SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 21720, 15 May 1934, Page 1

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER. —To-morrow. — St. Clair; -1.11 a.m., 4.-‘lO p.m. Taiaroa Head; 1.21 a.m., 4.40 .p.m. Port Chalmers: 5.1 a.m., 5.20 p.m. Dunedin: 5.31 a.m., 5.30 p.m. ~THE SUN.” Sets to-day 4.47 p.m., rises to-mor-row 7.22 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON.

Sots to-day 5.19 p.m., rises to-mor-row 10.7 p.m. WEATHER REPORT. The Dominion Meteorologist (Dr E. Kidson) supplied the following at 9 a.m. to-day :—-

Weather.—B, blue sky; be, blue sky and detached clouds; c, cloudy; o, overcast; g, gloomy; u, ugly; r, lain; s, snow; d. drizzle: p, passing showers; h, hail; q, squally; 1, lightning; t, thunder; fog; m, mist; z, haze. Wind.—o, calm; 3, light air; 2, slight breeze; 3, gentle breeze; 1, moderate breeze; 5. fresh breeze; b, • strong breeze; 7, high wind; 8, gale; 9, strong gale; 10, whole gale; 11, storm; 12, hurricane. SAILED.—May 14. Kaimai, s.s. (5.15 p.m.), 1,435 tons, Sharpe, for Westport. Holmdale, s.s. (11 p.m.), CBl tons, Copland, for Wanganui via ports. ' May 15. Maiiiioa, s.s. (10 a.m.), 8,011 tons, Thurston, from Liverpool via Australian ports and Bluff. COASTWISE MOVEMENTS. Gale sailed yesterday for Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Nelson, Wanganui, and New Plymouth. Parera, sailed for Bluff yesterday, and is to return tb-morrow to load for Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth, and Port Waikato. / Storm is due at Port Chalmers on Thursday morning 'from Wellington. She will go into dock for painting, and come to Dunedin on Friday morning to load for Timaru. Lyttelton, Wellington, Picton, and Wanganui. Wiugatui, was to sail at 4 p.m. for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, ahd Auckland. Totara is loading at Dunedin and will sail to-morrow afternoon for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and New Plymouth. Waipiata is due to-morrow from Lyttelton, and is to sail the same day for Bluff. She will return on Saturday to load for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland. Onihi is to leave Wellington on Wednesday. and is due on Friday to load the same dav for Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton. Wellington, (Nelson, and New Plymouth. Poolta is to leave Wellington on Wednesday for Dunedin. She is due on Friday and is to sail the same day for Bluff, returning on Tuesday to load for Wellington. Napier, and Gishorne via Oamaru, Timaru, and Lyttelton. Karetn is to leave Auckland on Friclav, replacing the Waimarino. She will call at Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Bluff. Due at Dunedin on Wednesday, May 23, she will sail the' same day for Bluff. TEES DELAYED. The Tees has been delayed at the Chatham Islands for nearly a week by stormy weather. She may get away from the islands to-day or to-morrow. .INTERISLAND SERVICE. The interislaud express steamer Rangatira reached Lyttelton from Wellington at 6.45 a.m. to-day. Passengers and mail for the south connected with the express. KANNA RECOMMISSIONED. After having been laid up at Wellington for a short time, the Union Company's Kanna was recommissioned last Thursday, and sailed for Picton and Auckland. TRIPS TO SAMOA. Arrangements have been made for the Government motor vessel Maui Pomare to rim a series of cheap trips to Samoa, commencing on May 22 from Wellington, and four-weekly thereafter. ORARI LEAVES DAKAR. The Orari is reported to have cleared Dakar on May 7, en route from Liverpool to Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Bluff. She is due at Auckland on June 6. WAIRGRAPH LEAVES SYDNEY. Advice received by the Union Company states that the Waikouaiti left Sydney at 6 a.m. on Saturday y*Ui general cargo for discharge at Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Timaru. Ihe freight includes transhipments ex the Nankin, Orama, Monte Piana, Remo, Changte. Temeraire. and Yaye Maru. The Waikouaiti is duo at Dnhedm on Friday. OLDEST OIL VESSEL. EVOLUTION' OF THE TANKER. Probably the oldest vessel in existence carrying potroleiim in bulk is the

tanker Looch, plans of which were ap-

proved by Lloyd’s Register in July, 1886. She continued to appear in the register under the name of Loutsch, and later ’Lady Elinor, until 1928. The vessel was of Russian nationality, and in that year her name was omitted from the register, as it was reported she had been taken over by the Soviet authorities in the Black Sea, and no trace of her could he found. When the Russian Government issued its first ‘ Register of Ships ’ in 1923, she appeared under the name of Chaumian, under which name she again appears in Lloyd’s Register. The evolution of the tanker is considered not to be due to the merits of any one man; probably there were oil vessels built long before 1886. The really first transverse type of vessel, with oil next to the shell, was the Gluckauf. According to plans discovered of an old Chinese oil junk, the expansion chamber had been anticipated in China many hundreds of years ago. The transverse system gave way after many years to the Isherwood system, and then to the bracketless system. In utilising for structural strength the curved form of the latest type of vessel, and also in utilising electric welding, further progress may be recorded in the evolution of the oil-carrying vessel. DECENTRALISATION. In a number of countries it has recently been the ohpject to amalgamate various shipping lines under one management, but in Germany it has been decided that there should be decentralisation in the liner trades. Hamburg-America Line and the Norddeutscher Lloyd propose giving up the various smaller concerns taken over by them since the war. ” Already, it is stated, the Norddeutscher Lloyd has taken the necessary steps to separate the Argo and Neptune Companies. Herr Essberger, the head of the Ministry of Transport, when giving the above information, pointed out that special regard must be given to the building of tramp ships which have not developed according to German needs, and also to tankers. Mortgage hanks are to be formed, so that apparently owners and prospective owners can secure the necessary finance to build these vessels. _ In explaining the necessity for subsidies, it was stated that assistance had been offered to enable the industry to meet foreign competition, and that when foreign currencies were established the German shipping industry would be only too glad to give up Government assistance. Herr Essberger also stated that a larger proportion of German imports should be carried in German ships. Before the war ihe percentage was 80. whereas now it was about 40 per cent. VESSELS IN WIRELESS CALL. ' The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Auckland.—Antonio, Brisbane Maru, Cambridge, Canadian Britisher, City of Delhi, Cornwall, Kiwitea, Mariposa, Alonowai, Niagara, Ostahav, Port Sydney, Rangitata, Statira, Waipahi. Wellington.—Abel Tasman, Aorangi, Avelou Star, Fordsdale, Hertford, Kaliugo, Matai, Mataroa, Maui Pomare, Monterey, Port Melbourne, Port Wellington, Rangitane, llangatira, Storanger, Tamahine, Trojan Star, Turakina, Wahine, Waikawa. Awarua. —City of Tokio, Karepo, M’aimoa, Alaunganui, Strathaird, Waikunaiti, AVanganella. TELEGRAPHIC ADVICE. AUCKLAND, May 14.—Arrived: Kanna (7 a.m.), from Picton; Paua (7.10 a.m.), from Wellington • Waimarino (11.25 a.m.), from Wellington; Monowai (2.50 p.m.), from Sydney; AVinton (3.20 p.m.), from New York. NBAV PLYMOUTH, May 14. Sailed: Port Hobart (4.45 p.m.), for Wellington; Hauturu (6.25 p.m.), for Wanganui. WELLINGTON, May 14.—Arrived: Canopus (6.5 a.m.), from AA estport; Narbada (3.15 p.m.), from Auckland. Sailed: Port AVaikato (3 p.m.), for Lyttelton; Raugatira (7.50 p.m.), for Lyttelton; Waipiata (8.30 p.m.), for Lyttelton; Brisbane Maru (8.30 p.m.), for Auckland. . LYTTELTON, May 14.—Arrived: Orepuki (12.30 p.m.), from Westport; Breeze (I p.m.), from AVestport; boxton (1 p-m.), from Foxton. Sailed: Wahine (8.5 p.m.), for Wellington; Breeze (9.50 p.m.), for Timaru; Maui Pomare, for AVellington. OAMARU, May 15.—Arrived: Holmdale (6.45 a.m.), from Dunedin. BLUFF, May 14.—Sailed: Maimoa (8.30 p.m.), for Port Chalmers.

(For continuation see Late Shipping.)

First quarter May 22 2.50 a.m. Full moon May 29 9.11 a.m. Last quarter June 5 12.30 a.m. New moon June 12 1.41 p.m.

Bar. Ther. . W. Wellington—X. W.' Greym’th—W.N.W. 8 29.66 66 O 7 29.61 56 Q Christchurch—N. W. 4 29.35 57 0 Timaru—S. 4 29.28 60 0 Oamaru—S.E ' 1 29.32 50 R Punedin —S.W. 2 29.34 50 0 T> Qu eensto w n—N. W. i 29.32 45 Oil Bluff—W.N.W. 6 29.29 45 0 11