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TENYO MARU.....*****
KOREA MARU
SHINYO MARU
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM. via
Tuesday,
20th October.
Tuesday,
18th November.
Tuesday,
27th November.
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.
HAKOZAKI MARU
HAKUSAN MARU
Saturday, Saturday,
20th October,
3rd November.
24th October,
21st November.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
AKI MARU
Wednesday,
MISHIMA MARU (Calls Zamboanga) Wednesday, BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
† HAKODATE MARU TAMBA MARU
Mexico & Panama. RAKUYO MARU
Saturday,
27th October. Sunday, 11th Novembor.
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) vla Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
Monday, 12th November. SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports.
10th November. Saturday, HAKATA MARU NEW YORK and BOSTON via PANAMA.
Monday, TOBA MARU.
22nd October, LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Geneva, Marseilles. LIMA MARU (Calls Glasgow).... Bunday, CALCUTTA via Singapore, Perang & Rangoon.
+ TOKUSHIMA MARU... Saturday, NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
21st October.
20th October.
MISHIMA MARU
Friday,
19th October.
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
+ AKITA MARU (Moji direct)
Friday,
19th October,
KITANO MARU
Monday,
KAMO MARU
Tuesday,
22nd October. 30th October.
SADO MARU
Tuesday,
S0th October.
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LONDON,
HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM Colombo, Sues and Port Safd
&
ANTWERP Via Singapore
AMUR MARU ...................................... Saturday, 10th November. RIO DE JANEIRO, BANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon, Singapore,
Colombo, Durban & Caps Town
LAPLATA MARU ...........................***
BOMBAY Via Bingapore & Colombo,
Friday, 20th October.
BORNEO MARU (Calls at Panang). Friday, 19th October.
............. Wednesday, 3rd November.
DURBAN, DELAGOA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND
MOMBASA Via Blogapore and Colombo.
CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Penang and Rangoon
་་
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Shanghai and'
HONOLULU MARU
PANAMA MARU
Thursday, 1st November.
SEATTLE MARU
Thursday, 26th October.
Japan ports
AFRICA_MARU
HIMALAYA MARU
HAIPHONG
MENADO MARU
Tuesday, 23rd October:
Thursday, 8th November, Thursday, 25th October 10 a.m.
MELBOURNE-Via Manila, Brisbane & Bydney.
Yla Holbow & Pakhol
NEW YORK-Vla Japan ports, San Francisco &' Panama
JAPAN PORTS
INDUS MARU
ALTAI
TAI MARU.....
KEELUNG-VIe SWATOW & AMOY
HOZAN MARU
KISHU MARU
TAK AQYin SWATOW & AMOY
DELI MARU
TARAO & KEELUNG
Friday, 18th November. Tuesday, 20th November.
Sunday, 21st October 10 am. Sunday, 28th October 10 a.m.
Thursday, 1st November 10 a.m.
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BUILT IN ENGLAND
SHIPPING
SECTION.
SHIPPING STRIKE
THOUSANDS NOW TAKING OUT LICENCES
COLLAPSE COMPLETE
Melbourne, Yesterday. Concluding its analysis, the ship- By midday thousands of strikers builders' council emphasises the had taken out licences and 300 had futility of comparing costs of ved-picked up work on coal ships. The sels: on a tonnage baris alone.
Fast Crossing Made
Victorian branch of the Seamen's Union has decided to man all ships, The steamship "American Trader" and the shipowners are preparing of the American Merchant Lines, in to rocommission All Interstate
its last round, trip voyage between steamers. Two thousand volunteers New York and British ports, made are continuing to work vessels at The second motorship of the Grace Line was to enter the New run which places her in the cate the Victoria Dock and Port Mol- gory of the fastest trans-Atlantic bourne, and the shipowners have de- York-West Coast of South America vessels for her size. With a gross clared that volunteers will receive service on Sept. 27, having recently tonnage of less than 10,000 tone, preference with the exception, of sailed from England where the veshe made the eastward crossing coal vessels.-Router.'
sel was built, for New York. The from New York to Plymouth, Eng- "Santa Barbara" as she is named, land, in a little over seven days.
is a slater ship to the "Santa reaching Plymouth the seventh even-
Maria," which was placed in sering out of New York and London PULVERISED FUEL vice in the spring. She is 486 feet the following morning.
In length and has a deadweight
Returning, she again made an
IN U.S.A.
tonnage of 8,200 tons. The ship eight-day crossing from London. TESTS OF THE TODD SYSTEM will develop 18% knots speed and The "Trader" is one of five vessels will have accommodations for 157 operated by J. H. Winchester & Co. passengers, only first class passen- for the United States Shipping gers being carried.
Shipping Costs Analyzed. To bulld a 16-knot vessel of 10,000 tona, costs more than twice as much as to build a 10-knot ves sol and a 14-knot vessel costs 80 per
Board, and, while primarily mail and cargo carriers, have accommoda- tions for approximately 100 tourist third cabin passengers.
West Indies Cruises
+
while the
Steamship Schedules
OTHER TYPES
Following the announcement that
a ship, specially Atted to burn pul- verised fuel is to be built in
These tests-which will continue
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1 1928.
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via CANADA
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October 24th, 1928-At Noen.
GREATEST TRAVEL ·SYSTEM
F
WORLD'S
BRITISH WUCHOW LINE
Several voyages to the West Britain, detalls are to band of the cent. more than the 10-knot vessel. Indies have been scheduled by the tests which are to be carried out As the speed and horsepower in Holland-America Line for the coming apparatus which has been deve with the new pulverised coal-burn- crease, a greater
amount of fueling winter. The steamship "Veen- and feed water is required, with a dam" will make one 29-day cruise,loped in the United States by the consequent additional weight im going to the Panama Canal and Todd Shipyards Corporation, which posed on the vessel and a resultantswinging back with stops in South/was described in the "Shipbuilding decrease in its cargo capacity, the American ports,
and Engineering" Edition of "The
builders has just determined as a voyages of 16 days each, including for about six weaka-are to be car- National Council of American Ship Volendam" will make three short Journal of Commerce of July 12 last. result of a comprehensive study in calls at Bermuda, Port au Prince, ried out under the auspices of the shipbuilding coats and the reasons Havana and Nassau, most of which Fuel Conservation Committee of the therefor.
will likewise be visited by the U. S. Shipping Board, and fuel ex- Ship operators considering the "Veendam". In addition to the perts of the U. S. Navy Department. construction of new tonnage have visits to the smaller islands of the They will be held at the League objected, it is indicated,, to the West Indies. In addition to these Island Navy Yard testing labora- great proportionate costs: as the voyages, the line is sending ite tory. also and speed of the vessels in steamship "Rotterdam" on a 71
The Todd system has been deve- ercase, believing that these factors days' Mediterranean cruise.
loped after a series of experiments should run in a generally even ratio,
over a period of two years at the the shipbuilders council implies, and to correct the belief, a table Raymond & Whitcomb Company Tebo plant of the Todd corporation has been compiled comparing the have chartered the steamship Co-In Brooklyn, and it has been decided coats of vessels of various speeds lumbus. of the North German Lloyd to subject the apparatus to a test Line for a world cruise in 1980, under Scotch marino boffers under and sizes.
Faster Ships Required going eastward from New York and the same conditions as those con- Panama nected with the tests of the "Pea- Predicating the study upon the returning through the
is the third largest river in the Chin- fact that foreign ship owners are Canal. The "Columbus" with a gross body," "Fuller-Lehigh and other ap- now building vessels, of a speed tonnage of 32,500 tons, will thus be paratus at the League Island yard.ase Republie and second, only to the greatly in excess of that which pre- the largest ship ever to go around The burners and pulverisers are Yangtze in importance. This magul vailed a few years ago, and that the world in cruise service, and to be moved to the League Island
eign traffic in 1897, but how many the tonnage and speed are the most with hor now turbines which are yard for a trial under the Scotch cent trade route was opened to for.. foreigners travel on this important important features that a ship shortly to be installed in order that boilers used in the other tests.
Fed By Gravity
The scenery along the waterway.7 when planning a she may maintain a fast service owner considers new vessel, the Council proceeded to show that the measure of value of a vessel cannot be determined by Its cost per ton without full know of design. ledge of the elements Exclusive of other facts, it stated, the cost per ton varies with size, number of decks, draft, deck ma- chinery, equipment, passenger ac- commodations, refrigeration, steam, pressure, speed and other factors.
Costs Mount With Speed The owner of a vessel of 10,000 tons deadweight and of 10 knots spood will find, should he desire, a few vessels of 14 or 16 knots, accord,
The Sai Kong (or the West River)
with the new ships, "Bremen and In the system installed on the "Europa," she doubtless will be the Shipping Board freighter "Mercer," route is beautiful. We recommend it fasted world cruise ship. Raymond the coal is fed from the bunkers to any person who wishes to spond, a
the crushers by gravity and short and economical holiday. & Whitcomb have chartered the to vessel for the present winter cruis- after pulverisation is forced by ing season and will send her to the compressed air through tubing. to West Indies."Christian Science Monitor."
IRISH HARBOURS
THE CRUISE OF THE AVON
CAPTAIN'S VIEWS
the burners of two of the three
OCTOBER SAILINGS
DEPARTURE HOURS:
Hong Kong 6.30 p.m. Wschow 200 pain. 8.8. "TAI HING"
[1,088 tone-Capt. 0. B. Wilks.]} OCTOBER.
FRI
WED.
24th
MON. 2903
8.8. TAI MING" [849 tons Capt. G. J. Spink.) OCTOBER. 22nd FRI. 28th
MON.
SUN.
For information apply to
2nd
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KWONG WING C
87, Connaught Road West, Phone: Central 895.
installation on the "Mercer," Tvo
boilers, the third being held in re- auxiliary Diesel generator may be serve. In the Todd system the used in raising steam in one of the vessels selected for such
coal goes from the bunkers through
2
crusher and then is convoy-
ed to individual pulverisers attach.
boiler.
Compactness Compactness of the Todd ap
Installations are. the West Alsek and West Apaum..
Prevailing low prices of fuel oil j
ed to each furnace of each boiler. These grind the coal to such Ane. paratus is another point in its are expected to retard the pro- nesa that it will pass through asta! it in limited spaces on ship.is regarded as merely a temporary favour making it possible to greas of pulverised coal, but this, 200-mesh screen.
By means of these individual board as well as in tugs or other condition, consequently fuel ex- Captain Hannan, in command of pulverizers, it is claimed that shut small craft. It is expected that perta fook forward to extensive ing to the shipbullders, that each the "Ayon" of the R.M.S.P. Co., in downs of single furnaces for re- the Todd apparatus will be a great development of the use of the new additional knot in speed requires an a cruise round the Irish Coast, has pairs or replacements can be made improvement over the types of ap- fuel in the marine field. Increase in horsepower, this leading given his views on the harbours without shutting down the whole paratus now in use. to heavier machinery, which in visited.
boiler. It is also pointed out that It is known that the Shipping | F turn, requires a larger vessel, and At Cobh Cork Harbour, there was this arrangement facilitates the re-Board has selected several ad-1 more fuel capacity. Machinery cost safe anchorage within an easy disgulation of firea,
ditional vessels for conversion to per pound is approximately three tance of the landing pier. At
coal, By reason of the fact that the pulverised
it but that. times the cost per pound of the Galway there was no difficulty in pulverisers are ench driven by intends to
in- defer further weight of the hull, it was ascer-landing during the absence of south-amall motore, it will be possible to stallations
the pending
. out- tained, and this tends greatly to west winds. He was not so favour-shut down all boilers while the come of the pending tests of the Increase building costs when the able in his'ppinion of the northern vessel is in port. If steam should Todd apparatus and of certain speed of a vessel is to be in excess ports, where, with the exception of be required during the layover, an improvements in the experimental of those of somewhat similar design Portrush, there were no suitable previously constructed.
landing places in all conditions of
Thus, using a 10-knot speed vea-weather. Foynes, on the Shannon, sel is 100 per cent, the relative below Limerick, was found very costs for ships of greater speed, suitable, with sheltered anchorage. which automatically involve greater size if the cargo space is to remain fixed, will run as follows: 12-knot, 126 per cent. 14-knot, 160 per cent. 16-knot, 209 per cent.
DRY DOCK
OF HONGKONG, LIMITED. THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
Tel Address
Telephone Call Flag
"TAIKOODOCK," HONG KONG. Central No, 212
C” over “ANS. PENNANT
Length 787 Feet. Length on Blocks 750 Feet. Depth on Centre of
Sill (H.W.0.5.T.) 84 ft. 6 ins.
THREE SLIPWAYS-
Capable of: Handling Ships Up
to 8,000 Tons Displacement. Electric Crane at Sea Wall, Capable of Lifting 100 Tons at 70 Feet Radius.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS. HONG KONG, CHINA & JAPAN:
At Dun Laoghaire (Kingstown), the anchorage was safe within helf- a-mile of the piers, and passengers were easily landed by means of motor launches, except during easterly winds.
Exceptionally secure anchorage, sheltered, from all winds, prevails at Blacksod Bay, off Mayo, on the West Coast Thero was safe an chorage also at Berehaven, on the south-west, which was formerly a British naval station.
The cruise of the "Avon" WAS considered by Captain Hannan a great success.
Mr. Lubbock, one of the R.M.S.P. directors, who was on the steamer throughout, and specially interested himself in the cruise, stated it was a ploneer effort. The object was to interest British people in Ireland, especially those who had never seen it by sea, and the scenery hed much Impressed the passengers. From the success that attended “the "Ayon," he thought visits to the coast of Ireland would become a fashion, and the R.M.S.P. would endeavour to foster such vikits amongst tourists: They hoped, in future to arrange for tours during Whitsuntide, as well as August,
Mr. Barrington, of the Free State Ministry of Commerce, visited the steamer while it was anchored in Dun Laoghaire Harbour, at the close of the tour, accompanied by Mr. Hewett, shipping agent, and on behalf of the Free State Government "expressed app ion of the enter prise of the: the tour
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