SUtf. The sun rises to-day at 4.50 a.m. and sets at 7.10 p.m.; to-morrow, rises at 1.61 a.m. and sets at 7.9 p.m. EXPEOTHTAMUVALS. Rarawa, from Onehunga, to-day. Huia, from Wellington and Wanganui to-day. •• Baden Powell, from Wellington, to-day. Rarawa, from Onehunga, Tuesday. ARRIVED. ' Jan. 17.—Corinna, ss,, 1271 1 tons, Elders, at 12.45 p.m., from Nelson. .SAILED Jan. 17.—Corinna, s.s., 1271 tons, Elders, at midnight, for Wellington. TELEGRAPHIC. SAILED. Onehunga, Jan. 17.—At 3.30 p.m., RaNew Plymouth, passing Manukau neads at 6.10 p.m.

THE CORINNA. The Corinna arrived from Bouthern ports on her usual run, at 12.45 p.m. yesterday. After discharging about 600 tons of general cargo she sailed again about midnight for Wellington.' HUIA AND BADEN POWELL. The Huia and Baden Powell are expected to arrive from Wellington today, the former via Wanganui, Both vessels sail on Saturday for Wellington, the Baden Powell calling at Waitara. The construction of standardised ships cf steel at the rate of more than one a day is advocated by « writer in the Iron Age, a leading Ameri.'.in technical publication. The plan, as described, is to build the shfp's hull in sections, each easting as large as conditions will allow, artyi weld the castings together electrically by an arc method. One casting might constitute the bottom of the vessel for a section of Bft in the dimension lengthwise of the- ship, another pasting would form practically one side of the hull for that section, and a third the corresponding side opposite; a fourth casting would form part of the deck framework of the stiffening between the upper part of the sides. By observing in the welding that the steel is not allowed to get beyond the plastic stage in the heating, and that manganese is supplied through the soldering rods, it is claimed that the resultant welded joint has 125 per cent of the strength of th? casting itself. This ship-building project, it is declared, could produce 0,000,000 tons of shipping per year.