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WATER LEVELS,
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water levels on the West River,
North River and East Rivar the dates named:-
on
14 19
21.7
7.1.
Shipping
Intelligence.
MODERN WHALING.
By a Successor to Herman Melville.
The old
DEEP-SEA SALVAGE.
The Story of the Artiglio.
the
Mr. Scott has achieved a double success in this remarkable story of Herman Melville and Frank Bullen Seventy Fathoms Deep (with the whalers, thanks to deep-sea diving for sunken treasure, Says a Home paper in regard to and many others, have their place Divers of the Salvage Ship July July in British literature. But, sinco Artiglio). He gives us an exact the voyages of the Pequod and the first-hand account of the pioneer West River at Shiuhing North River at Samshut
Cachalot, the methods of pursuing work of the Marine Salvage Com- North River at Tsingyuen 12.9 18.2 and capturing whales have changed "Serima") In recovering valuable
pany of Genoa (known as East River at Sheklung ... 5,0
The level at. Shiubing on the almost as much the 'whaling cargo from wrecks lying in, deep 12th Inst, was 20.6 and at Taing ships themselves, and a chronicler water hitherto inaccessible yuen on the 11th inst. the level of the modernised industry has long divers. And secondly, and without any sacritice of scientific arpuracy, The highest levels recorded been. required. He has at lust aphe has so described the lives of the are: Shluhing, 41 feet; Tsing-peared in the person of Mr. A. G. men in the steam trawler Artiglio, yuen, 29.2 feet: Samshui, 27.3 Bennett, who knows his subject as. and their dangerous work among feet; Sheklung, 11.5 feet.
well as any of his literary predeces- the tides and sunken rocks of the Atlantic, as to make of his book a are minus & feet at Samshul and Ors, seeing that his home is in the mentorable romance of the sea, minua 2.7 feet at Sheklung.
was 10.8.
The lowest levels on record
Wednesday, July 15,
BA
to
Falkland Islands, and out of four- The operations which ho teen years of experience four have describes, extending over three actually been spent at sea with the years (1928-30), were due to Italian ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.
Antarctic whaling flest. His book,ject of much preliminary scientific
enterprise. They had been the ob) Whaling in the Antartic, with illus-work, and the carrying out of them Tuesday, July 14. trations and diagrams, (Blackwood, called for high technical skill, Deli Muru, Japanese str., 1,293 Ts. 6d. uet) is reviewed in the daring, and prolonged patience.
toms, Captain R. Sunada, from
The large number of valuable Canton, O.S.K. Wharf, 0.S.K. Morning Post.
cargoes known to repose at the bot- Tjikarang, Dutch str., 6,064 "tons, In spite of modern improvements, tom of the sea since the years of Capt. P. Hopman, from Mani- whaling still involves much danger submarine warfare had provided a la, buoy No. A2.J.C.J.L.
and many hardships. Once a whale special incentive to salvage com. panies to discover something better Canton Mara, Japanese atr., 1,647 has been harpooned by means of the than the rubbersuit diving ap- tons, Captain Y. Twasaki, Trom harpoon gun, he will be stuck to paratus, whose maximum limit of Swatow, O. S. K. Wharf under perilous conditions even in depth was 120ft. It was the Sorima 0.3.K.
the thickest of park-ice. It is a
Company which first exploited the Empress of Japan, British str.,
use of Newfeldt cast-iron diving 15,725 tons, Capt. S. Robinson, point of honour to confute, if it be shells, strong enough to resist the from Manila, Kowloon Dock-humanly possible, the common any pressure of deep water, in which C.P.S.
ing n the Antarctic that "a ship one man could stand or sit, carry, Foylebank, British str., 3,455, tons, will stand more than a man' hasing his own supply of oxygen and Capt. C. S. Newton,, from Kee- nerve to put her to." Cold, fatigue, breathing the same air over and lung, buoy No. A6.-Bank Line, and lose of sleep must be constantly over again through a purifying res Ilaiyang. British str., 1,368 tons, endured. Cleanliness is an impos pirator. The shell was provided
Captain Erwin, from Swatow, alble luxury.
with observation windows, through Douglas Wharf.-Douglas S.S.
which the diver could observe, and Co.
surface. The function of the occu a telephone connecting it with the
Pant was to serve as the "eye" of the salvage party, watching and directing operations, rather than performing them with his own
Co.
Good Fellows. ·
hands,
The food is good, and the spirit Kranviken, Norwegian str., 1,519 of good fellowship always reaches a tons, Capt. Kvamme, from Can- climax when "fresh park day" comes tan, buoy No. B16.-Wallem & along, and some remembered or in- Mausang, "British sir... 2,063 tons, vented anniversary is made the Captain G. F. Matthewe, from excuse for entertaining the crews of other vessels. The time has long Sandakan, buoy No. B22.--
£100,000 Worth of Diamonds. gone by when a whaling crew con- J. M. & Co.
The Italian divers made their Pong Tong, British str., 1,001 tons, constant is the employment, e-ranean. It was when they "made sisted of the roughest elemofits. So
first experiments in the Mediter- Capt. R. E. Freckleton; from Saigon, buoy No. B18-Yuen Pecially on a factory ship, and so Seng Fat.
well paid, that a good class of men Shantung, British str., 1,568 tons, are attracted, and they stick to their
Captain J. S. G. Brown, from jobs year after year. Swatow, buay No. B20.—B. & S. Shun Chih. Chinese str., 1,251
1
When, at the magic, word slut (finished), the voyage begins from the unfriendly Antarctic wastes of
Summer, the meds of a season is
their debut" in the Atlantic, off the coast of Brittany, in the Summer of 1928, that Mr. Scott first made friends with them, and was wel comed on board the Artiglio as one of themselves. Their first objective |
Belgian Passenger eteamer which had been torpedoed on her way home from
tons, Captain T. Thorbjorusen, water to the pleasant Northern was the Elizabethville,
from Saigon, buoy No. C2. Chang Tong Ha.
Taiyuan, British str., 2,100 tons, apeedily cleaned up, and it is the Congo in 1917. She was known
Capt. R. Robertson, from Can--spick-and-span vessel-that-arrives-at-
Its European port to discharge. to have carried several tons of ivory ton, buoy No. BJ.-B. & S. Van Heutsz, Dutch str., 2,749 tons, the crew had decided that their posited somewhere in the ship, no
But there is a catch in it-for, when tusks and a packet of uncut dia munds, worthi-over $100,000, de Captain H. J. G. Blits, from vessel is a model of cleanliness, the Siratow, buoy No. A16. J.C.J.L
first port official to come abroad in evitably remarks: "Phew-doesn't she stink?"
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
The following British warships were in harbour to-day:-
Caradoc-West wall.
OdinEast wall.
Otus-East wall...
Sepoy-North arm.
Seraph-North arm. Serapis North arm. Stormcloud-North arm. Tamar-Basin.
Foreign.
Adamastor-Portuguese cruiser.
Mindanao-American gunboat. Regulus-French sloop."
HONG KONG TIDES.
The time used is Standard, or mean time of the meridian of 120 [deg. E.; 00h, is midnight, 12hrs. 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 a asterisk (*), when they should be subtracted from the depths,
July 16 to 22, 1981.
DATE HIOR WATER LOW.
Sand'rd
July
Timos
one knew where.
2
This first experiment proved com- paratively successful. Weather was Mr. Bennett, who is among other favourable, the location of the wreck had beon accurately observed, and things and expert ornithologist, has much that is new and true to after a week of search the Artigllo's tell us about the living creatures of grapael stuck fast in the sunken the Antarctic. The focus of whale vessel. Glanni, the chief diver, at ing has shifted from the Far North his first descent, "made a very good to the Far South, and it is the bridge," and "straining his eyes at shot and landed on the captain's Blue and Fin whales rather than the dim circles of green water" SAW the Sperm and Right whales which before him, where the boat-deck are the chief quarry. Some 200,000 should have been, "a sort of cave, of the former have been killed walled and roofed with distorted this century in South Polar regions, plating and a tangle of beams and and it is certain that the present pipes and roda, in section not unlike death-rate threatens their eventual the shell of a house left standing extinction. It is not easy to find when the front wall has collapsed."" a solution to the problem involved.
YACHT MYSTERY “SOLVED,
Adventures Of An: Acter:
After some weeks of patient work all the ivory was brought to the surface-a valuable haul-but the safe in which they expected to find the diamonds contained nothing but n British sovereign, a 10s. plece, and a sodden packet of Belgian 1001, notes.
Search for the Egypt. More baffling was the search for the Egypt, the British P. and 0. The mystery of a yacht without liner, which had sunk with £1,000,- crew, which went ashore at 000 in gold and silver in her bullion- Milford-on-Sea has been solved by room. It was more than 15 months, the disclosure of an adventure of before the wreck could be found. Mr. E. Bellerden Clarke, the actor, Mr. Scott graphically describes the who is her owner, many measures adopted by ne Mr. Clarke, who was playing at treasure-hunters, dragging and Bournemouth, was sailing the yacht sweeping the tantalisingly rough with a dinghy in tow off Studland, bottom of the sea, sending down Dorset, and ixed the tiller before divers, and on one occasion resort- attempting to get into the dinghy, ing to "black magic" of a worthy which had shipped some water. A friar who claimed skill in divina- fairly heavy sea was running and tion. It was a red-letter day when litewamped the dinghy,
she was discovered, almost, as it seemed, by accident.
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But neither the Artiglio, nor most of the workers on board of her. survived to probe the mysteries of the Brypt Diverted temporarily to salvage work on the munitionship Florence, and, lurad into a frise sense, Hof recurity by repeated failures to explode the cargo, they omitted to retreat, fo s, safe dis- tance when a charge was exploded) idence led to disaster,
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