SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13095, 21 April 1908, Page 9

SHIPPING NOTES.

The Alexander norrived yesterday nwrarog from Crobcelles with a. load 1 of aheap. After discharging, the vtewl Prt cu-t on hex refcu-rn to Craixei'les for another load of sheep. The shipping , community tit, Newowt'e (says the •'■Commewiki! News") wiH have tho opportunity of seoinjj some o' the finest and largest four-masted barques and ships afloat, for ft big fleet of them have been taken up to load coal there. It Oow appears that thoso interested in shdppLog at Sydney will have the. *anie opportunity, for advices re- j ceived state thai six of vfoe batch arc to | ■visit there"in order to be ducked for cleaning aid painting before they proceed to the northern porta to take up tho charters. The vessels that ere duo to arrive are. as fol-'bws:—Four-masted baiquos I>UBslaf£niigo and Palgravc, 3129 and 3073 tone register, tihe Gerfaan ship Chili, 2054 tone, tlio Norwegian ship Oortez, 2155 tons, and the two'other four-masters, ComHebarck &nd Mashono, 2175) and 2300 tans regirter. The total/ tonnage ol this fleet amounts to 14,888. .- Presiding at the annual meeting of the Liverpool Salvage Association, Mr J. Sandman. the chairman, referred with some pride to * feet achieved during the year, which he said made a new record in salvage work. It was the cafe of the steamer Veronese, which, with a" ralu-ablo cargo on board, sank in. consequence of a hole in, hear bow. Instead of discharging part of ihc cargo, and patching tho vessel irom the inside, divers took the measure of the damage beldw water. A Steel patch was made on board the Banger, tho salvage steamer, and divers working- with pneumatic tools on a platform 28tt below water, drilled the necessary holes in. tho ship. The plate was liken sent down and fitted, and fixed by patent boHs, invented by the association's surveyor, and the ship was brought back to Liverpool, through the Bay of Biscay, in variable weather, without making Any water. Xhe North German Lloyd last year made some very considerable, additions to their fleet in tho shape of largo steamers of the most modern type intended partly for the paseeager end cargo traffic and partly for cargo tra-fho only; AccoTtttriS , to the "Syren" no fewer thai* ten steamers, , ag-greg-ating a gross tonnage of 65,000 tons, nnd 72,100 horsc-powex, we«e placed on the active list. Eleven steemers were launched in the same year totalling 69,300 gross tons, with, 41,500 hor?e-power, tijroe of which have not yet been delivered. There aw, moreover, two other steamers in coumo of construction, "no of 07,<)00 sroes tons, and the other of 17,000 tons. Including the boats now being built, the Norddeutscher Lloyd own at the present time a fleet of 93 longvoysug6 steamers, with %e> total - gross . tonnage of 636,602, and 513.050 horse-power. To these mutt be added 51 etcamers engaged in tho Tndo-China coasting trade, gross. tonnage 75,200, and 45,540 fcoree-power, besides -67 river steamers, 6500 gro&s tonnage, and 12,000 hoxse-po*er; two training ships, with 5800 gross tone; und they'have 200 lighter and. coaling crafts, with a. total of 48,700 gross tons. According to these figures, the •aggregate eros* tonnage of the entire Norddeirtsoner Woyd fleet amounts to no less than. 792,860.