SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 17792, 14 October 1921, Page 1

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-'MORROV.'. St. Clair : 12.42 a.m., 1.12 p.m. Taiaroa Head; 1.2 a.m., 1.22 p.m. Port Chalmers : 1.42 a.m., 2.2 p.m. Dunedin' i 2.12 a.m., 2.52 p.m. THE SUN. Sol? to-day, 6.27 p.m.; rises to-morrow, 5.19 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON. Full moon Oct. 17 10.30 a.m. Last quarter Oct, 24 4 2 p.m. New moon Oct. 31 lr-9 a.mFirst quarter Nov. 8 3,24 a.m. Sol to-day, 3.54 p.m.; rises to-morrow, 4.4.3 p.m. WEATHER REPORT. The Dominion Meteorologist (Mr D. 0. Bates) supplied tho following at 9 a.m. to-day :

Wind.—L, light; fcr, breeze; f b, fresh breeze; mg, moderate gate; g, whole nr heavy gale; iv, gale of exceptional severity. Weather.—B, blue sky, bo tho atmosphere dear or heavy'; G clouds, passing clouds; 1), drizzling rain; F,_ foggy) G, gloomy, dark woathor; H, hail; L, lightninny'M, misty; O, overcast, the whole sky covered with thick clouds; P, passing showers; Q, squally; Pv, rain, continued rain; R, snow; T, thunder; C, ugly, threatening appearance; Z, hazy, Forecast. The Dominion Meteorologist (Mr D. C. Bates) supplied tho following _at noon to-day :— Westerly wind prevailing, and changeable and showery weather: barometer unsteady, with a, rising tendency; sea moderate { tides good. ARRlVED.—October 14. Ramona, s.s. (6.43 a.m.), 1,425 tons, Morgan, from Oamaru. Hama, s.s. (8.45 a.m.,), 610 tons, Gartner, from Wellington. Tho Wa.naka, from Newcastle and Sydney, is due at Wellington ‘on Sunday. She proceeds from that port to Lyttelton, Dunedin, and BlniT. Tho Cartnna is duo to load hero about Thursday next for Nelson and New Plymouth via ports. Tho Manuka left Sydney yesterday afternoon for Auckland. The Maheno was delayed at .Auckland by rain yesterday, but Bailed at 4 p.rn. for Sydney. She will leave the Australian port on October 19 for Wellington. Tho Katoa, from Auckland via ports, is dno hero about 'Wednesday next to load for Auckland via Lyttelton. The Whan gape is expected to leave Newcastle to-morrow for New Plymouth, Napier, and Auckland. Tho Kanunn loaves Oamaru to-day for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Now Plymouth, The Koranui is duo hero to-morrow morning to load for Gisborne and Napier via ports. Tho Raima was to leave Wellington today for Auckland, and loads there next week for Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. Tho Komata leaves Westport on Saturday morning for Wellington. Tho latest charters announced inclndo tho steamer Atboll, 4,647 tons, to load case oil at Port Arthur, Texas, for Now Zealand and Australia. She is at prerent at Manchester, and is to leave there for Port Arthur on November 10. _ It is stated that tho Reparations Comisslon values the ships which Germany handed over under the Treaty of Versailles at 845,000,000 gold marks'(£42,2so,ooo). 'Die gross tonnage was made up as follows ;—Passenger vessels, 611,527 tons ; cargo steamers, 1,452,CC0 tons; sailing ships, 80,140 tons; and fishing vessels, 9,749 tons. According to private advices no fewer than four vessels aro reported fixed to load lumber at Pacific Coast ports for Australia. This is the largcst_ number of vessels fixed for this trade during the last twelve months, and is an indication that the lumber trade between the Pacific Coast and Australia is improving. The vessels are:—Peruvian steamer Jqnitos, 3,264 tons; American four-masted schooner North Bend, 847 Ions; Annie .M. Campbell, four-masted schooner; Malahat, auxiliary schooner, 1,199 tons. The I quit o '

and Maialiat load at Gray’s Harbor, tire North Bend at Cons Bay, and the. Annie M. Campbell at Williha Harbor. Captain Basil Irwin, of the. ferry steamer Maori, wflio was married tins wed:, lias been tho recipient, of a presentation from the members of his crow. In loss than an hour a sum of £2O was subscribed by the officers and crow from tho brass-boys upwards, and later lie was presented by Mr F. Risk, purser, on behalf of the whole crew, with a. beautiful gramophone and thirty records, together with several other useful articles. Mr Risk, in making the presentation, paid a high tribute to the esteem in which Captain Irwin has always been hold, not only by his shipmates, but by all seafaring men with whom ho was acquainted. Several of the officers and other members of tho crew also spoke of the good qualities of Captain Irwin. Captain Irwin said that tho presentation was entirely unexpected, and more particularly as he had rejoined the Maori only a fortnight ago. The, harmony that existed between himself and the officers and crew wan a oourco of much gratification in him. The Italian ship Monte Bianco, while hound from Newcastle to Genoa with a. cargo of coni, caught tiro at sea, and was totally destroyed. Tho crew, after a perilous voyage of 400 miles in open boats, landed safely. In connection with the abandonment of tho barque, the captain stated that after a week of navigation with tho cargo on five, tho vessel was abandoned. The ship’s company wmy in tho lifeboats for eight days lighting against a heavy sea, rain, and sharks. On July 1 they arrived safely at the island of Tubuai. which is inhabited by 800 natives, who, as tho captain put it, are civilised enough. They stayed there for fifty-four days, living the native life. THE FERRY SERVICE. Tho Mararoa, from Wellington, arrived d-t Lyttelton at 9.35 a.m. to-day, and passengers and mails connected with the express for the south. LATE CAPTAIN A SIMPSON. Memories of an earlier ora of shipping aro recalled by tho death in London, in April, of Captain Alexander Simpson, who was for nearly half a century continuously employed in ships (sail and steam) owned hy tho Aberdeen White Star Line, and who was well known in Australia.. “It war. Ibis company which owned that glorious deep-sea clipper Thcrmopylar, probably tho fastest sailer that ever crossed tho ocean,” says the London correspondent of tho ‘Manchester Guardian.’ As a. buy ho served his time in the China clipper Queen of Nations. Piracy was not dead then —at least in Eastern seas—and tho old packet canned an armament of long brass Iwolvo-poundors. Later he commanded another famous ship, tho Samuel Plimsoll. With her green-painted hull, towering masts, and lingo spread of canvas, she was one of tho handsomest of the latter-day clippers. One thrilling story about her is this: Dismasted in a North Atlantic gale soon after leaving England for Australia with emigrants, she was spoken by an American ship, which offered assistance. This the skipper of tho Samuel Plimsoll declined. Ho had a big crow, and plenty of spare spars on. board. Working day and night, tho ship’s company got their vessel re-rigged, and crowding on all sail eho was driven hard to Melbourne, whore she arrived after an cigMy-two days' passage. Indeed, .she was snug at her moorings before the American that spoke her had dropped anchor in Algna, Bay, South Africa. Captain Simpson in his time had command of five of tho Aberdeen-White Star Lino passenger steamers, tho last one being tho Pericles. He rondo porno eighty or more voyages to Australia., and hardly ever did it happen that lie had a Christina.-. at- home. His greatest hobby was the study of ocean currents, and on this point it may bo said that ho Lad more use for an empty bottlo than many men have for a full one. Every day at noon, as soon a", ho had fixed the ship’s position, lie throw overboard a- bottle containing a paper giving the exact position of tho ship, and

aching for the message to he returned to him if found. Many of these drifting bottle messages did com.’, bad: to him, thus serving to increase the general knowledge of the trend of ocean currents. Since be retired from tho rea some ten years ago Captain Simpson had acted as embarkation officer in London.

INCREASE OF MERCHANT VESSELS.

Tho tonnage of sen-going merchant, vessels launched during the three years ended December 31, 1920, comprised more than 25 per cent, of all similar tonnage launched in the twenty-nine joars beginning with 1892, for which tho compilation of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping are available. Prior to tho European War tho largest amount of .shipping launched in any roar was 3,332.882 gross tons in 1915. Ship construction decreased during the earlier phase of iho war, falling' to 1,201,630 tons in 1915. In tho following years, however, urgent, demand for tonnage stimulated construction, but it was not until 1818 that total Launchings exceeded those of 191.3. In that year, owing very largely io tho construction of more than 3,060,000 toon in the United Stales, tho world’s shipyards launched 5,447.414 tons, while in 1919 tho total was 7,144,549, of which rnoro than 4,000,000 wore the product of American yards. In 1920 the shipbuilding activity was reduced somewhat, but launchings were still in excess of any previous year, except 1019. In spite of the destruction bv enemy action of over 13,000,000 gross tens of seagoing merchant vessels between August 1, 1914, and November 11, 1918, and the loss through marine hazards of an additional 2,530,000 terns during the Fame period, the world’s mercantile tonnage afloat is to-day greater than it would be had the average rate of increase for the ten years prior in 1914 continued in Iho years sinco that date. Estimates of tonnage now afloat indicate a total in excess of 60.000,000 gross tons, approximately 11,099,CG0 gross tons above the figure for Juno 30, 1914.

NEW ELLEBMAN STEAMER. Tho gcared-turbino steamer Pandon If all, which lias been built by Palmers’ Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Ltd., at harrow, to the order of the Ellcrman Lines, Ltd., London (Hall Line, Ltd., Liverpool, managers), was lakeu to sea for her official trials recently. The vessel is 406 ft long between perpendiculars, 62ft in moulded breadth, and, 31ft Sin in moulded depth from tho upper deck. Classed 100 A 1 at Lloyd’s, .she. is of the two-deck type, with poop, bridge, ami forecastle, and has n- straight stem and a cruiser stem. On a mean summer draught of 26ft 4t,in she carried about 3,600 tons deadweight. Her propelling machinery consists of single-screw, double-geared turbines of the Parsons impulse-reaction type, supplied and fitted by Palmer’s Company at Jarrow. The boilers aro fitted with the- *W all send -Ifow den system of oil burning, the furnace fronts being constructed to burn oil exclusively, or coal exclusively, or coal in conjunction with oil. Tho trials were run exclusively on oil fuel, which gave unqualified satisfaction—easily maintaining u full supply of steam. On trial tho Pandon Hall’s machinery developed 2,280 lior.se power at 84 revolutions with the vessel in ballast trim.

GERMAN-AUSTRALIAN LINE.

Tho report of the Gormau-Austrnlian Steamship Company for 1915-1920 is more of a political than a commercial document* At tint beginning of tho war, it is stated, the. company's licet consisted of fifty-five steamers of 281,152 tons, besides seven vessels in course of construction. Mast of these drips were abroad or on the .teas, so that, says tho report, “wo were struck to the fullest extent by tho war'measures which our enemies had. prepared long in advance.” Several steamers were got to neutral countries, “or such countries on could he regarded as neutral.” But the matter also “yielded to tho pressure of England,” and'thus the- company was deprived of more of its ships, until it had only ten steamers in German ports, eleven in the Dutch East, Indies, and two in Spanish ports. Under the armistice terms mid the Versailles Treaty all the rest of the fleet had to ho handed over to tho Allies, ns the Gcmia-n-Auetralia Lino only worked with vessels of large size, ■ and eventually all final, was left- of it was “one steamer, considerably damaged by Russian attacks, which lay wrecked in tho Battle.” Bitter complaint is also made in the report about the seizure, “contrary to all law,” of the, company's property and material in Adelaide and Sydney. 'The announcement of the “peace” conditions (the contemptuous inverted commas are in the original) “ removed the last uncertainty as to tho future of German shipping, as they clearly displayed our enemies’ naked will to destruction, and made it impossible for us to proceed with tho work of rebuilding until after the treaty had been ratified,” “It is, however,' to bo anti ciliated,” tho report, proceeds, “that the .sound business instinct of (.lie Australians will overcome tho arti-ficially-created war-psychosis, and that it will onto again he recognised that tho trade between tho two countries was not alone to the advantage of Germany, but also, and to a larger extent, to that of Australia.” The accounts show that there was no profit for tho years 1915-1918, -and for these no dividend is declared. For 1919 there was a net profit of 2,076,595 marks, and for 1920 2.094,923 marks, and for each of (.hose years a dividend of 10 per cent, is declared. Previous dividends paid by the company were : —1912, 14 per cent. ; 1913, 14 per cent.; 1914, 5 per cent.

NEW JAPANESE SHIPPING SERVICE. The Yamashida Risen Kaisha of Japan has decided to inaugurate a regular cargo steamer service between Pacific Coast polls and Australia, commencing with the Yoshima Mam, which will leave Seattle this month. The, company’s steamers will load at Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco, and will cull at New Zealand on Dm way to Australia. Their homeward itinerary has not yet been derided upon. Tho Yeshima Man; will be followed hy the Yushida Maru 11., and other steamers of the line will leave for Australia at monthly intervals. The Yamashida Risen. Kaisha, Lid., of Kobe, is one of the largest shipping companies of Japan, owning •a tied, of 480,000 tons. Hitherto the only vessels of the company to visit Australia have been chartered, hut the company has now evidently decided to make a. permanent bid for the American-Australian trade, which is now done largely hy British and American shipping companies. Mr T. Roxbugb has been appointed Melbourne agent, ami Mr B. B. Wiltshire will reji resent the company in Sydney. The Steamer Boren, from Gothenburg, arrived at Sydney recently on her maiden ■my age. The vessel was launched cn March 16 of this year from the Liuciholmens Shipyard at Gothenburg. She is tho first of three sister-ships of 8,000 tons d.w,. which the Trans-Allanfic Company has contracted for with the Limlliolmcns Shipyard, and was launched in an almost completed rendition. M'llwraith, M'Eacharn, and Go., Ltd., have purchased the steamer Soiit.hme.Kl for the Australian intcr-State cargo trade. The South mead (ex Sutherland) is a steel screw steamer of 5.277 tons gross register, and 3,191 tons net. She was bin’ll in 1918 at- SinubHand,

r J he ('it.-y -of Sydney was expecled at Wellington to-day from Auckland in continual inn of her voyage from Now York. Mi. 1 is later in proceed to Lyttelton, Dunedin. am] Australian ports. The Waitemala is due at Auckland on Sunday from Oahut!,). and after discharge proceeds to \\ cllingtrm. Lyttelton, and Dunedin.

VESSELS JN WITIELESS CALL. The following vessels are exported to bo within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night : Auckland. AJar.-ima, Kuinaia, Nga];u 1 'i, Raton. Awcmni. Knitangaia, Ilona, Waif-o-mata, Afahcno, iagara. Manuka, Xa.vua, Megl!,"., t'hatiufin I Sands.— Dorsal, I’iako, Port I I a-fk-iny. Wellington.---A Lipourikn, Alarm on, Ara.. hui'a, AVabitie, Kanna, Tainui, Port Lyttelton, (Vm.vlian Conqueror. Eiveriiia. City of Sydney, Wa n aka. Awarua,--Karnri. SHIPPING TELEG.RAATS. ADL'KLAND, o(Toiler 15.—4.40 p.m., A'aheno, for Sydney. WKMHNOTON, ‘ October 13. ----- G.iK) p.rn.. Kanna, from Lyttelton.—7 50 n.m., (hiuadiiin Spinner, from Auckland.—-Alid-ui'.dit. Aakatn, from Kaikoma.—s,ls p.ni.. Aldeharan, fur Aknroa. LA 7TE!/rON, October 15.---1,30 p.m., Wootton, from Wellington.—o.lo p.m., Breeze, for Dunedin.—October 14.—-9.50 a.in.. Knranni, for Dunedin. OAJviARU. October 15.—6 p.m.. Karainn. from Dunedin.—ll p.m., Kanna, for Dunedin. SYDNEY, Oct fiber 13.—1 p.m., Niagara, for Auckland.—2.ls p.m., Manuka.' for Wellington. LONDON, October I.3.—Mnimoa, for Wellington. VANCOUVEII, October 15.—Makura, for Auckland.

(For continuation seo Late Shipping.)

Bar. Thor. Wcath. Auckland —N.W., 1 29.53 58 B C Napier—Calm 29,59 60 B Wellington—N .W., h 29.56 55 P Westport—N.E., f b 29.50 54 P Oreymouth—15., 1> ... 29.43 52 O Bcaloy—lv, 1 C hristchnrclx—S. W. ,’l 29.54 29.49 47 54 0 0 Titnarn —S.W., 1 Oamaru—E., I ... Dunedin —N.E..1 !> 29.68 49 OP ... 29.56 55 0 G 20.56 61 OD Queenstown —Calm 29.53 52 O Nuggets —B., f b Bluff—E., m 29.66 29.43 45 51 FB F Roxburgh—S..11.. 1 — 51 O Invercargill—S.W., 29.54 5.3 0 Balclutha —E., b ... 30.59 59 ]) Nnso’oy—Cairn ... 29.60 51 0 Pembroke— C aim 29.28 55 0 Ft. Chalmers —N.l'l ;r — 52 M Clyde—Calm —• 57 O