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PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
From
8.8.
Tons Hong Kong
About
1932.
26th Max. Noon 30th Mar. Noon
2nd Apr.
Destination.
Marseilles & London.
Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Marseilles, London, Havre, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Marseillos & London.
RAJPUTANA 17,000
*MIRZAPORE 6,700
+*BURDWAN 6,500
CORFU
15,000 9th Apr.
Apr.
RANPURA
17,000 7th
May
Bombay, Marsellies & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
· 1*SOMALI
6,800 14th
May
CHITRAL
BAWALPINDI 17,000 23rd
RANCHI
Bombay, Marseilles, London, Have H'burg, Rterdam, Antwerp & Hull. May Bombay, Marseilles & London, 21st
15,000 17,000 4th
Jane Bombay,
*BANGALOREĮ 6,500 11th June
NALDERA
16,000 18th
KAISAR-I-HIND: 12,000 2nd
*BHUTAN
8,000 ath
RAJPUTANA 17,000 18th MANTUA
11,000 30th **SOUDAN
6,800 6th
Sombay,
H'burg,
Marseilles & London.
THE CHINA MAIL.
RACING WITH THE TALL SHIPS
ROUND THE HORN.
How the Wheat Ships Thresh Along.
(Continued from Page 9.)
[ing! There are mightly few tramp-steamers that could, put "up such a time. We were glad, think- ing we could show the Beatrice| something in those stormy seas down there, but we had given up. all hope of winning the race the second day out.
A Woman in the Hold. They found a young woman hid- ing in the hold. That was some- thing in the nature of a calamity. “A woman stowaway!" Mr. Villiers exclaims as be continues:
The skipper cursed and shut him- self in his cabin for two days. All hands immediately looked upon the
They
tolls some of the boys that they training-ship, and under the Ger- might write to Gustaf Erikson, the man flag sailed with a crew of more grand old Finn of Marlehamm, than 100. We aniled her with Finland, who owns the greatest sail-nineteen !" Reading on: ing fleet in the world, and apply for I met an old master of the Grace future with complete melancholy places as apprentices.
Harwar recently, "when she was and gave up all hope of beating the $200 To Work Hard. under the British flag, and he told Beatrice to the English Channel. Finnish boys who want to follow me he considered her undermanned How could have any luck with the sea are willing to pay $200 with thirty. We had thirteen-for a woman in the ship? The sailors aplece to make the trip for experi- a depth of Winter Cape Horn round were most pessimistic, and could ence, we read. Moreover;
ing in a 2,000-ton full-rigged ship, see no good in life at all. Women Mr. Villiers declared that yachts- scupper-deep with grain.
jmight be all right in steamers, they men in this country also were en- Well, the Cape Horn gales shriek- argued; but in a Cape Horn ship thusiastic about the grain race.ed at us, and our decks were covered they were only in the way. Several have asked him why he did with ice before we were around-frowned upon the stowaway, and put not make his ship into a training- fifty-seven days after leaving her to cleaning the cabin brass, ship for young Americans. He said Wallaroo. The ship leaked; we threatening to throw her overboard that he had offers also from old had a boy killed aloft; we had an-if anything went wrong, and swear- seamen, from young Americans, other overboard; we had an officer ing to put her off aboard the first officers in steam who were dissatis-go insane; we were short of food, steamer that we met. fied with steamships, or who wanted and living on rotten potatoes and Idle threats. The first steamer training in sail.
a bad pig for a month. We were we met was on the Line, seventy- Mr. Villiers said he reminds the 138 days from land to land.
two days inter. The young woman girls who write to him that one girl But we brought the ship home. was still with us. went on the Herzogin Cecilie once We completed the voyage. She Then we came into Falmouth Bay As a stowaway and that Capt. Reu- made a slight profit on the freight, ninety-six days out, and looked ben de Cloux had advised him if helat the cost of life, of human auffer-round tremulously for the Beatrice's ever found another aboard his ship, ing, of sanity.
spars. No sign of her; we guessed she would be punished severely. The master' was thirty-two, and she had been in and gone on to her Captain de Cloux is master of Mr. the average age of the crew was port of discharge. How could we Villiers's Parma.
eighteen. There were six able sea-have beaten her, with that woman There was not even a cabin-aboard? Then, fearful of his Cabin-boys are not carried answer; we asked that pilot if the We were last that year-aj Beatrice had come in. last-in a fleet of fourteen "No," he said.
Well, we did not mind. We
Mr. Villiers remarked that many men. of the young men applicants are boy |graduates of American universities|new.
bad during the last two years.
"These boys," he said, "seem ships.
The woman had not brought us earnestly to want to get away from) were mighty glad to complete the bad luck after all! the pressure of things as they now voyage at all. exist. They seem to want to leave
A Grand Race,
this so-called civilization, or what In 1928 we were first, with a over else it is, behind them and to passage of ninety-six days in the get as far away from it all as pos-Herzogin Cecille. That
grand race. We left the same day,
Jane Bombay Imdon, Havra sible."
July Bombay:
Antwerp & Hull. & London. & London.
was a
MAN WHO BEAT U BOATS.
Mr. Villiers will leave about the from the same port, with the famous "Easier Life Than in the middle of February, and expects to Swedish fourmaster Beatrice
Cendon, Havre, arrive in Port Lincoln, South Aus- (which was carrying passengers to
July Bombay,
July
Aug.
H'burg, R'dam, A'werp & & Hall. Bombay, Marsellies & London. Marselles & London.
Marseilles, London, Havre
tralia, about the middle of March, Australia as the Scottish Routen- and to sail soon after that. The burn nearly fifty years ago).
Trenches."
London, Feb. 16.
trip normally requires about three The Swedes liked their chance; After 45 years at sea, Captain|
July Bongbay Mrdam, Antwerp & Hall, months from
RAWALPINDI 17,000 18th Aug. RANPURA
27th 17,000
Ang MALWA
111,000 10th Sept. *Cargo only. ↑ Calle Casablanca.
H'burg,
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marselles & London,
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Calls Djibouti.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrns and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khodiyal Mall Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
Falmouth,
f
South Australia to they said they could chew us up. Henry Stockwell, Commodore of the
We told them to
go to it.
The British India Line, has made his Several Americans have inspect- Beatrice was a game rival; we could last trip as captain of the Mandala. ed ships that the United States ace that. We knew her record. Of all British sailors for half- might enter in the competition. But we guessed that we had the a-century, he has had one of the Capt. P. A. McDonald, of Winslow, better vessel for the Cape Horn road most interesting Washington, has written.
and exciting "Just tall and feet, and immensely careers, but he summed up his life find the man 'with enough red strong, steel to her trucks, capable of adventure in a few phrases to an sporting blood in him, and enough of standing up to any wind the sea Evening Standard representative money to handle the thing in a could send along.
who went on board the Mandala at proper and seamen-like manner, and The Swedish Government donated Albert Dock. I will show you the ship." He a cup
for the winner and the would enter
"I was four years in the Navy the Moshulu. Mr. Swedish underwriters gave a cup during the war the whole time Villiers contends that an American for the winning master. The own-jafloat," he said. "In the latter part ship could pick up a cargo of grainjers of the Beatrice, backing their of the war I was made Commodore and make the race as profitably as vessel, added another trophy. The of Convoys in the Atlantic. We the German, Finnish, and Swedish owner of the Herzogin Cecilie didn't brought the American troops across.Į veasela.
offer anything. Thirteen and a Winter Voyage.
We brought atores for the country We were
ninety-six days, and and atores for the people in France, Mr. Villiers rounded the Horn in Beatrice was 112. We took all the My biggest convoy was 33 ships. a square-rigger with only nineteen trophies. After that there were, I didn't lose a ship the whole, EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). account in The Herald Tribune Herzogin Cecilia was in the race! conflict with U boats, and I am
hands, he recalls in his reminiscent more trophies donated while the time. We were occasionally Magazine.
We sailed from Australia to Cape alive to-day because we destroyed The following year; "n the ship Horn in thirty-three days; we were them and they didn't destroy me. Grace Harwar, we had thirteen." sixteen of those getting to New "I think the chief difference be Mantia, Rabaul, Brisbane, Bydney in 1928 Mr. Villiers sailed in the Zealand. We sailed the 5,000 miles tween us at sea and the Army in
& Melbourne.
famous Herzogin Cecille, "which from New Zealand to the Horn in the trenches was that we had been built in 1902 as a German seventeen days.
didn't That was sail usually have wounded men.
1932,
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RANPURA
TAKADA
CHITRAL SIRDHANA. *BANGALORE RANCHI
STILAWA, B,
TANDA
NALDERA
BHUTAN
1923. 17,000 (24th Mar. Shanghai, Koba & Yokohama.
Noon
8,000 24th Mar, | Amoy & Shanghai.
Bth
Mar Amor, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, Apr. S'hal, Moji, Kabe, Osaka & Yhama, Apr. Shanghal Kobe à Yokohama
Bhal, Moji, Kobe Osaka.
Kobe & Tokoham
#MORADO „Rokohama,
8,000 25th
7,000 4th 4,800 17.009 7.000
7th
15,000 $1
Apr. Apr. Ayt.
8,000 22nd Apr.
17.000
16,000 19th
6,500 1 80th at Kabe
Shanghai, Zobe Yokohama.
,000
KAIBAR-T-HIND 12.000
Yokohama.
Shanghai, Kobe & Takohaza
May Amoy, Bhal Hoji, Kobe & Osaka.
Kobe Osaka #Y'hama. Yokohama,
May
Robe &
6,000 29th
2nd June Shanghal, Moji, Kube Yokohama 7,000 6th June S'hai, Moji, Kobe. Osaka & X'kama: BAJPUTANA 17,000 16th June Shangha, Kobe Tokohama. 6,800 28th Jann | Shanghai, Kobe Tokohama
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