SHIPPING

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4440, 16 July 1887, Page 2

SHIPPING

PORT OF TIMARU,

The flagstaff of Timaru is situate l in 171 deg. 17miu. 20secs East ; longitude, 14 deg. 23min. South latitude. ABBIVBD. July 16—Grafton, s.s., 242 tons, Nordstrom, from*Dunedin. BAILED. July 15—Ocean Ranger, barquentine, 243 tons, Dilner, for Newcastle. IMPOSTS. In the Grafton, N.M. and A. Company agents :35 tons general merchandise, t onsignees—Kitchen; Maxwell j Collins; Bowie { Jonas ; Order; Dunlo. ; Hutton ; Anderson ; Webster; O.F. Association; Bruce; McKibbon; Fearpoint; Morrison; McKay ; Deeley ; Cornish ; Egan ; Kett; Y oung; Parker; Murphy; Beid and Gray ; Taylor; Angiand; Kernuban, McCabon and Co.; Coira ; Owers ; Siegert; Blyth ; Brown ; Agents ; Ellis ; Station Master; Harbour Boaid; Craigie; Bice; Priest and Holdgate Haggitt; Exley ; Quelch ; Healey ; Hitch ; Keith ; Reilly; Barrai t; A skin ; Cowie ; Moore; Morgan; Davies and Murphy; Gall; Watkins ; Taylor; ■Dr Neill; Miss English; IT S.S. I'ompany ; Bayliss: Hatton ; Sharp ; Clancy ; Morris ; Roberts and Mahon. The barquentine Ocean Banger was towed to sea last evening by the 1 itan. She is hound for Newcastle with a cargo of potatoes and bran. The Union Company’s s.s. Grafton arrived from Dunedin this morning with a large inward cargo. She will proceed North to-night. The phenomenon of a steamship, the f Pocahontas, now building in one of the / American yards, will have a propeller 24 feet in diameter, not cast but wrought The blades are in spiral order and there is a gaining pitch towards the stern. The most unique feature of her is perhaps her transverse propeller. Forty feet back from her bows where her beam at the water line is but 10 feet there is a circular tunnel 10 feet in diameter, the wall of which is inch and half iron. This tunnel runs right through her below the water line. The ends of the tunnel are ordinarily closed up by stopper plates but when required these plates can be instantly dropped back, and a powerful propeller the two blades of which at each end of the tunnel fill the diameter, can be set, whirling by means of a vertical engine above the tunnel. The vessel can thus slew round in her own length and without headway. In event of an impending collision this propeller should prove invaluable. The grand saloon is 18ft 6in wide, 13ft 6in high, and 400 ft long, unbroken by mast, smoke stack, engine, frame, or any other obstruction. The masts are stepped in iron turrets on the steel deck above The six smoke stacks pass through stateroom spaces at the sides and the engines with all tneir belongings are below the water line.