PORT OF BLUFF

Southland Times, Issue 21728, 14 June 1932, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF

ARRIVED. Monday, June 13. Wainui s.B. (Captain J. Brisco) 1,633 tons from Melbourne at 9.5 a.m. SAILED. Monday. June 13. Wainui s.s. (Captain J. Brisco) 1,633 tons for Dunedin at 4.10 p.m. .VESSEL IN PORT. Port Gisborne, m.v. GENERAL NOTES. Tire Union Company's steamer Wainui, from Melbourne, berthed shortly after 9 a.m. yesterday. She discharged mails and cargo and left for northern ports via Duni edin at ten past four in the afternoon. ’ The Wainui is expected to leave Wellington on Friday on tier return voyage to Bluff. She is due here on Monday morning and will leave again the same day for Melbourne direct. The ketch Lily arrived from Stewart 1 Island with a cargo of fish at 12.40 p.m. yesterday. She left again for the island at little before five o'clock the same evenThe Waipiata,'which sailed from Wellington last evening for Lyttelton, Dunedin and Bluff, is due here on Thursday to discharge general cargo. After loading back for northern ports the vessel will sail on Friday for Dunedin. The Waikouaiti is expected to arrive at Bluff on Monday from Lyttelton and to sail again the same day for Sydney direct. The Waihemo is scheduled to load on the Pacific Coast during July (Vancouver on the Ist, San Francisco on the 13th and Los Angeles on the 15th) for Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Bluff. The vessel is due here about August 18 and will afterwards sail for Melbourne direct. , . The Storm from Lyttelton is expected to arrive at Bluff to-morrow morning to discharge and load general cargo. The vessel will sail for Dunedin later in the day. The C. and D. Line steamer Port Melbourne left Wellington on Friday for Southampton and London via Cape Horn and Montevideo. Although it was announced some time ago that tlie old Richardson steamer Putiki was to be sunk, she is still at her berth with the Parera at Wellington, which is at present laid up at the dock wharf. The Putiki is dismantled and ready to be scuttled, and she will be taken out to sea by the motor ship Awahou when opportunity offers. To complete her Homeward loading, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s motor liner Rangitane arrived at Wellington last Thursday from Auckland. She is scheduled to clear Wellington finally at noon to-day for London via the Panama Canal. The cabin fittings of the steamer Kaponga. which is stranded on the apron of the north breakwater at the entrance to the Grey River, are now being washed ashore, fol- ’ owing the high seas prevailing during the past few days,’ which have _ continuously washed over the ship. It is stated that the hull is opening on the port side. The Harbour Board's shed, in which some of the salvaged gear is stored, was broken into, end some of the articles were stolen. Cable advice has been received that the Federal steamer Middlesex reached London on June 7. She left Wellington on April 29 for London and Hamburg, via Cape Horn. Montevideo and Dakar. The Union Company’s Waikawa. en route from Los Angeles, via Papeete, was to leave Aitukai last Thursday for Auckland, where she is due on Saturday. She will later complete discharge of her Pacific Coast cargo at Wellington, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. and is due at Wellington on June 22. Her South Island cargo will be discharged at Wellington and transhipped to Lyttelton and Dunedin. The motor vessel Coptic, which was at the.entrance to the Oamaru harbour at 4.50 p.m. on Friday, was brought in on the tide, berthed and moored, and was ready for working at 6 o’clock. The Coptic is the largest vessel that has visited the port, being 500 feet in length, 4% feet wlaer tn beam than the Westmoreland. During the week-end a large number of residents visited the vessel. The C. and D. Line motor ship Port Hobart, which was scheduled to leave New York on July 23 for Auckland. Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin, will now leave New York on July 23 for Auckland, Wellington, Brisbane. Sydney and Melbourne. Seen on a moonlight night, a large iceberg that was sighted in the Southern Indian Ocean by the motor ship Karamea had a beautiful silver appearance. Officers on the Karamea, which arrived at Auckland from Liverpool, via Cape Town, on Wednesday evening and is due at Bluff on June 22. estimated the berg to be 500 feet long and 100 feet high. It was seen early in the morning of May 23. when the motor ship was in latitude 44 degrees 52 minutes south and longtitude 53 degrees 25 minutes east. The Karamea passed the berg a: a distance of about one mile. Although the iceberg was plainly visible in the moonlight, it would have been a menace to navigation on a dark night or in thick weather, and the master of the Karamea thought it best to broadcast information concerning the position of the berg, its estimated drift and the weather conditions. What is believed to be a record voyage from England to New. Zealand, via the Cape of Good Hope, was made by the New Zealand Shipping Company's motor ship Opawa, which is due at Bluff within the next few days. The Opawa left Glasgow ih ballast at 2 a.m. on April 22, and arrived at Dakar, on the north-west coast of Africa, at 5 p.m. on April 25. She left Dakar at 1 a.m. on April 29, and after a passage in fair weather arrived at Auckland at 4 p.m. (approximately) on May 28. The average speed from Glasgow to Dakar was 16.2 knots, and for the whole voyage 16.02 knots. The distance covered was 13,620 miles. The actual steaming time was 850.25 hours. When loaded on a previous voyage from Liverpool to Auckland, via the Cape of Good Hope, the Opawa's average speed was 15 knots. The Opawa, of 10,107 tons gross, is one of three fast modern motor liners owned by the New Zealand Shipping Company, the other ships being the Otaio and the Orari. The Otaio was recently featured as the "record breaker,” but the Opawa is as fast a ship as the Otaio. and is entering the lists of the ships that can be looked to when it comes to making new records. When the Opawa was on her maiden voyage to New Zealand she towed to port the disabled City of Kimberley. The Opawa was the first motor ship to leave New Zealand for London, via Cape Horn. She sailed at 8.45 a.m. on August 19 of last year, and arrived at London after a trip of 3411 days. For a call only at Dakar, the voyage is believed to be a record one for the Cape Horn route. The average speed was 15.25 knots. On her next voyage from New Zealand to England, via Cape Horn, she sailed from Lyttelton, and maintained an average speed of 15.1 knots. On December 5 of last year it was announced that the Opawa was the first regular trader for a number of years to make the voyage from England to New Zealand via the Cape of Good Hope. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were within range of the undermentioned wireless stations yesterday : — • Auckland: Aorangi, Elveric, Karamea, Karetu, H.M.S. Laburnum, Marama, O. B. Sorensen, Recorder, Voco, Waikawa. Waipahi, Yarrawlle. Wellington: Kalingo, Maori. Mariposa, Maui Pomare, Monterey. Niagara, Nucula, Port Dunedin, Port Melbourne, Rangatira, Rangltata, Rangitiki, Tamahine. Tymerlc, H.M.S. Wakakaura, Welcombe, Zealandic. Awarua: Canadian Constructor. Coptic. Matai, Maunganui, New Zealand, Wainui. Chatham Islands: Nil. TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Auckland, June 13. Arrived: Waimarino 7.20 a.m. from Wellington. Sailed: H.M.S. Laburnum 9.15 a.m. for Suva; O. B. Sorensen 9.50 a.m. for Dunedin; Aorangi 5.35 p.m. for Sydney; Karamea 8 p.m. for Wellington. Wellington, June' 13. Arrived: Monowai, 4.25 a.m., from Sydney; Waipahi, 2.35 p.m., from Auckland; Awahou, 6.55 p.m., from Cook Strait. Sailed: Ngakau, 9.30 a.m., for Lyttelton; Awahou and Patika, 11.45 a.m., for Cook Strait; Tamahine, 3 p.m., for Picton; Opawa, 5 p.m., for Blenheim; Gale, 5.5 p.m., for Picton; Kaitoa, 6.30 p.m., for Nelson; Rangatira, 7.50 p.m., for Lyttelton; Fairburn, 8 p.m., for Westport; Holmglen, 8.35 p.m., for Dunedin; Kapuni, 9 p.m., for Patea. Lyttelton, June 13. Arrived: Storm 1.5 a.m. from Westport. Sailed: Foxton 12.25 p.m. for Foxton; Taupata 2.10 p.m. for Nelson; Storm 6.20 p.m. for Bluff; Maori 8.50 p.m. for Wellington. Dunedin, June 13. Arrived: Miro 6 a.m. from Napier. Sailed: Waikouaiti 12.5 p.m. for Timaru. London, June 12. Arrived.—At Colon, Kent. Sailed.—Orari, from Dakar; Armadale, from Panama.