SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
PORT OF AUCKLAND.
HtghWatbrThisDay. —11.23 a.m.; 11.50 p.m. Sunrise and Sunset This Day.—Morning, 7.13 ; evening, 4.45. Win© and Wbaiher. —June S : Wind, N.E., fresh. Weather : Raining. Phase of the Moon. — Last quarter, June 10, at 0.16p.in.
Cleared Outwards. Prince of Wales, cutter, 23 tons, Saintz, for Now Hebrides. — Master, agent.
Owing to the unfavourable weather the nailing of the s.s. James Patersonfor Sydney, and of the s.s. Napier for Napier, has been postponed till to-day. Several other vessels are alao lying in harbour wind-bound. The barque Mary Russell Mltford sails for New York to-day. The cutter Prince of Wales cleared at the Customs yesterday for the New Hebrides, with a cargo of 2 cases drapery, 1 case musical instruments. The cargo of the Tauranga, from Tauranga, consists of 23 kits 32 cases gum, 9 bags maize, and sundries, The schooner Tawera will sail for Poverty Bay on Saturday. SoMETHiNa like a Steam Ram.— A most important invention by Mr. G. M. W. Browil, of Portsmouth, has just been patented, it has for its object a thorough revolution in the style of "steam rams" used in the Royal Navy. The improved ram consists of a small sloop fitted with a turret strongly armour-plated, and which will be the only part visible when the sloop is in action. A strong ramming shaft of hardened steel, weighing over 30 tons, projects or is worked from the bow of the sloop, and is attached inside the ship to a piston working in a cylinder. This cylinder ia supplied with steam of very high pressure from an auxiliary boiler, or it may be supplied from the boilers used to propel the sloop. The piston and shaft can be driven at the rate of 500 to 1,000 strokes a minute, although from 200 to 300 strokes would be ample, and from the great weight of the ramhead it is assumed that a few rapid Wows struck upon any vessel against which the sloop might be run would be sufficient to send it to the bottom. A few sloops fitted up in this manner would be awkward customers to fight with. The plan is reported to be in favour with the Constructive Department of the Admiralty.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4312, 9 June 1871, Page 2
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371SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF AUCKLAND. Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4312, 9 June 1871, Page 2
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