SHIPPING.

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 June 1906, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF GHEYiVSOUTH.

PHASES OF THE MOON—JUNE, 1906. Full moon .. 7th 8.42 a.m. Last quarter .. 14th 7.4 a.m. No moon .. 22nd 10.36 a.m. First quarter .. 30lli 1.49 a.m. HIGH WATER. Juno 1.—4.54 a.m.; 5.9 p.m. June 2nd.—5.46 a.m.; 0.20 p.m. June 3.—6.52 a.m.; 7.23 p.m. WEATHER REPORT Crcymoulh. —Wind, east, light, breeze eat her, fine; barometer, 50.20; thermomc ter, 48 degrees; tides, good; liar, consid enable swell. WEATHER FORECAST. Captain Edwin wired from Wellingtoi at 9 a.m. this day as follows: “Expect moderate to strong .souther); bids: glass rise; tides and sea moderate probably frost to-night.” ARRIVEIL May 31.- Pareora, ss, 355 tons, Caj tain black, from Lyttelton . May 31.—Mapourika, ss, 718 tons. t':q tain Stewart, from Westport, Nelson an Wellington. Passengers; Misses Mi (bath. McNamara, Franklin, lirowi Mesdamos Moore, Lamaeroft, Sampsoi Stedman and four children, Wright Messrs .Schultz, Halier, Zapaterra. Kell; IJallanlyne. Henderson, Helms. Kileei Haven,' Curtis, Oates, P.nrk, Thompsc (2). McCabe, McKeitcb. Cow, Littl Simm, Warren, Wright, Lord. Love, Cr jell, and 15 steerage. June I.— Kennedy, ss, 157 tons, (.'apta Vickeniian, from Westport and north.

SAILKI). Miiy 31. ■ Moa. t;s. ;I3 lons, Captain Stnvyrr. fur 1 1 it ton. May 51. Annin Hill. silioomT. 121 tons, Captain Williams, for Lyttelton. May 51.- -Maponrika, .ss, 718 tons. Captain Stow,art. for Westport, Xolsun aml Wellington. Passengers; Misses Discaeiati, Hampson, Crowley, Daman, Chapman ; Mesdames Hannan, Addison : Messrs Hisliop. Kspie, Carnhno. Detuielioy. Hush, Welib, liradley. Russell. Headland. Wiildop. Lighthand, A. Robb, l.anglon and four steerage. .lime 1. -Rosamond, ss. 462 tons. Captain I‘ashman, for Wellington .

IN DIRT. I’areora. Kahuna. Kennedy. Kdward, (‘I vile. The Moa sailed for Hi. ton last night with a i a rgo of i on I. The Katnona is line front Lyttelton oi reel tomorrow to load timber. The schooner Annie Hill, timber laden, sailed for l.ytteiton last, evening. Hie Rosamond sailed for Wellington direct this afternoon with a load of coal. Hie Is ait ima sails to-morrow evening for l.vltelton and Timaru with a full load of timber. The brig Kdward for Melbourne is readv for sea, and will sail as soon as a little dillienlty with the erew is arranged. The Shaw. -SaviH and New Zealand Shipping Companies have arranged reduced rate in Hie second and third class litres to l.oodon during the winter months. During the past year the number of sailors who visited the Wellington Sailors was 25,250, as against 22,079 the previous year. The vein’s receipts t hailed .€504 its 3d. The I’areora arrived front Lyttelton last night and sails for Wellington this evening. The I’etouo from Wellington arrives this afternoon, and sails to-mor-ro. probably for Lyttelton. Tlu> Arahnra leaves Wellington at noon to morrow for I’iclon. Nelson and the Coast, arriving at Creynionth at 9 o’clock on Monday morning, and sailing on her return at six o'clock in Hi eevening. The launch Karamca lies in the Nile River on her starboard side, with her stern out of the water. The sleepers arc being got out, and hen that work is corncompleted she will he beached. The vessel's sinking is ascribed to the damage received ■ when she was stranded at Charleston some time ago. At the termination of the quarter end mg March 31st this year, three steamers of 20.000 tons or over were built in the Cnited Kingdom. There were, I -cover, two of 15,QU0 and under 20,000 tons, two of 12,000 and under 15,000 tons, and one over 10.000 tons and under 12,000 tons, making a total of seven vessels, each over 10,000°toiis. IT STUMS DCTIKS. The folloing Customs duties were col | r , ti'il at the Rort of (IreymoiUh during

Total .. 8 Excise duty on beer totalled £7O 2s.

THU NEW CCNARDURS,

It is generally considered to be a foregone conclusion that by the building ;| f its two new 25-knot liners the Cimard Steamship Company will achieve among other objects that* of bringing back to that company "the blue ribbon of the Atlantic.” The Kaiser Wilhelm 11, of the North German Uovcl line, at present holds the record for the Eastward passage, the fastest average time established by this vessel over the distance being 25.58 knots per hour. The Kaiser Wilhelm 11 has a length of 706 ft, a breadth of 72ft, and a moulded depth of 52JI't, and her engines are capable of something over <IO,OOO horse power when worked to full capacity. The new liners will have a length of '7B6ft, a beam of 88ft, a depth of 60ft, and a displacement of 43,000 tons. They will be larger on every point of coup parison than even the famous old Grew Kastcrn, whose breadth of 83ft and depth of 57ift are greater than the corresponding dimensions of any ship afloat even at the present day. Compared with the largest ships ever built, the new Cunarders show themselves 01 ft longer than the llaltie. 13ft broader, an ill 111 more in moulded depth, yet in point of dead wehdit or displacement they will anly exceed the llaltie by 3000 tons, this indicating to some extent how the underwater hodv has been lined down to get the easy lines necessary for speed, 'i he llaltie lias maintained 16.25 knots across the Atlantic with her engines indicating 18,000 horse power, but So drive the new Ci-ne.rders nine knots faster will require four times as much power, their horsepower being set down at 75,000. the builders of' the new ships have guaranteed that they shall maintain an average speed of 24J knots an hour for the whale trans-Atlantic voyage, and in view of the great si/e of the ships, their fine underwater form, great momentum when tinder way, and the enormous horse-power that their quadruple turbine engines will develop, it is considered that that speed should not only he easy of accomplish-, ment, hut should he greatly exceeded, at least on the trial trip. Recent turbine steamers appear to have invariably exceeded their contract speeds. Of these, two huge vessels, the only being built at the John Brown Company's Works, on the Clyde, is expected to ho launched about July next, but is not likely to be ready for her trial trip before the following spring. The other building at Swan and Hunter’s yard, on tho Tyne, will probably bo launched about September next, and make her trial trip about a year from that time. It is proposed to call the now liners the “Lusitania" and “Mauritania." These names have not mot favour in all quarters, and tho good old names “Britannia” and “Hibernia," held by the first ships to carry the Gunard flag across tho Atlantic, have been suggested in their stead. Stood vertically on end ono of the new Cunarders would tower 231 ft above tho pyramidal top of tho Washington Monument (551 ft) and 338 ft higher than tho cross at the top of St. Peter’s Cathedral at Rome.

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