Shipping News
No regard given nautieal rank
The Sumner lifeboat crews; held a simulated exercise ;t during the week-end of alt different type from other ]t exercises and exactingly de-it signed to test the versatility It of all members. The crews were summoned! by the siren and told of a] flashing light seen well out! Jat sea. A navigational bear-; fling was the only information: given. 1 Instead of the senior coxs- • wains, radio officer, engineer i and navigation officers filling] ) their positions they travelled! • as observers. The names of all remain-1 crew members were put. into I " a hat and as they were] j drawn they filled the] > positions usually carried out . by the more senior members.! • To ensure that there was! no rigging of the ballot “The! Press” shipping reporter] >drew out the names and gave] I himself a comfortable seat] lin the stern to observe the] two-hour navigational exer-l cise. i The institute’s main life-] {boat and jet rescue craft:
were successfully navigated to a buoy well out at sea by two non-regular navigators with radio contact from Ithe institute’s shore control : tower. ARRIVALS Coastal Trader (.7 a .mJ, 2500, * Auckland, Capt. R. Jackson | (S.C.N.Z.). i U.S.N. Horne i. 9 a.m.). 7930 (displacement! tons, from sea, Capt. ‘J. A. Barber. DEPARTURES Coastal Trader (7.10 p.m.), 2500. i Dunedin (S.C.N.Z.). I EXPECTED ARRIVALS Union Lyttelton, Wellington, toi day. Coastal Trader, Dunedin, AugI ust 16. JTauloto IT, Port Moresby. August 16. •Visha Raksha. Dunedin. August l| 18. PROJECTED DEPARTURES {Union Lyttelton, Wellington, toI day. .iPoyang. Auckland, today. {'‘Marian Buczek, Sydney, today. {Coastal Trader. Auckland. Augi ust 16. |Ngahere. Dunedin. August 16. i s VESSELS IN PORT 1 Poyang, Cashin Quay No. 1. U.S.N. Horne, No. 2 East. i Coastal Ranger, No. 2 West. I Marian Muczek, No. 3 West. I Holmdale. No. 7 East.
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