SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 22684, 25 June 1937, Page 3

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER. —To-morrow. — St. Clair; 3.5 C a.m., 4.19 p.m. Taiaroa Head: 4.6 a.m., 4.29 p.m. Port Chalmers: 4.46 a.m., 5.9 p.m. Dunedin: 5.16 a.m., 5.39 p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-day 4.29 p.m., rises to-mor-row; 7.51 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON.

Set to-day 8.26 a.m., rises to-morrow 6.55 p.m. WEATHER REPORT. The Government Meteorologist (Dr F. Kidson) supplied the following at

Weather—B. Blue sky; be, blue sky and detached clouds; c, cloudy; o, overcast; gloomy: u ugly r rain; s, snow; d, drizzle; p. passing showers; h. hailj q. squally; 1. lightning; t, thunder; f, fog; m, mist; z, haze. Wind.—o, calm; 1, light air; 2, slight breeze, 3, gentle breeze; 4, breeze; fresh breeze; 6, strong breeze: 7, high wind: 8, gale; 9, strong gale; Id, whole gale; 11, storm; Id, hurricane. ARRIVED. —June 24. Melbourne Maru, m.s. (4,30 p.m.), 5,423 tons, Suraki, from Japan via northern ports. SAILED. —June 26. Melbourne Star, m.s. (5 a.m.), 11,168 tons, Wilson, for Bluff. IN PORT AT NOON TO-DAY. Vessel. Berth. Southland.... Laid up. Wainui llattray street. Karetu Birch street. Melbourne Maru Victoria wharf. MOVEMENTS. —Coastal. — Port Waikato was due this afternoon from Auckland, to load and sail the same evening for Auckland and Wellington via ports. Waimarino left Auckland on June 19 for Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Bluff, and is expected here tomorrow, to sail on Monday for -BJuu, whence she will return to load for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland. Breeze was due this afternoon from Bluff, to load and sail to-morrow for Wellington and Wanganui via ports. Waipahi is due on Wednesday to load for Wellington, Nelson, and New Plymouth. Waipiata is to leave Auckland tomorrow for Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Bluff. She is expected here on AVednesday, June 30, and sails for Bluff. Holmlea is due here on Monday morning from Wellington, to load and sail for Wellington, New Plymouth, and Waikato via ports. Storm was due late this afternoon from Wellington, and after discharge she will proceed to Port Chalmers to dock. She will return to Dunedin on June 28 to load and sail the same day for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Wanganui. —Overseas.— Stackwell left \A 7 ellington on June 16, and was due here this afternoon to complete discharge of New York, Philadelphia, and Newport News cargo. She will proceed to Port Ivembla for hunkers. Melbourne Star left Liverpool on April 25 for Auckland, AVellingtcm, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers. _ She arrived at Auckland on May 25 and at Port Chalmers on June 20. She sailed this morning for Bluff, Timaru, Wellington, and Auckland. The vessel is now to clear Auckland finally on July 8 for London via Cape Hprn. Newton Elm, with a cargo of hardwood, loaded at Bunbury (AVest Australia) on April 30, and left Newcastle on May 18 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. She arrived at Auckland on May 25, sailed from Lyttelton last evening, and is due here to-morrow. Melbourne Maru, from Kobe via northern ports, arrived yesterday afternoon to discharge general cargo and load and sail to-morrow afternoon for Japan. Gera left New Orleans on May 25, was due at Auckland about June 21, and is expected here about July 9. Fordsdale is due here from London via northern ports on July 15 to load Homeward. Kent, from London via Suva, is due at Port Chalmers via Lyttelton about June 28, to complete discharge and commence Homeward loading. Auretta left Ocean Island on June 12 for Ravensbourne and Dunedin via Lyttelton. She was due at Lyttelton yesterday, and is due at Ravensbourne on June 28. Rangitiki is due here .from London via northern ports on July 6 to discharge, and will return from Bluff on July 19 to load and sail for Lyttelton and Wellington, whence she will sail about July 29 for London. INTERISLAND EXPRESS. The interisland express steamer Maori arrived at Lyttelton from Wellington at 7 this morning. Passengers and mails for the south connected with the express. TRANSPACIFIC MAIL SERVICES. ‘-Northbound. Monterey left Melbourne on June 21, and was to leave Sydney to-day for Auckland (where she is duo on June 28), Suva, Pago Pago, Honolulu, Los Angeles (July 12), and San Francisco (July 13). Monowai left Sydney on June 10 for Vancouver, arrived at Auckland on Juno 14, left there on June 15, arrived at Suva on June 18, was due at Honolulu to-day, and at A 7 ancouver on July Niagara is to- leave Sydney on July 8 for Auckland, where she is expected 2.

on July 12, to sail the following day for Vancouver via Suva (July 10), Honolulu (July 23), and Victoria (July 29). She is expected at Vancouver on July 30- T , Mariposa is to leave Sydney on July 23 for Auckland, Suva, Pago Pago, Honolulu, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. She is expected at Auckland on July 20, and at San Francisco on August 10. —Southbound. — Aorangi left Vancouver on May 12 for Auckland and Sydney via Honolulu (May 19) and Suva (May 28). She arrived at Auckland on June 1, and sailed on June 2 for Sydney, where she arrived on Juno 5. Sho is temporarily withdrawn from the service to August 5 for engine room repairs. Niagara left Vancouver on June 8 for Sydney via Honolulu, Suva, and Auckland. Sho arrived at Honolulu on June 16, and was due at Suva today and at Auckland on June 28, and sails the following day from that port, arriving at Sydney on July 3. Mariposa left San Francisco on June 22 and Los Angeles on June 23 for Auckland via Honolulu, Pago Pago, and Suva. She is due at Auckland on July 9, to sail for Sydney, where she is duo on July 12, and at Melbourne .on July 15. Monterey is to leave San Francisco on July 20 for Sydney via Suva, and Auckland. She is expected to arrive at Suva on August 3, at Auckland on August 6, at Sydney on August 9, and at Melbourne on August 12. VESSELS TO ARRIVE.

AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND.

Wanganella left Sydney on June 4 for Wellington, arrived there on June 9, and sailed the same evening for Sydney, where she arrived on June 13. She sailed on June 14 for Melbourne, where she arrived on June 16, returning on June 20. when she sailed for Auckland. She arrived there yesterday, and will sail to-morrow for. Sydney, where sho is due on June 30. Karetu sailed on June 1 for Newcastle (June 8) and Port Kembla to load. She left Sydney on June 13, and was to clear Hobart on June 16 for Bluff, Dunedin, Oamaru, Timaru, and Lyttelton. She arrived yesterday morning, to sail to-morrow afternoon for Oamaru en route to Sydney. Gabriella was fixed to load timber at Grafton, New South Wales, on May 30 for Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. She will also bring a quantity of general cargo from Newcastle and Eden for the two northern ports. She sailed from Clarence River on June 11, and was expected to leave Edithburg on June 21. Kekerangu was to load in South Australia early in June for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and She left finally from Melbourne on June 14, arrived at Auckland on June 21, and is due here about the end of the month. Maunganui left Auckland on June 10 for Sydney, where she arrived on Juno 14. She sailed the same, day for Melbourne, where she arrived on June 16, returning on June 18 to Sydney, whence she sailed the same day for Wellington. She arrived there on June 22, and will leave to-morrow for Sydney, where sho is expected on June 30. Waikouaiti is loading at Newcastle, thence Port Kembla, Sydney, Lyttelton, Timaru, and Dunedin. She is expected to clear Sydney to-morrow. Waiana, from Barry (Wales) arrived at Auckland on June 20, and is expected at Dunedin at the end of June via Portland and Wellington. Waitaki left Melbourne on June 24 for Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Wellington. She is due here on Tuesday, June 29, and will sail on Wednesday evening. LONDON’S SHIPPING. During the week ended May 7, 1,348 vessels representing 1,154,482 net register tons, used the Port of London. Of these 560 vessels (915,527 net register tons) were to and from Empire and foreign ports, and 788 vessels (248,955 net' register tons) were engaged in coastwise traffic. The arrivals included 12 meat cargoes —four from Australia, five from New_ Zealand, and three from South America, comprising 517,000 carcasses of lamb and mutton, 128,000 packages of beef, quantities of pork, rabbits, and sundries. COUNTY OF LINLITHGOW, OLD SAILER NOW A TANKER. The old Craig clipper County of Linlithgow, which after half a century of trading, first as a square-rigged sailing ship and then at various times as a five-masted auxiliary schooner, a twin-screw motor freighter, and a fourmasted vegetable oil carrier, has now become a Greek motor tanker trading out of Piraeus as the Katerina. In her day the County of Linlithgow was one of the fastest of R. and J. Craig’s famous County Line clippers, which used to visit Australia. One of them, the County of Merioneth, which was built in 1880, is still employed at Port | Adelaide as the coal hulk Merion.

The County of Linlithgow, built by Barclay, Curie Ltd., of Glasgow, in 1887, for many years sailed under the Craig flag. In 1905, while bound for Melbourne with a full cargo of timber, all her dectk fittings, lifeboats, and the whole of her deck cargo, were swept away during a terrific storm in the Southern Ocean. After the County Lino had finished with her, the County of Linlithgow was bought by a Chilean shipping company. After the war she was bought by the Philippine Vegetable Oil Company, and was registered under the American flag at Manila. She had been made an auxiliary some years previously, and in 1919 her hull had been converted to carry bulk petroleum. Her new owners converted her to a four-masted motor freighter, and’ renamed her the Katherine. Within a few years she was bought by J. A. Galani and Y. Behar, of Piraeus, and subsequently this company resold her to other Greek owners, who rerigged her and made her a five-masted auxiliary schooner. The old ship was sold this year, converted to a twin-screw motor tanker, and renamed Katerina. Now. with only three masts and her machinery aft, in approved tanker style, she is in service again under the house flag of the Soc. Anon Hellenique Maritime Commercialo “ Transpetrol.” Curiously another of the County Line fleet, the County of Inverness, was also converted some years _ ago when charters became increasingly difficult for sailing ships to find. She is now the Estonian steamer Nemrac. LATEST AUSTRALIAN CHARTERS. Rowanbank (ex King Howe), Br. s., 5,103 tons, Liverpool (N.S.) to Sydney and Melbourne—paper. Kinross, Br. s., 4,956 tons, Queensland ports to the United Kingdom—sugar. Penang, Finn, barque, 1,743 tons, Seychelles to New Zealand—phosphates, MAUNGANUI’S TRANSHIPMENTS. The Union Company’s Maunganui, which arrived at Wellington on June 22 from Sydney, had transhipments ex Ormiston, Kiwitea, Kanimbla, Mareeba, Talune, Yarra, Cardross, Goulburn, Canberra, Manunda, Macedon, Kyokkoh Maru, Taiping, Mundra, Oronsay, Bullaren, Temeraine, Maloja, Nienw Holland, Donau, Tokyo Maru, Mildura, Waipawa, Momba, and Orungal. ’HORORATA AT LONDON. The Hororata, which sailed from Lyttelton on May 10, and arrived at Montevideo on Juno 1 and Dakar on June 14, arrived at London on the afternoon of June 22. PAKEHA FOR LONDON. The Pakeha, which has been loading for the United Kingdom, will leave Lyttelton to-day for London. She will travel via Montevideo and Tcneriffe. WAIPAWA FOR AUSTRALIA. The Waipawa, which left London on May 8 for Australia (to discharge), left Brisbane on June 22 for New Plymouth, where she is to commence her Homeward loading. She is due at the northern port this evening. HUNTINGDON INCLUDES LYTTELTON. The Huntingdon has been delayed on account of bad weather, and was expected to reach Wanganui to-day to commence Homeward loading. Sho will now include Lyttelton in her loading itinerary, her ports being Wanganui. New Plymouth, Opua, Auckland, Toko maru Bay, Napier, Wellington, and Lyttelton. She will leave Lyttelton about July 20 for London, Avonmouth, Liverpool, and Glasgow via Cape Horn. RADIO FROM KENT. A radio has been received from the steamer Kent that she expected to arrive at Lyttelton, from Suva, this afternoon. She will discharge London cargo at Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. STEAMER WITH BRICK FUNNEL. After many years’ experience of sail-ing-boat ferries between Auckland and Devonport, said Mr T. Walsh (Auckland) in an address on old Devonport, the Provincial Government in 1858 called tenders for a steam ferry service to North Shore. There were to be two return trips daily. In 1859 a steamer was built at Riverhead for this service. The craft was the City of Auckland, and screw driven—an innovation in thoso days—but the boat was most remarkable for its funnel, which was built of brick. WAIWERA’S FAST PASSAGE. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s motor ship Waiwera recently completed another very fast run. She left Melbourne on May 9 for the United Kingdom, and arrived at Hull on June 12, after an exceptionally speedy passage, making the passage from Cape Town to Hull in 15 days. The Waiwera some time ago completed the trip from Liverpool to Cape Town in 15 days 14h 12min, 19 hours behind the record (from Southampton) of the old Union liner Scot, set up in 1893. The Liverpool route is 134 miles longer than the Southampton route, the difference being equivalent to about eight hours’ running. AT OTHER PORTS. WELLINGTON J„ no 24.—Arrived: Maori (7 a.m.), from Lyttelton; Poolta (12.40 p.m.), from Westport; Port Whangarei (2.35 p.m.), from Lyttelton. Sailed: Maori (7.45 p.m.), for Lyttelton. LYTTELTON, June 24.—Sailed: Port Waikato (noon), for Dunedin ;> Stockwell (5 p.m.), for Dunedin; Newton Elm (5.15 p.m.), for Dunedin; Wahine (8.40 p.m.), for Wellington. BLUFF, June 24.—Sailed: Breeze (8 p.m.), for Dunedin. IN RADIO RANGE. The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Auckland.-—Matai, Kairanga, Kekernngu, Maui Pomare, Matua, Niagara, Waiotapu, Canadian Challenger, Chifuku Maru, Cornwall, Gera, Monterey, Myrtlebank, Nardana, Queen Victoria, Tredinnick, Waipawa. Wellington.—Maori, Tamahine, Wahine, _ H.M.S. Achilles, Kaiwarra, Monowai, Waiana, Recorder, Auretta, Akaroa, Arawa, Fordsdale, Huntingdon, Kent, Mariposa, O. B. Sorensen, Port Chalmers, Rangitata, Rangitiki, Remnera, Rotorua, Tairoa, Tamaroa, Turakina. Awarua. H.M.S. ’Wellington, Karetu, Waikouaiti, Waitaki, Triaster, Triona, Maetsnycker, Melbourne Maru, Nieuw Holland, Orama, Queen Mary, Thorhild. Chatham Islands.—South Sea.

Last quarter July 2 12.32 a.m. New moon July 8 3.42 p.m. First quarter July 15 9.6 p.m. Full moon. July 24 12.15 a.m.

9 a.m. to-day:— Wellington—S.S.E. 7 Bar. 29.99 Ther. 43 . W. OP G-rovmoutli —E. 5 29.91 45 B Christchurch —S.W, 4 30.15 37 C P Timaru —S.W. ... 2 30.20 39 O Oamaru —S.W. ... 2 30.19 38 O Dunedin —S.S.W. 2 30.20 38 C P Nuggets—S. 3 30.26 39 CP Bluff—S.E. 2 30.22 43 c z

—At Dunedin Newton Elm Stockwell Waiana , Aurctta Kent Nardana Chifuku Maru Rangitiki Gera Fordsdale Tredennick Brisbane Maru ... Cornwall Hauraki Maimoa Woiruna and Port ... June 25 ... ... June 25 .... ... June 27 ... June 28 ... June 29 .... ... July 3 - July 4 ... | u 1 v 6 - July 9 ... July 15 .... July 1 7 - July 18 ... July 22 .... - July 27 ... July 29 .... ... Sept. 6 Chalmers. — ......... Bunbury New York Wales Ocean Is. Liverpool New York Japan London .. New Orleans London Montreal Japan Liverpool ....... V ancouver Liverpool , Vancouver —At Other Ports . — Waipawa Jun. 26 3 25 Lond’n ... Liverpool Japan ... Vanc’vr Chituku Maru ... ... Auck., June 26 27 28 ... Singapore 28 I> 1 ' „rnn 3 A * 1. ... New York Brisbane Maru ... Maetsuycker 12 13 15 ... Saigon ... Vanc’vr ... Auck., July 15 . City of Shanghai Waimana ... Auck.. July 18 . 19 20 ... New Yo..c ... Liverpool Japan Northumberland ... Manju Maru City of Glasgow ... Auck., July ... Auck., July 21 26 ... Liverpool ... Montreal ... Vanc’vr 28 Rangitiki Van Rees Durham Sydney Maru Mataroa Cambridge Anhalt ... Auck., Aug. 30 9 12 ; 13 16 .. Singapore ... Liverpool Southampton ... Liverpool New Orl’ns ... Vanc’vr Niagara ‘ 23 26 ... Vanc’vr 30 Liverpool ... Montreal 4 [ jmnrirl* 15 ... Vanc’vr 27 ... Liverpool South’mptn ,,, Liverpool ... Vanc'vr City of Brisbane Talnui - ... Auck., Sep. 27 2S 6 . 18 OVERSEAS SAILINGS. 25 Southampton Melbourne Maru Port Fairy Melbourne Star ... Port Wellington ... Rotorua Waipawa Huntingdon Australia Star ... ... Lytt., June 29 30 7 . 8 . is : 17 . 17 , 17 , ... London