OLIVEBANK IN PORT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19485, 15 November 1926, Page 11

OLIVEBANK IN PORT.

LONG, UNEVENTFUL VOYAGE. DELAYED BY LIGHT WINDS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] DUNEDIN, Saturday, Eighty-six days out from Seychelles Islands,. the Finnish four-masted -barque Olivebaak berthed this morning at Port Chalmers to discharge about 2000 tons of phosphates. Her passage was a long one on account of light winds, but was otherwise uneventful. After taking in 4500 tons of phosphates by lighter at the island of Ascension, the Olivebank sailed on August 16 for Bluff for orders. For the first iew days the wind was fair, then it fell away and calms succeeded. A month later, in the vicinity of Mauritius, light westerly winds were picked up and the vessel gradually worked her way south to latitude 47. The run to New Zealand continued to be marked by light winds, the fastest sailing amounting only to five or six knots an hour. The vessel's stay in the tropics while loading had served to accumulate a heavy marine growth on the ship's bottom, and this materially retarded her progress The first land sighted was Solander Island. Rounding up she signalled Bluff and received orders. to proceed to Port Chalmers. "With the exception of a heavy squall after leaving Bluff the weather was fine on the coast. The tup Dunedin picked her up last night at 10 o'clock and brought her to anchor under the lee of Hayward Point.