LATE SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 19381, 15 October 1926, Page 8

LATE SHIPPING.

ARRlVED.— October 15. Martian, s.s. (10.30 tons, H. Faulkner, from Napier. Port Hacking, s.s. (1 p.m.), 6,22 u tons, Hoad, from New York. Norlolk, Panama, and north New Zealand ports. MAMARI LOUSES ANCHOR. An unusual mishap occurred as the overseas liner Hainan was coming in at the Heads this lorcnoon. The port bow anchor accidentally fell overboard and was lost. The vessel was entering the harbor at a speed of about thir teen knots, when, in the vicinity of the mole, the weight ot the anchor was being transferred from the usual action of the windlass to the brake mechanism when it seems that something slipped. The lugs of the brake snapped oil, and this released the anchor, which weighed over four tons, in a twinkling the anchor was on the bottom, and as its Unites dug into the sand the cable flew out of the pipe _ until the hundred odd fathoms ol it, in the chain locker, was exhausted. The end of the cable is Usually shackled securely to the .keelson, which seems to have been tho case in this instance. The cable hummed taut as a fiddle suing, and the big 8,000-ton steamer was almost brought to a standstill. Tbo enormous tension served to snap the cable outside the hawser pipe. The sudden stoppage of headway swerved tho steamer in tho fairway, but with the help of the twin propellers ami prompt action in tho engine room, the pilot (Captain F. M'Donald) regained the correct course, and berthed the Mamari at the Bowen pier, Port Glimmers. The Harbor Board’s vessels will recover the lost anchor and cable.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS

■AUCKLAND, October 10.—Arrived: Canadian Commander (12 p.m.), from Montreal. WELLINGTON, October 15. Sailed: H.M..S Dunedin (11.30 a.m.), for Picton. NEWCASTLE, October 15. Arrived: Kauri, from Auckland, bailed: Kawatin, tor Auckland.