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THE EVOLUTION OF THE SAILER.
AN ENGROSSING BOOK.
Rarely does it all to the lot of the reviewer to descant upon so tho- roughly satisfactory a work as "The Sailing Ship: Six Thousand Years of History," by Romola and R. C. Anderson (George C. Harrap and Co., London, 108, Gd.). Here is a book which appeals at once to the uninitiated and to the better in- formed student of ship develop ment; not too abstrusely technical for the former to read and enjoy, and yet packed full of the soild facts which the latter had almost abandoned hope of seeing collected in a single volume at a reasonable price, says the "Journal of merco:""
Com-
83 YEARS RECORD OF SERVICE
G. Cormack, Mr. W. JA. Hagarth M. A. Τ.
Hassis, Mr. S. G. Bayes, Captain T. Jensen, Misa G. S. Kual, Mr. and Mrs. H. F Roifel. Miss Paula Sonn, Miss C. B. Saya, Mr. W. Stewart, Mr. H, V. The Royal National Life-boat In-White, Mrs. Augusta White. stitution is collecting from itu ata- tions records of the life-boat ser vices of different familles. So far the most remarkable is the record
crew.
DEPARTURE.
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Passengers who left Hong Kong
SHIPS IN PORT:
of the Aindow family, of Formby, for Australia via Munila by the s... in Lancashire, where a -life-boat "Talping" on Jan. 15; were:-Mr. station, closed a few years ago, was and Mrs. R. Ritchie, Master J. R. maintained for many years. From Lester, Mrs. Bayes-Davy, Miss 1836 to 1919, a period of eighty- Bayes-Davy. Miss G. Bayes-Davy, three years, there was always a Mr. G. A. Moncrieff Mrs. G. H member of the Aindow family in the Wilson. Mrs. G. F. Stopford, Mr. For Afty-seven years an L. A. Blok, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Vida, Aindow was coxswain, three gehern-Mr. J. V. Green, Dr. Woo Tia-po, stone holding the post in succes- Mr. Li Sz-tak, Mrs. E. Mackay, alon. More remarkable still, during Mrs. H. C. Ludbrook, Mr. G. Harris, those fifty-seven years the greater Mr. B. J. Glendinning, Mr. C. G. part of the crew was composed of Cols. members of the one family. At one time there were no fewer than thir- teen in the "boat, the coxswain hay-- ing a brother as second coxswain and three brothers, Ave "sona, and The increasingly numerous ren-three nephews in the crow. ders of "The Mariner's Mirror." the organ of the Society for Nautical Resenreh, will need little introduc- tion to the "R.C.A.” whose notes on all manner of points of ship bis- toryonlighter practically every issue and those who still sigh for the resurrection of the convenient Htle "Naval Pocket Book" founded by Sir William Laird Clowes will re- call that Mr. Anderson acted as its editor for some time until the war interfered with further publica-terest in the sport of motor boat- tion and he himself went on active ing will be enhanced, as it is con- service.
templated that many vessels which! Arrivala 135 British (800- will be. at Cowes during the nechow, Tyndareus.. Hupeh.. Walton gatta week will be anchored off Southampton.
His claims upon the attention are therefore not only those of the anti- quary and although the task of tracing the development of ships. from 4000 B.C. onwards necessarily words little scope for twentieth century sailing vessels, these are by no means neglected: Indeed, in devoting to them a separate chapter with fifteen Illustrations, the au- thors have probably given them for more space than their present ton- nage and relative importance really warrant.
The Council of the Marine Motor- !ing Association have Beloctad Southampton Water as the venue for the next series of races for the Duke of York'a trophy. They will begin on August 6, the last day of Cowes' Week, and, the association hope that by choosing this date in-
At 9 a.m. to-day the following: numbers of vessels were in porti
20
British American Panama Norwegian Japanese Chinese Dutch *Portuguese
Total
60
Hall, New Mathilde) & Japanese (Honolulu Maru, Taikwa Maru, Kojun Maru), 2 Norwegian (Maudi Havdrot), 1 Chinese (Tak Hing), I Dutch (Zosma), 1 American (Pre- sident Garfield).
beginnings. This object is never Departures 11:4 British (Hong- lost sight of; and the careful way inhwa, Seochow. Chenan, Walton which the data from many different Hall), 8 Japanese (Sungshan Maru, sources and even countries are as Manila Maru, Shineel Maru), 1 sembled and dovetailed together is Chinese (Tak Hing), 2 Dutch in itself an education in the com- (Tjfleboat). Zosma), 1 French parative method of studying his (Raymond Poincare). forical technique.
The temptation to quote is strong, but must be sternly repressed; save in one instance; and that is the 15th. century (or possibly earlier) des- cription of a sea voyage, taken from a manuscript at Trinity College, From this it is abundantly evident that the sea tripper has changed but little through the intervening cen- turies.
"Fer when that they have take
the see
SHIPPING NOTES.
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Darliest Example of Shiprepairing. The ship repairer will doubtless. be interested in the" description of what must surely be the earliest example of such work slill extant; this being the patch on the hull of the dugout discovered at Brigg. Lincolnshire, in 1886. In paren- thesis one may perhaps draw ́at- tention here to a very interesting paper on English and Welsh dug outs, contributed by Dr. Cyril Fox
While the China Navigation Co.'s to the "Antiquaries Journal" of April Inst." They are surprisingly "At Sandwyche or at. Wynchelsee "Fatshan" is in dock, her place on
"At Bristow or where that hit be
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"Theyr. herts begyn to fayle” `
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When getting under way (which "Lungshan." The only serious complaint that operation is described in detail). DELAGOA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND
After grounding in the West can be matte about "The Sailing the master is not too preoccupied River, the Hong Kong-Pakkai (Bri- All Claims against the Steamer Ship" is that there is not more of it. with his ship to make thoughtful artish) steamboat "San Nam Hol" has must be presented to the Under- Truly, as the preface state rangements for the comfort of his been refloated without incident and signed on or before 31st January, lying in E. B. Telegraph Office, book, so that nothing more than a passengers, of whom he opines that has resumed her run.
...sem or lyke to cowgh Wah Kiu" has been renamed the
The Chinese river steamboat 1927, or they will not be recognised: summary could be attempted within
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"Wing Hung" and will resume her Goods are to be left in the Godowns, it is well-nigh perfect. Most of the 134 illustrations are line drawings deacription of the seasick pilgrime trade.
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which is "translated" as "A boy or two climb up at once and lie across the yard."
The authors append a "tronela- tim" of the poem, fa which connec Hitherto the historical handbook Ption one might perhaps venture on most favoured by those whose inter- a mild disagreement, although pos- estan ships out-ran their purses has sibly based on insufficient know boon the late Sir George Holmes ledge of the minutiae of 14th or 15th "Ancient and Modern Ships," pub-century technicalities, it is offered libbed by the Board of Education in herewith for what it may be worth.! connection with the ship model col- As the vessel is about to depart, lection at the South Kensington
"A boy of tweyne anone up styen, museum. This little work has been
"And overtwart the snyleyerd out of print for some yeats, and is
lyen," now only to be obtained, at an ab- "surdly inflated price, through the second-hand booksellers. Moro- over, a very great deal of research:
& modera Now, Fig. 32 represents work has been done since it first "killick," or stone anchor; and this, appitared, so that it is no longer in conjunction with a nodding ac- wholly reliable as a work of refer-quaintance with the Tyneside dialect, gives rise to a certain doubt regarding that "anone up styen." In the present book the history of For "styen" (pronounced, ye South- rons, as "at-yen") the exact ships has been re-written so as to Incorporate these later investiga Tynside rendering of the word tions-with many of which the au- "stone." The local pronunciation thors have been closely identified of "home" as "hyem" (which is and it may confidently be recom- simply the Scandinavian "hjem," mended as an accurate as well as AS in "Trondhjem") is & compact survey of the subject similar instance. In fact, really from which little has been omitted strong Tyneside, unimproved by the that has a direct bearing on the evo-
efforts of council school teachers to- lution of either hull design or rig in sound closer than any other wards a standard speech, is possibly and equipment. It has been plan- dialect to that of the Norse invaders ned to show the separate lines on
Is it noti which ships developed in the Med of a thousand years ago. terranean and in northern European boy of tweyne" really did was to 'possible, therefore, that what the waters, and the gradual growth of get the anchor off the ground in the the modern ship from these separate frst place; afterwards laying out
on the yard?
Historica! Technique.
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