PORT OF BLUFF.

Southland Times, Issue 22009, 8 May 1933, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF.

ARRIVED. —Saturday, May 6.— Kia Ora s.s. (Capt. Orriss) 8030 tons from Oamaru at 11 a.m. VESSELS IN PORT. Orari m.v. Kia Ora s.s. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Wainui. Wellington, uncertain. Waikouaiti, Lyttelton, uncertain. Taranaki, Timaru, May 10. Storm, Wellington, May 12. Pakeha, London, May 15. Remuera, Port Chalmers, May 23. Tasmania. Lyttelton. May 20. Port Alma. Australia, May 27. Coptic, Timaru, June 9. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Orari, Timaru, to-morrow. Waikouaiti. Sydney, May 10. Kia Ora, Wellington, May 9. Taranaki, Picton May 12. Pakeha, Oamaru. May 16. Remuera, Lyttelton, May 24. Port Alma, Port Chalmers. May 30. Tasmania, London, May 30. Waipiata, Dunedin, June 1. Coptic, Wellington, June 12. INWARD CARGO ON HAND. City of Cambridge ex Wainui in B shed. Port Dunedin, railed from Dunedin in A shed (Hend.). . Mataroa, railed from Dunedin, in A shed (N.M.A.). . , , Wainui, ex Mooltan, in B shed (D. and Co.). Wainui, ex Mooltan, in B shed (W. S. ai Wainui, ex Strathaird, in B shed (W. S and Co.). Wainui, ex Orama, in B shed (U S.S.). Kia Ora. railed from Dunedin in A shed (D. and Co.). GENERAL NOTES. The Shaw Savlll and Albion liner Kia Ora reached Bluff on Saturday morning from Oamaru. She is loading frozen meat etc. for the Home market and sails on completion for Wellington from which port she sails for London via Monte Video. The Northumberland, en route yrom Liverpool, left Caracas Bay on April 28. She is due at Auckland on May 23. and also discharges at Wellington, Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. Owing to the present shipping trouble, the movements of several vessels expected shortly at Bluff are now uncertain. The Middlesex, which left Auckland on April 12 for London and West Coast ports of the United Kingdom via Cape Horn, sailed from Montevideo on Tuesday. The Port Victor, left the United Kingdom yesterday in ballast for New Zealand via the Cape of Good Hope. She is due in New Zealand on June 19. The Port Pirie. which left Port Chalmers on March 18 for London via Cape Horn, arrived at London on Tuesday. She will leave London on May 13 in ballast for New Zealand via the Cape of Good Hope. The Union Company’s motor ship Hauraki left Los Angeles on April 22 with cargo from Pacific Coast ports for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, New Plymouth. Dunedin, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Sydney. After leaving Papeete the vessel will call at Rarotonga to load fruit for Auckland, where She is due on May 17. The Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Limited, has received advice stating that the new steamer Fiona was launched at Dundee on March 22. The Fiona, which was built by the Caledon Shipbuilding Company, is somewhat similar to the old Fiona, lately sold to the East, but Is a much smaller vessel. Her gross registered tonnage will be about 2340 tons and 1300 tons net, and she will carry about 3400 tons, including bunkers. The Fiona is expected to sail for Sydney this month, and will come via Panama and Fiji. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. ‘ The following vessels were within range

of the undermentioned .'tatlons over the week-end: Auckland: (For Saturday), Kanna, Paua. (For Saturday and Sunday): Brunswick. Canadian Cruiser, Hauraki, Karetu. Mariposa, Maui Pomare, Narbada, Port Fairy. Port Melbourne, Recorder, Vanja, Waimana. Werral. Wellington: (For Saturday only): Maori, Port Hunter, Rangatira. Ruahinc, Tamabine, Wainui. (For Sunday only): Brisbane Maru, Norfolk. Taranaki. (For Saturday and Sunday): Aorangi, City of Cambridge. Maunganui. Monowai, Niagara, Rangitane, Remuera, Wanganella. Awarua: (Saturday only), Brisbane Maru. Kia Ora, Norfol. (Saturday and Sunday): Alynbank, Kartigi, Kekerangu. Port Fremantle, Waikawa, Waikouaiti. (For Sunday only): Ruabine, Wainui. Chatham Islands: Nil. CUNARD COMPANY. RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT. THE ATLANTIC SERVICE. The recent visit of the Cunard liner Carinthia, 20,277 tons, to Wellington in the course of a world tour aroused great interest among the public, and during her stay of one day in port she was visited by four hundred people. The history of the Cunard Company is one of achievement, for it started from being a small company, and grew to be a big force in Atlantic competition. One hundred years ago Samuel Cunard said: "Steamers properly built and manned may start and arrive at their destinations with the punctuality of railway trains on land." The first Cunarder was the Britannia, which arrived at Halifax on July 16, 1840, fourteen days eight hours out from England. The Britannia was the result of a dream, states Nash's Magazine, of a man of forty, eminently successful in business, a colonel of militia, a strict churchman, a pillar in the social life of the community— Mr Samuel Cunard, of Halifax. Just when his townspeople considered he might sit back and enjoy well-earned leisure and wealth, Mr Cunard became interested in the new-fangled steamships. His name was at the head of the list of subscribers incorporated to build the Royal William, which was launched at Quebec in 1833. In the same year she paddled over from Pictou to the Isle of Wight in seventeen days, and that performance made up Mr Cunard's mind for him. Henceforth he put all his faith in steam. His big chance came in 1838 when the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty asked for tenders for the carriage of mails across the Atlantic. Samuel Cunard, when not a steamship owner in Britain tendered, and he was unable to find support in either Halifax or Boston, sailed for Britain. He did not get any support in London, so he went to Glasgow. Eloquence won over the Scotsmen, with the result that in 1839 the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was founded with a capital of £270,000. The First Ships. The new company won the seven years’ contract to carry mails regularly between Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston every fortnight, and three ships were immediately put in hand at a contract price of £96,000. The Britannia. was the first of these, and she was a wooden paddle steamer 207 ft long, 34 Vi ft broad, 22 Vi ft deep, with a tonnage of 1154 and an indicated horse-power of 750. She made an average of BVi knots on a coal consumption of 38 tons a day, and she had accommodation for 115 passengers. The company followed her with three sister ships, the Acadia. Caledonia, and Columbia. They were all uniform two-deckers. Two years after the opening of the line Charles Dickens crossed in the Britannia, and collected material for his "American Notes.” In the first ten years of the company's existence eight more ships were built to meet the growing traffic, the new ones being double the tonnage of the Britannia, and with a 50 per cent, increase in speed. Some years later the Africa and the Asia, both of 2226 tons and with a speed of 12 Vi knots, were built. After building thirteen wooden paddle steamers, the company launched the Persia, an iron paddle steamer of 3000 tons. The company was also gaining experience on new routes, such as the service from Liverpool to the Mediterranean. In 1862, after fourteen Cunard ships had been troopships and transports during the Crimean War, the company built the last of its paddle steamers the Scotia. The same year the company experimented with the screw steamer China, and although she burnt only half the amount of coal the Scotia used, she was almost as fast. That decided the directors; they built twelve screw steamers in eight years. More Tonnage, More Speed. More tonnage and more speed was the slogan. The Gallia, of 4800 tons, had a speed of 15 Vi knots in 1879, but two years later she was eclipsed by the Servia, the largest and most powerful ship of her day, with a tonnage of 7392 and a speed of nearly 17 knots. Afterwards there was built the Umbria and Etruria, which did 18 to 20 knots in the late 'eighties. In 1893 the Cunard Company had the Campania and Lucania on the run, the Lucania averaging 23.33 knots for a whole day on her second trip, and the Campania made fourteen voyages at an average speed of 21.76 knots. Tne British Government made an agreement with the company ’to have built "two steamships of large size capable of maintaining an average speed of from 24 to 25 knots in moderate weather." The result was the Lusitania and Mauretania, which were the first thirty-thousand tonners. The Mauretania, which is still running. took the water in 1907, and held the speed record until 1929. In 1919 the company started the famous service maintained by the Aqultania, 45,645 tons, Berengaria, tons, and the Mauretania. Other ships have been built, such as the Carinthia, which was at Wellington. The Commonwealth and Dominion Line is amalgamated with the Cunard Line. TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, May 7. Saturday: Arrived—Veronica at 6.45 a.m, from Wellington. Sailed—Port Melbourne at 7 a.m. for London; Paua at 5 p.m. for Gisborne. Sunday: Arrived—Kanna at 2.15 a.m. from Walpole Island. Wellington, May 7. Arrived: Saturday—Maori at 7 a.m., Holmdale 7 p.m. from Lyttelton. Sunday—Rangatira at 7 a.m. from Lyttelton; Norfolk at 9.10 from Port Chalmers. To arrive: Brisbane Maru from Melbourne, Sailed: Saturday—Maunganui at 12.25 p.m. from Sydney; Ruahine at 4 p.m. for Port Chalmers; Port Hunter at 5.25, Maori 7.50 for Lyttelton. Sun-day-Taranaki at 11 a.m. for Timaru. Christchurch, May 7. Arrived—(Saturday) Opihi at 6.40 a.m. from Timaru; Rangatira at 7 a.m. from Wellington. (Sunday) Maori at 7 a.m. from Wellington; Port Hunter at 7.35 a.m. from Wellington. Sailed (Saturday) Rangatira at 8.30 p.m. for Wellington. Dunedin, May 7. Sailed:—Saturday—Norfolk at 6.30 a.m. for Wellington. Sunday—Port Fremantle at 8 a.m. for London.