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SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.
SHINYO MĀRU
SIBERIA MARU
Wednesday, 10th July.. Wednesday, 24th July,
SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Ports.
YOKOHAMA MÁRU
MISHIMA MARU
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM .via
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.
KASHIMA MARU
Monday, 1st July. Monday, 29th July.
Saturday, 29th June.
HAKONE MARU
Saturday, 13th July.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila &. Ports.
TANGO MARU
AKI MARU
AWA MARU
26th Jane. 24th July..
.... Thursday, 27th Jane.'
11th July, Thursday, SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) ria Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
Mexico & Panama.
Wednesday,
Wednesday,
ANYO MARU
KAMAKURA MARU
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colustho,
TUTTORI MARU
Tuesday, 9th July.
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The port possesses the largest float
dock in ing
English waters, the larges dry dock on the South Coast, other dry and wet docks and firms with extensive plant for repairs of every description te hulle er
er machinery
History shows that progress in en- The Arst annual report of the British gineering is largely a matter of co Council for the welfare of the Mer-operation, even when, as is so often
Another point is that the Gunard, cantile Marine has been issued, and the case, that co-operation is instic White Star and other big passenger tive rather than intentional. White lines using the port generally concen shows that already a good, start has therefore, as we have recently pointed rate their attention upon the overhaul. been made in providing recreation for ont. it is unprofitable that discussion the sailer temporarily in port, and im-
should range round the claims of thising and repairs of their vessels into the
that pioneer. to
proving conditions in the vicinity of antion of a partority, hi, the ja-
harbours.
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† GENOA MARU
Tuesday,
4th July.. Thursday, LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Constantinople, Genoa.
Saturday, 20th July, † DURBAN MARU CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,
29th June. YAMAGATA MARU
8th July:
9th July,
·
Saturday,
Monday,
Sunday,
30th June. 30th June.
HANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
† MALACCA MARU (Kobe direct). Sunday, TAMBA MARU
¡Cargo only.
Reduced 1st Class Excursion Rates quoter between Manila and Australia,
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0.
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MAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore
Colombo, Suez and Port Said.
Friday, 12th July.
ALTAI MARU... RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon, Singaporė,
Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.
Thursday, 27th June.
Tuesday, 30th July.
Thursday, 4th July.
Friday, 19th July.
MANILA MARU
MONTEVIDEO MARU
BOMBAY---Via Singapore & Colombo,
CHIFUKU MARU
SHUNKO MARU
PANAMA MARU
Sunday, 7th July.
TACOMA MARU
Tuesday, 2nd July.
Thursday, 18th July.
DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR
& MOMBASA-Vla Singapore" & Colombo.
CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon
BORNEQ MARU
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Japan Perts from
Shanghai.
ARIZONA MÄRU (From Shanghai). Monday, 15th July.
MELBOURNE Via Manila, Brisbane. & Sydney.
BURMA MARU
HAIPHONG...Vis Hoihow & Pakho
MENADO MARU..
Thursday, 4th July.
Thursday, 27th June 10 a.m.
NEW YORK-Via Japan ports, San Francisco & Panama.
HAVANA MARU
JAPAN PORTS.
KASADO MARU
AMAZON MARU
BATAVIA MARU
KEELUNG-Via Swatow & Amoy.
.
HOZAN MARU CANTON MARU
LAKAO-Via SWATOW & AMOY.
DELI MARU...
Vinh AU KEPLUNG
BATAVIA MARU
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Wednesday, 17th July.
Tuesday, 9th July.
Tuesday, 9th July,
Sunday, 14th July.
Sunday, 30th June 3 p.m. Sunday, 7th July. p.m.
Thursday, 4th July, noon.
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winter months from November to repair facilities are only partially busy during the other eight months of the
device, it tis only right that those who The Central Council state that their have made outstanding contributions xim is to have a representative on to the information of which so much the council from every local port com- une is made to-day should receive due mittee, in addition to representatives ackn
It is for this rea- acknowledgment. son, rather than because he may have from numerous other societies, and the objects in view are to encourage been the first to build a successful all schemes for the welfare of seamen, steam locomotive, that we are glad to material, &c., to co-ordinate and
deve
memorate the work of Matthew Mur Jup ch
local effort to further recreational
ray, who has been called "The Father and medical facilities in all ports of of Leeds Engineering." This memorial the world, and to consider the provi in to take the form of the erection of year.
the welfarers. Altablets in Leeds and at the Institution Bion of futids for ready there are recreation secretaries of Machanical Engineers in London, the "Mauretania," in 18 ports of the world, and at the provigian of a prize fund for schrlars amal: port of Ancona, for example, the at the Leeds Technical Callege, and recreation secretary, an Italian, has the making of copies of Murray's entertained the crews of several ships models and helped them to organise football Museum for the Leeds City
Though £300 is still required to com- matches, &c., entirely unassisted.
plete the whole memorial, it has been list of these secretaries is printed
erect a tablet on the wall The Seafarer's Chart of Healthy possible to ere
of a
factory in Manhood," which is distributed in all
Water-lone, Leeds. ships of the British merchant navy. In which occupies the site of the Round to establish committees
re-Wood over century ago, comprising re all different interests. presentatives of all
in are existencè Such committed, Cardiff, South- the parts of London,
Edinburgh, but, unfor ampion, and tunately, except in the last-named place, the committees have not done much
apart from the efforts of their
A
the in
were
For example, the Cunard liners, "Aquitania" and "Berengaris" all passed through the hands of Messrs. John I. Thornycroft
and & Co., Ltd., oficial contractors to the
Co Cunard Steamship
1929 sailings. tural alterations, prior to their The attention to the latter vessel included the fitting of a new 33-ton stock, and 55 ton rudder in addition to considerable interior al-
South Keser, thoroughly overhauled with many struc-
home ports endeavours have been made Foundry, built by Fenton, Murray and terations abour and plant for this i
in
Memorial Tablet
This tablet, which was unveiled by the Lord Mayor of Leede on Wednes day, May 8, consists of a bronze plate on which are engraved a portrait of Murray with a brief history of his care career, as well a representation of the steam locomotive which ran on the and
All the
work is provided by Thornycrofts, and it will be easily understood that the atter requires to be very extensive, the lifting gear alone running into sev etal hundreds of blocks and recessary tackle.
While the work on these vessels was the in progress some 2.000 men per day
individual members tiled in taklenkinsop rack railway between Leeds were employed and not only had "the |
оп
All these resources are available-for quick repairs by the Thornycroft Re Fair Works to any vessel calling at Southampton, and ship owners would find it. beneficial to bear in mind the advantage of avalling themselves of these facilities during the months for preference.
The expenditure the initial steps was met by loan
and Middleton from 1812 to 1835. It whole of the work to be executed to the complete satisfaction of the Cunard from the British Social Hygiene Coun- may be recalled that, as a young man, cil and by donations from the Prince Murray commenced work with John Co.'s engineers, but also had to be
carried out
time-table to of Wales, the Shipping Federation and Marshall, a flax spinner of Leads, and ensure it being completed in tipe for the National Union of Seamen, and
soon afterwards succeeded in
improv used in his em
the advertised nailings, by a grant from the British Red Crossing the machinery Society
council state that it is ployer's mill. In 1796, he joined David The essential that visits should be paid to Wood in a workshop at Mill Green, each locality
by representatives of where water power was used, while the council in order to secure a right four years later he built a steam loco understanding
the works. of the aims and ob motive and started in view.
In the coming year it the site of which the memorial has been jects in
hoped to arrange for the establish placed.
Among co-ordinating committees in all the large ports of the United King-
and, perhaps, if funds
if funds permit, to dom send a representative to the more in- portant foreign
ports to stimulate Isent-action on similar lines.
Reference is made to the economieal way in which the society has been managed, and the accounts show that with a total income of £1,215, there is a balance in hand of £642 on the period ended March 31, 1920.
is
ment
of
SHIPBUILDING
LOW WATER MARK IN FRANCE
M. Pierre Forgeot, Minister of Public Works, in presiding at the lunching of the Lafayette, the single class liner built for the Compagnie Generale
the Transatlatique for
Havre New York service, referred to what he characterised as the ship building crisis in France. In 1928. he said, only 15,886 tons were.
built
summer
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zre
RAPID DISCHARGE
ong Murray's inventions were the three-port slide valve, a screw. feed boring machine, and a metal-plan- ing machine, while he was also one of the first to carry out researches inte the strengths of cast and wrought iron, early hydraulic making one of the testing machines for this purpose death, a number of Murray's After
him pooled the workmen employed by savings to form the firm now known Kitson and Company. It is inter. esting to learn that a grandson of une of the founders of this under taking was present on the occasion to which we are referring in the per- sun of Lieut-Colonel E.
Kitson
There was a notable instance of Clark, who took the opportunity of quick discharge in the port of Liver- paying a tribute to Murray as the em
pool when Messrs. Rea, Ltd., unload- bodiment of the common sense, coured a cargo of 3,383 tuns of phosphate ageous, able, determined, dogged, prac rock in barges from the steamer tical and, at the same time, imagina "Porthcawl at the company's jetty, live genius which constituted the Bri- Birkenhead. The four cranes worked tish character.
He demonstrated this from 8 am until 5 p.m. and the aver-
age turn-out was 422% tons per hour. by saying that, only the other day. there came to the Airedale Foundry an engine built by Fenton, Murray and Wood, which had been running since 1838-Engineering.
PORT OF HAMBURG
of
in France for French shipping com- panies, whereas the shipyards were to 350,000 able
to produce from 400,000
The tons annually.
pre- The port of Hamburg during the war figure for French shipping was past ten years has exhibited one of 2,300,000 tons; this figure rose to the most striking examples of com- 3,800,000 tons in 1922, but by 1923 it marcial vitality which it seems possible This to conceive. Just before the war it had fallen to 3,300,000 tons.
had built up its overseas traffic to a increase of a meant nevertheless an
30,000,000 tons compared with the level verging on 30,000,00 million tons ns pre-war figure, and the resulting shipping entered and cleared per an- f.freight in French vesselsnum so that it ranked immediately transport of. represented a saving of five hundred after London and Liverpool as chief million francs. per annum.
European seaport The only near The abnormal increase in French competitors on the Continent were, in
bound, fact,
Rotterdam. In tonnage after the war was
fact, Antwerp and in the present consequence of the mayal blockade, however, to result crisis · in shipbuilding. Moreover, which insted from 1914 to 1918, this France as part of her deliveries in remarkable volume of overseas trade kind had received 75,000 tons from was depleted to vanishing point, and Germany up to date. These factors, the shipping returns reduced to com- unfavourable to shipbuilding, were plete insignificance. The
Peace i fortunately only occasional, and in- followed the cessation of dications were not wanting to show brought further
misfortune.
Transfer lace of the most notable that 1928 was probably the low-water mark in the French shipbuilding of the
fleets of port trade, which was now showing on- the Allies for competitive service
their former owners. Ham against burg, deprived of its world-renowned was left with a sorry rem-
couraging signs of an improvement.
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tool acantila
leviathans, was
nant of
find a
the
which
ships
to
of its shipping and endeavour to
a place again in the world's ship-
ping activities.
But the Indomitable spirit of the burghers, which indeed cannot be too much admired or too highly commend- ed, has enabled them to overcome seelu- mgly insuperable difficulties, and in spite of the handicaps of an exhaust- ed exchequer and depreciated cur- rency, to resuscitate the overseas trade of the port and raise it to even higher levels than before. The pre- was tonnage of shipping was surpass- ed in 1923, with, 30,963,228 tons enter- ed and cleared, and the returns have since gone on.
anti!
in 1927 the creasing
39,568,300 tons.
This rapidly expanding volumeе от trade has naturally entailed a corres ponding extension of the accommoda- tion and facilities of the port for its
and handling- reception and:
Construc- tional works have been in progress
some time past to meet the de mands which have arisen, and to make provision for the increasing require ments of the future Engineering.
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS
The CP.S. RM.S. Empress of Asia" arrived at Kobe on June 25 (Tues.) at 10a.m. left Robe on June 25 (Tues.) at 6 pm, and is due at Nagasaki on June 26 (Weil) at 5 She leaves Nagasaki on ne (Thurs.) at 11 2.DL The P&O 8. Perin" left! Shanghai for this port on June 25,; at 5.80 p.m., and is due here on June 29 at about am
WARSHIPS HERE
The following are the warships in harbour
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1929.
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S.S. TAI HING" [1,068 tons-Capt. Troit.]
SUN,
S.S. "TAI MING" [649 tons Capt. G. J. Spink] WED. 26th
JUNE.
30th
JUNE.
JULY
JULY
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SUN.
21st
10th
FRL
26th
TUES. MON.
2nd Bth
19th FRL WED.
24th
WED. 31st
29th
TUES. 16th
MON. SUN. 14th~
Regular Service of Fast, High Class River Steamers Having Good A¤«, commodation for First Class Passengers. Electric Light and Fans in State- rooms and Saloon. The 88. "Tai Hing" is fitted with Wireless,
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A'S AIR FORT
A NEW CAISSON FOR LEITH
Leith Dock Com- At a meeting mission, Mr. Thomas Cowan, LLD., presiding, a letter was read from the Civil Aviation Department and the Air Ministry regarding the establish- ment of a Customs air port at Leith, It was stated that the proposed land. ing area was within a radius of a West
At the Basin:-H.M.S. Tamar," nautical mile from the end
Pier. 115, and L19.
The Commission
KWONG WING
Cars
designed and con- which has been structed to the order of the. Leith Harbour and Dock Commissioners for the Prince of Wales Craving Dock, has just been launched by Messrs. H. Robb, Ltd, Leith. The caisson, which has been built under Lloyd's special survey, the scantlings being greatly in excess of their
require menta for their 100 A. class, is of the me following dimension:-Length 78ft., breadth 23ft and depth overall g9ft. watertight It is divided into seven
of which are compartments, four ballast tanks.
of the the
A were
of
AL the North Arm: H.M.S. asked to provide a mooring buoy and "Bridgowater"
The mul
facilities required for embarking and "Conger per hour
In Lock H.M.S. "Thracian" and disembarking passengers., Sepoy."
ter was left in the hands of the Works Committee with powers,
At Taikoo Docks:-E.M.S. "Castor." At No. 7 Buoy:H.M.S. "Bruce."
oh
The Chairman made reference to the retirement of Mr. Alexander Hood, collector, after 53 years' ser- vice.
large pump, to deliver 375 tons (Messrs. Allan's single-saction vertical spindle centrifugal type) is fitted in a large pump-room, and the motor. will work by electric current sup- plied from the Commissioner's shore mains. The upper deck forms a
across roadway
the top of the
A FALSE REPORT
Mr. Hood, he said, had been caisson,
The an outstanding personality. He had
work has been carried out
"Somme" FI.M.S.
proceeded seen a great evolution in dock bust-under the inspection of Mr. Alfred Roberts, C.E., engineer: and ness, and his counsel had been of II. investigate a Monday afternoon to
manager to the Leith Dock Commis- case of suspected piracy, which prov. inestimable values
A new caisson of the ship type, sionérs, ed falɛə.
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