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IYO MARU
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LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
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Saturday, 13th July.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
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Wednesday, 24th July.. Wednesday, 21st August.
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
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Tuesday, 9th July.
SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,
KAMAKURA MARU
NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama
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Tuesday, 9th July,
Sunday, 21st July.
Saturday, 20th July.
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Constantinople, Genoa.
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CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,
+ GENOA MARU
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SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
MITO MARU
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Wednesday, 10th July. Monday, 15th July.
10th July. Wednesday, Thursday, 18th July. KAGA MARU (Nagasaki direct) Friday, 19th July.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES Via Saigon, Singapore,
Colombé, Durban & Cape Town. MONTEVIDEO MARU
BOMBAY-Via Singapore & Colombo.
SHUNKO MARU......
Tuesday, 20th July.
Friday, 19th July.
DURBAN, LOURENÇO MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR
& MOMBASA-Via Singapore & Colombo.
CANADA MARU ....
Tuesday, 6th August.
CALCUTTA--Via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
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Thursday, 18th July.
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Japan Ports from
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HAIPHONG-Vit Haibow & Pakhod.
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HAVANA MARU
JAPAN PORTS.
AMAZON MARU
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KEELUNG-Via Swatow & Amey,
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TAKAO Via SWATOW & AMOT.
DELI MARU
TAKAO & KEELUNG
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Wednesday, 17th July.
Tuesday, 9th July.
Sunday, 14th July.
Sunday, 14th July, 3 p.m.
Thursday, 18th July, noon.
Sunday, 14th July.
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8 on, reserve.
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gone second
oficer, Ljnen.
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officer, Wenchow, has gone extra second officer, Hsin Peking.
Mr. K. A. Pegden, extra second off- cer, Changchow, has gone second off cer, Wenches,
Mr. B. H. Muton, chief officer, Kin- tang, has gone chief officer, Woosung
Mr. F. A. Galbraith, from reserve,
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Hsin has gone Peking,
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Mr. J. Watson, from reserve, has gone chief officer, Siangtan.
Mr. G. Chapman, chief officer, Stangtan, has gone chief officer, Po
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Mr. AC. Morice, second engineer officer, Kiating, has gone second en- gineer officer, Hupeh.
Mr. J. E. Cameron, chief engineer offler, Hupel, has gone chief engineer officer, Saiyang.
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Mr. E. Ellison, third engineer officer, Shengking, has
gone third engineer officer, Kiukiang.
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Mr. W. J. Lawrence, chief officer, Cheongshing, has gone chief officer. Yuensung.
Mr. A. Pattendrigh, chief officer, Yuensang, is on reserve.
Mr. IL C. Blacqueire, second officer, Kumsang, is on reserve.
Mr. P. S. Sharpham, from reserve, has gone second officer, Taishan.
Mr. S. J. Carter, second officer, Tai- shan, has gone chief officer, same ship. Mr. W. G. Austin, from reserve, has gone chief ulcer, Charles Hardouin-
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CLYDE DOCKERS
DEABLOCK ON THE OVERTIME QUESTION
The Transport and General Work-
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SECTION.
FAKED SHIPS
AID FOR GERMANY IN BLOCKADE
ADMIRAL'S SECRET
The strangle-hold of the blockada helped materially towards the defeat of Germany. The blockade was exer-
DUTCH DESTROYERS cised by the Tenth Cruiser Squadron,
BRITISH DESIGNED VESSELS
which held the 300-mile stretch of grey sea from the Orkneys to Iceland," intercepting thousands of ships taking help to the enemy.
TOR
In command of the blockading squad-
Admiral WAS
Sir Reginald Tupper. who in his Reminiscences Jarrolda), pablished in mail week tellida
There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, of an English-Dutch naval action in Caroline times being interrupted whilst one of the combatants, who had run "During the year 1926 the Tenth out of ammunition, requested, was courteously granted by his an- of artful dodges on the part of neutral and Cruiser Squadron discovered all sorts tagonist, the loan of further supplies ships which were carrying on trade with which to continue the engage with the enemy. ment. Such an example of a sympa-
"To mention only a few, double thetic, though rather Gilbertian, under-bottoms, dummy decks, and false bulk- standing between two powers with a fiends were fitted to conceal rifles and mutually honourable record on the ammonition; sailing ships were given high seas is, happily, not at all likely copper keels and heavily plated with to recur, for the simple reason that the same metal; hollow steel masts were the situation which gave rise to it is filled with rubber and copper; while an incredibly remote possibility, but it rubber was also made up to look like is pleasant to find that the mature anything from onions to honeycomb; experience of one people in matters barrels of flour contained cotton, for of naval equipment is again at the making of munitions; and with all these disposal of the other, which is broad-tricks was not surprising that all the minded and farseeing enough to seek manifests had to be most carefully ex- it.
We allude here to the fact the amined for falsification. eight torpedo-boat destroyers built "It was later in the War that Ameri- and building for the Dutch Navy are can travellers crossing the Atlantic in constructed to the designs, and with apparent safety in a neutral ship spent the technical assistance of, a British their whole passage grumbling at the firm, Messrs. Yarrow and Company, stewards' inability to supply the tradi-
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tional iced water, only to discover later that the broken-down refrigerating plant was chock-a-block with rubber.
"Dummy Strategy" will be remembered that the Admiralty made much of dummy war- ships-liners carefully disguised to re- present battleships with the idea of de- ceiving the enemy-dummy cargo ships, reality heavily armed anti-submarine craft it here and there the "dummy” atrategy suggested how poorly we were prepared for war. Listen to Admiral Tupper:
in
The defence of Loch Etive was rather awkward owing to lack of mater ials. We put up big notices bidding all merchant ships to beware of the boom, pointing out the row of glass floats which showed the position of the mines. "There was great ceremony at the gate and merchantmer were led in Chrough the safe-passage by a trawler. It was all very impressive, and we hoped that full news of it went across to Germany; but as a matter of fact the boom only consisted of a heavy hawser, and there was not a single mine avail able for the defence of the place."
Very much like the wooden gun that was erected on the town hall of an East Coast town to frighton German air raiders!
are
The Admiral's reminiscences brigh: and informative and being en- tirely free from the slightest vanity or prejudice are doubly entertaining.
SEAMEN'S DEMAND
IMPROVEMENT OF WORKING CONDITIONS
Amsterdam-The seamen's section One of these of the Dutch Transport Workers' Union built by are pressing for an improvement of
the Glasgow dockers and employers vessels, the "de Ruyter." to the National Joint Council for the Messrs. Koninklijke Maatschappij de seamen's working conditions. On April Dock Industry The men are at pre- Schelde, Flashing, has now been handed 29 sent being paid time and a third for over to the Dutch naval authorities 22 three months notice was given to the collective agreement with terminate week-end overtime, but they are ask after having completed a very suc- the shipowners, and demands were pre-
cessful series of trials. time and a half rates, or
sented for a non-contributory pension ing for
"de Ruyter" has an overali The time and a third plus payment for
of at least ten guilders (about the. Gd) length of 322 ft. with a beam of 31 ft, a week, annual holidays at the rate of meal hours. + C
and a contract speed of 34 knots in a one day for every month's service dar
The speed obtained loaded condition. on the full power official trial
was,
Ex-
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S.S. "TAI HING"
[1,068 tons Capt. Trott.]
WED. 10th TUES. 16th SUN. 21st
JULY
FRI. 26th WED. 31at
S.S. TAI MING" [649 tons-Capt. G. J. Spink.] JULY
MON.
SUN.
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24th 29th
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ing on the average, say 1.6 lbs. of coal per ih.p. per hour... On the con- sumption of coal alone (ignoring other economies) it would appear possible Ib. to come down to approximately of coal per i.h.p."
Taking as a concrete example an everyday 7,000-ton cargo steamer fitted The new 9,000 ton steamer "Donau," with ordinary triple engines and fore-
The employers are also agreeable to arbitration by the National Joint
ing the year, introduction of the eight- Council
It is contended by the however, it may be noted, practical hour day, and the increase of fremen's sister ship of the "Isar," built at the ed draught boilers, doing 11 knots on
wages to 85 guilders a month (about union
that Clause 14 of the National 36 knots, and the radius of action at 27) Demands were also submitted for Vulcan Yard at Hamburg for the 12 tons of coal a day and under steam Agreement concedes their demands. low speeds has correspondingly ex the catering department, including the first
Norddeutscher Lloyd, Iremen, is to be for 250 days in the war, Mr. Ash A deadlock has been reached on the ceeded the guaranteed figure.
big. Jiner using pulverised showed that the "coal bill per annum, p.m. to 6. am. For fuel. question of overtime between 4 and ternally the vessel somewhat resem catering hands required to wear uni
night's rest from &
For the present only one boiler 500. The same vessel doing the an all-round cost of £1 per ton would 8 a.m., and all wark is suspended dur- bles Mesara. Farrow's recent destroyer form a clothing allowance is demanded, is to be fired with this fuel, sad the be
gether with the installation of the ing these hours.
for the British Navy, H.M.S. "AM-
same work, but fitted with an L.P. Bauer-Wach exhaust turbine great turbine on the reciprocating engine buscade"
savings in the cost of fuel are antici- shaft and using pulverised coal-firing, pated.
and assuming a saving of 30 per cent. It may be recalled that, writing in in coal, ie., 15 per cent. for the tur- The Annual Review of "The Journal bine and 15 per cent. for the powdered of Commerce end Shipping Telegraph" fuel, would, with coal at 15s. on Pulverised Coal, Mr. A. E. Ash, (including an allowance of 28. a ton of Messrs. Explel and Sons, Ltd., ven for cost of pulverising and upkeep of tured the opinion "that with pulverised plant) have a coal bill of £6,512, a gain coal-firing, in conjunction with reci of £4,988, to which may be added some procating engines, fitted with a low hundreds of pounds saved in stakehold 5.6. pressure turbine, we are within sight wages and victualling. On top of this there is the possible value of the in- be over ordinary tri-compound engines, creased deadweight and cuble capacity
with boilers hand-fired, and consum.
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TRAINING SHIP
"De Ruyter" The armament of the "de Ruyler"
The P. & O. s.s. "Mirzapore" left consists of four 13 cm. (4.7-in.) guna, ADMIRALTY ANNOUNCEMENT AS twe 7.5 cm. (2.95 in). anti-aircraft Shanghai for this port on July 8 at
TO MISSING VESSEL
guns, and six 53 cm. (20.86.) torpedo a., and is due here on July 10
The cor- at about 6 am. tubes in triple mountings. The Admiralty issues the follow- responding armament of "Ambus- ing: The Danish auxiliary barque cade" is four 4.7 guns, two 2-pdr. pom- "Kobenhavn, whose call signal until poms, and six 21-in. torpedo tubes in January 1, 1929, was OIBA, and triple mountings. Accommodation is since OIC. left Buenos Aires on provided for 127 officers December 14 last year bound for The vessel is intended for service in "Benyrackie" are reminded to take of an economy of 35 to 40 per cent. Adelaide, Australia, but has not yet the tropics, and special attention has delivery of their goods which will arrived. The "Kobenhavn" was in therefore been bestowed on the ventilst- subject to rent after July 11, wireless communication with the ing system, which is on an excep- Danish steamer "Arizona" on Decem- tionally complete scale,
and men.
ber 17, and with the Norwegian Insulated chambers are provided in steamer "William Blumer" on Decem- the hold, and a refrigerating instal ber 21, but no later reports have lation, of a capacity sufficient to socl been received. If any wireless sta. the magazines and cold store and to tion might have been in communica- make ice for medical and messing tion with, or caught signals from the purposes, is fitted. The machinery "Kobenhavn" on its present voyage, space comprises three compartments, they are kindly requested to give the a forward boiler roumn with one boiler, Danish Eastern Asiatic Co. as de- an after boiler room with two boilers, tailed information as possible.
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turbine being geared to each shaft ELLERMAN &
A cruising turbine in compled up to each H.P. turbine. These are cap- able of propelling the vessel at speeds up to about 16 knots. Of the 37 various machines comprising the G. and auxiliary equipment, Messrs.
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The Boilers
The three boilers are of Measts. Yarrow's latest pattern and have superbeaters and air-heaters, also of this firm's make, the latter contribut ing to a distinct increase in boiler efficiency. The total heating sur- face, including generating, superbeat ing, and air-heating surfaces, in 36,000 sq ft. The working pressure is. 275 lb. per square inch, and the super- beaters raise the temperature of the team by 100 deg F at full power. Three other similar destroyers, viz.,
Evertse
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