Port busy despite departures

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33451, 5 February 1974, Page 11

Port busy despite departures

Despite the departure of naval and cruise ships on Sunday, Lyt-j teiton is still busy. When work began at 7 a.m. yesterday, an! additional 351 men would have been required to fill all ship-. board vacancies. All ships work- ; ing cargo were short manned’ initially. For daylight hours 388 men were engaged. Another 80 men were engaged for supple-; t mentary hours last evening. At; this time, many waterfront workers have their annual holi-i days. Tomorrow Waitangi Day, ..’will be observed as a water-! i; front holiday, but roU-on ves-I |! seis will be worked. r 6= >;< ;;< a In reply to “Sea 'Kiwi,” of > I North Canterbury, the term '= I “knocked seven bells out of Vhim,” probably has this origin: on “watch and watch” days (four 3 ! hours on duty and four off) e seven bells are struck at 7 20 Va.m. and 11.20 a.m. to allow :, watch below men to have sufficient meal time. Such watchs keepers were hard to wake—o and a "seven bells shake” was i. sometimes vigorous. Watch--1 keepers got little sleep as anya one who experienced this knows,’ and waking thus at “seven - bells,’’ often by vigorous per- >• suasion, could be annoying. The [ correct statement might be “1 shook seven bells out of him.” The term has been given a wider use, as in boxing or fighting. :'s tl s| In answer to “G.A.K.,” of .iChristchurch, the New Zealand f Shipping Company’s handsome c Denny-built, three-masted, twinL screw steamer Hororata was ; built in 1914, and was later conl verted to burn pulverised coal. Originally designed as an immigrant carrier, with magnificent, , spacious wooden decks, rarely seen today, she did three voy-i t ages to New Zealand as a pulverised coal-powered vessel. A; . local resident, who served in her as a marine engineer in the; iearly 1930 s said these were de-: pression years, and the ship was; uneconomic and dirty. At one’ ! stage, she was also a cadet) .1 training vessel. Huge quantities of coal had to ’ be carried for a passage. One I ship, in tile British India Steam ’ Navigation Company, Ltd. was ; similarly converted, the iriform- ■ ant said. Another system was ! introduced by Canadian Pacific Beaver-class vessels, using “chain grates.” Pulverised coal has also been used in industry II ashore. The 11,243-ton Hororata was ! ) eventually converted to oil fuel. I She must not be confused with ’ 'a later Hororata. which was sal-

vaged in the Azores during the.' Second World Wai . It is doubtful if the use of pulverised coal I would solve the present oil ’ : (crisis. DEPARTURES . Holmlea (4.12 p.m.), 1053, Capt G. 1.. Porter. Wellington iC.S.S.I.r Lorena (5.7 p.m.). 1356, Capt. ■I. Sutherland, Onehunga (Guth-! 1 reyi. Port Launceston (—— pm),’ 18157, Capt. J. St H. Webber, Wellington (Kinsey). EXPECTED ARRIVALS ’; Frysna. Tonga todav. ■Rangatira. Wellington, todav. Turakina, Wellington, February 6. Torrens, Bluff, February 6. ’ Maheno, Auckland, Feb. 6. Carpentaria, Picton, Feb 6 Holmlea, Wellington, Feb 6 Rangatira, Wellington, Feb. 6. Gladstone Star, Wellington, Feb. Fremantle Star, Wellington February 10. , Silver Fern. Nagoya Feb, 10. i Union Australia, Cape Thevenard, Feb. 11. . Nippon Reefer. Auckland. February 11. . Ngakuta. Auckland, Feb. 11. ; : Hawea. Wellington. February 13. . Leuve Lloyd, Wellington, Feb. 13. i jStraat Clarence, Ariel land, Feb.’ 13. Teesta. Wellington, Feb. 13 ! Tasmania Star, Wellington, Feb.!: 14. Sol Jean, Dunedin, Feb. 14. Venabu, Ocean Island, Feb. 14. Aftadelfos, Wellington, Feb. 15. Shansi, Wellington, Feb, 16. Vlshva Mahima, Wellington, Feb. ■ 16. Martinquals. Wellington Feb. 21. 1 Maori, Wellington, Feb. 23. (Tanker.)'* Japan Rimu, Nagoya, Feb. 23. ’ Cap Vilano, New Plvmouth, Feb. 23. Bonzo, Auckland, Feb. 25. Ashbank, Wellington, Feb. 26. Atrevida, Wellington, Feb. 27. ; Union Aotearoa, Wellington, 1 Feb. 27. i i Harvester, Hiroshima, Feb. 27. ( 1 |Antartico Valparaiso, Feb. 28. ; Norfolk Maru. Wellington, March h : ’• li PROJECTED DEPARTURES j U.S.N.S. Private John R. Towle, ! McMurdo Sound todav Rangatira. Wellington, today, ’ i (Davlight.) ' | Sinkiang, Tauranga, today. ; Holmlea, Wellington, Feb. 6. < Rangatira. Wellington, Feb. 6. 1 Maheno, Wellington, Feb. 7. I Katea, timaru, February 7. [ Holmdale, Chathams, February 7. t Hupeh, Wellington, Feb. 9. 1 Hague Maru, Auckland, Feb. 9. ( Frysna, Tauranga, Feb. 9. !l Torrens, Wellington, February 12. ,c Turakina, Picton. February 12.11 Fremantle Star, Dunedin, Febru- i ary 13. it Cumberland, Nelson. Feb. 13. 1 Ngakuta. Port Chalmers Feb. 13. ’(