Shipping News Missile ship to visit Lyttelton tomorrow

Press, 4 October 1977, Page 37

Shipping News Missile ship to visit Lyttelton tomorrow

There will be bubble sum i •plenty in Lyttelton tomorrow when the U.S.S. Somers sails in. The 4000 tonne guided-missile destroyer will spend five days in port. The visit may bring back old memories—Canterbury has not seen a U.S. Navy warship since 1971. U.S. Naval authorities are not saying exactly why the ship is coming to Lyttelton, but the object of the exercise seems to be public relations, and rest and recreation for her several hundred crewmen. At the same time the U.S.S. Benjamin Stoddert will be visiting Dunedin, and the U.S.S. Richard S. Edwards will be calling at Auckland. The Somers Is attached to the U.S. Pacific Fleet. She was built in 1959. and is the sixth ship of the line to bear the name, the first being a schooner which fought under Commodore Perry on Lake Erie and Lake Huron during the capture of the British squadron in 1813. ARRIVALS Coastal Trader (6.58 a.m.l, 2500, Caw. J. Taylor, Auckland (S.C.N.Z.). DEPARTURES Coastal Trader (4.38 p.m.l, Capt. Taylor. Dunedin. Coastal Ranger (8.30 p.m.). 2926, Cant D. Watt, Wellington (S.C.N.Z.). EXPECTED ARRIVALS Union Lyttelton. Dunedin, today. Silver Fem. Wellington, today.

11 British Test, from sea, today, i ' Coastal Trader. Dunedin, Octo-i ber 5 i Coastal Banger, Wellington. Oc-; i tober 5. : U.S.S. Somers, from sea. Octo-i ; ber 5. i Somerset. U.K., October 5. i Heroj Pale, Auckland. October! 5. > Marie Boreal. Auckland, October, 6. i Coastal Ranger, Wellington. Oc-i I tober 7. ■ iron York, Wellington, October; 7. . Lindfield. Wellington. October 8.; ■ Coastal Ranger, Wellington, Oc-i tober 9. PROJECTED DEPARTURES ! Union Lyttelton. Wellington,; .1 today ; British Test, for sea, today I ' Coastal Trader, Auckland. Octo-i ; ber 5. Coastal Ranger, Wellington. October 5. I i Andrzej Strug, for sea. October; Tongariro, Tauranga, October S.i Heroj Paic, Europe, October 6. , Coastal Ranger, Wellington. October 7. Holmdale, Chatham Islands. October 7. Neptune Beryl. Tauranga. October 7. Lindfield, Auckland, October 8. VESSELS IN PORT Tongariro. Cashin Quay No. 1. Andrzej Strug. Cashin Quay No. i 2. Holmdale, No. 3 East. . Neptune Beryl, No. 3 West.