PORT OF BLUFF

Southland Times, Issue 25363, 15 August 1935, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Waimarino, Dunedin, to-day. Canadian Challenger, Melbourne, to-day. Waikouaiti, Lyttelton, August 17. Waitaki, Wellington, August 18. Wainui. Wellington, August 18. Po . fairy. Dunedin. August 21. Waiplata, Dunedin. August 22. Wairangi. Auckland. August 23. Rangitane. Wellington, August 26. Karetu, Hobart, August 28. Fordsdale. Dunedin, September 4. Narbada, Dunedin, September 20. Nolisement Seychelles Islands. September Zealandic, Dunedin. October 1. Canadian Cruiser. Montreal, October 23. Marama, Melbourne, November 11. Rotorua. Dunedin. November 21. Hauraki. Dunedin. December 7. Dorset, Dunedin, December 24. Mataroa. Wellington. February 7.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Waimarino, Dunedin, to-morrow. Canadian Challenger, Dunedin, to-morrow, Waikouaiti. Sydney. August 17. Waitaki. Melbourne, August 19. Wainui, Dunedin. August 19. Waiplata, Dunedin, August 22. Port Fairy. Timaru, August 24. Wairangi. Port Chalmers, August 27. Karetu, Dunedin, August 28. Rangitane. —. August 28. Fordsdale. —, September —. Narbada. Newcastle. September 20. Nolisement —, October —. Zealandic. Timaru, October, 1. Canadian Cruiser, Dunedin, October 24. Marama, Dunedin. November 11. Rotorua, —, November —. Hauraki. Melbourne. December 8. Dorset, —, December —. Mataroa. —, February —.

GENERAL NOTES. The Tamatea sailed at 10.20 a.m. yesterday for Stewart Island and returned to Bluff in . the afternoon, berthing shortly after 5 p.m. The Britannia, which arrived on Tuesday night from Stewart Island with cased fish, sailed for the Island again yesterday, leaving at 7.5 a.m. The Union Company’s steamer Waimarino is due to arrive from Dunedin this morning about 8 o’clock. She .discharges general cargo and after loading Southland products sails on completion to-morrow for her northern ports, via Dunedin. Another vessel expected to-day is the

Canadian Challenger from Melbourne. After working cargo she sails for Dunedin tomorrow. Messrs H. L. Tapley and Co., report that the Canadian Challenger will reach Bluff this evening from Melbourne. The Karetu leaves Sydney on Monday for Port Kembla, Hobart and Bluff. She is expected to leave Hobart on the 24th, and should arrive here on the 28th. The Marine Department has received advice tht the master of the Parera sighted a few days ago, a large log in a position with Cape Egmont lighthouse bearing 022de. 5 miles. It is considered a danger to navigation. In continuation of her voyage from London to Auckland and Port Chalmers the Blue Star Line motor ship New Zealand Star cleared Balboa at G p.m. on August 7. She is scheduled to reach Auckland on August 26. The Anglo-Canadian, which left Philadelphia on August 1 for Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Australia, left Panama on August 9. She is due at Auckland on September 3. Cabled advice has been received that the New Zealand Shipping Company’s Piako has reached London. She left Auckland on June 19 for London and Liverpool, via Cape Horn and Las Palmas. The New Zealand Shipping Company has received a wireless message from its motor liner Rangitiki reporting that she has been experiencing moderate weather —all well on board. The vessel left Wellington on July 31 for Plymouth and London, via the Panama Canal. A FAST PASSAGE.

I The new motor cargo liner Wairangi, which was launched last October for the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, was only prevented by exceptionally bad weather from establishing a new record between London and New Zealand. Leaving London on July 12, she averaged IG.B knots to the Panama Canal, which speed, had it beenmaintained, would have given her the record by a substantial margin. When approaching the New Zealand coast, however, the ship ran through the centre of a cyclone. The worst weather was experienced on August 4. when tremendous seas swept the vessel. Speed had to be reduced on account of the hammering the ship was receiving, and the number of miles run per day dropped from over 400 to 130 or 140. During the last few days, however, the weather improved, and the Wairangl made up some of her lost time. When she first encountered the cyclone, she radioed that she expected to reach Wellington at 4 p.tn. on Monday. She arrived in the stream shortly after 6 a.m.. a little less than ten hours before her reported time. Despite this setback, the ship averaged 15% knots from Panama to Wellington, and her average for the whole passage was 16.17 knots. Her actual time from port to port was 30 days 10 hours, and her time under power was 29 days 2 hours. NEW CRAFT FOR NAVY. For many years the naval steam pinnace or "picket boat” has been a feature of the equipment of all types of warships

) except the smallest. It has combined grace of naval architecture with the highest technique in steam reciprocating engine practice, whore the energy is generated in ordinary cylindrical boilers. Changes in naval design and tactics, however, have brought with them corresponding changes in auxiliary vessels. The steam pinnace is giving way to the modern high-speed internal combustion-engined craft. One of the latest of this type, constructed by Messrs Vosper and Co., Limited, Portsmouth. as an admiral's barge, and designed to be carried by the new cruiser Arethusa, is 30ft in length and of the hard chine type. During the course of preliminary trials, with five men on board, a speed of 23 knots was obtained. Exceptional seaworthiness and handling qualities are claimed as a feature of these vessels, and the hull, though light, has to prossess extreme strength to

stand not only the stresses set up by highspeed running under sea-going conditions, but also the equally severe strain of being hoisted out of the water to be suspended approximately from the two ends with the weight of the engine in the middle. The propelling unit in this case has been constructed by the Parsons Oil Engine Company, Southampton, and incorporates many interesting features in design. It possesses a high po.*er-to-weight ratio and the necessary reliability for use attached to a seagoing warship. ’The Admiralty has ordered spare engines to accompany each of the three boats which it has ordered to be tested, the other two having been built by the British Power Boat Company. Hythe, and Messrs John I. Thornycroft and Co., Limited, Southampton, respectively, and has insisted that the question of rapid change of engine should be studied. In the event of overhauling becoming necessary', a matter of half an hour or so should suffice for a new engine to be fitted and the other overhauled in the ship's workshop.

WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were expected to be I within range of the undermentioned wire- I less stations yesterday:— Auckland: Brisbane Mani, Canadian Victor, City of Glasgow, Dalcairn, Oakbank, I Port Fairy, Port Hardy, Port Whangarei, Triaster, Waipahi. Willesdcn. Wellington: Alfie Cam, Aorangi, Buccinum, Canadian Highlander, H.M.S. Diomede, H.M.S. Dunedin, Fordsdale, Hertford. H.M.S. Leith, Maori, Matai. Mataroa, Maui Pomare, Maunganui, New Zealand Star, Ngakuta, Niagara, Rangatira, Rangitiki, Shintoku Maru, Surrey, Tamahine, Waitaki, H.M.S. Wellington. Awarua: Abel Tasman, Benholm, Canadian Challenger. Hauraki, James Cook. Karepo, Karetu, Makura, Strathaird, Wanganella, Chatham Islands: South Sea. TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, August 14. Sailed: City of Glasgow 3.20 p.m. for Wellington. Wellington, August 14. Arrived: Rangatira 7 a.m. from Lyttelton; Kartigi 6.40 p.m. from Greymouth; Titoki 7 p.m. from Napier.

Sailed: Rangatira 7.50 p.m. for Lyttelton. Lyttelton, August 14. Arrived: Maori 6.45 a.m. from Wellington; Waitaki 9.45 a.m. from Dunedin; Poolta 5.15 p.m. from Westport. Sailed: Waitaki 7.40 p.m. for Wellington; Maori 8.25 p.m. for Wellington. Dunedin, August 14. Arrived: Waimarino 10 a.m. from Lyttelton. Sailed: Benholm 2.15 p.m. for Sydney; Hauraki 4 p.m. for Melbourne. To sail: Waimarino 8 p.m. for Bluff. London, August 13.

Arrived: At Cristobal, Canadian Planter; at San Francisco, Monterey; at Vancouver, Cape York. Sailed: Aorangi from Vancouver; Anglo Canadian from Panama.