SHIPPING

Wanganui Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15657, 8 November 1918, Page 4

SHIPPING

TIDES. HIGH WATER.—This evening 0.16; To-morrow morning 0.32. SUNRISE. —To-morrow morning 5.1. SUNSET.—To-morrow evening 6.59.

PHASES of the moon in New Zealand mean time: — D. H. M. New Moon ..... 4 8 32 a.m. Jftret Quarter .... 12 4 16 a.m. Full Moon 18 7 3 p.m. Last Quarter .... 25 9 55 p.m. Apogee 2 7 36 a.m. Perigee 17 3 0 p.m. Apogee 29 -6 42 p.m. arrivals. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7. Cahn, s.B. (5.10 p.m.), 981 tons, Radford, from Wellington. ' IX PORT, . IWn Wharf.—lnvercargill, Calm. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Arapawa, s.s., early, from Onehunga. Waunea, 8.8., to-day, from Westport. Storm, s.s., November 13, from South. Braeze, s.s., November 16, from South.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Invercargill, s.s., to-day, for ■ Wellington. Arapawa, s.s., early, for Onehunga. Calm, s.s., to-day, for South. WELLINGTON, November 7. Arrived.—Tainm, B.ib a.m., from [Wanganui. Messrs C. P. Millward and Co. advise that the s.s. Calm arrived last night at 5.10 p.m. from Wellington. This is accounted for by the h&vy weather which is being experienced outside. The s.B. Storm should load at Dunedin on November 8, Timaru November 9, Lyttelton November 11, arriving in Wanganui on November 13. The s.s. Breeze is due to work Dunedin on November 12, Timaru November 13, Lyttelton November 14, Picton November 15, Wanganui November 16. The s.s. Arapawa is still delayed in Onehunga on account of a shortage of men. The Blenheim is at present at the Wellington Patent Slip Co.’s wharf undergoing repairs. The vessel will not go to sea again until the 11th inst, when she will sail for Havelock and bays. CURRENT FLOATS FOUND. The Marino Department announces that the following floats, which weio put into the sea in the vicinity of the minefield off Farewell Spit, have been found:— Float No. 1 was found on the beach about 3J miles north of the Waikauae River by Mr V. Weggery on October 19. It was cast adrift at 2.30 p.m. on October 4, In latitude 40dcg. 28Jm. S., longitude 178deg. 38m. E.

Float No. 5 was found on the beaoh at Pnkerau, near Paekakariki, by Mr J. C. Scott, on October 31. It was cast adrift in latitude 40deg. 24m. S., longitude 172deg. E.,' at 7.50 p.m. on October 13.

Float No. 7 was passed in latitude 40deg 13m. S., longitude 173deg. 20m. E., by Captain J. Kankine, of the s.s. Kamona, at 2.30 p.m. on October 25. It was cast adrift at 5.5 a.m. on October 19, in latitude 40deg. 30m, S., longitude 172deg 38} m. E„ by the s.s. Karamu.

Float No. 4 was found by Messrs Watson Bros., of Paraparaumu, who Bay that they first saw it about a mile south of Rangatira Point, Kapiti Island, bn November 4. It was set adrift from the Komata on October 10, when she was in latitude 40deg. 30m. S., and longitude 172deg 2m. K.

The steamer Stella arrived at Melbourne on Tuesday last from Dunedin via Bluff. She made her run from Bluff to the Victorian port in eight days. A collection of square-rigged ships at present distributed about the port of Melbourne recalls the old days before the steamer had supplanted the “sailer” aa a freight carrier. At Lower Yarra berths lie the French barques Champigny and Buffon, from San Francisco; the American schooner Meteor, from Puget Sound, U.S.A.; and a pre-tentious-looking barque from Newfoundland, while in Victoria dock are three fine examples of square-rigged craft, all discharging cargoes from New York; and a rakish-looking sailing vesel, is loading for South African ports. Syren and Shipping learns that arrangements have been made by the Cunard Company to take over the general pasenger agency of the Japanese steamship company, Toyo Kisen Kaisha, whose large and modem passenger steamers trade across the Pacific between. San Francisco, Japan, and China, calling en route at Honolulu. This is only one direction in which the Cunard Company is perfecting its preparations for the extension of its business when things revert to the normal. The, passenger agency of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha points to a very material strengthening of the Cunard Company's American connections, a department of its enterprise which but for the war would doubtless have shown some remarkable developments. Liverpool to New York, New York to San Francisco, San Francisco to Honolulu, and thence to China and Japan suggests great possibilities, seeing that British, American, and Japanese interests are thus brought into close combination. As showing the remarkable work being carried out in the shipyards at Home, the following instances, culled from the Shipping World, arc of considerable interest. One Glasgow firm has handed over three vessels in one month. Two of these were large freighters, a meat carrier of 10,000 tons gross, and an ordinary cargo ship of 8000 tons. Riveters in this shipyard in three weeks riveted by hand the entire shell of an 8000-ton steamer building for tbe Clan Line. She is 420 ft long, 54ft Bin broad, and 36ft Gin deep. Into this expanse of plating 100,000 rivets were driven, entirely by hand, in 18 working days—a fine record. Another firm, whose yard is at Greenock, recently carried out the engining and boilering of an 8000-tou steamer in £3 working days. They also completed the engining and boilering of the Standard Oil tanker War Briton in only a few days more. Oil tankers, of course, require longer time than ordinary cargocarriers.