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THE CHINA
GYRO COMPASSES
THE CLAIMS FOR WAR-TIME -IMPROVEMENTS
FURTHER EVIDENCE
London. The Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, sitting in the Privy Council Court, Downing-street, continued the hearing of the claime in respect of improvements in and relating to gyroscopic compasses,
The claimants were Sir James B. Henderson, represented by Mr. K. Shelly: Mr. S. G. Brown, whose coun- the Hon. Stafford Cripps, sel were K.C.; Mr. Trevor Watson, and Mr. Drew; Dr. A. L. Rawlings, represent- ed by Mr. D. H. Corsells and Mr R. Jones; and Mr. E. Kilburn Scott, who was not represented.
Counsel for the Admiralty were Mr. Wilfred Greene, K.C., Mr. James Whitehead, K.C., and Mr. J. M. McEwen.
Dr. Rawlings continued his evi- dence and was re-examined by Mr. Greene, who asked if the witness could tell him what was the diminu-- tion factor due to the inertia of the liquid when the period of the roll was ten seconds-the inertia as dis- tinct from the friction element.
Dr. Rawlings said that ten seconda was about half the natural period of oscillation of the liquid, and it would be about three to onc. He agreed that the diminution factor would be 45. It was towards the end of 1919 that he gave the Sperry Company an option to purchase his patent. He could not say exactly when they first manufactured under it.
Mr. Greene reminded Dr. Rawlings that he had told the commission that be first saw Professor Henderson's specification in May, 1919, at Mr. Brown's office, and he asked if Dr. Rawlings knew whether Professor Henderson's specification ever reach- ed the Compass Department.
Never Saw Copy
Dr. Rawlings said he never saw a copy there, and never heard anyone in the Compass Department refer to it at that date.
Answering Mr. Corsellis, Dr. Rawlings said he never did any ex- periment on Mr. Brown's compass, which involved any alteration without asking him.
Commander G. B. Harrison, who
in 1918, was Superintendent of the Gyro Compass Department, said in reply to Mr. Corsellis, that the main part he took in the making the Harrison-Rawlings invention was the provision of the boxes.
Mr. Kilburn Scott said he did not wish to call any witness, and he was then briefly
questioned.
Mr. Greene suggested that Mr. Kilburn Scott's compass had no north seeking quality at all, and asked him to explain quite shortly what they
wete.
Mr. Kilburn Scott said that it had, but that he could not explain short- ly, and Mr. Greene then suggested that the reverse spin in his gyro was of no importance at all.
suggest it
is.
Mr. Kilburn Scout:---I
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Captain Creagh Osborne, who was in control of the Compass Depart- ment during the war, said that in
was using as its ordinary gyroscopic compass the Sperry patent. A large number was in use at the end of the wer-hundred's of thousands pounds in value.
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To start again with entirely new compasses, instead of adapting those in use would have involved serious financial loss, and it was his duty to ase existing stock.
Captain Osborne sald he remem- bered experiments going on with bottles and tubes for months, and there were experiments in connection with liquid level control,
DISCHARGE LOSSES
QUESTION OF SHIPOWNERS' LIABILITY
THE JUDGMENT
With a charter-party providing "In the execution of any work done, beyond or within reach of the ship's tackle, the discharging the cargo at the ship's raid shipowner shall net as stevedors, with the liabilities only of such, Mr. Justice Roche, in the Commercial Court, held
that
tain Creagh Osborne with regard to Mr. Trevor Watson questioned Cap a minute he wrote on September 13. 1913. Although, he was away during July, 1918, he took pains to find out what had been going on in his absence, and the minute was a sum
plaintiffs, receivers of timber ming up of the position with regarders of the steamer "Carl Cords" in a cargo, were entitled to look to the own- to Professor Henderson's suggestions,
case where they had sued two defen- dants Mr. C. W. Beckett, who provid- ed the lighters in the Thames, and the shipowners--for the damage they had sustained when two of the barges shot their cargoes. The judge found these were not loaded in the usual manner obtaining in the port of London.
Similar Device
Mr. Trevor Watson read the para graph in question, which was, "As a matter of fact a somewhat simi- lar device to that proposed by Pro- mented with here, fessor Henderson has been experi- This, however, was the outcome of our experimenta with the Brown compass, and hag been tried on a Sperry compass with a view to improving it from a navi- gational point of view,"
Mr. Watson. When you wrote this minule, was it your impression that the Harrison Rawlings device was a development of the Brown liquid ¡evel?
Captain C. Osborne:-I an afraid my memory does not go back.
Mr. Watson: It was general know- edge that the Brown liquid level was
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The plaintiffs were Brewster and Co. (Woking). Ltd., and the ship- owners the Dampfschiffs Gesellschaft Aug. Cards, of Rostock, and the sum in question was £1,027. The plaintiffs in- structed Mr. Beckett, a lighterage contractor, to provide harges for taking the cargo from the port up the river in October, 1927, and the barge "British" shot her cargo beeruse she was top- heavy, the judge found, and the barge "Eclipse," which lay with her cargo two days before she shot it, was anzen-
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cargo.
For the plaintiffs Mr. D. B. Somer- vell, K.C., and Mr. James Dickinson appeared (instructed by Messrs. Keene, Marsland, Bryler and Besant); for Mr. Beckett, the first defendant. Mr. Clement Davica, K.C., and Mr. Wilfrid Lewis (instructed by Messrs. J., and H. E. Farnfield); and for the ship- owners Mr. H. K. Chappell, K.C., and Mr. K. S. Carpmael (instructed by Messrs Thomas Cooper and Co.)
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His Lordship must hold the ship- the timber into the receivers' ing
owners responsible for the receivera' craft, and stow it therein in auch a less. In this matter the stevedorea reasonable and ordinary manner that it were carrying out the shipowner's should not be imperifled.
obligation, and, he must hold that the Mr. Beckett's reply was that he shipowners failed to perform their duty agreed to carry the goods on the terms and fulfil their contract as to the dis- that he was not to be liable for any charge and stowage of the timber. The loss or damage, and denied negligence. point had been taken that the actual The shipowners said that if the re- negligence was the negligence of the Mr. Watson:-I wish in no way to ceivers employed Mr. Beckett to take lightermen and that, for that, the put it as a complaint, but is it a delivery, he became their agent, and cargo owners or receivers were respon~ fact that Mr. Brown was never given further saas said the cargo superinten- they could not recover against the ship-10a.m...
said he had charge of the stow-sible, or were affected by it that an opportunity of adapting his device to the Sperry compass?--I do not
dent told the man in charge of the owners. But on the question whether know.
lighters that a farther lighter would the cargo owners were precluded from Mr. Watson:-You never wrote to be needed, and that next day the ship recovery against the shipowners, he him and said, "Your compass is all refused to load more unless the man could not find that Whittaker was a very well, but what we really want accepted responsibility. The lighter-pereen for whom the cargo owners were is some adaptation of the same prin- man said he had orders to carry on, and responsible. He was not acting in the cipal to cure quadrantal error to the they continued.
course of any duty he owed to them existing compass?"-I cannot remem→
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The Judge said that the reason that his employment as between cargo own pleased to have given him an oppor-
the deckloads were too great arose ers and lightermen or lightermen and tunity.
from too much light cargo below and himself. The whole of the damages must He was satisfied then. up to a
too much heavy cargo above, and they he recovered against the shipowners, point, that the Brown compass was
were stacked too light above the coam- and the action against Mr. Beckett, who a cure for quadrantal error. It was
ings. There was a custom which gov-provided the lighters, must be dismiss- a promising device, but had never erned the obligations of a shipowner in ed, with costs. He assessed the loss re- been used at sea. It was the desire the port of London in regard to stow coverable from the ship owners at of his department to improve the age in lighters, and the stevedores did £826. Sperry compass in any
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HONG KONG TIDE
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siderable degree of quadrantal error, In the situation, as it existed in 1917, quadrantal error was a serious de fect in a compass, for battleships manoeuvring under war conditions. Mr. Watson: Prior to these periments with the Brown. compase, had you ever seen er had anybody in your department ever seen, a com pass
which get over quadrantal
C. Osborne:-I cannot say. Everybody who waś interested in these troubles was inventing at the
time. It was absolutely necessary now- a-days for certain classes of ships to he fitted with gyroscopic compasses, rather than magnetic compasses.
error?
samme
This concluded the evidence, and Mr. Greene then made a statement of user, the figures he gave being The tide-table given below has been Floating ballistic, 251; modified bal pbained by aid of the Tide-predictistic, 125; and mercury control, 272. ing Machine, which includes 40 com The approximate cost of the master ponents for the better prediction of compass with the liquid control was tides, from the result of the analysis 700, he said. of the tidal observations, taken at. the Kowloon tidal observatory under the direction of Dr. Doberek during
years 1887, 1889 and 1839.
the
Lord Tomlin:-That means the whole instrument?
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The times and heights are given Mr. Groene began his address to for Kowloon; but they may be used for the
the Commission, and after he had Victoria Naval Yard and been speaking a few minutes the
Aberdeen, the differences being very hearing was edjourned:
of high and low-water
must not be considered to coincide
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DATK
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8 6.3 m 555 26 0 20 a 616438 20 Mon, 2 m 41 5,8 m 66 37
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150 k7 38 35 Wed. 16 m. 34 81 2 10 1896 4.2 9 19 3.8 Thure 29 m 3 81 0.5 0 20 Fri. 8 m 48 6.9 1.12 | 1.5
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