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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1932.
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MARINE INSURANCE AND WIRELESS AIDS TO NAVIGATION.
REDUCTION IN CASUALTIES DUE TO BEACONS AND DIRECTION FINDERS.
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FEATURES
tions from which good cross-bear- ings
On tho be obtained. car British poast there Bre Round Istand, Start Point and the Cas. quets, and another station is now being erected, at Rame Head, at. the entrance, to Plymouth Sound. The simultaneous "publication of Wireless Direction Finding may be With these stitions transmitting, at the annual report of the Liverpool gathered from the inct phat, for in-negular intervada, navigators hav- Unterwriters' Association and the aurance purposes, vessels in the ing their own direction. finders are Board of Trade announcement of Hudson Bay trade must be equip able to take "a series of bearings the intention to lose the Lizardped with suitable wireless apps whenever they require them, not Direction Finding Station, drows ratus. He added As the results only without any additional coas to attention to the close relationship of the running of flects are reflect the ship but also without the neces- ed in insurance premiums it is to sity of waiting in the event of an- between marine insurance and wire-
the advantage of shipowners that other ship requiring bearings at the same time. In foggy weather of Wireless Direction Finding should
course, ships without Direction be at their disposal. Another lead- ing underwriter said that any losses Finders can call the nearest Direc tion Finding station on land to pro- the underwriters incurred owing to
vide them with bearings, but in casualties through the closing of
such congested waters as the Chan the Lizard Direction Finding sta
nel there may be very considerable delay, before the boatings can be
less aids to navigation, and the reduction in casualties due to these aids, with consequent beast both to shipowners and underwritera, The following article summarises pronouncements which have been
made during the month on these
uubjecta.
The annual report of the Liver- Association pool Underwriters'
sit.
tim would eventually be borne by He shipowner in the additional cast af insurance through higher rates. Uneconomical Land Station,
states that no appreciable progress" One of the reasons for the closing "lias been made during the year in of the station is that the use made increasing the number of Wireless of it is only sufficient to provide one-fourth of the cost of mainter Direction Finding stations and
ance, and in view of the urgent Beacon stations on British pousted for ecmomy it is considered These coasts compare so unfavour that its continuance is not justified ably with American and Canadian by the extent to which it is used. coasts in this respect, it ways, that This lack of use is probably due to the fact that shipowners and
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obtained.
Meteorological Services.
The interest of underwriters in wireless is not confined to Direction
The excellent meteoro Fieders. logical information now available to ships and transmitted by wire. less daily let one underwriter re. cently to suggest that this was the reason for the singular absence, of bad casualties after a severe gale. The fitting of ships with wireless has also affected business in the
in the interests of navigators gen-navigators prefer to have the Direc "overdue" re-insurance market, their own ships because, thanks to the wireless in- erally, the committee considered tien Finders in that the matter" should receive under their own control. This en-stallations carried by practically greater attention. The Chairman,ables accurate bearings of Beacon every vessel of importance, overdue
Mr. Sydney D. Grandy, amplified these remarks in his speech at the annual meeting when, voicing the views of his colleagues, he said the
reduction in the number of ensual.
tion which had been reported dir
and other wireless stations as well as of other ships fitted with wire. less apparatus to be taken, at any time as the navigators desire. For ships carrying their own Direction Finders, the mouth of the Channel is well equipped with beacon sta-
ships are now very infrequent The only market existing is largely
extra mtes paid on vessels
ashore or in distress, and her again the underwriters can be kept well informed of the situation by wireless.
LONG-WAVE STATIONS.
ing the year was in some measure. HAVE YOU HEARD THESE? accounted for. hy renson of the moro up-to-date aids to navigation. which are now available. The ecm- mittee, he said, were pressing for an extension of the Wireless Direc tion Finding stations and Radio Beacons round the British coasts. Referring to the Board of Trade decision to dose the Lizard Direc- tion Finding station, which, Mr. Grundy said, was regrettable, he, hoped that on the return of happier days the Board of Trade would re- consider the matter.
Underwriters' Views.
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The Lizard station will be per- manently olosed as from March 31, 1932, but investigations are being "made at the Land's End Wireless Station to see if e Direction Find- ing service can ho maintained at that station.
Here are sta of long-wave and short-wave: stations which should be picked up by anyone in Hong Kong who has a mode- rataly good.ast suitable for re delving, such signals. Success in ploking up these stations also depends very largely upon fav. curable atmosphorie conditions. Readers' are invited to add to this list should they succeed in picking up any station net in. cluded in either of these lists,
WATO length
Call
Kile- (Metres) Station Siga cycle
260 Mania
K.Z.LE. 1,158 277 Shanghai
K.S.M.S. 1,083 J.O.A.K. 345 Tokyo
$70
850 353 Hiroshima J.O.F.K.
846 306 Hong Kong Z.B.W. V.U.D. 357.1 Bombay
840 J.O.LK.. 830
J.OD.K. 820 3.0.0.K. 810 V.U.0. 809. 380 Kumamoto, J.O.G.K. 790 390 Sendai J.O.H.K. 770 395 Dairen JQ.A.K. 700 400 Quake
381 Sapporo
300 Keijo 370 Nagoya 370.4 Calcutta
410 Caston 480 Manila
SHORT-WAVE STATIONS.
STATION
CALL SION
The decision to close the Lizard Station has been the subject of comment by underwriters and was much discussed in the Marino In surance, market. Bir Perty Mac-4.8
Kootwijk (Holland)- kinnon, Chairman of Lloyd's, said 36.8
Bangkok (Biam) Sydney 35.2 an interview that while he in
Melbourne 81,557 hositated to make, any statement 31.18 Sobeneclady with regard to the discontinuing of 81.30 Eindhoven (Holland) PC.J the Lizard Station, he was of the opinion that Direction Finding Sta- tions generally have been of the greatest assistance to navigators, a striking instanco being the Hudron Hay trade in which ships have" to rely almost entirely on Wireless Direation Finding.
Mr. L. Jacobs, Chairman of the Joint Hall Committee, also ro ferred to the importanes of Direc tion Finding in the Hudson Bay trado, and pointed out that the im portance underwriters attach to
023%
CYCLES
J.O.B.K. 750
C.M.B. 739 K.2.A.M, 825
7,143 Daily 0.80 p.m. & 11 pan.)
7,310 Not regular
7,730 Daily 11 p..
8,108 Tus & Fri., 9 p.m.-i am).
9,230 | Not regular
9,508 Not regular
TRAWLER'S LOST COMPASS.
WIRELESS DIRECTION FINDER TO THE RESCUE.
"NOISES OFF" AT
NEW B.B.C.
TUBE TRAFFIC TESTS.
Preparations for broadcasting from many of the studios at the An interesting artiolo describing.
new headquarters of the B.B.C. in the value of wireless Direction Portaid.place are now sufficiently Finders to trawlers appeared in the | advanced 60 allow preliminary Fishing Newa, from which the main facts are here reproduced..
One of the most dramatic in-
trial to be made. The complete test transmission will not be at- tempted until after the interior decorations have been completed.
Previous experience has shown that acousties may be materially
hanging of a piece of drapery ini a affected by so small a thing as the
particular way:
stances of the value of wireless direction Anders on board trawlers was contained in a report from the captain of a Grimsby trawler re- cently. For several days, in the
This is the reason for the delay Shetlands area a succession of hurin sending cut public test trans- ricanes had been experienced frommisions from the new gindios. In 60 to 00 miles an hour, and in the same quarters the delay has been attributed to unexpected dificulties midst of one of these sterns ons encountered since the completion of of the trawlers, which was battling the building by reason of the fact with the seas, received the follow-that the new Broadcasting House has been built almost directly over ing witless message from tbe
the Bakerloo Tube Railway. It has Grimsby trawler Veresis" which been rumoured that the engineers was homeward bound, with a crew Ive found it impossible to excludo from the studion the noise of pass- of twelve, from Ireland:-"
ing trains.
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"Have been swept clean, losing
“Straining Noise Out.” bridge, both compasses and boats. Crew all safe, but not, sound, While not denying that noises Will any ship fitted with diree-off" do present a difficulty which tion-fading wireless take a bear ing of us and some and give us compass Have been dodging about hurricanes for for, 36 hours. Think we are somewhere off the Faroes”
Other trawlers responded to the call for help, and the "Veresis " was able to set a course for Cape Wrath, being helped on her way by other ships itted with direction
finders..
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has to be overcome, B.B.C, engin- eers are not prepared to admit that these have come as any surprise" to them.
Before the rst stone of the new building was did we
the knew.
Bakerloo Tube "wae there," said an official to a repre- sentative of The Daily Telegraph, 17. p.m.--Stock quotations, mail recently, but the knowledge has never caused us any alarm, Texte
"Boheme-Racconto di Rodolfo? (Pugeini)-Giovanni Martinelli (Tenor).-8593.
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there are no outside noises which cannot be successfully overcome.
aheady carried out have shown that 6.20 to 7.15 p.m.-
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The value of the direction finder on board & trawler has never been "In a Jarge bustling city like more dearly demonstrated. Had London you are bound to get some the * Veresis" been fitted with a extraneous noises which cannot be wireless direction finder as well as shut out from a building altogether. wireles telegraph apparatus there It is the business of our engineers is no doubt that it would have been to 'strain' out those noise so that possible for her to have obtained they are apparent in broadcast.re wireless bearings from some other ception. We anticipate po difficulty ahipa or coast-stations, and many in being able to do so in the pre- hours of anxiety with regard to hersent instance."
The elimination of outside noise, position would have been saved. The value of wireless direction it was explained, is a factor with finders both for normal navigational which "the B.B.C. has had to con- purposes, and in such emergencies tend from the earlicat days of as this is being increasingly recog broadenating, Even in the quiet backwater on the south side of the nised by trawlers which now carry
Thames where Big Tree Wharf, ac Marconi Direction Finding appara-
commodates Stadio No. 10 it was tus. In fact, it is almost an excep- tion nowadays for trawlers fitted found that extraneous noises älter- ed through until steps were taken with wireless apparatus not to carry direction finders.
to overcome them,
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4,434 Mon, Wed.&'Fri., 6 y.m, & fam
4,000 0-10 p.m.
Nauenw Mosco Kome Parth
A.G.J.
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Blagapore
V.8.1.A.B.
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25.55
24.5 18.88
28.85
18. Kootwijk (Hollada)
17.4
Sydney Nairobi (Kenya) Bydney Bandoer! 27.8
Chalmsford (England) 3.8W. Manila Babeaostady Bandoang
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9,077 Midnight daily
10,528 Not regular
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17,751 Sundays 7 pm & midnight
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