.10.
P. &
THE CHINA MAIL,
0.-British India SUNKEN GERMAN
Apcar and
Eastern & Australian
Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
FLEET.
Salvage Work at
'
Scapa Flow.
The special correspondent of a Horne paper writes: I have been on
board Messrs. Cox and Dank's
floating dock, watching the final pre- parations for the raising of the 25,390-ton ex-German battleship Prinz Regent Luitpold, which, with the other interned vessels of the German Fleet was scuttled by her own crow on June 21, 1919. The ship lay upside down in about 18 fathoms between the islands of Cava and Hoy in the spot where she had been anchored since November, 1918. There were between $3 and 48 feet of water over her bottom. Her salvage was begun early this
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF,|yeur.
WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH 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.)
8.S,
Tons
**PERIM
From Hong Kon
About
1931.
1st Aug.
7,700
KRYBER
*KIDDERPORE *150MALI
9,000
5,300 5th Aug.
0.800
17,000 15th Aug, 5.300 19th Aug. 6,000 22nd Aug.
RAJPUTANA *ALIPORE
*IPADUA
+KARMALA
8th Aug.
Destination.
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
werp &
Straits, Colombo & Bombay, Marseilles, Gibraltar, Havre, London, H'burg, R'dam. A'werp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Marsellies, Havre, London, Hamburg,
-Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull,
werp & Hull
on
Excluding 26 destroyers, which work was begun in 1924, the Prinz Regent Luitpold is the seventh ship that the firm have rafe- ed, the others being the battle- cruisers Moltke, Seydlitz, Hinden- burg, and Von der Tann, the battle- ship Kaiser, and the minelaying cruiser Bremse. The method of
raising the majority of these ves- sels is as interesting as, I belleve, it is novel on so large a scale. Most
of them lay bottom up, and the first
step was to admit men to the hull through the bottom to seal up and make airtight the various compart- ments.
There is an errie feeling in being in the bottom of a capsized ship, lit by electricity, fathoms beneath the surface.. Rather alarming stories
caused by working under consider-
EASTERN PORTS,
Details of Epidemic Diseases.
The health bulletin of Eastern
ports for the week ended July 18, issued by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, gives the following cases:-
Plague. Alexandria: 2 cases. Port Said. 1 case. Bagdad: 4 case, 1 death. Rangoon: case, 1 death..
Cholera.
Bombay: 11 cases, 6 deaths, Calcutta: 55 cases, 68 deaths. Rangoon: 2 cases, 1 death. Chittagong: 10 cases, 5 deaths. Pnoni-Ponh: 4 cases, 1 death. Saigon: 3 cases, 2 deathis...
Small-pox. Bombay: 3 cases, 3 deaths. Calcutta: 2 casce, 8 deaths. Rangoon: 1 case. Vizagapatam: 2 cases. Shanghai: 2 deaths.
ELLIS ISLAND.
LOW OIL - TANKER FREIGHTS.
Considerable Tonnage Laid Up.
Oll-tanker freights are still on a very low level, current quotations for the representative voyage from the Gulf
of Mexico to the United Kingdom or Continent with refined oil or spirit being on the basis of about 9. or 10s, a ton whereas a year ago, the corresponding rate was about 248. a ton. That quota- tion represented a heavy fall from the high rates secured in 1929 and at the beginning of last year, when ton was paid. as much as 508. Last Summer the effect was begin- ning to be felt of a large volume of construction for both British and 'Scandinavian owners,
which had
resulted from the improvement in the demand for transport and greatly helped the shipbuilding in- dustry in a difficult time, and the rates of during the Summer freight declined steadily until, by the end of September, 118, a ton was accepted for the representative voyage from the Gulf of Mexico to the United Kingdom or Continent.; Since then rates have remained very poor (says The Times). There appears. now to be little difference
Seamen Who "Jumped between the terms for refined and
!
Ship."
heavy oil. Owners of some. vessels appear, however, to have been for- Ellia Island, from which immigtunate in chartering their vessels rants of generations have glimpsed for considerable periods at higher A good deal of all-tanker tonnage the modern "land of promise, has rates than those now ruling. a changed aspect to-day.
Normally, one saw wide-eyed is known to be now laid-up, includ men and women from Europe, with ing quite modern motor shipping,
owners
25th July Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, are told of the peculiar effects their shabby suitcases and bundles, and the owners of oil tankers have Mursailles, London, Rotterdam, Antable air pressure, such as bleeding filled with treasures of clothing been faced with a similar choice to noses, pressure on ear drums, and which they soon would cast aside. that which too often has had to be a general feeling of ewollen headed-Some of them wore tickets, stating made by managers of ordinary the destination of the newcomer, cargo tonnage of keeping their ness. But these men do not seem Before them, they thought were vessels idle and meeting the conse to mind these things and think
quent expenses or of incurring nothing of their work. It is the the streets of gold.
But just now, Ellis Island is losees in trying to maintain their isolation of the various compart-
men and women. Their clothes are ment is avallable. Some peasant, and they need no dossiera profit in the present level of rates. of the Traveller's Aid Society. The leaders of the industry have in the consumption of oil every Mr. E. F. Cox, the managing They are going home, and very un-long calculated on a steady increase
willingly. director, gave me some particulara
Quietly, without the fuss that year, and so in the demand for sea of the origin of his salvage work.
checked by the Con-In 1922 he bought the British bat- formerly accompanied useless raida transport, but lately this normal
on the foreign quarters those growth has been
of the world. The immediate out- courts-the immigration
9,000 29th Aug. Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Antments and the making certain of Packed to overflowing with sullen vessels in service when any employ- [ their airtightness that take most of those of the American, not the assert that there is no prospect of
CATHAY *SOUDAN
*KALYAN
16,000 12th Sept.
6,800 19th Sept.
9,000 26th Sept.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marieilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam & Antwerp. Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Ant-
werp & Hull.
*Cargo only. † Calls Casablanca. Calls Djibouti,
Calls Karachi & Port Swettenham.
!
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passenger's and Carge to stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the. Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
*SIRDHANA
*TILAWA SANTHIA
1981. 28th July 3 p.m.
8,000
Singapore, Fenang & Calcutta. 10,000 8th Aug. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
8,000 23id Aug. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
*Calls Port Swettenham.
the time in
tions.
these salvage opera-
How the Work Began.
tleships Erin and Orion for break-seized usually being freed by the disturbances of trade in many parts |
ing up, and these were demolished.
men are
who
in freight rates would seem to
confidence and commerce as would depend on such a general revival of enable the exlating supply of ton- nage to be absorbed."
at Queensborough, near Sheerness, bringing in undesirables by truck look for any marked improvement | in 1823. A Danish friend inter- loads and train-loade. Υπ one ested in shipbreaking suggested that he should calve certain of the week alone, 463 came to New York from the cities of the mid-west and German warships aunk at Scapa the Pacific Coast. After inspecting them he first Most of them are seamen bought four destroyers from the had "jumped ship" and then applied Admiralty and started work in for jobs which might be sought by May, 1924. Then he bought 21 American citizens. The minority more, and the whole lot were suc includes the criminals and the in- cessfully raised. Their sale did sane, who always have been deport-
for the necessary ed-Singapore Free Press. salvage plant.
B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st not quite pay and 2nd class passengers.
NELLORE
TANDA NANKIN
1981
2 p.m.
& Melbourne.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan sunk Finally, two huge concrete the country of their origin, while and Hong Kong to Austraila,
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. {
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON, STRAITS Mr. Cox's fifth big ship, the new, and the sale of the Prinz
..AND MANILA. Hindenburg, which lay right side Regent Luitpold should represent The Steamship.
that ship-
"BENARTY" EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).up with her gun turrete, upper-profit. The trouble is
Consignees of cargo are hereby in- works, masts, and funnels above breakers' yards in Britain are over formed that all goods are being land- water, presented the greatest diff-stocked, with obsolete British war-ed at their risk into the hazardous culty All the work had to be done ships, which means a small demand and/or extra hazardous Godowns of The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and 7,000
1st Aug. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney below the armoured deck, and time for scrap metal.
and time again when floated by air Much of the non-ferrous metal Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from 7,000
2nd Sept.
No claims will be admitted after the 7,000 2nd Oct.
pressure she was in imminent dan- and armour plate from these Ger- the wharves delivery may be obtained ger of capsizing and had to be re- man vessels fide its way back to Goods bave left the Godowns, and all Goads remaining undelivered after the blocks had to be constructed under some armour goes to America, 27th inst, will be subject to rent.
All claims against the steamer musi her stern to form a sort of cradle, where it is made into all kinds of be presented to the Undersigned on or and after months of work the ship cutlery goods. To give an idea of before the 19th August, or was finally salved and taken to the cost of the operations the tale will not be recognised. Rosyth for breaking up.
is told of a diver who, while one Mr. Cox had lost £30,000 on the ship was being raised, found him Hindenburg and found fiimself self sucked into an eight-inch inlet practically ruined. He managed to by the flow of water. Firmly at- collect enough capital to start on tached to the hull by the seat of the Von der Tann, which was suc- his diving dress, he signalled to the Leding will be countersian- cessfully raised and now lles bottom surface and the ship had to be sunked by.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. up awaiting a purchaser. The firm at an estimated cost of £400 to
Agentà. has more or less paid Its expenses release him.
Hong Kong, 20th July, 1931.
Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union 3.8. Company's steamore to the United Kingdom vla Now
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P.&O. Royal Mall Steamers to London and
The P. & 0. Branch Service of steamera to London via Suez. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN. Cheap Summer Trips to Japan, June to Sept.
SANTHIA KARMALA TANDA **SOUDAN
CATHAY
1931.
8,000 31st July Amoy, Mejl, Kobe, Thama & Ozaka. 9,000 818t July Shanghal. Moft. Robe & Yokohama. 7,000 7th Aug. S'hai, i Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yhama. 6,800 3th Aug. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.. 15,000
14th Aug. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 10,000
14th Aug. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. 7,000 27th Aug. Shanghai, Kobe & Yo'chama. 7,000 28th Aug. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 2,000
28th Aug. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. ET. ALBANS 4,600 81st Aug. S'hal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama.
ITALMA
NANKIN
TAKADA
KALYAN
Cargo only. Calls, Nagoya,
Calling Wet-hal-wel, Tsingtau & Shanghal on return from Japan.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notios, Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses
Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.
All Cabins are Atted with Electric Fans on Panke Louvre System free
of charge,
Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with, Laundries.. Parcels measuring not more than bou. It will be received the Com- pany's Office up to Noon on the day
For further information, Fai
MACK
0. Building, Connau
CO
they
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godawas, where they will be examined on the by Мевага, 25th inst. at 10 am, Goddard & Douglas.
No Fire Insurance has been effect
ed.
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Telegrams: KOWLOON, HONG KONG HONGKONG OFFICE 28129.
SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1931.
TO VICTORIA, B.C., AND SEATTLE
via
Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama S. S. "PRESIDENT TAFT”.
will sail at
7 A.M. SUNDAY - JULY 26
ROUND - THE - WORLD
(calling at Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colom- bo, Suez, Fort Said, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marscilles, NEW YORK, BOSTON, Havana, Cristobel, Balboa, Los Angeles, SAN FRAN- CISCO, Honolulu, Kobe and SHANGHAL)
S.S. "PRESIDENT POLK”
will sail at
8 A.M.SUNDAY — JULY 26.
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EXPRESS
1300ER
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BARBER WILHELMSEN
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THE PREMIER ALL WATER ROUTE TO NEW YORK and other U.S. Atlantic Ports via Panama,
All vessels call at SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES en route.
Passengers desiring to travel by this interesting route will find the accommodation provided well rn to their expectations, and at a cost most. reasonable.
42 Days To New York.
For Passenger and Freight information please apply:—
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PHOTOS TAKEN DAY AND NIGHT. Zeiss, Hodaks, Cameras, Films, Plates, and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
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