TO
P. & O.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). 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.
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PENINSULAR & CRIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
THE CHINA'
SOUTH AFRICA'S BUSIEST PORT
DURBAN
WEALTHY AND CLEAN PORT
a
A GREAT FUTURE.
Many of these vessels seemed to be anchored there. permanently. But when the seas did not break heavily) there was little danger.
The war rendered rail communi- cation with other parts of South Africa Impossible, and the Natal authorities then decided to use the Umvoti to carry mails to Cape Town. The agents of the Natal Direct Line and the Aberdeen Line' then agreed to share this service: between them, and at a figure that would seem nominal to-day they Cape Town is the oldest port in inner. harbour and berthed at the maintained a weekly mail service Southern Africa, but Durban has wharf. Since then mail steamers right up to the declaration of peace. for some years now displaced it as have regularly sailed into the Inner] The Government was hound to pro-| the busiest port. Fifty years ago harbour, and with the reconstruc-e special wharf at Durban when- it was of little consequence, for tion work of recent years and the ever the mall steamer arrived. The) then most of the overseas trading continued dredging of the channel service was hampered by many dif- was done with Cape Town. Cargo it is possible for very large ships ficulties, but all were overcome suc- and passengers from the mail now to sail to the inner harbour..essfully. After the middle of 1902 steamers were transferred into lit-Systematic dredging has been the the railway again carried Natal's tle coasters, but at that time the solution to Durban's harbour dif-mail, and has continued to do so tiny clippers of Bullard King's ficulties. The channel, is kept at a ever since. Natal Line and J. T. Kennie and regular level, and steamers with a In the early months of the South Sona' Aberdeen Line were trading draught of up to 80 feet can enter African war large numbers of Bri-' between London and Durban, writes without difficulty.
tish refugees from the Rand arrived W. L. Speight in the Nautical Ma-! Durban has always been the port in Delagoa Bay. Shipping from gazine.
at which Indian Immigrants were Natal was used to bring these peo- Early Days of Natal Line. disembarked. Previous to 1889 the ple to Durban. In many ways this Messrs. Bullard, King & Co. beUmvoti and the Quathlamba pro- was an unpleasant phase of the war gan the Natal Line at about the vided all the trailsport needed be- work of these ships. Every-one time of the Indian mutify by send- tween India and Natal, but in that seemed bitten with the spy fever, ing the brig Priscilla to Durban year the Bullard King Line under- and even the most innocent refugees with party of missionaries. took this service and placed the were suspected of being in league Afterwards they added the clippera Pongols and the Congella, up to with the Boers. They were allow- Silvery Wave, Burton Stather, and then used on the Durban-London od to land only after the most Verulam to their fleet; none of these service, on this work. After this searching enquiries. vessels exceeded 450 tons regia- few sailing vessels were used on Under Railway Administration. ter.
The vessels of the Aberdeen the Indian and South African ser- All South African ports are now Line at this time were of similar vice.
under the control of the railway size, the only exception being the Up to the declaration of the late administration, those in the Cape Palala.
war, the Bullard King Line sent a being transferred from the harbour] The Ear,
monthly steamer to London, a visit boards in 1909 and Durban in 1910. The bar at Durban was a serious being paid to Bombay on the way. The joint administration thus cons. obstacle to speedy transhipment of When the Indian immigration ser- tituted is responsible for the land- passengers and goods. Sailing, vice was at its most prosperous' ing, delivery, shipment and collec- safely, but when in 1980 the new are between Durban and India, as bour boards are still in existence; vessels were generally able to cross phase this company ran five steam- t.on of all cargo. Advisory har-
950 tons net register steamer Pon-well managing an alternate ten each has seven members, who re-} gala sailed across the bar great days' service to London; this was present various shipping and trans- Apr. Bombay, Marseilles, London, Havre, developments were expected. Ten in conjunction with the Aberdeen port interests.
Great Future. rese literally scraped over this obs- Geld Fields' Development. As a port Durban has a great tacle, the water was only a little But Durban seems to have owed future, and in spending so much) over 12 feet deep. To-day vessels its early development to the gold-, money in improvements the author- drawing over 82 feet can sail over fields rather than to the Indian Im-ities have testified their faith without the slightest inconvent-migration. This port was much in this. Large stretches of marsh eace.
nearer the Rand, than Cape Town, have been reclaimed, and at places The Pongola was the first steam and for this reason more suitable like Congella are leased out to com- er of the Natal Line, and was for off-loading the machinery and mercial interests. Victoria En- followed in 1881 by the Limpopo, stores required on the goldfields. bankment is a reclamation of the and in 1882 by the Congella. The But until the depth of water over swampy foreshore, and from the next year the Umtata was added to the bar was increased the size of pier jutting into the sea here boats the fleet. The Aberdeen Lino fol- ships employed on the Durban serazil round the bay or towards popu- lowed soon after with a steam service had to be kept down.
lar picnic sites like the Bluff or vice, and other lines also took Congestion. During Boer War. Salisbury Island, keener interest in Durban. In 1885) Durban harbour has never been
8.8.
Toas
Fram Hong Kong
About
1932.
Destination
0,000 18th Jan. M'seilles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp.
6,500 2nd
Marseilles, London, Havre, Hamburg,
Rotterdam. Anwerp & Bul.
Apr. Brmborg, Rotterdam & Antworp-years later, when the coaster Mel-Line.
London. Londo
Apr. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
+KARMALA CHITRAL
16,000 30th Jan.
*ALIPORE
*KASHMIR
NALDERA **SOUDAN
5,300 8th 9,000 13th 10,000 27th
Feb, Feb.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits, Colombo & Bombay.
Feb.
M'acllles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp. Bombay. Marseilles & London.
0,800 6th Mar.
CARTHAGE RAJPUTANA **BURDWAN
15,000 12th Mar.
Marseilles & London.
17,000 26th
Mar.
Marseilles & London.
CORFU
15,000 9th
RAWALPINDI RANPURA
17,000 23rd 17.000
7th
CHITRAL
2000
RANCHT
NALDERA
16: 17,000 16,000 18th
2nd
4th
RAJPUTANA
MANTUA
17.000 182% 11.000 30th
RANPURA
MALWA
1345 Aug. 17,000 27th Aug. 11,000 10th
Sept.
July
*Cargo only,
KAISAR-I-HINDI 12.000
RAWALPINDI 17,000
May Bambay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
May June Juno Bombay, Marseilles & London. July Bombay, Marseillea & London. July Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles
& London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Bombay Marseilles & London.
Calix Casablanca. Calls Djibouti.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Cen- staz-mople, Pirosus, Smyrna and other Levant Porta hy ateamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
1932.
*SANTHIA
TALMA TALAMBA
8,000 8th Jan.
3.80 p.m. Singapore, Penang & Calcutte 10.000 22nd
Jan. 8,000 6th Feb.
* Calls at Port Swettenham.
!
Durban appears to have an abun-
a new service, the Suter-Williams so congested as it was during the dance of worldly wealth. The Line, built the Natal Merchant and South African war, when one ves-houses are large and comfortable, the Cape Merchant, but did not sel, the Yorkshire, was forced to smothered in vivid creepers with succeed so well as expected, and after wait at anchorage for six months. all the fierce colours of the tropics. about twelve months' trading the Shipping in general took many This blaze of poinsettia or bougain- vessels were sold to Donald Currie risks at this trying period, but the villea astonishes the visitor. In & Co.
damage sustained was on the whole mid-winter these flowers are abloom Modern Harbour.
very slight. At the wharves ships and for one from a temperate zone Modern harbour work at Durban) were berthed two and three deep, this blaze of colour is difficult to dates from 1882, when only the and at the outer anchorage from understand. But at certain seasons B.L Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st smallest craft could cross the bar. twenty to forty ships would be wait- the heat of Durban is oppressive. and 2nd class passengers.
In the beginning of 1888 the sound-ing their turns.
One is much struck with the ex- logs at H.W.S, in the main naviga- At this time the Transport Officer cellent way Durban is laid out. The ble channel Innes, and the outer was, Commander Holland, of the streets are wide, the aquares EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). werks completed by C. J. Crofts, Indian Marine Service, and the fact beautiful and the open spaces who retired from the post of Har-that accidents werd kept so low attractive. It impresses one as bour Engineer in 1907.
was due largely to his careful man-being one of the cleanest and best
· First Mail Steamer.
agement. Afterwards the author kept towns in South Africa, and it In June, 1904, the first mailities decided to use the outer an appears to be run on sound, modern steamer, the Armadale Castle; chorage for depot ships for Boernes. Its buildings have a suba- crossed the bar safely, entered the prisoners and for hospital ships. (Continued in next Column.)
NELLORE TANDA NANKIN
1032
7,000 80th Jan, 7,000 4th Mar.
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney .7,000 2nd Apr. & Melbourne.
Regular monthly saliings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan and Hong Kong to Austraila,
Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:em dny
The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to Londan and
The P.&O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Sues. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
*KALYAN
*ALIPORE TALAMBA KASHMIR *SUUDAN HALDERA
SIRDHANA PANDA: TENTANDERAALA
CARTHAGE
BURDWAN RAJPUTANA
1932.
9,000 I 10th Jan. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, 5,300 18th Jun, Shanghai, Moji & Kobe.
8,000 18th 12 Jan. | Amoy, S’hal, Moji, Kobe & Y’hama. 9,000 18th Jan.. | Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokokama. - 6,300 26th Jan. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 16,000 29th Jan Shanghai. Kabs & Yokohama.
goth Jan. Amoy,
Kobe & Osaka. 5th Feb. Shanghal, Mall, Vokohama
Koba.. Feb. Bhanph
Shanghai; Kobe, &* Feb. Shanghal, Kebe & Yokohama.
6,500
anth
12th
21st 17.000 26th Feb. 18,000 RAWALPINDI 17.000
CORD
•SOMÁLI RANPURA CHITRAL
BANGALORE
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