SHIPPING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 26, 13 January 1912, Page 6

SHIPPING.

NEW PLYMOUTH,

Arrived. Friday:—Rarawa, s.s., 10/2 tons Norbury, from Onehunga.

Expected Arrivals. Rosamond, from Satuiday. Rarawa, from North, Monday. Rarawa, from North, Wednesday. Rarawa, from North, Friday. Retone, from Newcastle, early. PATEA. Monday—The Aorere arrived yesteidav and 'left again at midnight, fene is expected back to-morrow. Ihe Annum arrived this afternoon. She will sail to-night. Almost alone among seafaring nations, Germany has refused to write the epitaph of the deep-water sailing vessel, the trading Germans have created a modern steel fleet or nuicn larger vessels than any of their kind afloat, engaged in tne most part in the South American trade. Uf these, the Preussen attracted notice not long ago by standing in the English Channel. Hpr .sistpr riun, the Potosi, has broken'all'"sailing records between Peru and Europe during voyage after voyage, her average speed as fast as that of .most cargo steamers, and suroassing the 'historical achievements of the American sky-sad clippers of the last Equipped with all manner of * auxiliary ‘ehgriifes for handling heavy sails, for lighting by electricity and heating, by. steam, these huge' five-masted ships seems to have revived an almost vanished epoch. Their crows are no broken, drunken pier-head jumpers and greenhorns swept up from the scum of the water-front, but sturdy, ruddy German vouuksrs every man of them They take'fiddle, trombone cornet, ado-* ordeon to sea with them, and it does the heart good to hear one of these forcecastle orchestras, perhays twenty strong, playing lustily and with no small skill wherever sf TOesfl' f bliiDS anchor. American flVdJfis forseoK tile sea largely I>eo au s <skA^fiVeridhti : ■ ships were floating hells, an ugly truth t-oo often glossed over.