TRAMP SHIPS NOW HISTORY

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33241, 2 June 1973, Page 19

TRAMP SHIPS NOW HISTORY

SHIPPING NEWS

"Where have tramp ships gone?" asks "W.W.," of Wei- ; lington. Jus! as the swai man has been pushed off the highways by economic progress and fast motor vehicles, so has ♦he ocean tramp been ousted by modern, streamlined, maritime business practice, ; devoid of sentiment or romance. | Nobodv on the Lyttelton waterfront lias seen a genuine Merchant Service tramp for years. Today, large combines, companies. and “Hag of convenience’' lines—British and foreign —have created effective, and more flexible ocean-trading patterns. At Lyttelton yesterday, a master mariner who served his ! apprenticeship in a British tramp (before World War 11. recalled ithat the master was then really (master He appointed his own 'agents abroad. When there was i no trade, officers and crew were paid off in Britain. But he saw the world. Such men look back nostalgically. They learned a ; sense of values. The British tramp (there were many foreign ones, tool was the backbone ol the Mercantile Marine, notably lin wartime. In sucli vessels, master and senior officers sometimes carried 'wives, but economic fear of unemployment hovered over them always, food, accommodation, leave and pay were meagre. With today’s fine conditions, the pendulum has swung so sharply that it has almost "stopped the

I clock.” Romance is extinct—if (it ever existed Modern “tramping” is fast (20 knots compared with eight knots*, governed not by the shipmaster. who has more to think about, but by accountancy. LytI telton at present provides two excellent examples. They are the Greek vessel Asteri loading ;carcase mutton for Peru, and the I newly-arrived Russian vessel I Klara Zetkin, discharging [Ecuadorian bananas. To call such I fast, immaculate, refrigerated motor-vessels “tramps” would be insulting But such vessels, which can be dispatched Immediately anywhere by radio, substitute for the tramps of yesterday. Bulk carriers. tankers, and conventional vessels also play a similar role. Against today’s combines, small .owners would hardly survive. | Even if they did. some big shipping combine would soon nave a I finger in the nautical pie. Built in Poland in 1971. the 5353-ton Klara Zetkin, a sister to the familiar callers Polina Osipenko and Larisa Reisner, averages 18 knots Commanded b.v Captain Viktor Doroshenko, of Leningrad, she has a complement of 39. including three females (a cook, stewardess, and a doctor*. All Russian merchant vessels making voyages of more than 15 days must carry a doctor. Owned by the Latvian Shipping Company, she is on her first visit (She bought 83,772 cartons of (Ecuadorian bananas for .New Zealand; 57.450 cartons were dis'charged al Aiicklaml

She will load apples at Seism (31,000 cartons), and Pictor 157.000 cartons) She will dis charge at Hamburg, and possibl' in Britain g: $ tit

The 5299-ton Island trader Tofua will have steamed about 9.992.340 miles when she berths at Auckland on Monday at the end of her final voyage, reports the Press Association The Union Steam Ship Company has decided to replace the 22 year-old passenger-cargo ship on (he

. Island run with a smaller con plainer ship, the Union South I; Pacific. g: gi $ ARRIVALS Klara Zetkin 16.1 l ami. 5351. ' Capt. Viktor Doroshenko Auck I land (U.S.S.i. Holmlea <7.13 am.). 1053. (apt ] D. Henlgan. Wellington lU S.S i. DEPARTURES •i Clymene <2.40 p.mj, 11.960, ■[(apt. N. A. C. Smith. Timaiu i (Shell*. (Tanker * i Holmlea 14 10 p in.l. 1053 ( apt i D. Henlgan, Wellington iU.S.S.i i HauraKi (7.14 pm.l, 1 1.272, i'lCapt. 11. N. Firtii. Timaru iP and do (N.Z. I. Ltd* Cumberland (6.19 p.n* *. 11.231. I Capt. It. C. Lister, Port Chalmeis K(P and O (N.Z *, Ltd* EXPECTED ARRIVALS 1 Kaiepo, yVellington. today I Hamilton. Marsden Point, today. dßangatiia. Wellington, today ; Holmlea. Wellington, June 3 Rangatira. Wellington. June 1 ! Wanaka, Auckland. June 4 Rangatira. Wellington, June s . Dainanoh Maru. Townsville, June 6. Bel Blue, Vancouver. June 6 ; Hinakura. Wellington. June 7 Kaiepo, Dunedin. June 7 Sea Griffin. Wellington. June 7 ] Ito Ham Maru, Auckland, June 3 (I Maheno. Wellington June 8 ; Moanui, Auckland. June 8 ( Thuro Maersk, Auckland. June 9, !.Holmdale Norfolk. June 10 ■ Storm, Napier, June 10 Tllyric. Wellington, June 10 (Dawn Grandeur Wellington, June 10, Ecuadorian Reefer, Auckland, June 11 Hawea, Wellington. June 11 Belita, Ocean island June 12 Wyvern, United States. June 12 Hobart Star. Wellington. June 13. Shansi, Nelson. June 15. Straat Chatham Wellington, June 15. Mexico Maru Wellington, June : 16, , Woolgar, Lae, June 16 Maru. New Plymouth, June J 8 Kahuna. Wellington June 2<» j Huntingdon. Wellington June 20 Shansi. Wellington. June 20 Vishva Ciietna. Wellington. June 20. ’ Union New Zealand, Adelaide, .June 21 , Abel Tasman, Ghborne, June 21. Tarawera. Auckland. June 21 , Jelunga Wellington. June 22 ‘ Sharnnes Chriatmas Island. June 22 Teesta. Wellington. June 22 Marabank Wellington, June 23 Kashima Maru. Nauru. June 24. Shinsho. Auckland. June 24 Atrevida. New Ph mouth June 25 Wenchow. Wellington, June Japan Rimu. Neu Ph mouth, June 28. Howa Maru. Wellington. June 29. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Montreal Star. Napier, toda' Rangatira. Wellington today (daylight). Hamilton. Dunedin. June 3 Rangatira. Wellington. June 3. Holmlea, Wellington, June 4 Klara Zetkin, Nelson. June 4 VVar.aka. Dunedin. June 4 Rangatira. Wellington. June 5 (daylight). Neder Linge. Bluff. June 8 ’■ Astert. Auckland. June k Karetu. Tauranga. June 6 Karepo, Dunedin. June 7 Mahrno, Sydney June 8 Moanui. Auckland. June 8. I Sea Griffin. . lune 8 Bel Blur, Dunedin. June 9 Dainanoh Maru New Hrbridef, June 9 Hinakura. Hull June 9 James Cook. Nelson. June 9 Ito Ham Maru. Bluff. June |O I Storm Dunedin. June II Ecuadorian Reefer, Timaru, June I 12 , Hawea, Dunedin, June ’2 * Holmdale, Chatham*. June ’2 ! lilyric. Dunedin. June 13 i Dawn Grandem June .3 Belita. Bluff June 14 Hobart Star. Dunedin. June 14 Thuro Maersk. Chile. June 14 Wyvern. Auckland. June 14 Shansi. Tauranga June is Straat Chatham, Auckland, June j 13. Woolgar Pfcton. June 19 : Mexico Maru, Dunedin J”ne 20. Rinsei Maru, , June 20 Vishva Chetna. Dunedin. June 22 'Tarawera, Melbourne. June 22 Abel Tasman. Wellington. June 23 'Huntingdon Doned’n June 23. Jelunga. Dunedin. June 24 | Shansi, Nelson. June 24 i Marabank Dunedin. June Sharpncs, Tauranga. June 25 Kahuna. Dunedin, lune 26 1 Kasb’ma Maru Dunedin. June ?o. Shinsho. . June 26 Teesta. Napier June 27 Atrrvida. DunM'n June 27 Japan Rimu. Kobe. June Qr » Wenchow. Nanier. June 29 VESSELS IN pot Neder Lmgr. Nn 2 Osh n Quav. Kiara Zetkin. (■ P F Montreal Star. No 3 V>. t | Karetu. \ > 4 We • |Jar»’es Conk. No 5 EaM • •»-«> Astcri. No. 7 East