SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
PORT OF AUCKLAND.
High Water This Day.- 6. 46 a.m. ; 7.9 p.m. ' SuNttisK afd Sunskt Tins Day.—Morning, 4.48 ; evening, 6.41. Wind and We vther.— November 11 : Wind, westerly, strong gale ; weather, raining. November 12: \Vind, westerly, strong gale; weather, 'o'loudy. Phasl of tuk Vioon.— Now Moon. Novcraber 13, at J..4S a .m.
ARRIVALS. Clyde, schooner, 42 tons, Anderson, from Whangarei.-L. D. Nathan and Co., agent?. Dou, schooner, 80 tons, Anthon, from Russell. Clio, ketch, Chambers, from Russell.— J. S, Macfarlane, agent. Departures. Lady Bowen, for Mahnrangi.
The Weather.— Throughout the whole of Saturday and yesterday a strong southerly galo was blowing, accompanied on Saturday afternoon and night with heavy showers of rain. Fortunately no damage was occasioned to tho shipping. Soveial vessels outwardbound have been detained until the weather moderates. The only accident was the capsizing of a fishing-boat on Saturday morning last, during a heavy squall, off Official B ly. It appears that the boat, containing one man, John Lome/,, was sailing up the harbour, and, before he had time to let go tlie sheet, the boat cap^i/ed. The Devonporfc was passing 011 her trip to tho North Shore at the time, and at once went to tho assistance of Lomez, who, when picked up, was clinging to the bottom of the boat. The boat was righted and taken in tow to the North Shore. The ketch. Clio, from Russell, arrived in harbour on Saturday last, bringing a cargo of coals. The schooner Aurora, hence, anivecl at Kaipara on Thuisday last. The biigantine Coronet is announced to sail for Tahiti to-day. Tnn Amj:uic\n Navy.— The JVarj 2?eghter to July Ist, 1871, just issued, shows that there aie 12 that class vessels, carrying from 21 to 47) guns ; 13 second-class vessels, carrying fiom 13 to 23 guns ; 12 third-class vessels, carrying from 8 to 12 guns ; II fouith-elass vessels, carrying fiom 3 to 7 guns ; and Li) litth-iate vessel 1 !, carrying from Ito 10 guns oi howit/.eis. The total nambei of vessels is 1 GO, of which 51 aio iion-clad, laid up at League Kland, Now Oilcans, Washington, and other places, the Terror, of the North Atlantic fleet, being the only one in active seivice ; 30 arc tugs, doing duty at the various na\y yaids and stations ; 36 vessels aio abroad on the several foieign Btationsj and a large number are laid up at the navy yaids throughout the countiy, being of no use, as the law does not permit the enlistment of a sufficient number of men to send them to sea. A revolution in ocean steaming peema impending, which will bring in its train many changes in social and ineicantile affairs all over the world. The main cause of the3e changes will be the building of steel boats, propelled by steam produced by liquid fuel. Engineers and ship buildeis pi edict that at uo distant date liaidly a ship constructed of malleable ii on will be found on the ocean]; and that bteel will be the material that will be used in tho shipbuilding of the future. This improvement will mateiially dimmish the weight, while it adds to the btrongth and buoyancy of seegoing vessels, and can hardly fail to effect as great a i evolution id ship- building as mm did when it was substituted for wood Liquid liio 13 to be employed, and this will be kept in tanks at the bottom of the vessel ; thus tendering the space occupied by "the coal bunks of our piesent steamers available for cat go. Expeiimeiits with liquid fuel have lately been made in Russia, and the results obtained have been most satisfactory, and show that the saving effected by firing with naphtha instead of coal is Ho per cent , and can, it is supposed, be made much greater. In the present state of tho woihl a great change of tins kind, when once shown to be piaclicable and useful, is sine to be adopted in the course of a few years. Hence it is not impossible tliat bofoio many jcai-s have elapsed nun ships will oust only in the history of the ship-building ait. Tins piov peeti\v) change will bd of gieat use t>> th" col'imcs, which, owing to their position on the ylobe, cannot fail to be materially benefited by any improvement that may be effected in steam navigation.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF AUCKLAND.
Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4436, 13 November 1871, Page 2
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