SHIPPING

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 August 1929, Page 9

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER—AUGUST, 1923.

DEPTH OF THE BAR The depth of the bar and river at high water yesterday was: —Bar, 26ft. Sins.; river, 20ft. Bins. ARRIVED August 29 —Tees, s.s.,' 247 tons (Dowell), 0.30 a.m., from Wellington. SAILED. August 28—Mako, s.s., 230 tons (Bates), 7.50 p.m., for Waikokupu. IN PORT Kanna, Tees. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Kaiapoi, Westport, to-night. Kaimai, Wellington, to-night. Kamona, Wellington, to-morrow. Ngatoro, Wellington, to-morrow. Kaituna, Westport, Monday. Titoki, Westport, Monday. Kaponga, Auckland, early. Regulus, Wanganui, early. | PROJECTED DEPARTURES Kanna, Auckland, to-night. Kaimai, Wellington, early. Ngatoro, New Plymouth, early. Kamona, Wellington and New Plymouth early. Regulus, Onakaka, early. Titoki, Nelson, early. AT OTHER PORTS. MELBOURNE, August 29. Sailed, Manuka, for New Zealand ports. LONDON, August 28. Arrived at San Francisco, Golden West. Sailed, lonic, from Colon; Surrey, from Curacao. SHIPPING NOTES The Kaiapoi is due from Auckland, via Westport, to-night. The Ngatoro is due to-morrow to load coal for New Plymouth. The Kaituna is due on Monday from Westport to load coal for Miramar. The Kaimai is due on Friday to load coal for return to Wellington. The Kanna sails to-night with coal for New Plymouth and Auckland. The Kamona is due on Friday from Westport to complete loading coal for New Plymouth and Wellington. The Kaponga leaves Auckland on Saturday for Greymouth. The Regulus returns from Wanganui, leaving to-day, to load coal for ' Onakaka.

The Titoki is due on Monday to load coal and timber for Nelson. The Tees arrived early this morning from Wellington. CARGO STEAMERS SOLD The ex-Commonwealth and Dominion steamer Port Lincoln, 7266 tons gross, which, was sold about two years ago, and renamed Cambrian Baroness, was recently sold again to the Clan Line Steamers, Ltd., and is now known as th© Clan Graham. The Cambrian Marchioness, which was formerly known as the Port Macquarie, has also been purchased by the Clan Line, and is now known as the Clan Grant. The British steamer Livingstonia, 4294 tons register, which has made a few voyages to Australian ports, has been sold to Italian buyers, and renamed Dott Paolo. The steamer Leitrim was recently sold to th© IndoPacific Shipping Company, Ltd., and renamed Narbada. The steamer Mallina, recently sold to th© Machida Shokai K. K. Line, has been renamed Seiko Maru. AN EMERGENCY ESCAPE DEVICE The British Admiralty recently tested a device which enables a submarine’s crew to escape to the surface in an emergency. The apparatus, which .weighs only four* to five pounds, is strapped to the man’s chest, and has a flexible tube with a mouthpiece through which he breathes. The air exhaled into the apparatus is regenerated by the absorption of the carbon dioxide, and the restoration to it of the requisite amount of oxygen. It was severely tested on men sunk in a chamber to a depth of twenty-one fathoms. Wearing the apparatus, they quitted the chamber at this depth, and in each instance reached the surface safely in a minute and a quarter. The experiment was carried out by volunteer officers and men from Devonport and Portsmouth on board the naval diving ship Tidmouth.

August 29 —4.35 a.m.; 5.10 p.m. August 30 —5.55 a.m.; 6.30 p.m. August 31—7.15 a.m.; 7.50 p.m.