SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 17154, 22 September 1919, Page 6

SHIPPING

The barquonfcino Lindstol arrived at Lyttelton at 8 a.m. to-day Port Arthur (Tasmania) with a cargo erf timber. The Shropshire, which left Wellington on August 23, passed through Panama Canal on September 16, bound for Liverpool. The Westrulia left Auckland at 10 on Saturday night for East Coast ports and Dunedin. She is duo hero on Friday, and is limed to sail on Saturday for Bluff , and Melbourne. MOKOIA DUE TO-MORROW. Tho Mokoia is due at Dunedin tomorrow forenoon from Auckland and East Qoast ports. The vessel will berth at Dio Birch street wharf to discharge several hundred tons of general freight. She will afterwards be removed to tho crons wharf berth to load about 2,000 tons of cargo. Tho Mokoia will bo dee-patched about Thursday" for way ports ana Auckland. MAIL STEAMERS REPORTED. The R.M.S. Tofua, eu route from Wellington to San Francisco, resumed hei voyage from Papeete on Friday morning last. The R.M.S. Makura arrived at Suva at daybreak on Saturday from Auckland, and sailed at 1.30 p.m. the same day for Honolulu and Vancouver. NEW RECORD FOR OCEAN VOYAGE. It is claimed that a new record for an ocean voyage was established when the transport Great Northern, a fast liner of the Great Northern S.S. Company, recently completed a round trip between New" York and Brest, a distance of 6.087 nautical mik-fl. in one mid a-half hours over 12 days. The time included a stop in mid-ocean to transfer mails < to tho steamer George Washington, which took President Wilson to the Peace Conference. The average speed for the voyage was 21.3 knots.

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COLLISION

The steamer Marathon, winch collided with the Japanese steamer l-tei;riiii Mam in the English Channel on September 10 during a thick fog, had over 130 passengers on board from Australia, and arso carried the following cargo from Sydney 3.C6Z bales of woo), 17.333 sacks of (lour. 4.549 bags of wheat, 150 bags of pearl-.shell, and'a large quantity of cased tin fruits, jams, etc. 5 The Marathon, which was beached at Dnngcucsa, and subsequently refloated and proceeded to London, is ‘ a twin-screw steamer of 7,827 tons, gross register, and is one of the best-known steamers of Messrs Geo. Thomnscn and Co.’s Aberdeen Lino. Requisitioned for troops_during the war, she returned to Australia on her last trip in June last, and was despatched Homewards on July 9 ’by the agents. Messrs Dalgotv and Co., calling at Melbourne, and finally leaving Fremantle on July 19. Captain Williamson was in command. The Marathon was built at Glasgow in 1904. She is a steel vessel, equipped with modern appliances, and carrying Lloyd’s highest class.

ENGINE TROUBLES ON EX-GER-MAN STEAMERS. The former German steamer Rupia was delayed at Port Adelaide until Pcpt'-mher 9 on account of engine trouble. Similar difficulty has been experienced on most cf the German vessels taken over after the signing of the armistice. Tho dc.f -cts have been mostly confined to boiler tubes, food pumps, telemeter, areering gear, and other auxiliaries, which are installed cn different systems to British auxiliaries, and unfamiliar on G-.ku account to the British engineers. Tho long period of idleness enforced upon tho vessels throughout tho war period is also asserting Its influence on different parts of the machinery", with tho re-vilt that most of the vessels are steaming from two to three knots below normal, and continually 7 breaking down on the long journey to Australia.

DREDGING WANGANUI RIVER. The first work which the Wanganui Harbor Board’s new dredge Kaione will be put to will be the dredging cf tho river ch.-viiel from Castlocliff to the town wharf. When tidal conditions are suitable the dredge will work the cuamiel, taking off the lumps there, and at other times the vessel will be engaged in digging out the floating basin. The work in tho channel will be continued until tho maximum depth which can reasonably be obtained is achieved. The Kaione is said to he the most up-to-date dredge in N.-w Zealand write".'-, probably in Australasia. Her builders were Messrs Fleming and Ferguson, Ltd., of Paisley, Glasgow. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. LYTTELTON. September 22.-8 a.m., Lindstol, bqtiio, from Port Arthur.