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PASSENGER LISTS
ARRIVALS. Per 8.a. Shinyo, Maru from Shang- hai on October 13-
Mr. Manuel Torres. Mr. M. A. Torres Jun., Mr. Antonio Torres, Mr. R. C. A. Nurnburg, Mr. L. A. Tovias, Mra, L. A. Tovins, Mr. H. F, Kaufman, Miss N. E. Elliott, Mrs. F. M. Xavior, Miss Maria I. Xavier, Mr. E. P. Mannay, Mr. J. D. Mosby, Mr. Jose M. Carino, Mrs. Peggy Carino, Miss Carita Carino, Mr. Manuel C. Carino, Mrs. Hughes, Mr. Benjamin Arcenas, Mr. L. L. Aquine, Mr. Manuel Navarro, Mr. D. Rudder. Mr. Robert Maxwell, M. V. N. Moghe, Dr. Jesus P. Cells, Mr. Z. Werner, Mr. N. Raitzer, Mr. Cho G. Schmied. Mrs. C. G. Schmied, Master R. C. Schmied, Miss Patricia Schmied.
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'thirties. Critics and pessimists first important trials from the were not slow in foretelling fail. ure, and one writer, speaking of the screw propeller, said "the whole engineering corps of the LOCAL INSTALLATION.
empire was arrayed in opposition to it, alleging that it was con- The Kurimarau, built by the
structed on erroneous. principles Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock and full of practical defects." Co., Ltd., at Kowloon Dock, for The pioneers assuredly had many Messrs. Lever's Pacific Planta difficult problems to solve, for tions Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Austra they not only had to discover the lia, is for service between Sydney beat form of screw and where it and the Solomon Islands. She should be placed, but they had to was officially launched on Satur-devise means of driving it fast dry.
enough. They had to find out how to take the thrust, how to construct the under-water stern bearing, how to lift or feather, the screw, and how to diminish as far as possible the vibration which proved so injurious to wooden ships. The propelling machinery is The first British ship ever amidship, and consists of one propelled by a screw was the Gov Deutz single acting 4 stroke air-ernment transport Doncaster. In less injection full Diesel engine, June, 1902, the Doncaster left developing 330 D.H.P. and con- England for Gibraltar, having on structed to Hong Kong Govern-oard a shaft and screw propeller ment Marine Surveyors and and some rope pulleys. The pro
Miss A. M. peller was the "perpetual sculling dren,
Foster, Lloyd's requirements.
F. Accommodation is provided for machine" of Edward Shorter, of Mr.
S. Goldar. Sister erew in sunk forecastle. Officers London. Arrived at Gibraltar, Hilda, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. E. and engineers are accommodated the necessary framing and pulleys Hodge and four Misses Hodge. fen main deck amidship, and four were placed in position, the pro- Lieut. C. D. Howard, Johnston,
single berth state rooms are pro- eller was shipped, the ropes were R.N., Mr. S.
Nolan, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Pink. class passengers.
Miss Z. Scott, Mr. A. Seymour, Miss E. Simpson, Mr. C. 5. Talsanin, Mr. B. B. Viccajce, Mr. H. Walton, and Infant, Miss t. C. C. Withers, Mr. W. Wickersham.
tons.
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KIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon, Singapore.ded on shade deck aft for first-rove, and with eight men walking
Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.
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was
the capstan around, the Doncaster There are two holds for cargo,
and moved up
down forward and aft of machinery Gibraltar Bay at about 1% knots. space. The deck windlass and The feat attracted considerable derrick winch are electrically attention among the naval officers driven.
at Gibraltar and again at Malta, The vessel is fitted throughout where the "perpetual sculling mis ith electric light, and construct-shine" enabled the ship to enter ed on the most approved prin-harbour in a caim. The trials at clples,
Malta were witnessed by Admiral The Ceremony.
Sir R. Bickerton, whose certi
Mr. Fred Shaw, Mrs. Fred Shaw.
Per P. and O. 8.s. Malwa, for Hong Kong:
Mr. A. Archangelsky, Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Cheethom. Miss F. L. Coleman. Miss A. W. E. Dick, Mr and Mrs. H. A. Emmott and chil
C. Miskin, Mr. F.
Passengers due to arrive per M.S. Terukuni Maru from Europe Tuesday:-
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Alexander, Mrs. V. J. Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. Master E. H. A. A small gathering assembled ficate, with that of Captains E. C. Barnes. at the Kowloon Docks to witness Aylmer and Keats, is preserved Barnes, Miss E. D. J. A. Barnes, the launching of the Kuri-in the Kelvingrove Museum, Mra, M. A. Basto, Miss M. T. Basto, marau. Promptly at 11.30, gaily Glasgow. "Having been on board A. J. Brown, Miss J. L. Bruce, Mrs. decked with bunting. the "little the Doncaster transport," wrote D. C. Clemo and son, Mr. and Mrs. LOS ANGELES, PANAMA, NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, AND lady" took the water with scarce- Admiral Bickerton to John Shout, A. F. Dietor, Miss E. N. Earl, Miss
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G. Greer, S. Harris, Mrs. M. D. Mullin, E. Roberts, Mrs. F. Salter and son, Mr. and Mrs. S. Salti, Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Snuggs, C. J. Beale, DANGER OF STRIKES. Rev. T. E. Benson, L. A. Chill, L. A. Dabelstein, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Davies, Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, G. Ehrmannas, L
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ly a ripple, amid the cheers of the the master, "and examined the onlookers. Miss Mackie perform-working of the propeller while the ship was under way, I have to in- form you that I think the plan a EARLY SCREW-DRIVEN VESSELS.good one, and that it may, in many instances, be found useful." Though generally connected
In the succeeding quarter of a with the name' of the, great century many patents for screw geometer, Archimedes, who lived propellers were taken out, but in the Third Century. B.C., we until the 'thirties there were few are told that the screw was prob-practical demonstrations. Among
L. Jones, A. Lane, W. G. Mather, C. - The German Minister of Com- Inver. ably used for various purposes the
more important
A. Peake, W. A. Saunders,” ́ F. even before his time.. But in tors
(1815), were. Trevithick
munications recently announced Delisle Schaafsma, K. Schutz, W. H. C. tain and Ireland, which were spite of its antiquity, it remained Millington (1816),
for modern inventors to adapt (1823), Perkins (1824), Samuel Simmonds, L. A. Street, Mr. and that, in view of the extension of Mrs. H. W. Strike, W. S. C. Walker, the strike in private dockyards, broken up or dismantled during the screw for driving vessels. Brown (1825), Ressel (1827),
Of such inventors, however, Cummerows (1828),
T. Ward, Mrs. M. J. Forster, Mra, he was issuing orders to the Ger- Wilson, The statistical summary of 1929, amounted to 222,532 tons
A. Gartley, Lt. Col. F. H. James, man naval shipyards for the con- Berthon, ships totally lost, broken up, or Naturally, a large proportion of there have been many. Bourne Woodcroft, Sauvage,
the tonnage annually removed in his work on the screw. propel- Blaxland, Smith, Ericsson and Capt. and Mrs. M. D. Kennedy, struction of 10 big steamers, 13 Miss J. L. Kennedy, Miss.A. L motor vessels and 37 sloops for condemned, now published by from the merchant fleets of the ler, in 1867, enumerates some 470 Lowe. Of thsee, Robert Wilson
Kennedy.
internal navigation. Lloyd's Register, shows that, dur-world comes to what may be names associated with the inven- (1803-1882), in 1827, drove a It may be recalled, that model boat with a screw and his ing 1929, the gross reduction in termed a natural end; it is tion. the mercantile marine of the broken up.or condemned for rea- Watt, when writing to his friend, success was acknowledged by the world amounted to 794 ships, sonз not necessarily consequent Dr. Small, in 1770, on the subject award of a medal by the Scottish aggregating 1,543,602 tons, ex- upon casualty or stress of wea of propelling canal boats, ask Society of Arts, who brought the cluding ships of less than 100ther. During 1929, some 65 per ed, "Have you ever considered a invention to the notice of the Ad- On the Continent, tons. Of these totals, 672 ships, cent. of the total mentioned above spiral oar for that purpose?"miralty.
and motorships Mathematicians, like D. Ber-credit is given to the unfortunate making together 1,458,665 tons, for steamers. were steamers and motorships, (1,458,665 tons) and about 52 per nouilli and Paucton, wrote on the French inventor, Pierre Louis and 120, totalling 84,937 tons, cent. of the sailing. ship total screw, but the earliest experi-Frederic Sauvage (1786-1867), were sailing ships. The tonnage (84,937 tona) were broken up in ments date from the beginning of and to Josef Ressel (1793)-1857). the Nineteenth Century, and the Sauvage's patent is dated 1882, of the ships, owned in Great Bri- this manner.
but apparently, through lack of money, he was unable to put his
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at Trieste that, in 1829, he fitted out the small vessel Civitta with an engine and propeller, which are described, and illustrated in a centenary notice in Schiffbau for September 4, 1929 Ressel- was a man of many parts, and he, too, is commemorated by monu- ments; one at Vienna and the other at his birthplace Chrudin, In Czecho-Slovakia, kad du
Without detracting in any way from the work of these and other ingenious pioneers, it may, how ever be said that the adoption ori a wide scale of the screw, propel ler was due to the five inventors, Bennett Woodcroft (1830-1879)} Francis Pettit Smith (1808-1874), George Blaxland, James Lowe 1798-1888), and John Ericsson (1808-1883), while in Smith's Francia Smith and Archimedes, And in Ericsson's Francis B Order and Robert F Stockton, the world became possessed of its first practical and screw.driven..
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