SHIPPING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16823, 23 August 1920, Page 6

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1920. DIARY. August, 1020, High Sun- Sunwater. rise. set. a.m. 21— Saturday ...... 1.53 6.41 5.19 22 Sunday 2.39 6.40 5.20 23 Monday 3.40 6.38 5.22 24 Tuesday 4.49 6.36 5.24 25 Wednesday ... 6.0 6.35 5.25 26 Thursday 7.2 6.34 5.26 27 Friday 7.50 6.33 5.27 28— Saturday 8.37 6.32 5.28 At Waitara the tido is 15 minutes earlier than the above figures for New Plymouth, while at Opunake it is high water 15 minutes later than at New Plymouth. PHASES OF THE MOON. 'FOR AUGUST, 1920, His. Min. Bth: Last Quarter 0 27 14th: New Moon 3 20 21st: First Quarter 9 23 30th: Full Moon 0 38 ARRIVED. August 22. —Otarama., s.s. (7.15 a.m.), 7759 tons, Hughes, from Newcastle. August 23. —Flora, s.s. (1.80 a.m.), 1283 tons, M‘Lellan, from Onehunga. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rimu, from Onehunga. to-morrow. Mapourika, from Lyttelton, AVcdncsday. Mamari. from United’Kingdom, September. West Camargo, from ’Frisco, end September. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Rimu, for Onehunga (4 p.m.), to-morrow Ngakuta, for Greymouth, to-night. Flora, for Wellington. Tuesday. Otarama, for Waitara, about Thursday. Mapourika, for Wellington, Thursday. floraUrrives. The Flora, with 170 tons of general cargo, arrived from Onehunga at 1.30 o’clock this morning. Sho anchored to await the sailing of the Ngakuta this evening, when she will take the vacant berthage. NGAKUTA, FOR GREYMOUTH.

It is hoped to finish discharging the Ngakuta by to-morrow morning, when she will sail for Greymouth to load bunker coal for the Ruahine and Devon, at Wellington. ' NEED FOR FURTHER BERTHAGE. The urgent necessity for increased berth accommodation at New Plymouth is again evident. Tho outside berthagb at the present time is occupied by tne N.Z. Shipping Company’s liner Otarama and the smaller steamer Glaucus (1245 tons), whilst the major portion of the inner berthage is occupied by the Ngnkuta (1300 tons), with the result that tho Flora (1283 tons) has had to anchor just off tho breakwater until the Ngakuta completes her discharge. It is expected that this will bo accomplished early to-morrow and that the vessel will be able to sail some time before noon. Whilst it is not possible to berth tho Flora until such.time as tho Ngakuta sails, there will just bo sufficient accommodation for the Rimu (due to-mor-row morning), as sho is a much smaller vessel. BY TELEGRAPH. London. August 19—Arrived: Berrima. Sailed: Armagh, for Brisbane; Oorinthic, for Auckland. Suez, August 20.—Arrived: Khyher, from Australia. Table Bay, August 20.—Arrived: Nestor.

Port Natal, August 20.—Arrived: Newlughall. Vancouver, August 20.—Arrived: Tahiti, fi'om Auckland. Sailed: Canadian Settler, for Sydney; Australcrag and Demosthenes, for Brisbane; Iceland, for Auckland; Kent, for Dunedin. Wellington. August 21.—Sailed: Whangape (6.40 p.m.), for Sydney; Hororata (7.15 a.m.), for London. Auckland, August 21.—Arrived; Mokoia (12.10 a.m.), from Fiji; Rimutaka (10.30 a.m.), from Wellington. Sailed; Waihora (5.10 p.m.), for Newcastle. OVERSEAS VESSELS. The Pert Hacking is due to leave Wellington on Wednesday for London, via Panama. The Port Denison is leaving on the next day, and is following the same route. The liner Devon is due hack at Wellington on Thursday from Lyttelton to complete loading. She will leave Wellington on the following Sunday for New York, via Panama. The Mahana is leaving Newcastle tomorrow for Wellington. The vessel will be loaded in Now Zealand for London. The Waihemo arrived at Wellington on Friday from Canada. She brought paper and general cargo, and had an uneventful trip. The Waimana, from London, via Suva, is due at Lyttelton about Thursday next. She will land a number of aeroplanes at that port. The Hororata sailed from Wellington for New York, via Panama, at 7.15 a.m. to-day. The Somerset was expected to sail from Lyttelton for New York, via Panama, to-day, with 90,000 carcases of frozen meat. The Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Matatua arrived at Wellington on Saturday from Liverpool, via Panama and Auckland. The Moeraki is due at Wellington today with 329 passengers from Sydney. The Port Sydney is to l loavo Sydney on the 26th instant for Auckland, Napier and Wellington. VERONICA CALLS AT SYDNEY. MINESWEEPER AS TRAINING SHIP .

The minesweeper Veronica, flying the White Ensign, turned up unexpectedly at Sydney on the evening of August 2. She came from England via Torres Strait, and called at Sydney for stores on her way to New Zealand. The Veronica has been presented to the New Zealand Government, and l will in due course form a unit of the Dominion Navy. She is to act as a training ship. The Veronica is similar in design to the minesweepers presented to Australia. She was expected to remain a week in port, and was then to proceed to. New Zealand, but no news of her departure lias yet been received. LARGE BRITISH TANKER. One of the largest oik-tank steamers afloat, the San Fernando, was recently completed on a British shipyard. It has a deadweight of over 18,000 tons,

and is built on the Isherwood system of framing. The cargo tanks are divided into four self-contained groups so that a variety of oils of different qualities and specific gravities can bo carircd separately. There arc four oil pumps, each capable of discharging 300 tons of oil per hour. Steam-heat-ed coils are provided to warm heavy oils and make them fluid enough to b'o pumped.