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THE CHINA MAIL
SHIPPING SECTION.
WORLD'S SHIPS."
NAVAL AND MERCHANT TYPES.
FAR-REACHING CHANGES.
Imperial Japanese Navy, of the naval policy of his country will be read with close Interest, for the naval authorities of Japan, though they are pressing on with of cruisers, a programme destroyers, and submarines, are in no doubt as to the assured future of the capital ship.
SIREN SIGNAL.
SHIP ASKS FOR A DOCTOR..
Some excitement was caused on the sea-front at Eastbourne at dusk by the appearance of a ship which approached within a mile of the pferhend and blow two long blasts on its siren-the signal for a doctor.
"Between Dungeness and East- bourne ore of the crew, Marteen Kroos, had badly damaged his right hand in some machinery, The man, after beng attended to by Dr. Deane, the police surgeon, who went out to the ship, was brought ashore in a motor-boat and taken to hospital
The vessel was the "Theseus," of the Royal Netherlands Steam- ship Company, bound for Barce. lona from Amsterdam.
"PORT"" FOR "LARBOARD."
Times gives the date of the first A correspondent of the "Sunday official use of the term "port" for larboard" in the Navy. He gives the following extract from The Naval and Military Sketch Book of 1845," page 31:
In the preface to the issue for
State and Merchant Shipping. 1927 of "Brassey's Naval and
The outstanding feature of the Shipping Annual," Just publish- ed, it is remarked that far-reach- section of "Brassey's Annual thg changes in the application of which is devoted to merchant physical science to sea transport shipping is a contribution from as well as sea defence are taking Mr. Walter Runciman, M.P, the place. Attention is specially President of the Chamber of directed to the developmenta in Shipping, which gains in import
ance in view of the forthcoming engineering, and it is pointed out that the naval authorities are in- international conference on trade corporating their deductions from barriers. Though he is specially the experiences of the Great War concerned with the fortunes and cruisers, misfortunes of shipping, as a for- in the designs of destroyers; and submarines, mer President of the Board of Everything concerned with sea Trade he does not ignore other affairs is undergoing a change issues which are certain to be which is finding expression in a discussed at Geneva. He deals variety of ways, and is, in parti- trenchantly with the contention,
It having been represented to the cular, affecting the equipment of which various Socialists have
Lords Commissioners of the Ad all types of ships. This move sponsored, that if shipping were miralty that the word "port" is fre ment is revealed in the illustra- nationalised losses would be con- quently, though not universally, tions, diagrams, and profiles verted into profits, and in dis-submitted on board her Majesty's are contained in this proof of this thesis points to the ships for the word "larboard" and which volume, and in particular in the unhappy and ruinously costly ex-as the want of a uniform practice periments of this kind which in this respect may lead to impor picture of the new British battle- ships "Nelson" and "Rodney." A have been made by the United tant and serious mistakes and the revolution is occurring at sea. States and other countries. There distinction between "starboard" and "port" is-so much more marked than The steamer, having vanquished are special comiderations, he that between "starboard" and "far the sailor, has recently been urges, applying to the British board," it is their lordships direc challenged by the motor-ship, and people which reinforce the gen- tion that the word "larboard" shall eral arguments, for without the no longer be used to signify left on now Sir John Bikes suggested that owing to the research of the Hon.invisible exports which freights boded any of her Majesty's ships Sin Charles Parsons the motor provide, the country's trading or easels.
By command of their lordshipa, ship may find a serious rival in account' could not be balanced
Sidney Herbert.. vessels fitted with high-pressure from year to year! steam turbines of the type which is being tried experimentally in the Clyde pleasure steamer "King George V."
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Sir Westcott Abell gives, in a long chapter. his usual incisive and informative review of the progress of merchant shipping The Admiralty is still main throughout the world, supplying taining almost complete silence particularly interesting details of ng to the offensive and defensive the forward policy which is being powers of the two new battle-pursued in Italy with the finan Ships which will be commissionedcial encouragement of Signor this year, but the editors of Mussolini, who has declared that "Brassey's Annual" declare that Italy's future lies on the sea." these vessels represent as revol: Mr. Cuthbert Maughan tells tionary a development of the the. melancholy story of
depression capital ship as did the original the
of freights: "Dreadnought when she tock Mr. John P. Taylor dis- the water twenty years ago." cusses. the passenger ship as Commander A. Colquhoun Bell cargo carrier: while Mr., W. H. also foresees a reconsideration of Clapham describes the "notable the cruiser problem in view of merchant ships of the year" As in former issues, a large part of the varied uses to which such swift ships were put during the Brassey's Annual is devoted to Great War He considers the statistics on naval and merchant existing types as suited to the shipping affairs in a convenient probable demands of any future form for ready reference, and war. Sir George Thurston, the there are hundreds of profiles of well-known naval architect, is, vessels of all types. It is claimed on his part, dissatisfied with the that this annual, which was torpedo-boat destroyers which founded by the first Lord Brassey are now passing into the fleets of thirty-eight years ago, and has the world, remarkable in fighting power and speed as these vessels art... He describes, with the aid of diagrams, what he calls the super-destroyer, and contends that such a type, while not ex- ceeding to any appreciable extent the cost of the present flotilla leader, would carry out all the work now done by destroyer flotillas, and, owing to a more powerful torpedo armament,
the past few years been great- ly enlarged in scope as well as in size, is "the only publication of its kind either in the British Empire. or any foreign country" This challenging declaration, in view of the contents of the new issue would be difficult to dispute,
COMMONWEALTH SHIPPING.
would be a greater menace to
A Melbourne message states the capital ship; its better sea-that Dr. Page, the Commonwealth keeping qualities and, even pos- Treasurer, announced that the sibly, mine-laying and plane-Parliamentary carrying capabilities, would also render it more efficient for scout- ing and other purposes than the destroyers which are now being
built.
Future of the Capital Ship. Very complete accounts of the progress of the fleets of the Rai- tish Empire and of foreign oeun, tries are given in two succeeding chapters by Commander Charles N. Robinson and Commander H. L. Hitchins. The former off eer suggests that with the ap- proaching completion of the but tleships Nelson" and "Rodney," the pattle fleeta of the principal navies of the world will reach a ance with the ratios set forth in state of equilibrium in accord the Washington Naval Treaty. "When these two battleships pass Canton Agents: into commission, no JOHN MANNERS & Co., LTD.ships," it is remarked, "will be capitai
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under construction for any Power, but naval opinion holds that these will not be any means the last vessels of the type to be built, but represent rather a new phase in naval construction, which will be entered upon soon as the replacement pro- grammes are taken in hand under the terms of the Treaty." The contention is that as long as no limits are placed upon meðern weapons of war the big ship will be essential in order that ade quate defensive measures against mines, submarines and aircraft bombs may be associated with superior offensive qualities The battleship, it is evident, is not dead but dormant, and as soon aa the naval holiday is át an end new vessels of this large and contly type will be constructed: In this connection the explanation by Commander Ichico Sats of the
on
Committee Public Accounts had been in- structed to inquire into the activities of the Commonwealth Shipping Board, including the question of trade with the West Coast of England. Mr. Larkin, who lately resigned from the chairmanship of the Australian Shipping Boart, but who has now withdrawn his resignation, dff- fered from his colleagues on this point. Dr. Page added that he had informed the board that the Government was of the opinon that it should carry on until Parliament had considered the re- port of the committee.
Manchester College, who has re- Mr. Gerald Stoney, formerly of turned to the Parsons' Works, nection with the development of the where he became famous in con- turbine, was honoured by being appointed a member of the Arm- strong College Council by the unanimous.desire of the members.
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