SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1928.
P.&O.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian
Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
FUEL STEAMER.
SATISFACTORY RESULTS ON
SERVICE.
PULVERISED COAL.
The second vessel in the world to be equipped for burning pulver- ised coal under her boilera is the "Lingan" a steamer of 4,677 tons groes, built in 1911 at the yard of Sir Rayton Dixon and Co., Ltd. Middlesbrough, and owned by the Lingan Steamship Company. Ltd. (Dominion Shipping Company, Ltd., managers), Montreal says "The Shipping World,"
She has been employed, as a collier on the route between Sydney, CB, and Montreal, and her machinery consists of a triple- expansion reciprocating engine and three Scotch marine boilers with three corrugated furnaces each,
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF,sing Howden's system of forend
WEST DIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA,
AUSTRALASIĄ, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND Ports, and red sEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c..、
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY, DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
6. $.
Tons
1
KIDDERPOKE
RAJPUTANA KALDERA
From
Hong Kong
About
Destination
12th Aug. Straits, Bombay & Karachi.
Daylight 101.568
lbrt
Aug. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 16.088 1st Sept. Bombay, Marseilles & London,
0.144 15th Sept Marseilles, London, Antwerp & Hull. 9005 95th Sept. 'les, 1'den, A'werp & Hull 1Cargo only.
• Calls Cazablanca,
KALYAN RASHGAR
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrra nnd other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedivai Mall Steamship Cn.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
TAKLIWA
TILAWA *TAKADA "TALAMBA
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore. Penang & Calcutta.
7,930 Juh Au | Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
3.30 p.m. 10,00% 10th Sept.. 29th Sept. 6,3-D 5,018 ti Oct.
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.
draught. Impressed by the suc- cess of the United States steamer, "Mercer," the owners decided to convert her to a vessel using pul- verised fuel. The engineering de tails were entrusted to Mr. Edwin C. Bennett, and, after only about) six weeks' work, the conversion was completed and the "Lingan" These was ready for her trials. trials have been successfully car- ried out and the performance of the ship has given full satisfac- tion.
Owing to the arrangement of the Blokehold and, machinery space
THE CHINA MAIL,
THE DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE
and
THE AMERICAN MAIL LINE
Announce Specical Round-Trip Summer Excursion Fares.
Effective immediately the following specially reduc- ed Round-Trip fares are available for the liners of these companies,
From Hong Kong to Kobe and Retorn......H.K. $210.00 From Hong Kong to Yokohama, and Return...H.K. $235.00
Tickets sold at above rates will be valid for return passage up to three months from date of issue. Final limit of sale, September 21st 1928.
For further information and reservations apply to
AMERICAN MAIL LINE & DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE.
Hong Kong Shanghal Bank Building (Ground Floor)
Telephones Central 2477, 2478 and 795.
it was possible to instal only two VICEROY OF INDIA.” pulverisers instead of three. Each
. P. AND 0.'S LUXURY -LINER.
a vessel whose bearing and course she did not know. She never at tempted to reduce speed until two minutes before the collision, when she altered to slow, and did not attempt to take off her
way by stopping and reversing until she came in sight of the other vessel. It was small wonder the Greek ship was cut into so severely aft that she sank almost immediately.
Judgment must be entered for the owners of the Greek vessels.
of the two, however, is capable of supplying two adjacent bollers at full power, while the feed on the cut down to other pulverisor is sapply the remaining boller. The
Detalls are now available of the arrangement can be reversed, the
arrangements of the centre boiler being common to both passenger
P. and 0. mail: steamer pulverisers. The pulverisers were new supplied by the Kennedy-Van Saun Viceroy of India," which give an Manufacturing and Engineering indication of the company's effort Corporation and the burners by the to meet the growing demand of Ferbody Engineering Corporation. their travelling public for exclu
On her trials she was subjected sive berthing facilities,
The vessel will accommodate 415 to numerous tests and answered every one of them satisfactorily. first-class, and 258 second-clas Complete technical details are not passengers, and the outstanding yet available, but Mr. Bennett feature is that all the first saloon passengers will be berthed In states:-
"Our trial trip of Halifax and single-berth cabins, provision be the run from Halifax to Sydney ing be made for family arrange: a system of intercom- were both highly satisfactory, al ments by though we were using a coal hay.munication, which will ing about 28 per cent. volatile and neighbouring cabina being linked Dock, North Shields. The damage 16 per cent. ash. When we re-up into groups. The first saloon is only slight. bunkered at Sydney for the voyage include 20
admit of
cabins de-luxe with
to Montreal, they put on board bath, and 12 bedrooms with bath- The general ar- coal from the Sydney mines, which room en suite,
steamer has a volatile of about 86 per cent. frangements exceed any
ocean travel. and we ran into the unique pro- idea of luxury in
are also
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South), blem of the coal lighting off to Second saloon cabins
TANDA
ST. ALBANS
ARAFURA
TAXDA
ST. ALBANS
1 6,956 | 31st Aug.
4,500 28th Sept.
Gato! 200 Nov.
!
6,955 29th Nov.
14,500 28th' Dec.
Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island, Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan anal Hong Kong to Australia.
The E. & A. S.S. Co., Ltd., steamers will alte call at Shanghai, Iloilo, Cebu, Kolambugan. Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route as inducement
Fera.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:--
The Unien S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
.
The P. & O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal,
The P. & O. Branch Service of sterre to London via the Cape The New Zealand Shipping Comp's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
NALDERA
•WARFIELD
THAWA
NAGPORE KASHGAR
GAMBADA
16,088 17th Aug.
6,000 18th
20,000 20th
Shanghai,
Aug.hai, Moji & Kobe. Aug.
noy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka, 5,283 10th: Aug.
ant. Moji, Kohe & Yokohama. 0,005 | 31st Aug. Shai, Mail, Kobe & Yokohama. 5,307 1st Sept. Amoy, Shai, Moji, Kobe Osaka 4,500 4th Sept. Noji, Kebe, Osuka & Yokohama. 6715 5th Sept. S'hai, Moji & Kobe. 10.953 11th Sept. S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 8,018 17th Sept. Amby, Moji, Kobe, Y'hama & Osaka, 5,262 24th Sept. S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 9.136 28th Sept. S'hal, Moji. Kobe & Yokohama. 10,000 | 28th Sept. Amoy, Moji, Koba & Osaka. *Cargo only.
ST. ALBANS
MIRZAPORE MOREA TALAMBA "LAHORE
KHIVA TALMA
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice, WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.
Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses at Bingapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Steamers on Lendon and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft. x 2 ft. x 1 ft. will be received
at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing:
For further Information, Passages Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:-
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
P. & O. Building, Connauglit Rd. C., HONG KONG. Agenia
quickly at the burner. We spent planned on a generous scale, as to about eight days, experimenting space, fittings and furniture, and with different types of burner will include a number of single- throats and hot spot brick work berth cabins, the general arrange within the furnaces, and after de-ments of which will not be dissimi- ciding on what we thought was the lar from those of the first saloon. best form, we left Sydney on May The character and dimensions of 31. and arrived at Montreal in the the public rooms will be on the early morning of June 4.′′
GRAIN CARGOES.
OFFICIAL MEMORANDUM
ISSUED.
On leaving the Mercantile Dry Docks, Jarrow, after repairs, the "Glenardle," owned by steamer Meara, Enston, Greig and Co., Glasgow, got out of control of the
on the with Howdon Dock wall tugs In the high wind and callided other side of the river. The vessel was afterwards. docked at Smiths'
"The Port of Philadelphia Is virtually free of pilferage, the man- ager of the Port of Philadelphia Ocean Traffic Bareau states. "Even in package freight," he says, "the -lass is almost negligible. One company having a large number of ships trading between Philadelphia and Europe reports that on all their ships the total amount of pilferage last year was $37.75:"
new
He was quite young, was the same generous scale as the herth-new commercial traveller and it was Ing accommodation, and in the his first experience of being on the first saloon is a lounge in 18th cen- road. Nevertheless, new or not, he tury design, a writing and card had managed to get an interview room (Adam), and a smoking room with a prominent bookseller of the of unusually ample size, designed town, and finally succeeded in pre- in the Elizabethan style, and a sunding the man to order a gross Whilst fountain pens, spacious verandah in the Italian of style. Twin, electrically driven entering the order in his book, the lifts will .connect the Ave Arat client's manner, which up to the H.M. Stationery Office has saloon decks. A fine Pompeian present had been exceedingly pleas- published a new edition (price swimming bath, with specially de-ant, changed. "I countermand the 64.) of the "Memorandum Relat signed dressing cubicles is to be order," he growled, and the young hia way. ing to Grain Cargoes,' which provided, together with a large salesman departed on supersedes that issued in 1919. play room on the boat deck for Later in the day the bookseller's The law relating to the carriage children, for whose recreation a typist asked him why he had chang
"Well," of grain in ships is contained in portion of that deck will be rail- ed his mind so suddenly, sections 492 to 496 of the Mered off. Ventilation on the punkah came the answer, "that confounded installed youngster booked my order with a chant Shipping Act, 1894, and in louvre system will be sections 3 and 11 of the Merchant throughout the vessel, ensuring in pencil." Shipping Act, 1006, which are the tropics the coolest condition in printed in Appendix A of the the cabins and public rooms. Memorandum. Appendix B con- It will be recalled that the pro- tains three notices issued by the pelling power of the "Viceroy of Board of Trade, the third of India" is to be on the turbo-elec- which, dated January, 1927, has tric system, which, as experience been revised. Appendix C con-has shown, completely eliminates tains regulations approved by the vibration at all speeds. It is ex- Board of Trade for the North pected that the new, ship will be American, Mediterranean and ready for launching in September! Black Sea trades. Amendments have been made with the appro- val of the Board of Trade. in the regulations of the Board of Underwriters of New York, with SANK LIKE A STONE. which is now incorporated the National Board of Marine Under- writers, New York.
A COLLISION. JUDGMENT AGAINST ADMIRALTY.
A note to the Memorandum also states that the Wheat Tariff Association of San Francisco has
London. Mr. Justice Bateson, ceascil to exist as an active body, but its functions are now merged in the Admiralty Court, found the "Bacchus" in the San Francisco Board of British auxiliary ship
blame for collision in Marine Underwriters, who have alone to
the English Channel on abandoned the rules of the Wheatfog in
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE. Tariff Association, and have May 4 last with the Greek steam-
JOINT SERVICE OF THE
"BLUE FUNNEL" LINE (OCEAN S.S. CO., LTD. & CHINA MUTUAL S.S. CO., LTD.) AND
AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE.
(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL SS. CO., LTD.)' SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG.
Via Suez Canal-
24th Aug. 21st Sept 5th Oct.
S.S. "LYCAON" S.S. "PREMIUS!
Vin Suez Canal S.S. "CITY OF LINCOLN" Via Suez Canal Steamers proceed via Suez Canal or Panama Canal at Owners' Option
Subject to change without notice.
For Freight and particulars apply to- BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE or THE BANK LINE, LTD., Hong Kong- Hour Kong & Conan: JARDINE, MATHFION & CO., LTD., Canton,
adopted the rules of the Board of er. "Ioannis Fafalios," when the Underwriters of New York. The Greek steamer, the judge said, Board of Trade have also approv. Bank like a stone, and twelve of ed of the rules of the Texas her crew lost their lives and the Marine Bureau of Survey for rest bad narrow escapes. She was loading grain (1926), and also of proceeding from Dunkirk with a the rules and regulations for the cargo of ore, and by the evidence carriage of heavy grain cargoes he accepted, was going moderately in vessels loaded in Canadian slow with engines stopped, and ports, other than the ports of never altered her course.
The case for the "Bacchus," on Quebec, Montreal and St. John, N.B. at which the existing rules the other hand, was hopelessly continue in force. Aes, Abad one. Every rule that he eculd In Appendix D of the Memo-think of for navigating a vessel randam are instructions relating in fog seemed to have heon haken. to the preparation of plans of The acchus, was travelling too construction and loading, and Ap fast, did not stop on hearing the pendix Eccrtains forms and whistles on her bows of a vessel model drawings of approved plans whoas, position was not ascertain- ed, and she altered her course for of lua:fing."
President Liner
SAILINGS
Weekly Trans-Pacific Service
To San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The Sunshine Belt via Honolulu.
Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays.
Pres. Madison
Pres. Jackson Pres. McKinley
Pres. Grant
Aug. 14th, at 8 a.in.
Aug. 28th
ì
Sept. 11th
Sept. 25th.
To Seattle and Victoria.
The Short, Straight Route to America.
Fortnightly aallinga on Tuesdays.
Pres. Pierce
Fres. Taft ..
Pres. Jefferson
Pres. Lincoln
Aug, 21st
Sept. 4th
Sept. 18th
Oct. 2nd.
£120, £TT2 Special through rates to Europe via United States, Direct connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of rail lines across United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privileges for | sight-seeing.
Europe and New York Direct
ROUND THE WORLD.
Fortnightly sailing on Sunday via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Suez Canal. Alexandria, Naples, Genoo, Marseilles, New York and Boston.
Pres. Harrison .Aug. 12th 8 mm Pres. Mosude.Aug. 26th 8 x.m. Pres. Wilson.Sept. 9th 8 m
Pres. V. Baren Sept. 23rd 8 a.m. Pres. Hayes ...Oct. 7th 8 a.m. Pres. Polk.....Oct. 21st 8.m.
To Manila
Pres. Pierco...Aug. 14th 6 p.m. Pres. Jackmon Aug. 18th 6 p.m. Pres. Talt....Aug. 28th 6 p.m.
Prea, McKinley Bept. 1st 6 p.m. Pres. Jefferson Sept 11th 6 p.m. Pres. Grant ...Sept. 15th 6 p.m.
For Bookings, Passenger and Freight Information apply to Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor. Telephone Central 2477, 2478 and 705
Cable Address "Dailar." CANTON BRANCH-304 Ka Naam Tong Building.
American Mail Line
and
Dollar Steamship Line
AUSTRAL-CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY
J
S.S. "CALULU ”
will be despatched from Hong Kong at Noon on the 14th August, 1928. for SYDNEY, MELBOURNE & ADELAIDE vin Iloilo, Kolambugan Tarakan, Sandakan, Balikpapan, Rabaul, Samaral & Port Moresby. For Freight and Passages apply to:-
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
Agente. Tel. No. Central 1080,
Queen's Building.
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO., LTD.
ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS: All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Slipways and ena accommodate any craft of 200 feet long.
Town Office: 64, Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong, Tel. Central No. 459. Tel. Kowloon No. 9. Shipyard: Sham-Sol-Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Estimates. furnished on, application.
Hong Kong, April 1, 1924.
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: " MANIFESTO" HONGKONG.
Codes Used: A1, A.B.C. Fifth Edition; Engincering; First and Second Edition;
Western Union and Watkins,
DOCK OWNERS, SHIP BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, DOILER MAKERS, IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS, FORGE MASTENS, - ELECTRICIANS.
Single Screw Steel Passenger and Cargo Motor Vessel P. ABOITIZ,” 134' 0" B.P. x 27' 0" Mld. x 11′ 2 MId, Built to the order of Messrs. Aboitiz Inc., Cebu, for Philippine Inter-Island Service.
Please address
airies to the Chief Manager:
R. M. DTER. B.SC. M.IN.A.. Kowloon Dock, angkany.