WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1931.
P.&O.-British India Apcar and
THE CHINA
HUSTLE ON "THE
CLYDE.
Wonder Liner to Be Launched Next Year.
Great efforts, I understand, aro being made to hustle the building of the new 73,000-ton Cunarder on the Clyde so that she may be launched in February of next year, writes a Daily Express corrispondent. It
Eastern & AustralianTM
Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND), MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO
FOR
#TRAITS, JAVA, BURMĂ, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUȚII AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under 'Contract with H.M. Government.)
From
5.8.
Tons
elear hung About
*EASHMIR
RAWALPINDI
1
0,000
17,
5,000
:031.
6th June
Noon 20th June 4th July ! 170
18th July 25th July **M
let Aug. 16,800 8th Aug.
RANPURA
†KASHGAR
*PERIM
+KRYBER
"SOMALI
I
:
RAJPUTANA 17,90 "PADUA
1511 Aug
+4,000
22nd Aug,
*KANMALA
1,500
26th Aug.
CATHAY
115,000.
12th Sept.
*SOUDAN
19th Sept.
*KALYAN
D.000 2011 Sept.
Cargo only,
Calle Casablanca.
Destination.
Mars, 1'don, Hull, R'dam & A'werp.
Bombay, Marseiler & London. M'scilles, 'don, Rinna & Alwerp, Bombay. Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre & London, Male, Lidon, Plan & A'werr Manelles, Havre, London,
Hamburg, Rotterdam & Antwerp.
Marseilles & London.
Hall,
Mareller, Havre London, full,
Hamburg, Rotterdam & Antwerp. Marelles & Lor Jet.
Bombay. Marseilles & Londin Marselles, Havre London, Hull,
Hamburg, Rotterdam & Antwerp. Marseilles & London.
Call Part Swettenham.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Cun- atantinople, Pireaus, Fmyrna and other Levant Ports by reamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
SANTHIA TALMA TAKADA
1931.
! 8,000 17th June 110,000 ; 23rd June 7,000 7th July
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutis. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers.
is probable that the super-liner will make her maiden voyage in the late Summer of 1933.
Although the vessel is being built behind locked gates with all the secrecy of the mystery ship dur- ing the war, it has leaked out that its builders are already well ahead of schedule, and that the main skeleton of the gigantic ship has taken form.
The secrecy is necessary, for agents of foreign shipping com- panies anxious to rival the new Cunarder for speed and luxury are Constantly on the lookout for 4 chance to glance at the plass or to examine the many revolutionary im- provements to ship architecture which are being embodied in thei world's finest mercantile ship.
•
Largest Rudder.
If the vessel is completed earlier than was expected a curious altuu- tion may arise.
There may be ne dry-dock' in the world into which she can be put for inspecton and overhaul purposes.
The Southern Railway are con- structing a new graving dock at Southampton to receive the liner,
as the existing floating dock is not large enough for the purpose. It will be impossible to take her into the new Gladstone Dock at Liver- pool,
The largest rudder in the world has arrived in Messrs. John Brown's yards on the Clyde for the Cunar-
This piece of metal weighs more than 150 tons and was eiructed at Darlington.
COM-
New dimension of certain parts of the vessel are now available.
There will be eight decks above the waterline, the boat dack being. seventy feet above the surface of tho This deck will be 650 feet long, and the promenade deck will Le 723 feet long.
sta.
The funnels, which will measure forty feet
across, will rise to a height of 130 feet above the water- line.
The dining room, which will bo eituated amidahipe between the second and third fuanels, will bo the largest room ever constructed in an ocean liner.
SILK SHIPMENT.
Silk forwarded from Hong Kong by the 8.9. Empress of Russia on
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). May 8 arrived in New York (St.
ST. ALBANS VELLORS TANDA
5,000 F 7,000 7,000
1931 3rd July 1st Aug. 1st Aug.
Manila Rabaul, Brisbane,
& Melbourne.
Sydney
Regur monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan und Hong Kong to Australia,
llong Kong to Sydney-19 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union SS. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New
Zealand. Vancouver, San Francisco, viz.
The P.&O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamen to London via Suez.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
1091.
5,000 4th June
5 p.m. 10,000 5th June
Daylight 9,000 5th June
p.m. 8th June 10th June
ST. ALBANS
TALMA
CASHGAR
→PERIM
7,700
*MIRZAPORE
PADUA
13th June
TAKADA
7,000
10th June
RAWALPINDI 17,000
SOMALI
SIRDHANA
KHYBER
NELLORE TILAWA
- RAJPUTANA
SANTHIA KARMALA NANKIN
19th June 0,800 27th June 8,000 Brd July 0,000 3rd July 7,000 6th July 10,000 17th July
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama,
Amoy, S'hai, Mejl, Kobe & Osake.
Shanghai, Moji, Kebe & Yokohams.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Moji & Kobe. Moj, Kobe & Yokohamu. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. S'hal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yusma Amoy, Moji, Koba & Osaka.
17,000 17th July 8,000 316 July 0,000
July | Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 7,000 1st Aug.
!
*Cargo only.
alat:
John's Park) and Hoboken on May 20, having been 21 days in tran- sit.
2,200 MILES AT 40 ̊M.P.H.
The designer of a very remark- able craft intends to make an at- tempt to reach Honolulu from Los Angeles in 3% days, the distance be- ing 2,200 miles. An average speed of 40 m.p.h. is aimed at. An ar-
utilised rangement is
whereby steering is automatic.
HONG KONG TIDES.
The time used is `Standard, or mean time of the moridian of 120 deg. E; 00h. is widnight, 12hra, is noon. The heights are referred to the datum of the largest scale Ad- miralty chart of the place, and should be added to the depths given on the chart unless preceded by an asterisk (*), when they should be subtracted from the depths.
June 3 to 9, 1931.
DATA: Hron WATER] GOW: Waru,
donderd T mes
7'4 18 м +5
A
3:0
4.
0. 14 £1 01.30
it-nder
June
Hc
T mos
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
K. X
}
E.
F.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, .
1
Wed: 3 The
Fri.
Ꮮ
4'2
DJ E
10 25 70
11 114
ส เป
I
4. 19
72
Bat.
6
2
Ban. 7
13 1.0 4'1
21 17
Mud.
03
+7.25
4
1
Tu:
02
5
2.
All dates are approximats and suðject to alteration without notice. Passengers for Rangoon must, defray their own Hotel expenses, at Singapore while awaiting the en-carrying steamér,
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans on Punka Leuvre System fres pf charge.
Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with. Laundiles. Parcels measuring not more than 5 cu. ft, will be received at the Com- pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing..
For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:-
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
P. & 0. -Building, Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong,
Agenta
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.
ENGINEERS. and RELIPBUILDARS, BOILER MAKERS, BRAES and IRON FOUNDERS All work done in shin establishment, fa guaranteed. We have over fistý yen ra2 experience. We pwn two: Slip-i ways and can accommodata, any craft of 200 feet long.M Town Officer 64, Connaught Road. Central, Hong Kong Tel. 20458.... Shipyard! Ehala-thu-pa, Kerloon, Hong Kong. Kowloon Tel. 57009; Estimate furnished on ipplication. Hong Kong, April 1, 1926,
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16 21 31
MAIL.
THE
BLUE FUNNE
LINE
REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICES |
LONDON SERVICE.
* SAMPEDON" 10th Jure For Port Said, Maramilles, Fundon,
Rotterdam. Hamburg and Gloagnir "ACHILLES" 23rd Jane For Port Said, Marsellies, Carblanen, London, Rotterdam and Hamburg SERVICE.
LIVERPOOL
"MERIONES" 21st, June For Port Raid, Geron. L'pool Harre and tingow "ÁDRASTUS" 2nd July For Port Said, L'pool, Harro & Glasgow PACIFIC SERVICE.
VÍK KOUE & YOKOHAMA.)
·IXTON"
TYNDALEUS"
27th Jute For Victoris. Vanconvor & Featlie 25th July For Victoris, Vancouver & Scattle
INWARD SERVİCE.
"AUTOMEDON
PDARPANU8"
Due 8th June For S'bai, Moji, Kobo & Y'hara Due 9th Juns From New York
Also cargo steamers with limited passenger accommoda- tion at specially reduced fares.
For freight, passage rates and information apply to the undermentioned.
All bookings are subject to the provisions of the Company's Bill of Lading-
Butterfield & Swire,
Agents.
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION, Destination
Steamer
Sailing
7th June at 10 am.
Wed.,
10th June at 10 am.
.Sun.,
14th June at 10 am.
Wed.,
17th June at 10 am.
Ttau via Stow & S'hai..KWONGSANG. Sun, Tteu via Stow & Shai..HORSANG Ttau via Stow & S'hai..FOOGHING Trau via Stow & S'hat..KWAISANG S'pore, Penang & Calcutta KUTSANG S'pore, Penang & Calcutta OSANG S'pore, Penang & Calcutta YUENSANG Osaka via Amoy, Shanghai
Moji & Kobe
Kobe
via - Amoy, Mojl &
Mon., ‚Tues.,
8th June at 8 p.m. 16th June at 3 p.m.
Mon, 22nd June at 3 p.m.
KUMSANG .Fri.,
SUISANG Wed., HINSANG Sun., MAUSANG... Sun, CHEONGSHING Sun., Foo-CHIPSHING ... Fri,
Sandakan Sandakan Ticatein via Swalow. Foo
chow & Chefoo Tientsin in Swatow, chow & Chefoe
10th June at 7 a.m.
a.m.
1st July at
7th June at 10 .. 21st June at 10 a.m. 7th June at 7 m.
19th June at 7 a.m.
5th June at 10a.m.
Shanghal via Swatow ...YUSANG ...... Fri SUMMER TRIFE TO JAPAN-Excellent first class accommodation on through steamers from Calcutta to Japan at the specially reduced return fare of $225.00 to Kobe. These return tickets are available for three months.
For Freight or Passage apply to:-- JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. Telephone 30311.
General Managers.
HONG KONG AND MACAO LINE in Good Speed
S.S. CHUEN CHOW
Daily Sailing from Hong Kong at 2.00 p.m. Sailing from Macao. at 7.50... Sundays excepted.
Freight and Passage apply : - CHUEN ON STEAM BOAT CO, LTD.
241, Des Voeux Road. C.
PASSENGER LIST.
DEPARTURES.
Per m.v. Hiye Maru for Scattle on June 2:-
J. M. Doctor, P. B. Malabari, C. K. Bhedwar, H. Umrigar, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Gallagan, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Melchers, James, F. Hayden, Mr. and Mrs. T. Hen- rigues Evans Georges, W. C. Horersall, C. J. Kellner, M. Tanaka, S. Kano, S. Tanaka, P. K.
9 Pavri, T. Isida, Ma, J. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. T. Yamada and four chil- dren, A. J. Raptis, Mr. and Mrs. K. Ashikari, T. Onoye. Dr. F. R.: Ashton, W. H. Smith, R. Takahashi, Mr. and Mrs. A Brimo, Jesus Garela Jimeno, Mr. and Mrs. G. Garcia Agco, Miss Emily Smith, 19 A. Stanbury..........
TRAVEL ALO. LINE
TO AUSTRALIA. Calling at Manila (Þ. In.), Thursday Is, Cairan. Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
BUNNERS
British SteamERS: CHANGTE - TAIPING (munka) FASTEST and MOST UP-TO-DATE STEAMERS IN THE SERVICE. ELECTRIC LAUNDRY, BARBER SHOP, SURGEON and STEWARDESS CARRIED. Bxtoy Your Short Leave in Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong, Sydney-19 Daya.
FIRST CLASS FARE TO SYDNEY, #76 RETURN
STEAMER СПАХОТИ TALFING
» LONDON (via Austraila) from £136.18/0. (Australian Newspapers an file)
Du Hong Kong Farves Hong Kuri BLesves. Biol.
June 22
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June 19...
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Aug. 18
(Aug. 2)
Bept, 20
Brpt, 19.
Benk 4. 9ch 3
WAUSTRALIAN -ORIENTAL LINE, LIMITED
/BUTTERFIELD A ZWIEŻ, ABHAM-HONG KONG--÷BRANGILAI-
Tel. 26061
5
NEW PAGES IN HISTORY
192
THE ST
PRI
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1931
THE STEAMSHIP
PRESIDENT
HOOVER
A PAGE lucked from the history'al the Dollar Steamship Linnu enveals. nothing but tender mérrosion for thoun who Include in their travel retrospect
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AND AMERICAN MAIL LINE
Itineraries covered by these 'vessels. The warm affection with which patrona regard these linu ships will only be supplemented by the advent of two new super-luxury steamships scheduled to leave Shanghai in the Autumn.
Continental lounges, surerb ball-rooma, cinemas, spacious writing rooms, 1braries, noble dining salons, dainty bedroom suites, gymnasiumas, arë but a few of the wonders of these ocean-going hotels...
PRESIDENT
HOOVER PRESIDENT COOLIDGE 23,000 ton gross. Length 653 ft. Beam 81 ft. A new page in the history of the President Liners. But still the same tradition of seaboard! life which has always made every Dollar Line traveller a welconte queat....
RIENT&ROUND
THE WORLD SERVICE
| BARDER/
VIELSEN LIKE
PANAMA
EXPRESS
BARBER WILHELMSEN
LINE
TRANS-PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC COAST SERVICE
via PANAMA.
NEXT SAILING
M.V. “TAI SHAN”
on JUNE 18th.
for
SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK & BOSTON.
42.Days To New York.
Fór -Passenger and Freight information please apply:---
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Queen's Balldings, - Agents.
Telephone 28021.
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.,
HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS :
KOWLOON, HONG KONG HONG KONG OFFICE 2802.
Telephones:
KOWLOON, DOCK 58053,
Telegrams: “HANIFESTO, HONG KONG.”
DOCK OWNERS, SHIP DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND- ENGINEERS, BOILER: MAKERS, IRON, STEEL, AND BRASS · FOUNDERS,
FORGE MASTERS, WELDERS AND ELECTRICIANS.
On Lloyds
list: of-
approved
Cast
Steel
Manufac-
turers.
TS.S.“ EMPRESS OF JAPAN.”.
Harbour
'Call Flags Engineer
"K."
Boller-
maker.
Shipwright ***
In No. 1 Dock. Dimenalons:-668′0′′ O.A. x 83'6" x 48′6′′ Mid. 28,000 tons Groen.
The Company possesses Biz Granite Docks and Two Patent Slipways. The dimensions of; N1/-1 Dock are 7000%x_88′0′′ x 30′6′′ övér sill, H.W. O. ST. - Salvage Tug "Hairy Henwick.” 2,000 LII.P: Wireless Call - Signal V.P.RT. and Flag Call Signal T.HQ.B. Sheerlers capabla of lifting 80 tons.
Codes Used: A1, ABC. Fifth Edition: Engineering, First and Second Edition. Western Union. Bentley and Wadkime
Kindly send enquiries to the Chef Manager,
R. M. DYER, B.Sc., MINA., Kowloon Docks, Hongkong.