SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1919, Page 2

SHIPPING.

i»HBT. CP HEW IJfcWWMnjfc. ! ¥SAS3S&W^I*WBfiSi }Jpnn, 4f5; QmtfQ,s3s l^n,, I THB;TI»EBi mrti wator qk XiW-ESpnouflii asm. and, 9,3 ft B/14;; ttomerrpufc, ati aSBSJWSt aiid'lO.liiijjiui,, TBBT^DN-. ! Biei snni rise*. to-day. agt WSJt . EB^i • atj4p6;i).in.; ; to-morrow. rises :U:7:24>.'*.m.-.anu! »jsjsi'4)3l! p'aa. EXPECTS®. ABHiyAJiS., • ■ Eaiasß>i from Onehtmgaiv,, to-morrpafc. Alexander, from Taratohe ahont SsnupaJv. ? Kara, from Wellington, earlyI \Yhafca4&££» from JJorfc fihaimerai, Jitae> 1 AEEI.VEIX. | S, • jnm»j it as.,. gftfc tenaj, Krtfihtifir.fr ■ twMtatawga. || ABBIYED. I ■- - ! vH June, v*". ui&rtocs, Chadstlck,! 'ft liU: pjn., > fiGmr."WeiUwSton.. ! '£ ■ sailed. 1 ft l}£-=Ar&jvi.wa < Y stSi^atoMj.Eeiihtley,-. ■p Tgajaaugmo. j »i! wam>> \ &<.!.. Sydney,- Junerl2. —Cathldt,, frooi: Auckland. ] ] SAIUED: j 3&Mikaiz Heads, June 12.—Barawa,,5.50>pJn. f I for* lie w PJymoutlL | THE.POHEBUA- | ; The which had to shelter oiv the | run up from Wellington, reached New Plymouth at 1.10 p.m. yesterday. She has a cargo f ot about 570 ton* to discharge, after which she-la expected to s&ilt for, Qroymouth &t noon «to-day. i THB'ABAPAWA.

The Arapawa discharged her cargo of; cement' and sailed at SJ.O p.m. for Onehunga, being unable to, work. Opun&ke on account of. tbe weatheb THE BAItAWA. The Barawa is due as usual this morning, and will sail, for the north again to-night. THE ALEXANDER. The Alexander Is expected to-morrow from Tarakohe with a load of cement, though no advice of her movements has yet been received, THE NGAKOTA. The Ngakuta, which arrived at Lyttelton yesterday morning front Newcastle, brought 400 bags of Australian mails. THE KOONTA. EXPERIENCES IN THE ANTABCTIO. The steamer Koonya, which is reported to be a total wreck at Sandy Cape, Tasmania, had the distinction of being the first steal vessel to cross the Antarctic Circle. It was on Jahuary 1, 1908, that the Koonya left Lyttelton with Sir Ernest Shackleton's exploring ship, the Nlmrod, In tow. The Nimrod was a small wooden ship, heavily burdened with stores and equipment, and Sir Ernest Shackleton (then Lieutenant Shackleton) had realised that if he was to have coal for the return journey, he must get into the Antarctic regions with a minimum consumption. The Dnion Steamship Company offered to lend ttn Koonya and pay half the cost of a tow down to the pack-ice, and the New Zealand Government paid the other half. The Koonya, under the command of Captain E. P. Evans, was to turn back as soon as the pack ice was sighted, since a steel ship, unlike a wooden sh'p, could not risk an encounter with even a moderate sized block of floating ice. No more adventurous tow was ever undertaken. The two ships ran into bad weather within forty-eight hours, and at times made scarcely more than a mile an hour, the Nimrod laboring heavily at the end of the towllne and shipping many seas. "She wa3 flung to and fro," wrote Sir Ernest S'naclcls ton, "a tiny speck In this waste of waters, now poisefl on the summit of a huge sea, whence we got almost a bird's-eye view of the gallant Koonya smashing into the turmoil ahead; noT dipping into the wave valleys, from which all we could discern of our consort was In very truth 'lust a funnel and a mast lurching through the spray. . . .On the morning of January 5, I told Captain England to signal tbe Koonya and ask her to pour oil on the water hi the hope that It might help us. To a certain extent I think it did, but not enough to prevent the heaviest seas from breaking on board. The Nimrod rolled over fifty degrees from the perpendicular to each side; how much more thfn that I cannot say, for the indicator recording the roll oi the ship was only marked up to fifty degrees and the pointer had passed that mark." The Koonya continued the tow until the morning of January 15, in spite of a succession of storms. Tremendous seas were encountered, the Koonya as well as the Nimrtd being swept from stem to stern. One night the two ships were compelled to heave to and wait for the dawn before proceeding southward. The flrst lce-berg was sighted on the morning of Janaary 14, but Captain Evans carries on until the pack-line loomed on the horizon. Then he cast oft, well within the Antarctic Circle, after a tow of 1510 miles The Koonya was back in New Zealand waters within a week.

STEAMERS FBOM OVERSEAS PORTS. Austral Range, Lyttelton, due June 18, left New York May 13. Kigoma, due July, left London June 1. Maunganui, Port Chalmers, left London May 17. H.M.S. New Zealand, Wellington, June 15, from England. Opawa, Wellington, left London May 15. Otira, Lyttelton, due end June, left New York May 16. Port Augustus, Wellington, left New York May ID. Port Bowen, Wellington, left Glasgow May 20. Port Chalmers, Auckland, June 17, left New York June 17. Port Elliot, Wellington, leaves New York tb 3 month. Port Plrie, Auckland, June 17, left oLnilon May. Port Victor, Auckland, July, from New York. Prinzessln, Wellington, July 3, left London on May 16. Ruahine, Wellington, Jul; 3, left Plymouth May 19. Ruepehu, Auckland, July 16, left Plymouth on May 30. Shropshire, Napier, June 17, from Australia. Suffolk, Dunedin, June 29, from Australia. Walmana, Auckland, June 21, left London Ma; 10. Waitomo, Auckland, June 21, from Calcutta. Waiwera, Lyttelton, end of June, left New York on May IS. Walrima, Wellington, due August, from London and San Prantisco. Karamea, Auckland, August, leaves London June 2. STEAMERS FOR OVERSEA PORTS. Paparoa, Wellington, June 16, for London. Rimutoka, Wellington, June 21, for London. Arawa, Wellington, June, for London.