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THE
CHINA
P.&O.-British India MISTAKES WE MAKE
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 FORTS, EUROPE, &.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
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About
CHITRAL
$*ALIPORE KASHMIR
NALDERA **SOUDAN
1932. 15,000 30th Jan.
Noon 6,300 8th Feb. 9,000 13th Fab.
18,000 27th Fob.
0,800
5th
CARTHAGE
RAJPUTANA **BURDWAN
15,000 | 12th 17,000 20th
6,500 Bod
15,000 9th
RAWALPINDI 17,000 23rd
17,000 7th 6,800 14th
16.000 21st 17,000 4th BANGALORE 6,500 11th
Destination.
The best of men make mistakes, head." Of such pronunciations at times, and seamen are no ex- | 38 "hellum" for helm, "Stock ception to the rule. But no one hollum," "Newrap" for Newarp, likes to make a slip in the tschul- and the like we will not speak; calities of his profession, and a they are rarely heard nowadays man is generally glad of any help outside the forecastle. towards correctness in his methods and use of terms. The following examples, gathered during many years at sea, and in contact with candidates for certificates, may be juseful or of interest.
wrong.
CONSIGNEES
CONSIGNEES' HOTICE.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
From MIDDLESBRO', LONDON AND STRAITS.
Occasional lapses in spelling are
The Steamshin,
“BENVENUE " bound to occur if one does not con- sult a dictionary. The "misspel-formed that all Goods are being land- CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby m- ling of propeller is one against ed at their risk into the hazardous which many people do not take and/or extra hazardous Godowns of anough care.
It ends in "er" and The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd. whence and, or from the wharves delivery may be ob tained.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 20th inst. will be subject to rent.
All claime against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned na or before 9th February or they will not be recognised. Goods are to be left in the Godowns. Al broken, chafed, and damaged
where they will be examined on the 25th inst, at 10 a.m. by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.
No Fire Insurance has been effect.
Bills of Lading will be countersign-
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.. Agenta. Hong Kong, 19th January, 1932.
Perhaps our commonest mistake not "or", as one so often sees it. is in the use of the word "knot." An important mistake often oc- Most seamen are aware that a knot curs in fixing a ship's position by is not a unit of distance but repre- three bearing of shore objects. sents a rate, or speed, of one If a "cock hat" resulta is assum- nautical mile in one hour. To ed that the ship is somewhers in say "Knots per hour"" is manifestly side it. If lines drawn between absurd, and though it is used by the three objects do not enclose men who ought to, and probably do, the ship then she may be any- know better. It is never used by where: but in the "cock hat" she those who are anxious to be cor- certainly is not. Many mistakes rect. An error that is less im- are made with regard to com- portant, though nearly as common, passes; the commonest, perhaps, la to say "By the deep" with re-la a belief that a compass takes ed Warehouse Regulations consigncos comply with the General Bond- ference to soundings. Many sea- time to settle down. What this must have a Revenue Officer in at manship books give this as the pro- settling down process really is no tendance per report: but they are
when damaged dutiable one seems able to explain, but not goods are examined. "By the mark" is perfectly correct' a week passes without some mastered. bocause the depth is indicated by telling a compass adjuster that his the mark. When the depth is es- compasses must be in the ship by ed br timated from a mark the correct re- such a day "so that they will have port for complete fathoms is time to settle down before they are "Deep -" and omitting "by adjusted." The practice of de- the"
While on the subject of liberately marking a log line soundings it may be mentioned that, erroneously is definitely advised by has no way at all upon her. Neither the sounding machine has a sinker many books on seamanship. The Is there any justification for burn- and not a lead. Incidentally It reason given is that it tends to pre- ing a stern light in addition to ap is made of galvanised iron. The vent a ship overrunning her dis- after riding light when at anchor. Ant-deep sea lead has been stated, on tance.
Log lines are practically It may be done with "safety first" excellent authority, to be, proper- obsolete, but If ever it should be motives, but it is confusing to ly, the "dipsey" lead. The more necessary to mark one it should be vessels under way. Both common name is, however, used ao marked at the correct mathemati-practices are for too prevalent. generally that it would be ridicul- cal distance: the margin of safety It is a remarkable fact that there ous to revert to the original name. can be applied when platting the is often great difficulty in In the back spring we have an- ship's position. The slap dash vincing Sczne candidates other term that is widely misused method of marking a log line 8 or examination that the pressure on among seamen who are not parti-, 9.inches short and then counting on the bows of a vessel steaming with. cular in such matters. By the the ship being at some indefinite the tide is precisely the same as if tradition of the sea and by the laws spot behind her D.R. position is she
was steaming against it. of common sense the back spring not good navigation.
same Many of them insist that the velo- is that spring by which a vessel remarks apply also to the lead line. city of the tide exerts a pressure The fore The distance between the marks at one end or the other. This spring, and not the after spring, is should not be increased to give strange belief is not confined to the the back spring.
the ship a beneft of depth, If younger men but extends through the line is measured from the top all ages. A week or two ago a
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Marseilica, London, Rotterdam,
werp & Hull Bombay, Marseilles & London. Mar. Marsellea, London, Havre, Hamburg
Rotterdam, Anworp & Huil. Mar. Marseilles & London. Mar. Marseilles & London.
Apr. Bombay,
Apr.
E'burg, Marseliles &
London, Havre,
Hall. A'werp
Apr. Bombay, Marseilles & London. May Bombay, Marseillee & London. May Marseilles, London, Eavre, Hamburg,
Rotterdam Antwerp & Hull. May Bombay, Marseilles & London. June
London,
CORFU
RANPURA
*BOMALI
CHITRAL
RANCHI
•
NALDERA
1:16,000
KAIBAR-I-HIND 12,000
2nd
RAJPUTANA
17,000
16th
July Bombay,
MANTUA
11,000
6,800
80th 6th
*SOUDAN
A
Bombay, Marseille Havre. Hamburg, can be sprung back.
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall.
June Marseilles, London,
18th June Bombay, Marseilles & London..
Jaly Bombay,
July Bombay
London. & London. Aug. Marseilles, London, Havre, Hamburg,
Rotterdam,
Enll. Antwerp Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London, Bombay, Marseilles & London.
RAWALPINDI 17,000 13th Aug. RANPURA 17,000 27th Aug. MALWA
11,000 10th Sept.
* Cargo only. Calls Casablanca. Calla Djibouti. Calls Karachi. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Pireana, Smyrna and other Levant Parts by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
*TALMA
TALAMBA SIRDEANA
10,000 26th
8,000 9th
8,000 23rd
1992,
Jan.
Feb. Feb,
3 -D.I.
The
these
con-
for
of the lead a prudent margin is man told the examiner that there allowed: to do more than this is to would be less strain on the log! cause confusion when fixing post-line when a ship was going in the tion by soundings.
same direction as the tide.
In the lifeboats we are confront ed by further errors commonly used. The galvanized iron fit tinge in which the oars are shipped when rowing are crutches and not
An- rowlocks. This is the official The question of splicing wire other man said, he could tell whe- name for them and distingulahes with or against the lay is generally ther the tide was with or against them from rowlocks, which are treated lightly. The prevailing the ship by the strain on the en- square apartures cut in the side of impression seems to be that splic-gines. These men are in the same a boat.
The breakers, sometimes Ing with the lay is equally as good, category as the man who told an called barricoes, get their name if not better, than splicing against examiner that a ship would travel from a Spanish word "bazeca," the lay. As a matter of fact it faster if she were loaded by the Some officers still use this word but is not so. A wire spliced against head-because she would be going| the English rendering of it is the lay is much more trustworthy down hill all the time! gradually prevailing. The habit than one spliced with the lay. As Speaking of tide raises the point of referring to the fore edge of a it is considerably easier to splice of referring to a tidal' stream as boat's sall as the fore lecch is with the lay, and as it is sufficient- the ebb or flood stream. This is open to censure: it is a lazy man's ly good for all practical, purposes, correct only in rivers and estuaries method of avoiding the strain on nearly all splices in the Merchant where the rise and fall of the tide the memory incurred by remem- Service are done in this manner. coincide with the running of the baring the word "luff."
Xt should be remembered, how-stream in one direction. Along The mispronunciation of words ever, that wires coming under the nearly all coasts there is very rare- орепа ☐ large field. They are Factory Acts must, by law, belly any coincidence between high. many and varied and depend main-spliced against the lay."
and low water and the turning of ly on a man's early training. There The mistakes made under the the EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). is one word that has a remarkable "Articles" can often be justified by known as "tide and half tide”— stream. The phenomenon
The number of men of | Art. 27. vogue.
The use of & short blasts when the stream runs in one direc- tolerable education who go through! when a vessel is going astern, tion from half flood to half obb, Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney head" is
life calling "bulkhead "bulks though not necessarily full speed and vice versa is well known to
astonishing. This with the engines,' is a case in point the majority of seamen, & Melbourne.
There criticism would be very definita if There is no excuse, however, for are many however, who do not one spoke of the "stems-head," or making two prolonged blasts un- realise that with nearly every the "catshead," or the "masts less a ship, is actually stopped and stream there is a period when the
Calls Port Swettenham.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers.
1982
NELLORE TANDA NANKIN
7,000 80th Jan. 7,000 4th Mar. 7,000 2nd
Apr.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan and Hong Kong to Australis,
Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.
Frequent connections from Australls with the following:--
The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom yia New
Zealand, Vancouver, Ban Pranciace, etc.
The F. & D. 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 Senthampton and London via Panama Canal,
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
"KALYAN
*SOUDAN NALDERA BIRDHANA TANDA TAKADA
KIDDERPORE TILAWA CARTHAGE **BURDWAN KU RAJPUTANA.
1932.
9,000 23rd Jan. Shanghai, Koba & Yokohama.
6,800 26th
16,000 29th
8,000 29th 7.000 5th 7,000
Jan. Shanghai, Kobe & Tokohama. Jan. Shanghai Kobe & Yokohama: Jan. Amoy, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Feb. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Peb. Amoy Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
10 Feb. Shanghai, Moi & Kobe.
12th 15,000 12
6,500 210 17.000 28th 16,000 11th RAWALPINDI 17,000 24th
CORFU
PSPURA.
CHITBAL
BANGALORE BANCHTEN
Feb. Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Feb Shanghai, Kabs &
Tab., lihanghat Kobe okoltam Feb. Shanghal,, Kpbe, & Tokobaraa Mar. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Mar. Shanghai, Kobe & 5th pr
chel Zoeokohama: 17.000 7th Apr.
6.800
17,000
ghal, Kebe, & Yokohama. 21st Apr. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama 28th Apr. Shanghai, KoYok
Kobe & Yokohama. 6th May Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 18,000 19th May Shangkat Hoff Kobe #Yokohama. ABBAR HIND. 12,000. 2nd June Shanghai, doji, Kobe & Yokohama. RAJPUTANA 17,000 1.18th June Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.
SOUDAN
6,800-28th June Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama
ONALDERA
*Cargo only.
"All" dušia are oppremimate and mužjaci to alteration (withous
All Cabins
shins are Atted with El Steamerson London and Anita
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD, HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS:
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that of
Cast
Harbour
Baller
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OF JAPAN.”
8869 = 486" Mid. 20,000 tons Gross."
and Two Patent: Slipwars.
Foyer all, HiSOET ignal V.P.BT. and Ping-
wright
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1932.
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The Sunshine Belt via Ноповићи
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Feb. 6 Pres. Cleveland ..... Feb. 20
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.Feb. 2
.Feb. 15
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» London
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Shipyard: Shim-skul-po, Kowloon, Hong Kong: 13 Kowloon Tek KTOGS.
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