SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14822, 13 November 1913, Page 11

SHIPPING NOTES.

En route from Montreal to New Zealand ports, the New Zealand Shipping Company's liner _'okom_ru left Sydney on Tuesday for Auckland. 'The barque Daniel, 299 tons, has been chartered to load hardwood at Cla-rence River for New Zealand. The Peninsula trader John Anderson is at present on the Lyttelton patent slip undergoing her annual overhaul. Before she resumes her running she will be fitted with a new boiler. ■ There aro still afloat at least a dozen sailing vessels which have weathered tho storms of a century. The record is, br father was, held by the Italian vessel Anita. She was built in Genoa in 1548, and made her last voyage in ' 1902, from Teneriflo to Naples. She was thus more than 350 years old. She has now been broken up. Steamehips seldom last more than forty years. Of thoso built between 1815 and 1815, there is not a single ore afloat. The life of the modern steel ship is much shorter than that of her wooden predecessor. As for warships, they are usually scrapped at the age of twenty, if not before. Only last year the sailing vessel Seal left Bidford for Durham, a voyage of €00 miles. The Seal waa built at Southampton in 1816, and in 1623 was driven from her moorings at Poole in a fearful gale and found in a turnip field.