SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 14525, 29 November 1910, Page 6

SHIPPING.

■ • ■ HIGH WATER. TO-MOEROW. TaJaroa Head: 1.27 a.m., 1.45 p.m. Port Chalmers : 2.7 a.m., 2.25 p.m. Dunedin : 2.37 a.m., 2.55 p.m. THE SUN. Rise to-morrow, 4.20 a.m.; set, 7.34 p.m. THE MOON. Rise to-morrow, 3.4 a-m.; 6et, 5.56 p.m. SAlLED.—November 29. Invercargill, s.s., 221 tons, Gillies, for Invercargiu and Waikawa. Monowai, s.s., 3,433 tone, Robertson, for Auckland via East Coast ports. Passengers : For Lyttelton—Misses Wildey, Sutton, Meedames Wildey, Sutton, lies and two children, Messrs Moritzson, lies, Haig, Cross, White. For WellingtonMiss Wis, Mesdames Michael, Kylo and infant, Mr Jno. Roberts. For NapierMrs Mitchell and boy, Messrs Wilson, Craig. For Gisborne—Messrs Bridgeman, Ingram. For Auckland—Misses Moor©, Kerin (2), FoTd, Mosdames Ford, Lambourne, Messrs Paul, KeTin, Ford, Lambonrno (2), Valentine, Roes. Terra Nova, auxiliary barque, 749 tons, Evans, for tho Antarctic. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. —Coastal.— Haurofco, from Auckland, December 1. —lntercolonial.— Warrimoo, from Sydney via Cook Strait, December 3. Victoria, from Sydney via Auckland, December 4. Moeraki, from Melbourne, December 6. —Oversea, Sail.— Ariel, Norwegian barque, from Liverpool via Wellington, sailed November 14. —Oversea, Steam.—• Delphic, left Liverpool September 8 via Australia and Northern ports; left Sydney November 3, Wellington November 17; now at Lyttelton; due Wednesday or Thursday. Strathleven, left New York September 14 via Australia and Northern ports; at Melbourne November 16; duo about December 23. Drayton Grange, left Liverpool September 17 via Northern ports; at Melbourne November 13; due about December 12. Star of Scotland, left New York September 30 via Australia and Northern ports; due about December 17. Hawke's Bay, left Liverpool October 1; at Auckland November 27: due about December 12. Afghanistan, left London October 8 for Dunedin direct; due about December 1. _ Sussex, left Liverpool October 15 via Australia and Northern ports; due about January 4. Wairoate, left Montreal October 16 via Australia and Northern ports; due about December 29. Snowdonian. left Bunbnry November 2; it Auckland November 20. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Ulimaroa, for Sydney via Cook Strait, November 30. Warrimoo, for Melbourne, December 4. Victoria, for Sydney via Auckland, December 6. In port at noon to-day :—At Dunedin : Vermont, Monowai, Pukaki, Invercargill, Dorset (steam), Manurewa (sail). At Port Chalmers: Terra Nova, Amokura, Mokoia, Flora, Storm, Turkistan, Pakeha, Otaki, Opawa, Moura, Te Anau, Progress, I'lakiura (steam). Shipping was decorated to-day in honor of the departure of the exploring 6hip Terra Nova in quest of the South Pole. Ennerdale, s.s., now loading timber in Tasmania, is timed to sail on Thursday for Dunedin, and is due on Monday. Tarawera, s.s., is to make two trips in tho ferry service in Christmas week to assist the Mararoa. She will leave Dunedin on Thursday, December 22 (a day early), Lyttelton on the 23rd, returning from Wellington to Lyttelton on the 24th, and resume her voyage from Lyttelton for Auckland on the 26th (a day late). Mokoia, s.s., camo out of dock yesterday afternoon. On Friday morning she comes up to Dunedin and eaila in the ifternoon for Auckland via East Coast ports, in place of the Hauroto, -which will withdraw from service after arrival here on Thursday. Storm, 6.6., docked in tho new dock after it was vacated by the Mokoia yesterday afternoon. TheTe -would seem to bo very heavy booking by mail steamers from Australia to arrive in England before the Coronation. The Orient Company, it is understood, have no cabin de luxe available by boats for London until after June. The other passenger accommodation of that line and the P. and 0. and the German lines is reported to bo heavily booked up to well into the new year. It is reported that, failing sufficient accommodation by what are known as "outside" lines, many first class passengers from Australia will be shut out unless they elect to proceed Home by New Zealand m; il steamers going via Cape Horn. Captain Whitton, well known in the intercolonial trade, has purchased a half interest in the barque Daniel, ot which he will have command. WARNING TO SHIPPING. Service practice by night is to be carried I out from Taiaroa Head to-morrow, and poreibly ako on Thursday, between the hours of 8 pan. and 10 p.m. All shipping is warned to keep clear of the entrance to the harbor during those hours. THE WORLD'S LARGEST SHIP. The largest liner in the world was Launched this -week at Belfast. This is ■the White St.iT Lino's Olympic, a mammoth craft, "whose toimago is 45,000, and length over all 382 ft 6m. Her four funnels tower 81ft above the boat deck, and the height from her keel to tho top of the captain's houso is over 105 ft. And yet so well proportioned is she that her furlong or so of superstructure and her enormous funnels lose their size in that of the whole ship, and in 6pite of her tremendous bulk she is graceful in appearance. Aboard, as is tho fashion with first class liners nowadays, everything will be pleasing. As in the Adriatic, there will be a Turkish bath, a gymnasium, a nursery, and sumptuous private suites. But there willalso be a swimming bath, with a possibility of a real, comfortable dive in addition, besides a grill room, a palm lounge, a Toof garden, shower baths attached to the cabins, a fish pond, and a number of other luxuries that have hitherto only been looked for in Fifth avenue mansions. But the statistics a're, perhaps, even more impressive than these details, and from a host of them a few may be selected : —The Olympic's largest plates, each 36ft in length, weigh tons apiece; her double bottom alone is built up with about 270 tons of rivets, and the 3,000,000 rivets that have been used in the entire 6hrp weigh 1,200 tons. Her largest double beam, 92ft in length, weighs 4 tons, her 6tern frame 70 tons, her rudder 100 tons. Each of her engine crankshafts weighs 118 tons, and tho castings for her turbine cylinder 163 tons. And ihe has an anchor—we saw it in London at the last Engineering Exhibition, and heard then that the task of transporting it from the yard in which it was constructed had "held up" an entire railway system for a considerable number of hours—that •weighs neariy 16 tons, and is held by a chain cable of which each link weighs 14 stone. Tho crew of the ship will number about 860, and she will carry 2,500 passengers. Like the new Rotorna, of the New Zealand Shipping Company's line, the Olympic will have a combination of reciprocating engines and turbine. The largest vessel in the world was launched in eixty-two seconds. —Our London correspondent, October 21.

GLASGOW'S BIG DOCK. Glasgow's new graving dock is to be 1,020 ft in total length. 100 ft in width of entrance, and 36ft in depth on sill at average high water of ordinary spring tides. That is, it is to bo 140 ft longer, 17ft •wider at entrance, and 9£ft deeper on sill than, the" largest of Glasgow s present docks. This seems a great step forward (6ays 'Lloyd's Shipping Gazette'), but it is nothing more than is called for by tho probable demands of shipbuilding, say, ten years hence. Dreadnoughts are now very little less than 100 ft in breadth, and the I,oooft liner is one of tho probablo developments of the next few years. Tho length is only 95ft more than that of the Canada dock, Liverpool, the width of entrance only 6ft more, and the depth on sill only 4ft more. Tho now dock which is being constructed at Belfast will bo shorter oy 125 ft, narrower in entrance by 20ft, and lees in depth on the sill by over 10ft. The only docks which will equal that of Glasgow in width of entrance are thoso of Bristol and Birkenhead, which are also 100 ft in width, but in their case the length and the depth on sill are each less. It is stilted that tho decision of the Clyde Navigation Trustees to construct this big dock has put the Mersey Dock 6 and Harbor Board on their mettle, and that in order to keep Liverpool as the premier port with regard to accommodation in wet and dry docks they have decided to add a length of 50ft to the new combined wet and dry dock which they are constructing. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. OMAPERE, November 28.—Yesterday, Reliance, scow, from Onehunga. AUCKLAND, November 28—Nerehana, from Napier.—6 p.m., Wimmora, for Sydney. LYTTELTON, November 28.—2.45 p.m., Ruapehu, for Napier, Timaru, and Bluff. NELSON, November 28.-3.45 p.m., H.M.S. Powerful, for Lyttelton. BLUFF, November 23.-6 a.m., Marama, from Dunedin. (For continuation see Late Shipping.)