SHIPPING

The Register, Saturday 3 May 1913, page 14

SHIPPING

The steamer Janus anchored in the Semaphore roadstead shortly after midnight on Thursday, and at daybreak on Friday was piloted up the river to the Big Crane Wharf. The Janus left Calcutta on April 5, and called at Colombo and Fremantle, the weather for the most part being fine.

All the vessels of the Currie line, with the exception of the Janus, were recently sold to the British-India Steam Navigation Company, which now owns the biggest fleet in the world. The Janus will be handed over to the owners of the BI line upon her return to Calcutta. Her officers and engineers will then be discharged, and those belonging to the vessel's new owners wil take their places.

The Janus is a comparitively new steamer, and since she was launched has been in charge of Capt. Colin McDonald, who was Commodore of the Currie line. Capt. McDonald will relinquish his command of the Janus, but it is quite probable that he will seek a position in another Vessel. The Janus brought, in addition to a cargo of Eastern produce, a large assortment of birds and animals, which will be distributed between various zoological gardens in the commonwealth.