MARINE COURT OF INQUIRY INTO THE LOSS OF THE STEAM-
SHIP SPARK
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST
John Watt Jamieson-Stated that he was a superintending engineer in Saigon. He has no English certificate as an engineer, his certificate. being a French one. He has been an engineer Hace 1804, and was me Yegütered owner of the A Marine Court of enquiry was commenced at Start. He took charge of the engines of the Spart in Macao when the chief engineer lelt the Harbour Master's Office this morning into her to come to Hongkong with the stean launch. the loss of the steamer Spark, which was wrecked They left. Hoihow at 4.30 pm, on July 21st. off Cami Point on the ist ultimo, The follow. The weather was fine and the steamer was ing gentlemen formed the 'couts-Mr. H. G. going about 8 knots. At 6 p.m. he went into the saloon to have dinner with the captain when he Thomsett, R.N., (president), Lieut. G. W. Ballistold the captain that the Ping On had been on ton, R.N., Mr. W. N. Allison, master of the Cape Cami and that the captains of the Saffee steamship Feilung, and Mr. W. Le Lacheur, and Namt Vian gave it a wide berth. At 6.30 he went from the cabin to the engine room and master of the British bark Channel Queen. Cap changed the watches at 8 pm. when everything ́tain Rose, lately in command of the Spark, was was going well in the engine room. At 8.20 lic represented by Mr. H. M. Baily, barrister-at- went up on deck to cool himself and have law:
some refreshment. He went into the saloon with the captain when they had a brandy and water each. The time they were in the cabin would be about three or four minutes when they left the cablu together. On going forward he remarked to the captain that he saw the land quite close, and at the same time he saw broken water on both bows which he also pointed out to the captain, and went down to the engine room, by this time bearing the captain give or w wall the steamer Nam Fian to see if anything can beders to hard a-starboard" and stop the engines. loved and will return by her to Hong Captali so 11ngkong In the meantime the Contul is sending 17 of the crew also After the ship was on shoin the Captain cooly went to bed evid ently to sleep off the effects ( of drinky and left eveything to the crew to, save themselves the best way they could. I tried suget him to waist we in the morning, but he seemed to have no resection of what had occurred, and would not leave withough surrounded with pirates.
In opening the proceedings the President read the following letter
Captain TOMEKIT.
Hongkong.
Itohow, th July, 1881.
TARSxThe steamer Shark was lost on Cape Camion Saurday evening, as .to, and is now a totel w,eck, several Junka alongside breaking her up and plaindering everything. The sen was calm and splendid moon, If the Captain had been in its proper senses it would never have occurred.
Stone.
I should like a Coun of Enquiry to be held, as it is a shame to allow property to be Fisted in a man's control such as Captain
1 am, Dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
the heads of the natives who were coming close to us to let them know we had firearms. The statements of the captain that the ship struck at 6.45, p. m, and that she was looted by 3 o'clock next morning ore Lalić. When Treported the loss of the vessel to the consul at Hoihow I stated that the captain had been drinking..
By the Count-I left the captain behind on the the Spark because he would not leave her. 1 tried to carry him. None of the crew would re- main as they were afraid of the people on shore, I went to Hoihow for assistance. The ship was bought here for $13,000, and she was insured for $8,000, but when she left here she had cost $17,500.
this stage of the proceedings the Court was adjourned till half-past 2 o'clock.
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tionally heavy, only 29,000 recruits came forward. We want 36,000 this year.
1883.
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The fact is, however, that, even if the full complement is found, it will not be of the right GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH quality it will, in short, lie worse than useless,
· COMPANY. that plain truth was brought out with startling "emphasis by the Egyptian War, when out of a nominal home army of 92,000 men it would seem that not aiore than 20, were found fit for ser-pany's Station. vice. It may be said with perfect Justice of our present home army that more than half of it is inefficient, being physically immature and in- suficiently trained. If the country became involved in a great war, the only thing that might be a shameful breakdown, and a rude awakening of the people to the fact, It is a striking sign of the times that, with the army in such a condition as it has never been before, and quite unworthy of our reputed com on-sense and our military traditions, every nerve is being strained to convert our coast into a frontier by means of a Channel tunnel. The Channel tunnel means conscription.
The inquiry was proceeding when we went to press..
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On the court re-assembling after tiffin, Chow Asing was called and said-I was boatswain of the Spark. I recollect being on board the Spartat Holhow on the 31st of July. Thesteamer let that day at 4.30p.m. The weather was fine. recollect the vessel striking the shore. I was
The difficulties of the situation, however, are asleep and it woke me up and I went npt to be conquered by any such methods as aft to the stern to see whether the vessel those recently proposed by Lord Hartington. not. I did not A reduction of the physical standard and the could get off the shore or
he was at the bow of limit of age may fill the ranks with material see, the captain the vessel. I knew, he was forward as I could that looks well on paper and swells the returns,
to the fascination of that paragon of sensi see. I did not go to the captain's cabin. The The engines were stopped at 8.30, when the vescaptain was asleep in a chair. had not seen bility and foresight the British taxpayer. sel struck. He received orders to go astern from
But on the first emergency it will be found him asleep before this. I had not been on the captain, and afterwards to go ahead, but had beard a junk before half-past three. I saw utterly worthless with the natural conse- to stop, as a rock came through the ship's the captain asleep at half past three. He was quence of a rush for help to the reserves, and the bottoni into the engine room, the water coming
still asleep in the chair at the time when waste of millions of public money he really I in and putting the fires out. He opened the
I went on board the junk. The chair was would appear that Ministers thought their duty safety valve, went on deck and reported to the
near the wheel house. Mr. Jameson asked the
was not to provide an efficient army for service captain that the rocks were through the ship's captain to go on board the junk. I understand in war, but merely to support so many thousand bottom and that the hold was filling with water.
a little English. I have been on board the nen at the expense of the State. The question (Signed) J. W. JAKSON, The captain asked him to put the engines astern Kwang Sang, belonging to Jardine, Mathe-here is not a question of long or short service.
Registered owner,
which could not be done as the ship was fast and
son & Co. I have been 10 years in English ships.merely, it is a question of army or no army. It Captain Rose on being called said :- am a there was no steam. He waited on deck about
It was three o'clock in the morning when Mr. Jis perfectly certain that, but for occasional W and the Business in Swatow will be master mariner. My certificate was obtained in ten minutes and received no further orders. The Jameson tried to get the captain to go on board disappear in a short time by a natural process spasms of timid tinkering, the whole free would. Hongkong and is numbered, I think, 772. It captain berned one blue light and afterwards
the junk. The captain said "! I won't go, you go was lost with the ship. I have previously been went into his cabin. The ship was upright all in command of a steamer, the Auri Afars, and the time. From the upper deck to the water would yourself." I took no arrus or pistols from the of waste. That process of waste is almost was in her about five months and made trips in be about oft. About 9.30 he went to the captain's ship. I do not steer the ship.. I left the ship entirely due to the worthless material which with Mr. Jameson at 3.30 am. I saw 7 or 8 piratesenters the ranks. To get better stuff it is neces- her to Hainan and Haiphong. I joined the cabin and found him fast asleep in his bed.
come on board from the shore I am sure the sary to pay a better price. But the actual pay Spurtin Hongkong about a month ago, The--He tried to awaken the captain but did not suc
captain was asleep when saw him in the chair. of the soldier is to-day 14d. a day less than it crew of the Spark, with the exception of the ceed, and then called the boatswain, two quarter-
Twas in the days of long-service-The half-a- The chair was abaft the wheel house. engineer, was composed of Chinese. There masters and some of the firemen and the steward
did not see the captain in bis cabin. million above referred to as annually wasted would, wax no cargo on board the ship excepting to see the state the captain was in. He then two boxes which were for the owner. We had got the three-boats over the side-and-burned Mr. Jameson asked me to lower the heats at if properly applied, give 20, a day more to every about 10 o'clock; no boat was lowered before than in the service. The truth is, however, only coals on board for the steamer's use some blue lights when a junk came in sight. He that time. The ship struck at 8.30 p.m. The that with a voluntary system like ours the army The Spark arrived at Hoihow on the 21st July sent a boat to the junk to bring the captain of captain gave no orders regarding the ship; he is nothing if it is not popular. It is certainly wat and left again on the same day at 430 p.m. her on board the Spark. When the cap did not go below and examine whether any very popular now; therefore now it is not of The chief engineer who was on board at the time tain of the junk came on board he arranged
damage was done; He was in the wheel house much account. The chief way to make it popular we left Hongkong was not then on board, he with him to take the crew and their effects to asleep when the boats were lowered. I was is to increase the pay and prospects, to make it having left the ship at Macao to bring back the -Helhow for $ic. The effects of the crew were
afraid of the pirates and spoke about it to Mr. in short, a respectable calling for respectable men. steam launch which had got disabled. Mr. put into the two ship's boats and sent on board
Jameson.
And until this is done, or at all events until Jameson, the registered owner of the vessel, took the junk, the captain being asleep all the
something is done in this direction, we may look charge of the engines at Macao and remained in time. He remained by the ship with" the boat-
in vain either for diminution of waste or for charge up to the time of the wreck When we swain and steward while the boats were away
increase of efficiency.—Overland Mail. left Hoihow there was a light breeze blowing; until 3 p.m. next morning, when he saw people the weather was cloudy with occasional rain from the shore making for the ship. He took the squalis, and the water was, smooth. After run- rifles and fired a few shots in the air. The boat- ning about five miles to the N.W. at 5 p.m. wain and steward began to get afraid when I 6.20 the ship they saw the people coming in the boats 1 altered the course to W. N.; ate knot fide; and wanted to go to the junk. He then went the helmsman and the man on the lookout were and tried to waken the captain but could not do Instructed to call me if anything was seen. I o. He left the Spark with the men, leaving the then went into the saloon with the chief engineer-captain in his cabin, and slept on the junk till to have dinner. At 6.45, on coming out of the daylight, when he put four men in the boat and saloon: I saw broken water on the beams returned to the Spark. He went to the captain's and directly ordered the helm to be put room and found him sitting in a chair in front of hard a starboard but the ship took the ground the wheelhouse sound asleep. He took him by immediately, bumping very alightly. The en- the shoulder and woke him up when opened his gines were stopped and reversed but the ship eyes and sald "how's her head," and also asked filled with water in a few minutes so I stopped what steam he had been carrying all night, and the engines. Cope Cami Point was then about did not seem to know the ship was a wreck. one mile north. The boats were then cleared He took him by the arm and led him and lowered, the weather being fine and the water to the ship's side and showed him the rocks The captain then remarked smooth. The chief engineer and crew took to all round her. the boats at once. I told the chief engineer many a better man has lost his ship," when that we were perfectly safe and he had better he left him in disgust and went down to ostain on the vessel, but they all left the ship see how many rocks were though the ship's did not remonstrate further with the chief bottom. He found three rocks of about four feet engineer and crew but determined to remain in diameter and saw the case was hopeless. The on board myself in the hope that assistance pirates were about twenty yards away at this time and he had to take out his revolver to keepthem would be obtained. The upper deck was not
off. He then went on the Spark and asked the under water, being all twenty feet above it. I remained
captain to save what things he had and come board till the afternoon on
to Holhow for assistance, but the captain the 22nd. At 3 am, the ship was rounded by piratical boats the crews from would not leave the vessel, which boarded before daylight and began about 8 o'clock am. on the zand and went on to look, stripping the ship of everything move- board the junk. At 8.30 he sent the boatswain able, myself being unable to stop the plun- and four men back to the Spark with the dering At 8.30 am. I left the ship in a two boats and a rifle and also asked them to
A considerable idea of the causes of failure is junk and went on shore to Caml Point to try and get the captain to come on board the junk. try and get assistance: I was detained on
The boatswain and four men returned in one to be gathered from the last general annual re- shore there by the people until 6 am, on the
of the bouts about ten minutes after and reported turn of the British army, which was published a few months ago. It is true that the information 23rd. I could not get away from there before as that the captain was sound asleep. The new
there given is not brought down to later than I could not get a junk to take me. I was taken boat and the rife were left behind, but no men. on bareback to a place abreast of Hoihow. He then started for Heihow and arrived there at January 1st, 1882. But the facts are not the less was riding about four or five hours. The Chinese I p.m. on the a3rd. He went to the English significant for that. They are indeed very like provided me with the horse. I then got a small consul there and reported the wreck of the Spark those brought to light by Lord Airey's Com cruits were enlisted; 3-449--or 131 per 1,000 In 1881 it appears that 26,258.re junk to take me over to Holbow and paid the and asked him to take the depositions of the mittee. Junk people $15 for their work. On the morning men, and told him the captain had been left be of the 2and when I left the ship she was lying hind. He also saw the head mandarin at Hoi-had disappeared before the end of the year. in an upright position. The chart now in court how who promised to despatch a war junk to the But that is not all. By the end of that year is similar to the one by which the ship was scene of the wreck. He saw the captain the army had also lost 439 per 1,000 of the navigated. Og getting to Holbow I reported the at Holhow on the morning of the 24th at recruits enlisted in 1880, and 256 per 1,000 loss of the ship to the consul and made the about to o'clock in the office of Messrs. of these enlisted in 1879. These figures show ordinary protest, and was forwarded on to Hong Herton & Co., when the captain asked him for that one fourth of the recruits who join the kong by the Mongkut on the sale day, $13 to pay the Junk people. He gave him the army disappear before the end of their second, By Mr. Thomacit. Did you report to the Con. money for which he got a receipt, the money year at a yearly cost to the country of half a million sterling-which, as Bir Lintorn Simmons wul that Mr. Jameson and the crew had deserted being payable in Hongkong. No further con
versation took
said the other day, had better have been throwh the ship.
place between them. The cap Captain Rose-I told the Consul that the en-tsin left Hoihow in the Mongkut on the morning equally wasted, it would not have done harin. MA
away; because, although then it would be gineer and crew had left the ship before I did. the captain was in Holhow but not in the Pre the third year of service. Of 123,281 recruits This terrible waste, however, does not stop with told the consul that they had deserted the ship. sence of the captain, The consul told him the who joined during the first six years of short
To the Court-I have nothing further to add to captain had been there to sign a proto captain service-1870 to 1875-it appears that the whole Having Purchased the entire Machinery of the what I have already stated.
was not told by the consul" that" the Captain Thomsett-Imay tell you Captain Rose had made any complaint against him or any number still serving or liable to serve at the that the Consul says nothing in his letter to me of the crew. ir. Mackie did not leave Hong less than a loss of 63,608 men, ar 529 per 1,000.
Ppplicatle date of the returns was only $8,673---nothing of your having reported to him that the engineer kong in the Spark.
Of the men who enlisted in 1870 over 60 per for and crew had deserted the ship.
By Mr. H. M. Balley-I did not see the breakers. Captain Rose have made no application when I came out of the cabin from dinnor. Wecent. had entirely disappeared in less than for a court of enquiry since I came here, but I had a quart of stout at dinner between us, but I twelve years, and of those who joined in 1875, mentioned to the Consul at Hollow that I would cannot remember that we had anything else to 443 per 1,000 had been lost in less than six I
years. Of these last more than one half de- like an enquiry to be made, and he then said that drink. We talked together in a friendly way the enquiry would have to be done in Hongkong during dinner, At6.30 I left the cabin and went serted, or were dismissed as incorrigible black
By the Court. From the time of leaving Hole down into the enginercom. I have sworn that the how to the ship's getting on shore I made no Spark did not strike before y o'clock. I was once, use of the lead. "could see about a couple of on deck between the time I left dinner and 8.40 miles off when the ship struck the moon, was up When I came on deck at 8.20, the captain, was and the weather was much the same the the way from Hollow. The rain squalle hanging cabin clogs to the funnel. I went into the
|| and the captain followed me when we each that in 1881 the supply of recruits was.so defec- round prevented me from seeing more than two had some brandy and water. The captain had tive that it became necessary to indent on the miles." "I was steering past Cape Cami about three no more to drink in my presence. I heard the reserve; and, notwithstanding the adoption of to four miles of the southward of it. 1^1 did not use captain give the order hard a-starboard. The territorial regiments, the changes in methods of the lead as I considered I was on a perfectly safe captain was not sober at 8:20jmy reason for any enlistment, and the improvements in the pay and course. I attribute the loss of the ship to the ing he was not sober was because he status of non-commissioned officers, 900 of the course being altered while I was at dinner, was tappeting, and was not sober. He reserve men were re-enrolled to order to keep the By Lieut. Balliston I found my compasses had been drinking all day on the 21st Army at its required strength. But as the supply
of
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he left her
All
For the fact is that at this moment the strength of the British army is practically 20,000 men be- low that prescribed by law. There is a deficiency of more than 8,000 in the honie army alone; and in India, where of all places in the world our forces should be thoroughly complete, the num bers are actually 5,600 below the much-reduced establishment which now obtains there. manner of ingenious explanations of this state of things have been invented; the argumentative red herring has been trailed with unwonted dexterity, and the frantie eforts made in some quarters to disguise the truth would be beneath contempt if they were not palpably unpatriotic. But the facts are so strong and startling that .obfuscation is impossible.
guards.
The return further declares that, during the last three years to which it refers, the average number of recruits was 3,873 less than the aver age of the three preceding years, with the result
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The Seven Steamers will be taken over at a
valuation of $852,500. This amount has been agreed upon with the Vendors, and will include the Goodwill of the DOUGLAS LINE.
The present Proprietors are prepared to take at least 10,000 fully paid up shares and the remainder will be offered to the public.
The following is the only agreement that has been entered into on behalf of the Company.
AN AGREEMENT dated the 24th day -of July, 1883, and made between JOHN STEWARD LAPRAIK, EDWARD PETTIT, GEORGE HARPER, JOHN EWART, ROBERT ELLIS BAKER, EDWARD FORD DUNCANSON, GEORGE GIBB, JOSEPH WINGYETT HUNT, WILLIAM MANGER, ELDRED HALTON and Messra, DOUGLAS "LAP- RAIK & Co, of the one part and FREDERICK GARDEN (a Trustee for the intended Company) of the other part, Copies of the above Agreement, and of the Memorandum and Articles of Association, can be inspected by intending subscribers at the_Office of Messrs. DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., at Hongkong, and at the Office of Mesars BRERETON, WOTTON & DEACON, 35,71 Queen's Road, Hongkong,
If no allotment is made the deposit will be returned, and if a smaller number of Shares be alloted than applied for, the surplus of the deposit will be applicable to the payment of the amount due on allotment. If any instalment is not duly paid, the allotment will be able to cancellation, and the payments previously made to forfeiture, This Prospectus is printed in English and
the construction thereof or otherwise with Chinese and in case any variance exists between the two prints or any difference shall arise as to ference thereto the English print thereof thail
Form accompanying this Prospectus, and forms Application for shares must be made in the may be had at the Head Office of the HONG KONG and SHANGHAI BANKING COR PORATION at Hongkong, and also at any of its Branches in China and elsewhere. ེ་་་
Closing dates 30th August 1883 for places other than Hongkong, and 31st August 1883 for. Hongkong.
Hongkong, 24th July, 1883. |
To
FORM OF APPLICATION,
*THE GENERAL MANAGERS OF
THE DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP
WM.COMPANY, LIMITED,
HONGKONG:
GENTLEMEN,
Having paid to your credit at the HONGKONG: AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION the [sum of $....being a deposit of $10 per Share!
upon..............Shares of the above Company, ..............request you to allot to............viruspionkam that number of shares in the above Company upon the
terms of the Company's Prospectus dated the........1883, humshereh agree to accept the same or any less number that may be allotted to
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WINE MERCHANT AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT.
No. 5, D'AQUILAR STREET."
CHOICE WINES of the best quality, at Moderate Prices
Hongkong, and October, 1884.
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When I altered the course at 5 p. 1 the coed on that day as the weather was favor turas show that the vacancies caused by complet banks indistinctly, being then some three orable, I thought at the time of leaving Hothowed terms of service, and transfer to the reserve, four miles distant. The tide, was setting to that the captain was capable of fading the increase year by year. Thus in 1882 the gaps the westward." It did not occur to me with ship to sea. When the ship struck 1; ask- stood at 17,500, as against 11,054 i
in 1881. The the westerly set of the tide that the shiped him what he intended doing is the meaning of these, in conjunction with other would be driven into the bay. I had a book of engineer subordinate to the captain: figures which we need not detail here, is that in directions, vis, the "China Pilot." . I was so cerThe captain, did not ask me to stay on the present year about 36,000 recruits are requir. tain of my compasses being correct that I did not board the ship after she struck as there was DO
ed to fill up vacancies. There is not, however, think it necessary to cast the lead before going danger, he merely went to his cabin and said the slightest prospect of obtaining the full num down to dinner. nothing I did not say to the captain that the ber. Disintegration is a mild description of the
By Captain Le Lacheur-The tides there are ship was breaking up and we had better leave her. state of things here indicated. very irregular, I-was on deck when the ship |· I will'swear that, the boats were not lowered be But how does the present administration meet engineer being below in the engine room is ter the struck remained on board the Spark its sense of duty, as we pointed out a fortnight | JEWELLERS, SILVER-SMITHS, AND soon as '1 came out of the cabin. I saw the till three next morning. After the ship struck. I ago, by reducing the standard of age to eighteen, hers, and andered the helm hard's-starboard: did not see much of the captain during the next the standard of height to 5 feet 3 inches--five
topped the engines. I gave the cres no harbour. When I went to the wreck at daylight feet three inches and by a pettifogging dodge NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS.
5 boats themselves The chief engines, said the The captation og takes away fromlects of permisive long service. We will will simply for Louis Audemars Warkes, awarded the
ship ; they took | had been nothing, her. do hesitatg||ud| ship was breaking up and ROTAN help myself: The Spark wall partly insured, in the highest degree doubtful thine the required
and advised me to leave. of drink and I left him there because I could not multiply the difficulty and the expense; and it is highest Erizes at every Exhibition; and.....
for Voigtländer and Soba's By Captain" Allason--The man was on the and I considered when we let Haihow that the numbers will be forthcoming. In 1876, when CELEBRATED OPERA GLASBER, MARINE: Look out when myself and the chief enginner cams captain was capable of navigating her safely. there was the largest total of recruits ever known BENZ GLARKEN, AND: SPYOLASIEST US
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struck as was also the chief engineer, a Chinese fore 9.30; they were not lowered immediately af the difficulty?: The present administration show HRONOMETER, WATCH, AND AS always on hand a large assortment of and to pay the balance due thereon according to
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