NYIKLINE
THROUGH BOOKING TO EUROPE AT REDUCED RATES, £120, £112, £110, £102. £83, via San Francisco.
G$440, G$420, via Japan and Seattle,
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.
26th June. KOREA MARU (Calls at Keelung). Tuesday,
Tuesday, 10th July, SHINYO MARU
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.
KITANO MARU
HARŪNA MARU
Saturday, 16th June. Saturday,
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports,
TANGO MARU
AKI MARU
Wednesday,
Wednesday,
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo,
+ GENOA MARU
30th June.
20th Juna.
26th July.
Wednesday, 27th June. SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
Mexico & Panama.
Thursday, 12th July. GINTU MAKU SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) vin Singapore, Cape Town &
Tuesday, 17th July.
NEW YORK and/or BOSTON viá PANAMA.
KAMAKURA MARU
†TAKAOKA MARU
Wednesday, 4th July,
LIVERPOOL via Port Sald, Geneva, Marseilles.
†DURBAN MARU
Tuesday, 10th July. CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
Monday, 18th Juno. + NAGATO MARU
22nd June. ... Friday,
NAGASAKL, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
AKI MARU
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
+ SEIYO MAKU (Moji direct)
† BINGO MARU
ATSUTA MARU
+Cargo only.
Wednesday, *20th June. Thursday, 21st June. Tuesday, 26th June.
Subject to alteration without notice.
For further information apply to-NIPPON ̈YUSEN KAISHA. Tel. Central No. 292 (Private exchange to all departments.)
O
S. K.
THE CHINA MAIL,
SHIPPING
CHAIN AND CABLE.
MANY CAUSES OF FAILURE.
SHOCK LOADING, ‹
SECTION
LORD KYLSANT.
HARLAND & WOLFFS POSITION.
STILL LEADING.
pany's yards are not primarily equipped, but the orders for which were accepted in order to keep our good men employed.
Work In Hand.
In our principal establishment, viz. at Belfast, almost all our build- ing slips are occupied at present with, I am glad to say, à bigger pro- portion of large passenger liners, for the construction of which our organisation is more especially adapted.
Among the vessels now under construction at Belfast, there are The forty-third annual meeting oven large passenger liners 'In The causes of failure of wrought- fron chain and cable were recently of Harland and Wolff, Ltd., was hand, consisting of a 26,000-ton. considered by the Institution of held at the, London office of the motor vessel for the Trans-Atlantic Mechanical Engineers. The sub-company, la, Cockapur-street, S.W., trade, two motor passenger, ships of Ject is one of great practical Inter-the Right Hon. Lord. Kylsant, 20,000 tons each for the South est when the extent to which such G.C.M.G, (the chairman), preald- African mati sorvice, and four pas- sanger and refrigerated motor ves- chains are used in engineering sing. considered. Wrought iron possesser The secretary (Mr. John Philp) sels of 15,000 tons each for the At our establishments on the excellent welding and corrosion-having read the notice convening South American trade. resisting properties, and is ex- the meeting and the report of the
Clyde we are building a number of ductile. The latter pro-auditore, tremely
The Chairman Bald: My Lord vessels, including two similar to Ports.perty is of extreme importance in
Ufting-gear chain or cable, with and Gentlemen,It is just seventy- the four 15,000-ton motorships building at Belfast for the South which type engineers are chiefly five years, or three-quarters of a concerned.
century, since the old-established American trade, and the other a firm of Harland and Wolff was vessel for the South African inter-
mediate service. founded, and this is the forty-third
Our engine works and foundries annual meeting since the business was incorporated as a limited com- are well occupied generally with engines of different types, both Fany in 1885.
SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION...
LONDON.
Colombo, Suez and Port Said.
In the event of the application of an unusually heavy static load, or of a shock load (often caused by a snatch or sling movement), a well-made chain in normal con- dition will deform considerably, thus giving visible warning, and
The accounts for the year 1927, motor and steam, including the which are before you, set out the high-pressure steam turbines re- absorb a large amount of energy nancial position of the companyquired for the Holland-America liner "Statendam," of 30,000 tons
before finally fracturing.
There
is, however, according to Messrs, and reflect the aftermath of the
Wednesday, 11th July. - ALTAI MARU RIO DE JANEIRO. SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon, Singapore,overloading,
Colombo, Durban & Cape Town MANILA MARU
BOMBAY Via Singapore and Colombo.
TACOMA MARU INDUS MARU
.Saturday, 80th June.
Saturday, 22nd June. .Thursday, 5th July,
Sunday, 8th July,
Tharaday, 5th July,
Wednesday, 25th July,
At that time we were just emerg-sitates special dispoaltion and con- Your board have this problem
H. J. Gough and A. J. Murphy, who long coal stoppage of the previous-gross, which was launched by us at Our engineering repair establish- gave the members of the Institu-ous year and the difficult times Belfast some time ago. tion the benefit of their investiga-through which shipbuilding and
ments at Liverpool, Southampton tions into the subject, a long record engineering firms have been, and and London are also well employed. of cases where a chain has behaved still are, passing.
Working Costs. The dislocation of trade and in- in an extremely brittle manner.
Our managing directors and off- Such failures usually occur under dustry directly resulting from the
make every shock loading, often of a magnitude abnormal situation in the British clals continue to absurdly small in comparison with coalfields during the larger part of effort to effect the utmost economy the normal capacity of the chain; the year 1926 inevitably affected in every department, so as to keep for example, many cable links have adversely this company's opera the cost of production at low as fractured when the chain has been tions in 1927. Not only were our possible.
a chain-hold for activities greatly restricted, but Any further steps that can be dropped into stowage. The main conclusions our whole programme was derang. devised will be taken to minimise production cost, even if this neces- HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore drawn from the research into the ed.
subject are that excluding failures Idee to such obvious causes as grosing from the acutest period of the centration of our work.
defective chemical composition or bad workmanship depression in regard to shipbuild- in manufacture, which are easily ing orders, with most of our work constantly before them. They ful- identified, the failere of wrought in the initial stages, and the dif-ly realise that, in these days iron chain and cable may be caused culty of obtaining steel material of keen competition, it is only by DURBAN, DELAGOA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND by one or more of three main types until well into the year 1927 con-, the exercise of every practicable, siderably delayed the progress of economy in the cost of construc- of defect. MOMBASA-Via Singapore and Colombo,
construction and aggravated the tion, coupled with the maximum of problem of executing low price con- efficiency and good work, that
orders can be secured. In the first case, a brittle state tracts with any margin for profit.
During the soverest period of the We propose to carry forward and may be set up as a result of over-
heating or burning of the chain the balance of £95,202 at credit of trade depression, when unemploy iron during one of the stage of profit and loss account, after mak-ment was even more widespread, and we made a special effort, at a'con- manufacture, or of the chain linking a transfer from reserve during the forging process paying the dividend on the First aiderable sacrifice, to keep all our Second, it has been shown service shocks and atrains tend to
The reserve account stands at bring about a progressive deteriora- tlon of the weld, and this de- the substantial figure of £1,000,000, terioration may be of such a nature whilst the contingent liability that the defect cannot be detected acceptances discounted has been either by the usual method of test reduced by well over two millions. It is satisfactory that Messrs. or by visual examination of the
David Colville and Sons, Ltd, steel chain. Heat-treatment cure either of these two types makers, and Messrs. Archibald The third and most Russell, Ltd., coalmasters, both of of defect. important cause of brittleness is which companies we control, earn- associated with the type of service ed moderate profits during the past demanded of chain and cable. As year; notwithstanding that the coal a consequence of inter-link action, stoppage of 1926 naturally militat-i hammering on the ground, snatched also against them, but neither AMERICAN AUSTRALIA ORIENT
PANAMA MARU
CALCUTTA-Via Singapore. Penang and Rangoon
SHUNKO MARU
SEATTLE MARU
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER VIa Shanghai
Japan poris
ARABIA MARU (From Shanghal)..Monday, 2nd July.
BANGKOK-Vin Saigon.
KOHSO MARU .....................
.....Monday,
HAIPHONG_Yin HOTHOW & PAKHOI
18th Juno.
.............Friday, 22nd June 10 am. NEW YORK Via Japan porta, Ban Francisco & Panama
End of June.
MENADO. MARU
HAVANA MARU
JAPAN PORTS
SEATTLE MARU
BATAVIA MARU
KEELUNG Via SWATOW & AMOY
HOZAN MARU
KISHU MARU
SEATTLE MARU (Direct to Keelung) TAKAO-Vin SWATOW & AMOY
KOHOKU MARU
TAKAO & KEELUNG
BATAVIA MARU
Sunday, 24th June. .Saturday, 7th July.
Sunday, 17th June noon. Sunday, 24th June Noon Sunday, 24th Junc.
.Thursday, 28th June noon,
.Saturday, 7th July.'
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SHIPBUILDERS, SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.
Brittle State.
that Preference shares.
cannot
监 dividend
on
on their Ordinary
shares for the year 1927.
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works going and to spread what employment we could afford over the several districts in which we are established. With the larger volume, of construction now pro- ceeding in other yards in the vari- ous centres of the industry, we feel that, if circumstances should oblige ua temporarily to close any of our branch establishments, in order to concentrate the work more advan-
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LINE. Operated for
U. S. Shipping Board
By SWAYNE & HOYT, INC. FOR SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES.
loading, rattling through hawse of these important companies pald plpes, battering on chain wheels, the material of the surface of the link, in some cases to a very small depth only, becomes locally hard ened to such A degree that its ductility is practically exhausted. The link section then consists of a thin, highly brittle case cover- ing a core which may possess the ductile properties of beat chain iron. When the link section is subjected to bending strains, particularly those caused by shock
Production From Shipyards. conditions, the hardened
Notwithstanding the general strains elastically and then cracks. Heat treatment will effectually re- scarcity of orders, Harland and store the chain to a condition of Wolff, Ltd., were able in respect of great ductility, but it must be the year 1927, for the sixth year in regarded only as a cure for surface succession and for the twenty-first ambrittlement. It is not a means of year in all, to head the list of in- preventing the subsequent re-dividual firms with a shipbuilding development of brittleness Borvice.
In reviewing the position whole we are, I think, justified in concluding that the year 1927 re- presents low-water, mark, and that, considering the amount and clase S.S. of work we have in hand, we should SS. be able to show considerably bet- ter results for 1928, assuming no unexpected setback arises from labour troubles or otherwise.
-DRY DOCK
OF HONGKONG, LIMITED. THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
Tel Address
Telephone
Call Flag:
"TAIKOODOCK," HONG KONG. Central No.
Cover ANS, PENNANT.”
Length 787 Feet. Length on Blocks 750 Feet.
skin
Depth on Centre of SIB (H.W.O.ST.) 34 (L:: 6 ins.
THREE SLIPWAYS- Capable of Handling Ships Up
to 3,000 Tons Displacement. Electric Crane at Sea Wall, Capable of Lifting 100 Tons at 70 Feet Radius.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS. HONG KONG, CHINA & JAPAN.
In tonnage output, based on Board of Trade computation of 94,700 gross registor tons, and a marine engine production of 80,575 I.H.P.
more
These figures comprise passenger and cargo ships and machinery of screw steamer "Laurentle" for the British and, foreign owners.
constructed Whilst we motorships than steamships, the largest vessels turned out by us during the past year was the triple- screw steamer "Laurentie" for the Trans-Atlantic trade of 18,700 tons gross register, fitted with combined reciprocating engines and low.pre- sure turbine.
During 1927 we launched five motorships for a well-known tramp shipping company; five motor ves- sels for, the premier line engaged in the Anglo-Spanish trade; a motor- ship for the Egyptian cotton trade; four motorships and two steamers for the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company; six steam tankere bufit to the order of Andrew Weir and Co., Ltd. besides numerous other.j smaller vessels.
In addition to the machinery for these vessels, we constructed the machinery for three motor vessels for the West African trade, and two sets of, engines for Continental owners,
A certain amount of work under taken last year consisted of small vessels of a type for which the com
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SUN.
24th
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