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£95, 290 10s. via Japan and Seattle.
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.
TAIYO MARU
TENYO MARU
SHIDZUOKA MARU
Wednesday. Wednesday,
29th May. 12th June.
SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Ports.
YOKOHAMA MARU
Monday,
17th June. 1st July.
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.
THE CHINA MAIL,
SHIPPING
ITALIAN SHIPPING
"VENEZIA" FOR THE RUN TO CANTON
TWENTY-KNOT SHIP
SECTION.
STEAM TURBINE
DEVELOPMENTS OF THE
SYSTEM
a
SUBMARINES
THE PROBLEM OF SAFETY
HOME COMMENT
It is fitting that the latest safety dovice.for use by crews of submarines should have been developed by a naval officer attached to the United States submarine service. The new appliance, which is spoken of as a "lung," has been tested by U.S. naval experts, and has been found to answer very well the severe demands that have been made It is an apparatus which upon it. It has been well known for many somewhat resembles e gas mask, but it years that whereas the ordinary re- is lighter, and appears to be more ciprocating steam engine utilises the readily manipulated. It is Atted with The Hong Kong-Canton run will be strengthened by the addition of a fast energy in the steam at the higher clip which fits over the nose, thus
Through the only.
mouthpiece the vessel, this being the 3.3. Venezia Pressure with an efficiency reasonably allowing breathing through the mouth comparable with the maximum which
wearer breathes oxygen from a rubber which arrived from Trieste on Wednes
can be obtained, only the turbine can She is owned by the New Era extract from the steam and convert bag strapped to the chest. From the day. Shipping Co., Ltd., and-now-lies-at-into useful work the energy present at bag two small rubber tubes pass to the mouthpiece through a compart- Shamshuipo ready to leave for Canton
lower pressures and temperatures. In ment filled with caustic soda, one tube She is understood to be a twenty
large vessels where three propeller
being for inhaling and the other knot vessel, very much faster than
shafts are permissible, such a combina- for carrying the expired air back those at present on the Canton run.
tion has worked admirably, and has into the bag, where it is She has been brought out from Europe given an over-all propulsive efficiency by Capt. F. W. Crago with a crew of five Britishers and 21 Italians, entering Her owners have hired one side o the wharf occupied by the s.a. "Hydran- for a period of two years, but it Real SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Porte, is not known how she will be accom
Friday, 7th June.
modated at Canton. She is expected to
KATORI MARU (Calls Lisbon) ATSUTA-MARU--
.... Monday,
Saturday, 1st June.. Saturday, 16th June.
Wednesday, 26th June. 24th July, ... Wednesday,
Tuesday, 28th May. Tuesday, 11th June.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports,
TANGO MARU
AKI MARU
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
† PENANG MARU
SADO MARU
SOUTH AMERICA (West Const) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, the port in ballast.
Mexico & Panama.
GINYO MARU
WAKASA MARU
NEW YORK via PANAMA.
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Thursday,
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Geneva, Marseilles.
DAKAR MARU
30th May.
Friday,
31st May,
Monday,
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,
+AKITA MARU
Thursday,
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
HAKONE MARU
AWA MARU
GENOA MARU (Moji direct)
SUWA MARU
10th June.
30th May.
Monday, 27th May. Tuesday,
28th May. Tuesday, 28th May. 10th June. Monday,
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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,
ROTTERDAM Colombo. Suez and Port Said, ANDES MARU
LONDON, HAMBURG,
start soon..
29
zure
with
Very considerably in excess of that purified by the soda and breathed. The appliance is fitted with which could be obtained by reciprocat age
special valves, which maintain an equal ing engines alone..
The development of the high pres-pressure, and which is not affected by the varying pressures to which the association turbine in
wearer is exposed when submerging mechanical gearing has, however, or ascending, so that it is possible to superseded this combination system for breathe comfortably at any reasonable the largest and most important vessels.depth, an it has enough buoyancy to combined reciprocating and turbine en
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The 8.3. "Venezia" was built in 1908/ The Bauer-Wach system permits of the keep the wearer afloat when he reaches From Hong Kong to NAGASAKI and Return
At Dumbarton by W. Denny and Bros., the "Kingfisher," and is a steel triple screw steamer of 988 gross to nage and 347 nett tonnage. Registered at Trieste under the Italian flag, her dimensions are length 275 feet, breadth 32.1 feet and depth 10.2 feet. She was engined by the builders. The veszel only draws seven feet of water, which means that on the Hong Kong-Canton run she will not be affected in any way by the state of the tide.
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Further proof of the prestige in which British-made goods are held throughout the world is provided by the fact that the Chilian Naval Com- mission has had British-made cables installed in all their six-new Torpeco Boat Destroyers, built for Chili by Messrs. John L. Thornycroft & Co.,
& ANTWERP--Via Singapore Ltd., at Southampton.
Sunday,
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RIO DE JANEIKO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Vin Saigon, Singapore,
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.... Thursday, 27th June. MANILA MARU
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Monday, 10th Jane.
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TAKAO-Yin SWATOW & AMOY.
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DELI MARU
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Friday, 24th May.
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Sunday, 26th May, 3 p.m.
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gine systems being adopted for the the surface. The effectiveness of the apparatus is shown by the fact that propulsion also of single-cerew vessels, the reciprocating engine utilising the persons wearing the mask have safely energy in the steam down to a very ascended from depths of 175 feet. So moderate vacuum and the turbine tak-successful have been the tests that the
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The "Serrano." one of the six boats, is 300 ft. overall length with a beam. of 29 it. Its displacement at full load is about 1,430 tons, and its maximum draft 12 ft. 8 in. It is twin-screw propelled by compound turbines (high pressure Brown-Curtis and low pres- sure Parsons, and has geared cruis- The co- ing turbines for low speed. 'tract speed is 35 knots. The boilers are of the Thornycroft water-tube type with Thornycroft all fuel gear.
with three The boat is equipped 4.7 quick-firing guns and six 21-inch torpedo tubes, and also has a power- ful anti-aircraft and anti-submarine armament. Such armament has beening the exhaust from the reciprocating supplied by Messrs. Vickers, Ltd.
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May 28 May 30 of U.S. submarines will be types
June 20 June 18. equipped, and several thousands more are to be secured, so that every sub- marine in the fleet will be supplied. This important help in securing the safety of submarine crews is naturally engaging the attention of our own Ad- miralty "Journal of Commerce."
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BRITISH TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYERS
Wher the Canadian Government decided to acquire two new torpedo boat destroyers for their Coastal De fence Forces they received tenders from 15 British and other shipbuild- ers, and eventually awarded the con- tract for both ships to John I. Thornycroft & Co., Ltd., of Southamp
ton,
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extremely satisfactory completion of The Sai Kong (or the West River) 11.M.S. Amazon," bull by Thorny is the third largest river in the Chin. crofts in 1927 for the British Navy.ese Republic and second only to the
The approximate cost of the twa Canadian boats will be nearly three Yangtze in importance. This magni- sterling, and ficent trade route was opened to for- quarters of a million they are to be delivered by the spring eign traffic in 1897, but how many of 1931. Both will be specially de-
signed for service in Canadian waters, foreigners travel on this important similar to the very successful Cans-waterway? The scenery along the dian Customs Cruiser "Margaret,"
which Thornycrofts built for the route is beautiful We recommend it years to any person who wishes to spend a short and economical holiday.
Dominion Government ago.
some
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SS. TAI MING" [649 tons Capt. G. J. Spink.] MAY SUN.
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Messrs. Richards, Longstaffe and Co., Ltd., managers of the Northminster Steamship Co., Ltd.), of Cardiff, have purchased from Messrs. Pelton Steam- ahip Co., Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne, the steel screw steamer "Solo" of 1,825 tons gross, which was built add engin- ed in 1905 by Messrs. J. P. Renoldson and Son. The vessel will be renamed the "Yorkbrook,"
Watts, Watts and Co., Ltd., Cardiff, From the Annual Review issues of
managers) to the MacAllum Steamship "Syren and Shipping," in which were
Co., Ltd., of Londen, for $9,000. The The mechanical features of this published the summarised returns of
vessel, which has been renamed "Clid- gear whereby the power developed by the principal British shipbuilding and
desden," is 3,900 tons deadweight, was the turbine at a high speed of revolu-marine engineering firms for the year
built in 1925 by Messra Ropner and tions, from 2,000 to 400 R.P.M. is 1928, it would appear that the British added to the torque of the relatively un- shipbuilding industry as a whole was Germany leads in the number of im-Sons, and engined by Messrs. Blair and
United Co even and slow-running reciprocator, 70more busy than in previous years. migrants admitted to the
Mr. F. B. Sanders, of Cardiff, han to 90 R.P.M. being the rule, are ex- One of the most remarkable jumps States so far during the fiscal year, An effort will be made at the First
the sold his awning-deck steamer "Ganges," Supplementary International. Hydro-tremely ingenious. The turbine having in the tonnage of vessels launched was according to statistics published graphie Conference, to be held at an almost perfectly even turning me that of John 1. Thornycroft & Co., Ltd., State Department, giving that country 3,497 tons gross, to Messrs. Sea Pro- Monace, to agree on some standardment, and the reciprocator with its of Southampton, whose 1928 output was a total of 61,197 persons who have ducts, Ltd, of London, The "Ganges" conventional symbols for use on the definitely uneven turning moment can over sixfold that of the previous year, come here under the present immigra- was built in 1906 by Messrs. C. Connell and Co., and engined by Messrs. D. charts of all the maritime Powers. only be combined if there be introduced while their output of machinery gave tion quota, states a Washington mes
Rowan and Co. wage. The head of the International Hydro- link in the chain of mechanism giving them pride of place amongst British
engineering a high degree of flexibility.
firms with
a total of Great Britain and Northern Ireland graphic Bureau at Monaco is 311
181,404 i.h.p.
are next with a total of 34,007, while American, Rear-Admiral A. P.
Beardmore-Vulcan Clutch Niblack, U.S.N., re
Such a link is the Beardmore-Vulcan This includes the machinery for the the Irish Free State is third with Sweden, with 9,561 The Bureau was created on October clutch, of which a large number are six torpedo boat destroyers they are 28,667 admitted. 5. 1921, as the result of an inter- under constraction at the Dalmuir constructing for the Chilean Govern-immigrants, and Norway with 6,453 national conference that had been Works for British naval vessels, and ment, all of which were launched dur- maintain the usual average of the held in London on the invitation_of for other important contracts.
This ing the past year, and are now in vari- Scandinavian countries. Government.
completion. British
The gives a complete degree of flexibility; ous stages of
This increased production at the no surfaces are in contact, the clutch is Bureau's purpose is to co-ordinate and standardise marine surveying oil filled, and any shocks or inequalities Southampton works of John I. Thorny- and cartography and official marine cannot be transmitted through this oil croft & Co., Ltd., was reflected in the publications the world
The Associated with this clutch are two Company's splendid report for their aim is to establish a standard so that gear boxes to reduce the speed of re- last financial year, which proved to be
the best in their long history. one can pick up a chart in any lar- volution from that of the tarbine to guage and be able to read it clear that of the propeller, giving a speed re- ly, although not understanding the duction varying from 20 to 40 to 1. language of the Government issuing bine syswin to existing ships, ured In this way, by fitting an exhaust tor- Every Ave years the various Gov- maximum of 30 per cent, increased very ernments send delegates the power can be chtained with a Monaco meetings in an effort to small addition to the fall bill per day. smooth the difficulties that arise in Generally, 20 per cent. increased power can be obtained with the same fuel bill charting the seas. Meantime, through the Bureau, correspondence is ex- per day. If increased power and in- changed between the various Govern- creased speed are not required, saving of the fuel il per day of from 20 to 25 per cent. can be made, maintaining the same power and speed.
the
it.
ments on these subjects.
over.
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of
It is not too mách to say that no reciprocating steam-engined vessel any size on importance should be con- templated without the claims of this system being given every consideration. The results of the trials of the two- year-old Anchor liner "Britannis, which was fitted with a most economical quadruple expansion engine supplied with steam from oil-fired boilers, and to which the Bauer-Wach exhaust turbine has been added, have shown clearly a fuel economy of 20 per cent. Naturally, with the less economical triple expan- sion engine the gain is greater.
The system is as yet only in the early days of its development, and is capable of further extension. With an exhaust turbine can be associated, for example, a Beardmore-Caprotti recipro cating steam engine, either of the slow speed
or high-speed type, the engine in the latter case being geared to the pro- peller in the same way as the turbine, In but with single reduction gearing. this combination, steam marine gineering..for such powers
as this system is sulted to, finds a new expres- sion in terms of considerable saving in space, weight and the maximum economy of fuel consumption.
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The steamara "Trelevan" and "Fails The steel screw steamer "Hounslow" City," already reported as being sold, sold by the realised £40,000 and £33,000 respective- fex "Borten"; has been British Steamship Company (Mesars. ly.
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