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SECTION.
MURDER AT SEA
FATE OF LIVERPOOL SKIPPER
engineer
ENCROACHING SEA
DEFENCE WORK IN WEST SOMERSET
The Somerset County Council have at Blue Anchor, near Minehead, for several years been waging an uncoat- ing fight against the encroachment of the sea, and have spent large sums In defending the mile or so of foreshore at this spot.
This part of the West Somerset coast is exposed to the full force of the winter gales, and as there are Some light was thrown on the mys. neither high cliffs nor aandbanks, it At the Marine Court yesterday, Commander J. B. Newill, D.SO., R.N.,tery of the death of Capt. W. T.18 probably one of the most expensive imposed a fine of $102 on the cox.. Pinnington, of the tugboat "Ngatsein," piece of country coastline in exist Phillips, by Missance. Already £70,000 has been spent swain of the steam launch "Keng and Fat" for carrying 102 passengers In Elizabeth A. Pinnington, the sister of on a sea wall, and between £26,000 excess of the number allowed by his the captain, in an interview on Janu- and £30,000 on stockades and VATIDUA ary 5 with a Liverpool correspondent defence works, mostly of a non-per- licence,
The maximum number of passen. at Capt. Pinnington's home, Mersey manent character.
The consulting engineer of the Capt. Planing- gers permitted by the licence was 156, Avenue, Aigburth.
was taking place. further erosión but when Sergeant Wright of the ton's tug foundered while going from County Council recently reported that Water Police counted the passengers Rangoon to Moulmein.
Acting on his report the Council have "We got news of the tragedy on he found there were 258. Before the
Miss Pinning Just decided to expand a further £6,824 on extending the concreted count the Sergeant was given to un- Christmas Eve said
message stated derstand that there were only 140 onton, and the Arst
walling.
The engineer pointed out that the board. About 70 of the excess pas. that the captain, engineer, and a na
of the engineer were
was gradually nearing the sengers, the Sorgeant found, had been tive servant accommodated in the hold of the missing, and that the crew of fourteen erosion
natives were, rescued. My brother roadway, and if the inatter was not launch.
The alternative for the fine was one and Mr. Phillips were reported to taken in hand it would be necessary have been seen in lifebelts, but that to build a solid wall at considerably month's hard labour.
The present sea Trenter expense. Is the last word of them. The next wall is concreted ravotment, and has news was that the native boy had been found, and then to-day we hear proved highly useful." FIRING OF BOILERS that the other, fourteen men have been
"LANCASHIRE" VERSUS "SCOTCHI"
placed under derest and charged with murder. Putting two and two to- gether, and from all we can gather, it would appear that the engineer's faithful little servant has told the true story.
NAVAL LOSSES
INTERESTING WAR
FIGURES.
of
authors, about 65.70 per cent. of all the by the rescue ship?
tried dispose of the three, but the than the United States, thirty times
the of The September issue "Journal of the Fuel Institute of
"I have a strong feeling that thero
M. Georges Leygues, Minister Japan, under the editorship of Pro-
was a mutiny on the boat, and that Marine, in his recent speech to the fessor Y. Oshima, principal of the
my brother and Mr. Phillips, who Imperial Fuel Research Institute at were the only Europeans on board Commissioner for foreign affairs of Saltamin-Kawakuchi, contains a high-
wore murdered in cold bloori. The the French Chamber of Deputies, ad- ly interesting contribution by Kioyshi
only way for the natives to save their duced some interesting figures as to Shiga and Ito Takase. This gives in skins was
to scuttle the ship, and naval losses in the war. great detail the results of investiga-that accounts for its going down in During the war, he said, the Bri- How tlah Navy lost 570,000 tons of war- tions carried out on the firing of "Lan- cashire" boilers by means of pulverised calm sen in broad daylight.
one explain that "the twe ships, the French Navy 113,000, Italy cont, the problems being, of course, al-Europeans and the little native ser 40,000, United States 19,000, Japan most identical as regards the operation vant were the only ones not found times more than Italy, six times more 18,700. France, therefore, lost three of "Scatch" bollers. According to the
I think they youngster has lived to tell the tale." more than Japan, and five times less
Capt. Pinnington
than Great Britain. nected in Liverpool shloping circles.. On the other hand, in new build- His service, as a youngster, with the ing from 1914 to 1922, France comes there order, although very large number of water-tube boilers Navy during the war, coupled with last. She had only built 29.000 tons his career lace, indicated a splendid whilst Italy had built 60,000, Japan, In operation in Japan, both in power futare. He was only thirty-five years 465,000. United States 870,000 and stations and large industrial establish of a and three years ago went out Great Britain 1,179,000. She was un- ments. The general conclusion reached to India to trade, round the coast.
able, he said, like other Powern, to re- conditions pul-
place vessels lost or worn out during the war, because her arsenals used Jail their resources to manufacture war
material for the allied armies.
steam bollers in Japan are of the cylin drical type, of which the "Cornish," with one furnace tube only, comes Brat the "Lancashire" being
in
next
a
is that under preeth internal flued verised coal firing cylindrical boilers, such as the "Lan- cashire" type, is difficult to operate even at moderate rating, largely be esuse there is not sufficient heating sur- face to absorb the radiant heat at an efficient speed, while a serious defect In the melting of the ash, unless ex- tremely complicated and expensive ap. paratus is adopted; for example, water cooled steel tubes in series with the boiler, which are comparatively easy to apply to water-tube bollers because of Even, the ample combustion space, however, if the ash is prevented from melting, troubles are caused by large deposits of the fine material, and al though the paper in question does not mention this fact, another disadvan. tage, particularly from the marine point of view, is the amount of very fine ash apt to be blown out of the top of the funnel. It seems to be the opin ion that in spite of all these troubles, pulverised fuel firing has advantages for the internal-flued cylindrical baller for intermittent operation and for tak- ing peak load demands. During the ex- periments carried out there was used, in addition to bituminous coal, a cer- tain amount of low temperature car- bonisation fuel produced by the experi mental retart Installation at the Japanese Imperial Fuel Research In- stitute.
A COLLISION
NEW P. AND O. VESSEL INVOLVED
was much res-
LOOKING AHEAD
ZEPPELINS IN PLACE OF LINERST
It was
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1929,
FAST
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The White Empresses are the largest, newest and fastest liners on the Pacific. They cross from Yokohama to Vancouver in 9 days; from Shanghai to Vau couver in 14.
These ships connect with the summer trains, "Trans-Canada Limited" and "Mountaineer," at Vancouver, enabling passengers to make the earliest sailing of a Canadian Pacific Atlantic liner.
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S.S. "TAI MING" S.S. "TAI HING"
[649 tona-Capt. G. J. Spink] [1,068 tone-Capt. O. B. Wilks.]
"
SUN.
24th
FEBRUARY
FEBRUARY.
"
FAL
22nd
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27th
France, he said, was the only great Power whose naval budget was less than in 1914. But since 1920 the re- constitution of the fleet had proceed. ed methodically, and was now strict- In 1950, will trans-oceanic Zeppelin ly adapted to their needs.
Regular Service of Fast, High Class River Steamers Having Good Ac- | liners be taking the place of ocean composed of units which rivalled in steamers? Will the worry caused by every respect the most advanced ves-commodation for First Class Passengers, Electric Light and Fans in State. storms, sea sickness, and icebergs bo sels in the corresponding classes of rooma pnd Saloon. The ss. "Tat Hing" le fitted with Wireless.
These vessels leave Hong Kong for Wuchow (via Samahul, Shfahing, permanently eliminated from ocean foreign navies.
Takhing & Dosing) and return to Hong Kong (vis same Ports) every fiva Journeys? There is a chance, at least,
dayı. that travel will be made easier and safer, judging by the performance of "Graf Dr. Huga Eckner's great
Its first trans-Atlantic Zeppelin." voyage In October proved that the giant ship is as far ahead of aeroplanes for trans-oceanic service as the "Levis- than" is ahead of Christopher Colum- bus" "Pinta Nina," and "Santa Maria." 1
"IOLANDA”
AMERICAN YACHT VISITS SINGAPORE
An interesting arrival in port on Feb. was the splendid steam yacht Taylor,
to the
A Zeppelin that can go as far as this "Iolanda," owned by Mra, E. one did, through storm and rain, is ac-of America, the sole heiress complishing a feat worthy of notice. Taylor millions, who is accompanied on of the world by a party of The fuck that this voyage was no mere a tour prize competition or "scientific" ex-wealthy Americans."
The yacht is under Commander W. P. ploration also makes it stand out in strong relief from other less fruitless Holman and has voyaged through the Mediterranean and touched at Colombo The "Graf's" voyage might be called before arriving at Singapore.
venturea.
Mrs. Taylor and her guests left New-
.
Fares for round trip (not including meals) $20. Meals & Wines are to be obtained on board."
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The Norddeutscher Lloyd, however, could
not see their way to agree to this plan, while another cause of the breakdown of the negotiations was the intense rivalry between the porta of Hamburg and Bremen.
#Lover
After negotiations lasting the best a "business trip" because those who sent mail and merchandise, or who came port, Rhode Island and crossed over in part of a year, it has now been an- as passengers, helped to defray ex- the "Jolanda" to Southampton, from nounced that all prospect of an asso-
There was launched from the Schi- penses. Mart of the G$90,000 cost of where they embarked on an extensive ciation of interests between the Ham-
From burg-America Line "Norddeutscher chan Yards, at Danzig, on December the trip, however, was paid by a Press cruise in the Mediterranean. association seeking live news. Nows there they commenced their Eastern Lloyd has been abandoned. The chief 11, the motor vessel "Sauerland," the papers can not be expected to pay for tour, arriving at Singapore via Suez, stumbling-block all along has been the fourth of five sister vessels which are such trips if they become more fre-Colombo and Trincomalee and then on problem presented by the 40,000-ton being built for the Far Eastern trade quent because the news element will through the East Indies before return linera "Europa" and Bremen," which of the Hamburg Amerika Linie. The
first three, the "Dulaberg," thon be gone. If business men can ing to Singapore. They will then make aro now being built for the N.D.L.
The proposition of the H.A.F.A.G. kusen and "Burgenland," all of 7,300 finance a permanent Zeppelin service, their way to Penang and Trincomalee
equalise the tons gross, have already been complet making passengers and shippers pay and will then proceed via Colombo and was that in order to
strength of the two companies on the led and passed into service. the bill, air travel will be on a sounder the Cape to Newport.
It is Interesting to note that the North Atlantic, one of these luxury basiz.
The C.P.R. which recently placed "Iolanda" visited this part of the world vessels should be handed over to them, four years ago when she was charter-two. 20,000-ton liners of the "Ballin" orders for a 40,000 ton liner for the men," it was surprested, should still be Atlantic trade, is further extending of the present owner. far as can be ascertained the "Viceroy HOME SHIPBUILDING by the late Mr. T. Taylor, husband class being offered in exchange "Bre China connection and another for the The owner's guesta are Mrs. J. L. the home port of both the now ships, its Beets by the order placed on the that Clyde, for two passenger steamers, Harriman, Miss Tiffany, Mr. and and a further inducement was Mrs. W. Greenough, Mr. R. Cot-the risk of the experiment of putting 365 feet in length, for the night Bar- tanet, Dr. J. E. Mitchell, Miss G. vessels of this type in the service vice between Victoria and Vancouver
would be shared.
When the steamer "Corinaldo," in ward bound from St. John (N.B.) en tered the port of Glasgow on Janu- fary 8, she collided with the new P. and O. steamer "Viceroy of India," ying at the Shieldhall Wharf.
So
received damage to four of India"
The "Corinaldo" platen above water. had the top rails and sheer strako plate on the starboard bow heat, and was berthed at the Prince's Dock,
The Blue Funnel Line announces that it has established a new service from Swansen to Java ports for gen oral cargo. For the present, a steam- er will leave once a month which, should shipments warrant it will be increased to fortnightly service. The first vessel scheduled for the new service is the "Eorybates," which will leave Swansea for the Dutch East Indies on January 10.
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A decided change for the better in Furlong and Mrs. Jost. the British shipbuilding situation is rel corded by "Shipbuilding and Shipping Record," in its review of the years 1923. This change for the better be gan some eight or ten weeks before the close of the old year, and it is pointed out that shipowners, no doubt hearten. ed by Improved trade prospects, camo along with a considerable number of contracts. More than 500,000 tons of shipping were contracted for during these last few wooks of the year. Some of the work represents valuable busi ness, such as the contract for a 40,000 ton passenger liner for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The revival of interest in new.com. struction which started towards the end of 1028," it is stated, "has altered very materially the shipping outlook for 1929, provided, of course, subse quent months do not provide a further collapse such as occurred last year.
Certainly 1920 opens with
least as great possibilities as did 1928, and with a great deal more promise than appear- ed likely last autumn."
In a further article attention is call- ed to the experiments on paverised fuel It is stated that the experiments an board the "Mercer" proved so satisfac tory, that a single-ended boiler was it ted to the "Stuartstar” for burning powdered coal. More recently a second double-ended boller, has been fitted up for burning pulverised, fuel, and if the results
continue to be satisfactory, the vessel will be thod of firing.
long dependent entirely on this'
"Nan
Four wall known Shanghal traders of the P. & 0. Company, the Inter- mediate steamers Nagoya,"","" kin," "Nellore and: Novara are being converted into one-class" ships and the first, will leave on her maiden voy- xgn from London to Calcutta on January 19. The vessels are of 7,000 tons and the passenger accommodation Is being completely reatted to a man- ner to make them the equals, of the "one-class", vessels on the, Australian run. The cost of passages has not yet been published, but these will be graded according to the position of the accommodation. The ferried; at present, is to India only, but it anticipated that it will shortly, be, ex- tended to" China,75)
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