THE CHINA MAIL.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1931.
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FROM £83 TO £120 ON SALE
SAN FRANCISCO vin Shanghal, Japan Ports & Honolulu.
CHICHIBU MARU
TATSUTA MARU
Wednesday, 4th March. Wednesday, 18th March.
SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Porta
HIYE MARU
HEIAN MARU
Thursday, Tuesday,
20th March. 21st April.
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM vin
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.
HAKONE MARU
Saturday,
SUWA MARU
Saturday,
7th Aarch. 21st March.
ATSUTA MARU
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
Thursday,
26th March.
† TOKIWA MARU KAGA MARU
27th February.
11th March
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo..
Friday, Wednesday,
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) vin Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
Mexico & Panama. HEIYO MARU
Thursday,
6th March. SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) vin Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,
KANAGAWA MARU
Tuesday,
NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.
†TAKETOYO MARU
Thursday,
LIVERPOOL vin Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa.
+ LYONS MARU (en'ts Saigon). Saturday, CALCUTTA via Singapore, l'enang & Rangoon..
14th April.
12th March.
14th March
Sunday,
Sunday,
1st March. St March
Sunday, Tuesday, Friday,
1st March. 3rd March.
6th March,
SHANGHAL KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
+ CALCUTTA MARU
+ PENANG MARY'
TANGO MARU
† MURORAN MARU
HAKOZAKI MARU
+ Cara aly
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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,
6th Mar.
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROT. Amazon Maru ....
Tues.,
10th Mar.
TERDAM & ANTWERP
via Singapore, Colombo,
Suez & Port Said.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS Hawaii Mara
Fri.,
& BUENOS AIRES vi
Saigon, Singapore, Colom
bo, Durban & Capetown.
BOMBAY vin Singapore & Sumatra Maru
Colombo
Fri.,
6th Mar.
MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-
DURBAN, LOURENCO Panuma Maru
Tuos.,
3rd Mar,
ES-BALAAM, ZANZIBAR
& MOMBASA via Singa-
pare & Colombo.
Brisbane & Sydney.
· MELBOURNE via Manila, Sydney Maro
Fri,
CALCUTTA vin Singapore & Tacoma Meru
Wed.,
5th Mar.
4th Mar.
Rangoon,
VICTORIA.
SEATTLE. Afrien Maru
Tues.,
31st Mar.
TACOMA & VANCOUVER
vin Japan Ports.
Thurs.,
10th Mar.
NEW YORK via Japan ports, Hokuroku Maru ....
Los Angeles & Panama.
Call Direct at Boston,
Philadelphia & Baltimore
JAPAN FORTS (Freight Ser-
vice).
Thurs
WELLUNG ga Swatow
Pakhoi (Fortnightly).
&Canton Maru
Sun..
Amoy
(Every
Sunday
HAIPHONG vin Hofhow & Meand Mary
(Fortnightly).
Noun):
TAKAO via Swatow & Amoy
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1st Mar.
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BENEATH THE WATER air drills, dynamite and the under-
LINE.
The Eye of the Salvage Officer.
Installation and Repále of Diesel Engine and Motors for Karl and Biatlonary
• specailty.
MASTER MARINERS.
ANNUAL BANQUET HELD ON
CUNARD LINER.
The third annual banquet of the Southampton Master Marin- ere Club was held in appropriate Autlinge on the Cunard liner Aquitania as she was. lying in the Ocean Dock.
A
water cutting torch, in breaking up and preparing for removal of ves- Bels which are damaged beyond re- covery and are a monace to naviga- tion. It is he who, under the salvage officer's direction, sets the slings around heavy submerged burdene so that the derricks may lift them with safety and precision. One of the most novel and inter- Salty as sea-weed is the glaimor- ous culling of deep water diving, esting of the diver's tools is the
Al- As in previous years, it was at The helmet is aa characteristic of under-water cutting torch.
most everybody, passing along the tended by a large number of the sea as is the anchor. Working alone, in the most ruthless of the street at some time has shielded his people distinguished in the realm elements, the diver is and deserves eyes from the blinding glare of the of shipping.. the guest of honour to be one of the traditional figures Dxy-acetylene torch or the electric being Major-General the Right It is a fascinating Hon. J. E. B. Seely, C.B...CM.G.. of bravery, writes Robert D. Mac-arc in action.
But, for obvi-D.S.O., Lord-Lieutenant of Hamp- Millen, Merritt-Chapman and Scott and familiar sight.
Day reasons, almost no one has ever shire, who was enrolled as Corp. Homer in the Iliad gang of
under-water "stowaway," or honorary member. Reen the oxy-electric these naked heroes. Thucydides records how. at the siege of cutting torch at work except the Two of the other "stowaways," the
such torches Syracuse, divers went down to clear divers who operate
placed ob- and a handful of others who have away the cunningly
watched small-scale demonstrations structione meant to bar the Grecian
in glass tanke. This in spite of ships from the harbour. Alexander
the fact that this torch has been the Great employed divers at the
used in subaqueous successfully siege of Tyre to destrov, the sub- marine defences of the beleaguered operations since 1918 and has been an important aid in salvaging literally millions of dollars' value in sunken ships.
When an tinder-water cutting torch was first considered it was thought that acetylene flame, could be combined with an electric arc; but tests soon showed that the acetylone wag unnecessary and
Captain J. G. Saunders, O.BE., moreover that its explosive charac ter, when under any considerable R.D., the "captain" of the club, water pressure,
actual presided, and the principal toast | danger. The torch finally adopted
was that of "The Sea Services," therefore, employs a combination of ably proposed by Major-General the electric are and compressed oxy- Sculy and responded to by Admiral gen from cylinders. This la the of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes and
usual Sir Walter Runciman. chief difference from the type of torch seen on dry land. But the difference is vital because it nullifies the dangera caused by the high conductivity of water as carrier of electric currents,""
elty.
nor
But it is not of the wars of by gone kinga
of these "one breath" mermcn of the past that one thinks to-day. It is of the courage, the skill, the amazing re- sourcefulness of the modern guild of divers, who have brought new developments to this trade which was a thousand years old when the Christian era came. These men, cased in their precarious armour of canvas and rubber and weighted with metal, the very breath of life pumped down to them from the free air above, can do with their hands almost any task that a skilled me- chanic can do on dry land.
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The diver is literally the "eyes" of the salvago officer, though seldom can he see as much as a foot ahead in the murky waters of our har-heat of the electric arc is so ter- bound. With cunning. hands and rife that it tansforms the adjacent ley water into steam,, a constantly photographic memory, he comes back from the bottom with reports forming bubble or blanket of steam so accurate and revealing that re-in which the arc functions while scue plans are, built around them and blows out the molten metal the oxygen under pressure oxidizes
from the cut.
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with utmost confidence. His tools are usually of the simplest: chunky sledge and a substantial sheath knife are the principal ones; yet every part of that hammer and every part of that knife is a definite unit of measurement to the diver. as handy to read as a foot rule.
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The essentials of this patented method are simple. It utilized electricity from a generator and oxygen from cyilnders. A rubber hose encloses an electrical condue- tor and also carries the oxygen down to the diver, thus supplying A Versatile Craft.
the electrode, which has orifices for oxygen, Tho diver C8 The diver, however,
is by no tablishes the circuit By con-
Hie is a means a mere observer.
necting one lead from the gonera- versatile craft, utilizing ability and tor to the plate to be cut and, torch experience of many kinds, in
in hand, striking his arc. great variety of work other than ship salvage. Imagive the in- gonuity required of a man who must go down ander the black waters of a harbour and measure a jagged hole, maybe twenty feat square,
in the alde of a sutiken .vessel; measure It so accurately that when he fits his pach, again in the dark, the result will be entirely watertight! These patchies may be of wood, constructed on the deck of the salvage steamer, or they may be of concrete, Iwered down through the water in a canvas" bucket and tamped into the forms by a sense of He is a master in the use of
feel.
DRY DOCK
'Length 787 Feet.
THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
OF HONG KONG, LIMITED.
Wireless Call SALVAGE TUG "TAIKOO
V.P.G.N. 600 Meters
Tel Address : TAIKOODOCK," HONG KONG. Telephone No. 30211.
Call:Flag : “C? over ANS. PENNANT.”
Length on Blocks 750 Feel.
Depth on Centre of
SI (H.W.O.S.T.) 34 ft. 6 ins. THREE SLIPWAYS–
Capable of Handling Ships Up
to 3,000 Tons Displacement. Electric Crane at Sea Wall, Capable of :
Lifting 100 Tons at 70 Feet Radius
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
"AGENTS"
HONG KONG CHINA & JAPAN.
It was the ss. St. Paul which, in 1918, firat benefited by the process and provided the first opportunities for experiment.
This vessel turn-
ed completely over on ita side and aank batween two piers in the North River, New York. The salvage plan required the cutting of large drainage holes from ad- joining compartments into the ven- tilators 80 that mud and water would drain into the holds, there to be removed by pump auctions: also, several 18-inch diameter holes were cut through bulkheads. Five months and two days later, the St. Paul was delivered afloat, the rais- ing having been considerably facilitated by the unde?-water cut- ting operations, which were done at a depth of fifty feet below the surface.
The practicabilit of the method thus Armly established, there came many opportunities to put it to use and perfect the technique.
A great liner recently came istó New York Harbour with two man- ganese bronze propeller blades so beat that she lost one knot an hour apsed. In the 18 hours she lay there, the two bent sections were cut free by the torch method, under-water. She sailed on time. --
A LONG TRIP.
Stockholm, Jan. 11. Reports from Panama chronicle the arrival of Capt. Anters Johannson, who la gajd, to be sall- ing the yacht Gallman strale handed to Australia.
She is a fishing gutter of the Kosterboat type, used "for" fehing throughout the Swedish west coast. Capt. Johannson and five other fishermen are going to Australia. Intending to carry on fahing there. If their experiment on the Am tralian coast succeeds, probably more will go there,
Lord Blahop of Winchester and Arimiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes. K.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O., were also present, and were presented with luminated addresses
but for unavoidable” a5- while aence. Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe would have been the re- cipient of a similar presentation.
The club's two oldest members were also present, namely, Sir Walter Runciman, Bart, J.P., the veteran shipowner, and Captain Duncan Forbes, F.R.A.S., both of whom are octogenarians.
recording enrolment,
ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.
Wednesday, Feb. 26. Laganbank, British str., 8.453 tons, Capt. T. E. Alexander, from Maniin, Laichikok Wharf.—— Bank Line,
Tanda, British str., 4,230 tons,
Capt. E. Pilcher, from Moji, Kowloon Wharf-M. M. & Co.
Thursday, Feb. 26. Chaksang, British str., 1,470 tons, Capt. J. McAnish, from Swa- tow, West Point Wharf. J. M. & Co. Chojun Maru, Japanese str., 1,324 tons, Capt. Y. Makí, from Che- foo, Yaumati Anchorage.-. D.K.K.
Corato, British str., 3,476 tons, from Capt. J. Finlayson, Balikpapan, North Point Wharf.-A.P.C. Kingyuan, British str., 1,546 tons,
Capt. J. D. Whyte, from Hof- how, buoy No. ES.-B. & S. Kwongsang British atr., 1,428 tons, Capt. H. R. Dobson, from Canton, buoy No. B1- J. M. & Co. Lyeemoon, British str., 1,784 tons,
Capt. E. Holmes, from Swa- tow, buoy No. B28.-Kwong Nam & Co. Rawalpindi, British str., 16,697 tons, Capt. R. H. Stringer, from London, Kowloon Wharf. -M. M. & Co. Tilawa, Britisk str., 10,000 tons,
Capt. E. Coleborn, from Straits and Singapore, Kow- loon Wharf.-M. M. & Co.
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
The following British warships were in harbour to-day
Bridgewater-South, mail. Bruce No. 8 buoy. Cicala No. 7 buoy.- Cumberland-West wall. Herald-East wall. Hermes-No. 1 buoy. Iroquois East wall. Kent North arm Marazion No. 4 buoy.. Medway-No. 2 busy. Odin-No.. 2: buoy, Calris-In dock Oswald-In dock. Otus-No. 2 buoy, Petersfield North arm. Sandwich No. 13 bucy. Sepoy-No. 10 buoy, Scraph-No. 12 busy. Serapis No. 11 buoy. Sirdar-South wall. Sterling-In dock Suffolk North wall, TamarBaaln... Tarantula Bouth wall, Thracian-No. 12 buoy, Mognozen
E
- Foreign_Man-of-War.. Chung Shan-Chinese gunboat
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MARCH SAILINGS. DEPARTURE HOURS:
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WED. 4th TUES. 10th MON. 15th
SAT. 21st THURS. 26th
When they pass the Shluhing Gorge, the American travellers say ""Well we guess this beats
8.9. "TAI MING" the Hudson River, OUT show
[619 tons Capt. W. H. Lawton.] place." Continental visitors re-
MARCH. mark that it reminds, them of the
2nd MON.
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PILOTS” · GRIEVANCE. -
Services Refused By Foreign Vessels.
The immunity of foreign vessela from engaging pilots in the naviga tion of the English waterways was referred to at the annual dinner of the Tugmen's Guild, in London.
Mr. G. R. Fone, a Thames water | man, and a tugboat skipper fol. more than sixty years, referred to the position whereby foreign ves- sels could enter English ports without employing a waterman, while no British or other foreign vessel might enter a Continental port without employing a pilot and, even if a pilot was not avail able, pllotage dues had to be paid.
"The action of these foreigners in refusing the services of ba
Thames waterman as pilot," added Mr. Fone, "Is depriving English- men of a living. It is a disgrace - to our nation."
STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS.
The C.P.S. R.M.S. Empress of Canada will berth at Pier No. 5, Kowloon Wharf, at 9 am: on Mon day, March 2. She will leave here for Victoria and Vancouver, B.C., vía Shanghol, Kobe and-Yokohama at noon on March, 5a (Thursday), and connecting with Dushess of Richmond, is due at Liverpool on April 4
The C.P.S. R.M.S. Empress of Aria arrived at Yokohama on February 25 (Wed.) at 1 p.m. left Yokohama on February 26 (Thurs.) at. 8 p.m., and is due at Vancouver on March 7 (Bxt.). She leaves Vancouver, on March 14 (Bát),