THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1902,
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CHEMISTS AND AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS,
His Britannic Majesty's Ships on the China Station.
THE TRADE WINDS.
The winds are mainly produced by inequantity of barometric pressure, Home. are approximately constant in direction and parament in duration; others are
Alserity in action only during certain seasons; **Albion while a third set are more variable and Algerive Arethues brief, but sometimes more violent Of
Argonaut the first set the trade winds are the Astran
Blenheim principal examples: vast currents of air Bramble of the utmost importance in the economy Britomart
of the globe; the direct results of the Cherab. sun's ment in the zone where its mys are most intense. Here, aver a belt of variable breath, which sometimes is little Espiègle
cruiser, 2nd class traiser, 1st class cruiser, Sad class cruiser, lat class guoboni, let clase gunboat, 1st cruiser, 1st class water tank and tug cruiser, 2nd class
class
cruiser, 1st class
Cresay
Esk
Harr
7300
6 1-400
5000
16 18,000
9000
12 13,000
Captain.
Comdr. Seymour 3. Erskine Captain W. W. Hewett, RN. Commander Waler Carey
Captain J. Startin
Captain H Chorry
C. J. Baker
F. H. Henderson
Cana. F. M. Lake
Lieut.. 1300
Comer.
F. A. Baird 1309
Pudur M. Captain B. 21,000
Mastor T. Passmoro R. Captain
Stokes H. S. Captain W. A. Paget
300
-Com. Godfrey
Flect Reservo
Comdr. J. Graham
66. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
Just reported at.
Hongkong Bongk Nowchwang Shanghai Yokobaina
Phanubai Amoy Hongkong Hongkong
moy Hongkong
Mongkung
Hongkong Shanghai
Noone.
Class
Tra
CI.H.P.
despatch vessel battleship, Int els slonu
1700 12,90 1000 4300
16
3000 18,500
10
11,000
1300
10
12
710
710
6
12,000
14
9.90
990
3000
11
9000
12 10,000
-be. 3rd class cost defence
$63
200
sloop
more than 150 miles wide, but sometimes Fearless is full 800, the air, whou the meridinu Firebrand
Fam
Fami
torpedo boat destroyer cruiser. 3rd class
380
1070 10 1400
K 5700
Hongkong
1580
12 5200
Singapore
gunboat, 2nd class
455
4 360
th
12,950 12,900
10 13,500
500
Captain W. A. Carter
T4. Com. . B. Raniy-Pownall
Canton
Singapore
16 19,500
Captain Lewis Winte
Hongkong
4000
Lieut.-Con. G. C. Hardy
Weihaiyoi
க
4000
Fleet Reservo
Hongkong
1640
Comdr. H. J. Davison.
Hongkong
16 3800
9000
260
6 $900
Flest Reserve
Hongkong
Lt.-Chundr. G. B. Powall
Yangtze Kiang
180
980
10
1400
800.
Re-building
Hongkong
B
12.950
13.500
Captain W. G. White
Hougkung
D60C
12
8300
Captam J. H. T. Burke, C.B.
Hongkong
350
6300
L-Com. C. P. Mansel
Hongkong
Thcenis
Pique
1015
K
1400
Commander W. H. Nicholson
Hankow.
700
720
Lt.-Comdr. A. H. Oldham
3000
7000
Capt. Harry C. Reynolds
650
Lt. Com. Morris H. Srayth
980
10
1100
93
,
240
960
14-0
240
river gunboat
240
Lieut. Com, G, G. Weleber Coudr. C. A. W. Tamillen Lieut. Com. Murmy Lockhart Lt. Comdr. R. W. Dalgety
Hongkong Nagasaki Hongkong
guu-vel, and class
756
870-1
Fleet Reservo
crainer And las
torpedo boat destroyer
250
6500
Fleet Reservo
5600
9800
Captain F. G. Stepford
Hongkong
Tamar
receiving abip
Commoders Francis Powell, C.B.
Hongkong
180
2
800
Re-building
Hongkong
14,200
-14 25,000
Captain Percy
Scott, C. B..
Bongyong
const defence gunboat
900
Temporarily employed survoying
Eongkong
sloop
980
10
1400
Surveying ship
20
-450
Lieut. Com. W. O. Lyns
Hongkong
Torpedo host destroyer.
360
$900
cost defouceship, armoured 2150:
1000
L-Con C. Mackenzie, D.8.0.
Fleet Reserve
Hongkong.
Hongkong
river gunboats
150
550
river ginbot
150
2 050
Lieut. Com. Hugh Somerville Liest-Com Chilcett
Hankow
Shanghai
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sm is at or near the zenith, becoming heated, expands and rises. This- Hands region of light variable airs, inconstant
Humber in direction is called the zone of Iphigenia
Jamus
central culma,' Bat as the air rises, the Kaslov equilibrium of the lower layers is disturb Murben
Mutine ed its place is taken by an inflow from
Ocean ether side of the belt. Thus a current Orlando is set up which affects a niass of air norther and south of the equator. But this is Pigmy
* farge that a inarked effect on the Rambler direction of the wind is produced by the Baldo
Roble mention of the earth. For instance, in then air starts on a southward journey Sandpiper from latitude 25 N., t is moving|2010 estwards with the same velocity as this Taku
Talbot part of the earth's surface, but it passes on its course over places which are Teal travelling at a much greator rate, and is Terrible
Tweed thus, as it were, overtaken by them, and Vestal
Waterwitch 90, seemingly, comes from the east of g north. When a steamer is crossing front Wivern
Woodcock Dublin to Holyhead, and the wind is
Wodlark blowing from the north, the smoke drifts towards the south west, and this, to anyone unconscious of the vessel's motion, would indicate the direction of the wind. So, in the region of the northern trades, the breeze seems to come from the north.. east. Similarly in that of the southern trades, it apparently blows from the south-east. These currents of air flow, as a rule, with a steady had uniform motion, though disturbances are apt to be produced by the continental land masses; the regions, however, which are affected by them vary in breadth. This may amount to asmuch as thirty degrees of latitude in the South Pacific, but does not exceed twenty, and, le sometimes pot quite so much, in the North Atlantic
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