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P. & 0.-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.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with HM. Government.)
Destination.
8.8.
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From Hong Toar About
KARMALA
CHITRAL *ALIFORE +KASHMIR-
1932. 9,000 18th Jan.
Noon 15,000 30th Jan.
6,300 8th
Feb.
M'seilles, L'don, R'dam & A'wers.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits, Colombo & Bombay.
9,000 18th
NALDERA
Feb.
1*SOUDAN
16,000 27th 5th 6,800
CARTHAGE
**BURDWAN
CORFU
RAWALPINDI 17.000
RANPURA
CHITRAL
RANCHI
NALDERA
17.000 10000
KAISAR-I-HIND 12,000
15,000 12th RAJPUTANA 17,000 28th
6,500 2nd
'seilles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp. Feb. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Mar. Marseilles, London, Havre, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Mar. Marseilles & London.
am, Anwarp & Hall. Mar. Marseilles & London. Apr. Bombay Marseilles, London, Havre,
Hamburg, Rotterdam & Antwerp. 15,000 Dth Apr. Marseilles &
London. Apr, Bombay, Marseilles & London. 23rd 17,000 7th May Bombay, Marsailles & London. 15.000 21st
May
by Marseilles & London. Bombay, 4th дед
Bombay, Marsellica June Bombay,
London. 18th Jane Bombay, Mar
London. 2nd
July Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Boy, Marrellles RAJPUTANA 17,000 18th
July
Dombay, Marseilles & London. 11,000 30th Jaly Bombay, Marseilles & London. 17,000 13th Aug. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 17,000 27th Aug. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Sept. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
MANTUA RAWALPINDI RANPURA
MALWA
11,000
10th
Cargo saly. Calla Casablanca. t Calia Djibouti Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Pireans, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH-INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
TALMA TALAMBA SIRDHANA
10,000
1982. 26th Jan.
8,000 8th Feb. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 8,000 23rd
Feb.
I
THE CHINA-MÄIL.
LUXURY LINERS BURNED OUT
BERMUDA AND LANCASTER
ENORMOUS DAMAGE DONE TO
£1,750,000,
BOTH SHIPS..
The cause of the outbreak is a mystery.
Luggage Lost:
Two hours before the ship was due to sail smoke was seen coming from a cabin window. Stewards I attempted to put out the flames, but they spread rapidly and passengers ware ordered to leave the ship.
Some went calmly, but others left their belongings behind in the scramble for, safety,
Ferie Scene.
wan
The scene was an eerie one.
served
Shortly afterwards the boat train. from London came in and the pas- residents of a wide district, and sengers got out to look at what they A disastrous fire broke out crowds of half-clad people congre-imagined to be a dock fire. They recently in the Furness Withy gated round the scene..
had a dramatic surprise. It luxury motor-liner Bermuda, which
The fire had such a hold that the their boat that was blazing from was undergoing repairs at Messrs. huge amount of water poured on stem to stern. Workman, Clark, and Co.'s yard at the ship from the wharf made no Belfast. The next day only the visible, impression on the flames. framework of the vessel was stand-Two of the Harbour Board's amall ing, twisted out of recognition, vessels from the side rendered some Hosepipes ran in long arteries from while the remnants of the hull were assistance to the firemen, but had to every angle on the dock stage. The resembled diminutive who made a superficial examination signs of listing. The vessel did figures in the light and shade of still smouldering. A fire assessor get clear when the Bermuda showed firemen
intermittent flamies, which estimated the damage at £1,750,000. take a list, after several of the the
against the Separate preliminary investiga-hawsers holding her to the wharf threw dark shadows
dock building. tions were carried out by ship had been, burned through.
Total Destruction.
The passengers were driven back building experts and police officers with a view to discovering how the When the fire was at its height it to the boat train and told to stay outbreak was caused and whether it was suggested that the Bermuda there. Refreshments were was accidental. During the pre-should be towed out to midstream, to those passengers who had left ceding six weeks there have been where it was
thought the firemen the ship.
Meanwhile, the several minor outbreaks in the would have a better chance to deal
reserve steamer, vessel, but these were caught in with the outbreak, but the Idea was Duke of Argyll, was brought to the time.
abandoned owing to the possibility landing stage and passengers em-| Every possible precaution was of the ship's breaking adrift. So barked
hours after the taken to safeguard the vessel. A the Are burned itself out, and in scheduled time. member of
An employee of the L.M.S. sald the local fire brigade, several hours the work on which a Samuel Gorman, was in charge of thousand men had been engaged for that there was every hope of saving twelve members of the builders' almost five months was totally the cargo. Men were waiting on staff, two being on each of the six destroyed,
the quay to take the cargo off as decks, so that the whole vessel was
soon as it was considered safe, being constantly patrolled..
The outbreak had made consider carrying out the repair contract, able headway. before it was dis-had arranged to hand the Bermuda covered. It originated in a room on over before Christmas. the fifth deck, where a number of articies of furniture were
In the opinion of a shipbuilding stored official the remains of the ship are before being placed in position after only "fit for the scrap heap." "It The time used is Standard, or mean: the painting of the ship was finish was a tragedy." he added, "as a coh. is midnight, 12hrs. is noon. The time of the meridian of 120 deg. E.; ed.
Aner vessel never left the port of heights are referred to the datum of Belfast, or came into it for that the largest scale Admiralty chart of matter."
the place and should be added to the depths given on the chart unless pre- caded by an asterisk (*), when they should be subtracted from the depths.
Men Rescued. Fireman Gorman made a desper- Įate attempt to extinguish the flames, but wae driven back by the heat and smoke and was rescued just in time, together with one of the civilian watchers who had gone to his assist ance, by other fremen who had been summoned. By that time the whole of the middle part of the deck was involved, and before long the fire-
Messra. Workman, Clark, and. Co., the builders of the vessel, who were:
The Bermuda made her maiden voyage in 1928.
L.M.S. Steamer.
The luxury ship, Duke of Lap- caster, which caught fire two hours before sailing on November 27, was still smouldering the next day at Heysham.
The handsome. new L.M.S. mail men, who wore gas-maska, were and passenger boat, belonging to driven off.
two
•
HONG KONG TIDES.
January 12 to 18, 1932.
Date
་
Jan.
the Irish Channel service, which be-Tues. They then took up a stand fore fore the fire looked so spick and Wed. and aft, a dozen hoses pouring span, with all her cabin lights on, water into the flames. As It was is now a total loss. Only the Thurs. low tide the water available was not burnt out shell remains.
FIL sufficient and steps had to be taken The Heysham authorities say that to add to the supply. Several of the fire was practically put out an Sat the pumps were out of action for a hour or two after midnight, but the brief period, being choked by mud. flames blazed up again early in the Sun.
The flames soon spread to another morning, completely sweeping the deck, and then to a third, in spite of ship.
the efforts of the firemen, who
were then pouring immense quan-
B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st titles of water into the vessel from and 2nd class passengers.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). forced to come
NELLORE TANDA NANKIN
1932
every possible angle.
Eventually the ship became one burning mass, the firemen being ashore. Five of them were cut off and had to reach safety by sliding down ropes to the wharf. The danger to the firemen
7,000 30th Jan. Manila, Rabau, Brisbane, Sydney while on board was increased by the
7,000 4th Mar. 7,000 2nd Apr.
& Melbourne.
explosion of scores of acetylene containers, used in connection with the repair work, and oil tins. The Regular monthly saltings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan noise of the explosions alarmed the and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:
The Union 3.9. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Bues
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
*ÁLIPORE TALAMBA
KASHMIR
*KALYAN
SOUDAN NALDERA
BIRDHANA TANDA CARTHAGE
BURDWAN RAJPUTANA ERAPINDI
1932.
5,300 15th Jan. Shanghal, Moji & Kobe. 8,000 15th Jan. Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Koba &: Thama. 9,000 18th Jan Shanghai, Koil, Roba Yokohama. 0,000 19th Jan. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 8,800 20th Jan. Shanghai, Kobe & 16,000 20th Jan Shanghal Kobe &
8,000 80th Jan Amoy Moff, Koba & Osaka 7,000-5th Feb Shanghai Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama 15,000 12th Feb. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama 6,500 21st Feb. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. 17.000 26th. Shanghai Hobe Tokohana. 15,000 | 11161 Mapa Shanghai, Kobo k
Lokohama. 17,000 24th Mar. hal,
*6,800
CHITRAL BANSE HELP Apr;}
BOMALI RANPURA
BANGALORE RANCHING
17.000 NALDERA 10,000 19th WAY
LATRAR-I-HIND 12,000 June RAJPUTANA 17,000 18th June/
SOUDAN
6,800 28th June
Cargo: only
Robe & Tokohama
Yokohama. Modi, Kabe? &Yokohama. al, Kobe & Yokohama. ali Ioba Yokohama
High Water Low Water Standard Ht. Standard Ht.
Times.
Times.
H. M. F. H. -M. 12. 13 35 4.9 00 36
13
17 15 23 48 7.2 17
07 10
14 10 5.0 18 05
14. 00
6.5 07 39
6.1 19 10
15...
6.8 08 05
5.1 20 40
6.0 08 25
17.. 01
Mon. 18..
5.2 22 16 8,8 4.2 08 41 2.8 5.3 29 45 8.2 09 06 8.0
17 24 5.8
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SPECIAL ROUND
TRIP FARES
TO
EUROPE
WEEKLY TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE
To San Francisco, Los Angeles & New York vie Panama. The Sunshine Belt via Honolulu Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays p.m. Pres. Jackson Jan. 19, 4 Pres. McKinley Feb. 2 Pres. 'Grant
£79 £112
.. Feb. 16
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ROUND TRIP FARE TO EUROPE. From Hong Kong to Naples
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ROUND THE WORLD..
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Fortnightly sailing on Sundays via Maalia, Straits, Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marsailles, New York and Boston
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