10
P.&O.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian
Lines
MODERN OIL-TANKER.
THE
Features of the Vacuum Oil Co's
Pegasus.
The Pegasus, which dry-docked in Singapore for the first time this week, is an all-tanker of 6,702 tons het on the must up-to-date lines.
MAIL.
CHINA
LONE VOYAGER IN THE CHANNEL.
"Sixty-Eight Days Out from Quebec."
SUEZ CANAL.
Marked lncrease In Traffic.
Brixham (Devon), Oct. 7. The Brixham fishing smack Fern-Indo-Chinese lens, when 13 miles off Start Point, spoke to a small boat with one man aboard. Skipper J. Rowse, of the Ferniens, states:-
Paris, Nov. 18. The latest bulletin of the Suez Canal Company reports that there is a marked increase in the amount of Built by Doxford and Son,
merchandise sent Sunderland (England), and launch-
through the Canal. For the first ed in March, 1930, she has been
the year it chartered by the Vacuum Oll Co., for ten years, her run either being
three quarters of amounts already to 397,000 tons, as between Samatra and South Africa
the: "We understood from the man on compared with 413,000 for So or South Africa and America.
The main items! far she has made five trips between board that the boat was called the
The tonnage of Sumatra and South Africa and four Oben, and that she was 68 days out whole year 1930, He refused to. give are.rice and coal. The boat was scarcely the rice sent by way of Suez has an his name. covering, in all 114,000 miles at
amounted to 270,000 for the first average speed of 10.84 knots an bigger than our own.
The man told us that he had run hour.
The Pegasus, whose master is short of petrol, and his food was nine months of this year, as com- We gave him pared with 237,000 for the whole Capt. B. Hagstrom, carries 13,100 getting very short.
Coal is a new element in five all the bread we could spare and of 1930. can load tons of cargo and
We invited him ahoardest of gouds from Indo-china. the some fish. different kinds of oil at
time
of by means five the Fernicas so that he could sleep.
Ho In 1930 different pipe lines and five pumps, He looked utterly worn out. the time occupied In loading or badly needed a wash, his beard was
long, and his face was dirty. unloading being about 30 hours.
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). between South Africa and America, from Quebec.
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO
FOR
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, 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..
Тод
From Hong Kong
About
1931.
Destination.
10th Dec. Marseilles & London.
Noon
26th Dee. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. M'seilles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp. Jan. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Feb. M'acilles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp, Fob. Bombay, Marseilles & London Mar. Marseilles, London, Havre, Hamburg.
Rotterdam, Anwerp & Hull.
+CORFU
**SOMALI
16,000
6.800
1
1932.
RAWALPINDI
+KARMALA
17,000
9,000 18th
2nd Jan. JAD.
CHITRAL
15,000
30th
*KASHMIR
9,000
19th
NALDERA
16,000
27th
1 SOUDAN
6,800
th
CARTHAGE
15,000 | 12th
Mar.
Marseilles & London.
RAJPUTANA CORFU
| 17,000 20th
Mar.
Marselles & London.
16,000
9th
Apr.
Marseilles & London.
RAWALPINDI
17,000
23rd
Apr.
17,000
7th
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseiller & London.
CHITRAL
16,000
21st
$7,000
RAJPUTANA
MANTUA
10,000 18th 12,000 2nd 17.000 10th 11,000 30th
RAWALPINDI 17,000 13th
RANPURA
MALWA
17,000 27th 11,000
10th
RANPURA
May May
Bombay, Marseilles & London. June 4th
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles & June Romboy,
& London. Bombay Marseilles & London. July July Bumbay, Marseilles & London. July
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Aug. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Aug. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Sept.
Carge only. Calls Casablanca." Calls Djibouti.
Rame
She is fitted with the latest type of 4-cylinder Diesel engines, of 3,100 hp, the auxiliory machinery being steam driven by using the ex- haust gases, which is responsible for considerable suving.
Sufficient
oll can be carried for a voyage of 21,000 miles. The boilers are of the latest Telefunken type and tho Vennel, which is 497 feet long, 66 fect beam, and has a draft of 27 feet, carries a short wave wireless set enabling her to keep in touch with any port.
"He refused to come aboard as he said he was doing the voyage for a wager, adding, 'No, more ⚫ wagers for me. I'll never do this
again.
"He told us he had lost his bear- ings through encountering foggy weather coming up the Channel.
Bent on Winning. "I suggested that he should go into Dartmouth for food and rest, but he refused, aa fie was bent on winning his wager.
some 16,000 tons prent through the Cunal, and in the first nine months of this year thel Amount was 42,000 tons.
SIR CHARLES WALKER.
To Retire From Admiralty.
Sir Charles Walker, K.C.B,, who of the has been Deputy Secretary Admiralty for the past ten years, will retire from the public service on December 12 next, on attaining He will be suc- the age of sixty.
I then sug-ceeded in the post by Sir Vincent | Baddeley, K.C.B., one of the two! Principal Assistant Secretaries.
Sir Charles Walker Deputy-Secretary of the Admiralty since 1921.
gested that he follow the Fernlens is owned
by until he could take the correct bear The PegasUS
This ho did. Rederiaktie Transoik of Gotten-ings of the Start.
The Oben was alongside the Fern berg.
We did an hour. leas for over everything we could to entice the- man to come aboard, but he refused. "When we last saw him he was
course easterly
up taking an Channel."
ITALIAN SHIPPING MERGER.
Rome, Oct. 16. The merging of three of Italy's most important shipping companies -the Navigazione Generale, Lloyd Sabaudo, and the Cosulich Line has been accomplished, it is learn. authority here, jed
on reliable The new combine will have a capital of 800,000,000 lire (£9,000,000 at par).-British United Press.
When another Brixham smack, the Valerian, arrived at Brixham Inter her skipper, Mr. Ernest Soper, also reported having halled the Oben.
He said:
"I would not sati from Brixham to Plymouth in such a small boat. When I saw her she was doing knots hour in squally and rainy weather with a freshening south-west breeze.
HONG KONG TIDES. about seven
The time used in Standard, ar mean time of the meridian of 120 Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Cou-deg. E.; 00h. is midnight, 12hrs.
The heights are referred to stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the noon.
the datum of the largest scale Ad- Khedival Mall Steamship Co.
and miralty chart of the place should be added to the depths given on the chart unless preceded by a asterisk (*), when they should ba subtracted from the depths.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
+
1931.
SIRDHANA
8,000 15th
TILAWA
10,000 | 24th
SANTHIA
TALMA
8,000 10th 10,000
22nd
Dec. Dec. 1932.
Jan. Jan.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
IL Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 18! and 2nd class passengers.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).
un
has been
Sir Vincent Baddeley has since 1021 been First Principal Assistant Secretary of the Admiralty, which he entered in 1899.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON & STRAITS.
The Steamship.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1931.
SPECIAL. ROUND-
TRIP FARES
TO EUROPE.
WEEKLY TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE
To Seattle & Victoria.
To San Francisco, Los Angeles & New York vis Panama,
The Sunshine Belt via The Short, Straight Route
Honolulu
to America Fortnightly sailings on Tuesday Fortnightly sailings on Sundays. 1.A .Dec. 22 Pres. Madison....Dec. 13, 8. Jan. 6 Prex Cleveland ......Dec. 27 Jan 18 Jan. 19 Pres. Taft
Pres. Wilson Pres. Hoover
Pres. Jackson
£79 £112 £120 Special through rates to Europe vis
United States, Direct connections with all Atlantic linea. Choice of rail lines across United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privileges for sight-seeing.
ROUND TRIP. FARE TO EUROPE. From Hong Kong to Naples
Marseille. Landan
Full particulars upon application, EUROPE AND NEW YORK DIRECT
ROUND THE WORLD.
£152, 5,0d, $161. 0,00. £159.16.04.
Fortnightly safling on Sundays via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Genca, Marseilles, New York and Boston,
..
Pres. Harrison...Dec. 13, 8 Pres. Hayes
a.m.
Pres. Pierce......Jan. 10, 8 .Dec. 27, 8 Pres. Monroe .....Jan. 24, 8
TO 'MANILA
Pres. Harrison Dec. 13, 8 am. 'res. Hayen....Dec. 27, 8 a.m. Pres. Wilson...Dec. 15, 6 pm. Pres. Hoover ...Dec. 29, 6 p.m. Pres. Cleveland Dec. 19, 6 p.m. Pres. Taft.....Jan. 2, 6 p.m. CANTON BRANCH:-4. SHA KEE STEERI
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE
and, or
BWBER
WSGEMEIN
PAKAMA
"BENCRUACHAN " "She's a Yank."
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby in- "She Miled round the Valerian formed that all Goods are being land- The man led at their risk into the hazardous for about ten minutes.
as it
and/or extra hazardous Godowns of. looked
his board On
The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & cramped by lack Godown Co. Ltd., whence limbs were
for exercise. We from the wharves delivery may be ob of
space invited him aboard the Valerian fortained.
No claims will be admitted after the breakfast and to stretch his limbs, gods are left the Godowns, and all but he refused.
Goods remaining undelivered after the "He was very anxious about his 5th December, 1931, will be subject bearings. "What is my course toto rent. London? I have lost my bearings,'
"Take I replied: HION WATER LOW WAT. he asked,
E.N.-E. course and pick up Port- Btandard Standard. It.land, and then follow the coast Lo
Times
· London.' He shook his head and mid-Channel evidently wanted a *7 course, I then shouted: E by N, to which he replied: 'O.K., Chief."
December 5 to 11, 1981.
Tinio
DATE
Dor
II.
H.
F
Sat.
11.49
18
20
NANKIN NELLORE TANDA
7,000
1932 2nd 7,000 30th
| 7,000 | 4th
Jan. Mani, Rabaul, Brisbane, Jan. & Melbourne. Mar.
Sydney
Sun. 01
MOD. ป 08 19
18 Tuos. 809 IL
118 50 54 00 93 18
12
7.3 A
01
23
1'8
2. 08
13 J
Wod. 0
10 14
51 03 10
11 .05 4. 04 04
* 24 18 14 43
30
Fri.
31
11. bb 48 01 10
22 06 67 15 16
Regular monthly saltings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan Thurs 10 and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney-10 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union 8.9. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The F. & 0. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
8,000 18th Dec. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
Doc. 9,000 18th
Shanghai, Moj, Kobe & Tokslams.
1931
SANTHIA KARMALA
1932.
CHITRAL TALMA NELLORE
15,000 Jet 10,000. 3rd
7,000 4th
*KALYAN
9,000 9th
TAKADA KASHMIR SOUDAN NALDERA TANDA
7,000 15th
Jan. Jan. Jaz. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan.
CARTHAGE RAJPUTANA
CORFU RAWALPINDI
:
15th 9,000 3,800 26th 16,000 29th 7,000 5th 15,000 12th 17,000 20th 15,000 11th
21th
17,000 24th
0,800
5th
17,000 7th
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,
Amoy, Mojl, Kebe & Osaka. S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Ybara. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, Amoy, Moji, Kabe & Osaka. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko
& Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobs & & Yokohama. & Yokohami 11, Shanghai, Kobe Jan.
Yokohama. Feb. Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Feb.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Feb,
Yokohama. Kabe Mar.
nga Kobe
& Yokohama. Mar. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Apr.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Apr. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
Apr.
*SOMALI RANFURA CHITRAL 15,000 21st
May Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama RANCHI | 17,000 NALDERA 16,000 19th May Shanghai, Mall, Kobe & Yokohama.
2nd Junc KAIBAR-I-HIND) 18,000
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 1 17,000 10th June RAJPUTANA,
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. *SOUDAN
0,800 28th Juno Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
Cargo only, Calle Nagoya.
All dates are approximate and subject to allevation without motie,
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans or Punka Louvre Bystem. Bteamers on London and Austra Han Lines are fitted with Laundries. Farca's measuring not more than 5 cu. It. wini de received at the Com- pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous to miling.
..
For further information, Pansags, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:-
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
P. & O. Buliding, Connaught Rd. C. Hong Kong.
Agcals
24 14 11
an
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 24th December, 1981, they will not be recognised.
or
All broken, chated, and damaged Gands are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the at 10 a.m. by 9th December, 1981,
Goddard & Douglas. Меняга.
To comply with the general Hond-
I said to my crew: 'She's a Yanked Warehouse Regulations consignees
by that slang." Then he shaped away for a mid-Channel course.
When Skipper Soper was told that the Fernless had sighted the Oben
in the same locality on the previous
7 day he suggested that the Oben had hove to during the night, so that 7 the lone voyager could rest.
must have a Revenue Officer in at- tendance when damaged dutlable goods are examined.
ei.
No Fire Insurance has been effect. Bill of Lading will be countersigo- ed by,
GIBB. LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD. Agents. Hong Kong, 3rd December, 1931.
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK
Telegrams:
HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS :
CO., LTD.,
"MANIFESTO, HONG KONG KOWLOON, HONG KONG HONG KONG OFFICE 28020.
KOWLOON DOCK 68053.
DOCK OWNERS, SHIP DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, IRON, STEEL, AND BRASS FOUNDERS, FORGE MASTERS. WELDERS AND ELECTRICIANS.
On Lloyda
lat of
approved
Cart
Stool
Manufac
tarers.
T.S.S. "EMPRESS OF JAPAN.”
Harbour
EXPRESS
LINE
SERVICE
BARBER WILHELMSEN
LINE
TRANS-PACIFIC, AND ATLANTIC COAST SERVICE
via PANAMA. NEXT SAILING
ΤΑΙ M.V. "TAI PING"
on DECEMBER 17th.'
for
SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK & BOSTON,
42 Days To New York.
For Passenger and Freight information please apply:--
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Queen's Buildings.
Agents.
Telephone 28021.
Call Flags
Engineer
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.
'ENGINEERS. and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS All work done in this establishment is and IRON FOUNDERS. guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two 8Up- Ways and can accommodate any craft of 200 feet long.
Tel. 20459. Town Office: 64, Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong.
Kowloon Tel 57009, Shipyard: Sham-ahul-pa, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Estimates furnished on application.
Boller-
masker
Ky"
Shipwright
**L"
In No. 1 Dock. Dimensions:-666′0′′ O.A. x 88′6′′ x 18′6′′ Mld. 26,000 tons Gross.
The Company possesses Six Granite Docks and Two Patent Slipways. The dimensions of No. 1 Dock are 700'0" x 88′0′′ × 30′6′′ over aill, IL. W. 0.8. T. Balvage Tez "Henry Keswick" 2,000 LH.P. Wireless Call Signal V.F.ET, and. Flag Call Bignal T.HQB: Sbserlegs capable of lifting 60 tons.
Codes Used: Al, A.B.C. Fifth Edikan: Engineering, First and Second Edition, Western Union. Bentley and Walkins.
Kindly send enquiries to the Chief Manager,
·R. M. DYER, B.Sc., MINA, Kowloon Docks, Hongkong.
Hong Kong April 1, 1924.
Not dead yet the Manchu dynasty.-Ex.
Anna Murphy, of Klerkaderp, Transvaal, has celebrated her 111th
Usually, a pessimist is a man who finances an optimist. Vincennes (Ind.) Bun.
There are now 8,082 pleasure. birthday. When a young girl she yachts in the United States, the
largest number on record,
was a slave.
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