Marine Tattle

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 2

Marine Tattle

N.Y.K. .MOTORSHIPS.—o« the Nippon Yusen Kalsha at s : ' cisco have been advised that 0 \ 1 tion of the hulls of the three „ C ° a! ' ship liners planned for the S!* : - cisco-Oriental service, is behi ' s in order to have the ships r for service in the begi Qnin co ®?‘ At the present rate of pro L? < first launching will take place , the end of the present yea. other two will follow January 1, 1928. NEW TANKER S.-Gotaverk Gothenburg lias received an 2? build a 13.000-ton motor company of the same citv how l ill formed. This ship is. loretw two motor tankers of app * the same size, now building U Kochum Yard at Malmo f or % c owners, the l iggest cargo in Sweden. The first will be engined by the bulld^ 4 equipment comprising two B Gotaverken Diesel engines of w 4,500 1.H.P., which will g i ve the a speed of about 12 knots. It is that the ship is chartered for ten*? from the day on which it is deh^ JAPAN-AUSTRALIA LINE^' chants trading with the East tU general public will be pleased to w that the Japanese Government ha*.' definitely decided to recogn!» ! Japan-Australia Line as official r carrying steamers on the same f<? as the N.Y.K. and O.S.K. Lines * This comes as a result of the Q and reliable service which this W steamers has been giving between l tralia and Japanese ports. 45 Mr. B. B. Wiltshire, agent for • Japan-Australia line, has also ceived a cable from Japan, adn that the position is somewhat ? and that the Japan-Australia UnT not been affected in any way fev • financial crisis through which country is now passing. MORE SAlLEß3.—Rather in co**. mation of the statement a litUe v ago, that it appeared that sailers*,* coming back into their own, so the lumber trade is concerned, co*" advice from America that three nlarge wooden sailers have been titered to load lumber for six-masted schooner Fort Larani ? ' 3 to load at Gray’s Harbour for Syfc.She has not been to Sydney befbut she made one trip to another a tralian port some years ago. * four-masted barquentine which, by the way, was a ship last at Sydney, has been fixed te h. at Columbia River for Australia. last here she was owned by tha Packet Co., but since then she tr S changed hands. The five-maated fc quentine Monitor is to load at Pur Sound for Australia, and she, too, not visited Australia for some y&i A NEW DEVICE.— Loss of lifec sea and the destruction of valia;, shipping will be only due to g, carelessness and ignorance in the t mediate future when the perfec direction indicator now being built r the Freed-Eisemann Radio CorporaLof New York has been genera adopted. Navigation officers of ve» equipped with the new device have® to keep close watch on the visual to cator to determine exactly the tfho tion from which another ship is !> • proaching. The entire fleets of five of the gr*i est Lake shipping companies are be equipped with the indicator. Theses the Pioneer Steamship Company, . Wislon Transit Company, the Brad/ Transportation Company, the burstate Steamship Company, and the’; land Steamship Company. Their «b are among the largest on the Lai Joseph R. D. Freed, president of a® corporation, has given a brief expk. tion of the working of the direci indicator. “It is an improvement or anything now used,’’ he says, T represents the greatest achievem*-, the way of guaranteeing safety at* The most important feature is that : direction of the oncoming ship seen instead of guessed. The indiekU points out so that all may see the rection in which the other ship teflpj Hitherto it has been necessary to trs||; to the hearing of a man on watch rjU there never was any certainty ttemistake had not been made. Witfe'-'-visual indicator mistakes are W' sible and a collision can only t place when gross carelessenss or norance is navigating the ship.” If Since the first announcement 0.perfection of the visual direction Ito Alex. Eisemann. of the Radio Corporation, has received iccof requests for information nod stallation from American and cshipping interests. AMERICAN SHIPPING. - American merchant ships wo* ployed in foreign trade on 1, 1927, than at any time past four years (observes ** Trade and Finance”). On there were 727 American vessel 4,143,679 gross tons, in service canycargoes between the United Statfeforeign countries. In number of employed in foreign commerce, an increase of 103 over the * terly report by +he Bureau of United States Shipping Board, October 1, 1926, and 163 grew* the number so employed on Jaa 1926. On January 1, 1927, the P owned American merchant P ~ eluded 1,225 steam and motorvessels, of 1,000 gross tons a» \ with an aggregate gross tonn*«_ 5,924.480 tons, an increase ot . and 76,700 gross tons over tße** and tonnage recorded on oc 1926. Of this total fleet, were employed in foreign trao . 712 in coastwise and intercoasw vice, leaving approximately cent, of the fleet unemployedOn the same date the Govern* owned merchant fleet consisted vessels, of 4,563,000 gross tons--42 per cent of this fleet was . _cr service as against 31 per cel “ ber 1, this increase being number of Shipping Board into service to relieve con?e ®U*bt: tions in the export trade cau ®Y „ British coal strike and the to the coal export trade of normally available for the tion of other products. The total American for foreign, intercoastal an *L i vwM trade included, on anuar Vroi : vessels, with an aggregate 6 l *~~ B age of 10,48 7,000 tons. DIESEL-ENGINED LIGHTSHIP There has recently been jefmission off the coast °* . the first Diesel-engined lip American waters. Like ships maintained by the fled. Government, she is self-P^Pu^ rV that she can proceed to , al J° r J a is. ■. ■ station at the prescribed mte j this purpose she is <■ eight-cylinder 450 b.h.p. is arranged in a water-ti£ n ment. In addition there k.w. generators, each r^ven _ r hjciJ ing current for the motors the principal pumps in compressors for the fog ' the for lighting purposes and terns is provided by two . ‘ erating sets situated on t»* c the main engine-room ana . nn tai® kerosene. The fuel tanks . ho j e ficient oil to enable the machinery to operate for normal weather all of during the day the only frjjjg* being in winter —the f u small boiler employed h**‘Jp crew's quarters. The v? t Jgj* 3,000 c.p. lamps, of standby, it being the pra -.-jol United States lighthouse stall duplicate lanterns* §i|