LATE SHIPPING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19809, 28 November 1919, Page 8

LATE SHIPPING.

THE KAIWARRA, Tne Union Strain Ship Company's Btcamer ixaiwami. which arrived iu Lyttelton yeftterQoy morning, is a rfovv vessel., having 1 been deliver pd to her present owners only as recently as July 34, 1919, at Sunderland, where she loaded for Norfolk, _ U.S.A., a.nd from there ftooccaed to Sun francisco and Vancouver, irom the latter port she Mime direct, to Svdrey, and thin journeyed to Adelaida to ibnd aalt and gypsum, for Lyttelton, Wollmeton and Auckland. Tho vessel's principal dimoar C,n jn ari A~ 0 / oii ! t0,1I18 «'-' 3310, length 831 ft. breadth JGaOft, depth 25ft, She left Adelaide lent i uesday week, and experienced oad weather all tho trip, having to cattle ogams. southerly, and south-west winds from Usr.ki Straits. Captain A. JYalchlin, who is m command of tho vessel, has about five yews’, .naval service to his credit, having jomou in 1914. He was with tho Naw «.nd part in the action at tlm DardanoUw, Mid lalor ho was salvage officer to tho Grand ilcot. the chief officer, Mr T. W. Bundled libj also soon much war service in tlio Nayon tho monitor No. 32, and H.M.S. Cicetol' n addition, ho served for eight months nth t o Australian Navy. Tim second and third oihcoia, Messrs Knapp and Carter, haw ? WaT re r rd - Tl . ,c chief f IJV O 1 ( la,,a ori sPi>cer commander of H.M.S. Artois); second, Mr Fluker; third Mr Gardiner: fourth, Mr Youtm-; wireless’ Mr Smith. The vessel, whi.ih is at iwcsent ITvv r ilp |’ Hh nrticlM - will sign off her crow nt Ivelmigton. OILING AT SIXTEEN KNOTS. With the increasing cost of coal, tho Question is being frequently asked if vho cil-fuei blup is not ukcly to develop rapidlv, hut up ’ U V;V O > hil ' J,in g concern Jm u * J 7 ol wholesale comers,on o: its ships U ;to oil-fuel-burnin.-ven.scls Many factors, apart from the necessary a..orations in the ship s maohinerv, have U; be taken into consideration, and tho ,-tiioi difficulty ships would have to contend whi would ho that ot replenishing their oil fuel owing to the infrequency of -oiling" stations. J lus would mean that a vessoC unless favourably situated as regards stations, would have to carry oil fuel for both the outward and return voyages from her port of doparliirCj with % OfU.-cqisont ilccioubo in tj, e «hips reduction o I her cnreo-cam-. mg capacity. This, however, ma v he en.«Uv overoomo by a recent British invention which is designed to enable oil to to transferred! from one vessel to another at a.o hrih a speed as sixteen knots. The appliance’' can no iisco for ordinary lowing, the flexible hose be inf* encircled by longitudinal towing wires hem by transverse wires. Both hose and wires aro made complete in sections and joined, by British Admiralty couplinvs' The snip ahead crops a buoy, with rones attached; tlio buoy is picked no by the ‘following ship, which pay? out the hose to the leading ship, and falls back when the ho=o is made fast. The saving in time over thei ordinary process of coaling need not bo emphasised. Three tons of coal aro eouivnlcr.-t to two tons of oil fuel, and post-war nrir.es of both coal and oil make the cost approximately the same, but with the opening np of new nil deposits now being pro?needed all over the worid, and the conseonent increase m supply, the otl-fuei vessel win have a ,i| s . Heel adv-nta.ee over the milling vessel. She will be able to replenish her tanks without losing travelling time, and without. Iho Inborn* and discomfort associated with (he coaling of a vessel; her steaming radius will he increased hv ono-tV-d ami a considers hi - saving will also be effected in the s m3 q number of men nymired to fend oil-fnel engines. In conclusion, it mav ho said (hat. although the day o f the oil-fnel vessel f s yet, it is undoubted! v dawning.