· THE UTILISATION OF LIGHT DRAUGHT STAMERS ON
THE WATER WAYS :
OF CHINA;^;
THE HONGKONG
Our American cousins, or one of them at all events, caught up the idea, from which, in all probability the design of the great and wonndful steamboats of the Ohlo and Mississip sprang But to come down to date, their superiority for river work was first brought to the front in Europe during the Nile Campaign Water Lily successfully passed the cataracts, of 1885, when the Yarrow boats, Lous and where two of Messrs, Cook's side wheel boats had been wrecked. The French Goverment ordered about a dozen for Tonquin from a firm in Paris, which were sent out in pieces and erected at Haiphong. With these boats naval officers maste strenuous efforts to reach, the frontier but without success. When you look At a sample of the boat they had, you will not be astonished, for they would neither steer with Before reading his paper Mr. Jacks read excertainty, nor steam at any speed. Another tracts from an address given by Mr. Wenyan type, longer and narrower, went too far in the and published in the Colonial Institute Journal other direction, and found difficulty in turning of 1898 :-
in the rapids, generally returning to the anional demolished in one way or another,
Last Saturday night there was a large gather ing of members of the Engineers and Ship builders Institute, to hear a paper on the above subject read by Mr: Jacks." Mr. Cook of the Hongkong and Whaînjða Dock Co. took the chair and introduced this reader. Among those *present were Mesare. Sinclair, Kinghom, Skin- ner, Rumsey, Baino, Lt. Hobson, U.S.N., and Capt, Anderson
The first steamer to reach the Chinese Frontier by inland water was built of wood likewise of American origin with long wooden from an American model, the engines were connecting rods. The principal dimensions of this boat were as follows: 100 fect long, 20 feet heam, 4 feet 6 inches deep, engines to ins. Cylinders, 3 feet stroke high pressure exhausting into the funnel. Herspeed however was barely sufficient, and bawsers were required in the big rapids to steady her through. The mode! two larger composite boats put in hand, the first however was a step in the right direction and of which, the Yunnan made a record trial trip in the Summer of 1890 with Governor General Piquet and his staff on board, five days from Hanoi to Laokay; at a ordinatily taking 6 weeks, could not face the time of heavy floods, when the junks,
current at all. These wooden boats rain great risks, the first, the Luokay after running about three years, struck a rock and saak in deep water, a total loss. The Funnan ran fairly clear, but her sister ship the Choba has been sunk three times, at different points of wood for steel hulls, and three of mild steel of the river. This decided the abandonment followed; improvements, busett on experience, taking place in machinery and indel at the
same time.
In describing the construction of these boats, Columbia civer stern-wheeler, and to the iron perhaps the best example will be that of a shipbuikler or engineer, it will no doubt appear an extraordinary structure, but for distribution of weights by the system of Trussing employed, it would be difficult to heat. The bulls are
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For some time past the attention of mer. chants all over the world has been directed to the possibility of a great extension of commerce in the Chinese Empire, owing to the opening up, in part at least, of the magnificent water ways of the Middle Kingdom. We are now in our tum called upon to produce the éraft which will navigate these rivers to the best advantage. and safely and quickly carry the commercial products of the country to the market, and our imports in and through these vast regions. The accompanying sketch map (reproduced and enlarged on the black board) of the principal trade routes will give a very fair idea of how far the river steamboat may be utilised ; and the comparison which we are able to make, with the results arrived at by the French in Ton- quin, will give us a notion of the difficulties to be encountered and overcome. According to Mr. E. Rocher, late of the Imperial Chinese Customs, the main branch of the West River is navigable up to Petse on the Yunnan border, and the other branches and ramifications of its tributaries allow native craft to triverse nearly the whole of Kwangsi and Kwangtung. One of the latest maps of this region, published only a few months back by a French Missionary, the Rev. P. Renault, al Nan-ning, also gives Pe-se as the limit for large junks. These junks he says carry from 35 to 40 tons in the summer time, when the water is high, and from to to 15 tons during the three dry winter months when the river is low From Nan-ning to Pese the journey occupies ordinarily from 10 to 15 days, and from Non- ning to Lung-chow day or two more. Nos the writer maintains, that where those primitive craft can go the river steam boat can follow, constructed with all the lightness in any way doing easily in one day the mileage they do in ten, and in the case of light and well designed consistent with safety against falling to pieces, and only high pressure engines are used. The steel boats with perfect satery; whereas the
valve gear has often to be adjusted as the boat junks are often wrecked and broken upon the stones and rocks which abound in the rapids, being slack or tight on her stays will cause a is loaded or anluaded, as the fact of the boat Father Renault sites that there are several rapids between Wuchini and Nan-ning; one
difference of length of the eccentric and valve below louen-Chau being considered danger-
rod, of in extreme cases, the lines of some of these boats, especially those plying ous, and speaks of the prospect of English on the Columbia river are very graceful, the built boats of light draught being built for the
straight stein having been relance, and won purpose of navigating them. He proceeds to
derful speeds are obtained in some cases. say that a firat trial las aleady been made in
The lines of course vary, according to the work Sept, 1898, when a small steamer ran between the boat is built for, cargo boats having a shape Wachau and Nan-ning for about a month. None of the Chinese built light draught very full in harping, adding increased beating
'as the dead-weight of freight increases. launches, the writer has observed, lave so fa
boats are sharper, as their coal is generally fulfilled the conditions necessary for this king carried amidships, whereas cargo carriera.cfton of navigation and would probably soon come to grief; is most likely therefore, on that ac
pick up tors of stuff from the river bank and land it at next stoppage, without shifting it count, that the run has not been continued. In
from the bow. On that account the best Mr. A. Colquhon's account of his voyage across Cryst, he states that the West river might general shape, is well defined, rising lines, so that the displacement is made" down. casily and at no extravagant cost be made
ward rather than sideways. This prevents navigable to light draught steamers for a great distance inland. As you know, the raison
the boat when driven hard from burying herself; the wall sided model having in d'entre of the Tonquin Campaign was to se cure a trade route from the sea to Yun-nan and
some cases shown less speed, whilst exciting more power, Model No. 2, was a good example our French neighbours by dint of heavy sub of this as curing her first voyage, although-the-Cameron, Wm. sidies to shipowners, opened regular lines of traffic up to Laokay on the Frontier of Yun-nan,
stem was fully five feet above still water line, about the same distance from the capital,
the waye in some of the rapids actually foamed Yunnan-fu, as Pe-se. Goods are also conveyed
over the how. After visiting the Columbia to this important commerical centre from Su-structure, and following their movements, the river steamboats, closely examining their Chau by way of the Yangtze, so that in reality writer decided to take a departure from the the navigable heads of the three great rivers original American model and try the spoon come within a few hundred miles of each other. The Songkol or Red River is navigable all the.
bow, as adopted by Yarrow and other builders in England Models No. 6, and No. 7 were year round, up to Tan Quan or Yenbay. From
built together, of the same displacement and thence to Laukay, there arethree months, during which the passes in the rapids become very narrow and shallow, and only the smallest type of boat can go up, carrying mails but no cargo. These rapids are sometimes difficult to nego tiate, as they are generally caused by some bend or obstruction in the fiver, such as the Tac-cai or grand rapid, which is situated just below a sharp elbow of the river, an island of cobble stones being thrown up in the middle, the cur rent in the channel, running over seven, knots by the patent log. Photographs of rapids on the West River, by Mr. Colquhon, show a very similar formation to those in Tonkin and from views of the cataracts on the Nile, the writer is convinced that they are all much about the same, and that the modern steamboat can over- come these obstacles, and although we are not quite prepared to build boats to run on the dew, or font in a fog, as they say they do in Call fornia; still, if there is a couple of feet to go on, and width to pass (which can be made with a judicious application of dynamite where neces sary) it is possible to get there. As to the time required to reach Yunnan-fu by the different routes, let us take first the Tonquin route, from Hongkong to Haiphong, minimum two days Customs formalities and transhipping occupy ing generally three days; transhipping again at Hanoi, one day; Hanoi to Laokay, five days; Lackay to Yunnan-fu; fifteen days, total 26 days. The present time from Hongkong to the capital of Yunnan would be if cargo was trap shipped to junk at Samshui, about 43 days if continued by rlver steamer, Petse would in ordinary circumstances, be reached in 4 or 5 days, thence to Yunnan-fu, 16 days; total 22 days. Thus it is possible for imports to reach the central market of Yunnan and beat the Tonkin route by a few days, to say nothing of escaping from the French transit tariffs, high freights, and, repeated tranship ments. Of the Yangtse route, although the time would be little longer, still it must be remembered, that Hankow is practically a sea port, and that the rich province of Szechuan; and the torthem port of Yunan, would pro- bably be supplied by that route, as soon as river steamers, came on the scene in the upper reaches
The type of boat most suited for shallow rivers, has been a keenly disputed point, Mr. Yarrow backing up the stern wheel whilst Mr Thornycroft brought of the guide blade pro- eller; French builders iried boats with tun nals built for the propellers, sotherines amid ships, sometimes aft, the screw being only partially immersed when the boat was at rest the water rising and filling the tunnel as full speed was attained, In shallow water however the hull comes so close to the bottom that the supply of water is insufficient and the propeller only acts as a churn; moreover the danger of the screws striking, or getting fouled by debris, completely precludes the practical use of the screw propeller, in rivers, suchids, we have to deal with. We have to go back to the hist your of the present century, to and the only type of boat the can successfully tackle narrow and tortuous rapids with any degree of safety, and there we find a Clyde built steamer, the first practical figamboat, working on the Forth and Clyde Canal She was built by Symington in 1801 and called the Charlotte Dundas,
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having duplicate sets of compound surface condensing engines the result, was about a quarter of a knot of speed, in favour of the spoon buy in still water, and very great facility of manoeuvring in the rapids, where the wall sided bow is liable to be caught by the current on one side, and the boat whirled round like a tee-to-tum. The midship section is perfectlyIsmail, Eisik. dat on the button, the drawing shows the over turning guards). These boats are steered by wo, three, or even four rudders, fixed usually between the stern and the wheel. Outside rudders, are not only too much exposed, but have no control over the boat at all in backing, and f not soon smashed up by drift wood thrown on them by the wheel, they would probably get broken off at the first sharp tuming; as owing to the form of the stern, it swings round in obedience to the rudders guiding the bow into the channel; and it is not at all an uncommon sight to see the wheel throwing mud and sode off the bank, over the awning aft. The old Mississipi boats used have one. balanced rudder amidships, and two wing rudders these wing rudders were hooked a bustle, built
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in the hull, leaving a sort of tunnel, in the middle of the stem, where the water came up to the wheel, and which left room for the balanced rudder to swing. The bustle gave additional buoyancy to the hull right aft, but bont could not guide herself going astern, the steering power was not improved, and the which is necessary in leaving a river bank where there is no wharf. With the ordinary fork with a round stem on it to take the tiller long stern rake the best form of rudder is a which is attached to the other tiller by an ad- justable-coupling rod, the fork being deep and strong enough to lake the whele depth of the Collier, rudder between its jaws. The rudder is thus simply two or three wide planks of sufficient Coy wil. thickness cut our to clear the round of the Pocholiong, wheel, on the after half of the blade, the part Haydenite, under the stern hollowed out to clear the de. bris, that comes down the river after foods. Kaderbacha. Spare planks can be kept on board ready fitted, as with paddle floats, in case of accident. The wheel is often subjected to bruises and on that account should be built in the simplest manner possible. Feathering wheels, besides being too heavy, would never stand the wear and tear in these silt bearing streams, where the water is about the consistency of pea soup, The form of wheel the writer found most suitable, and giving least vibration, was of the ordinary radial type having the largest diameter passi Quannolung. ble consistent with the power of the engines Rennie. and size of the boat, three bosses, carrying Robinson. paddle arms, so arranged that the floats on one Tackseng. half of the wheel are between those of the other half or staggered, sufficient space being left between the two rings to reef the fonts when the boat is loaded.
(To be continued.)
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HONGKONG AND MANILA REGULAR LINE OF STEAMERS.
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?15530
LEGAZPI," Captain A. Yribar, will be despatched as above on WEDNESDAY, the zoth lastant, at Non
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hip
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TH
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[1456 THE above named Steamer having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium; Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the Godowns of the | Hongking and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
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FOR SAMARANG AND SOURABAYA. THE Company's Steamship. THE
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[1526
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THE Steamship
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The Steamship
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QUEEN ELEANOR," about the 15th January, 190o, and
MORVEN," about the 15th February, 1900, For Freight, apply to
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AFRIDI
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COMPANY, LIMITED.
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND
SINGAPORE.
HE Company's Steamship THE
"SUISANG,"
having arrived from the above l'orts, Consignees of Cugo by her use hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alungalde.
Carge impelling the discharge, or remaining on board after Noon, the 20th Instant, will be landed at Consigneca risk and expense inte Godowns at East Point,
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"BOMBAY." FROM ANTWERP,LONDON, PORT SAID, SUEZ, AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods. are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are Innded.
This vessel brings on Cargo
From Italy, er S.S. Thames.
From Madras, er S.S. Leodiana.....
Optional goods will be landed here-infess instructions are given to the contmry before ta AM, TO-MORROW.
Goods n cleared by the ist instant, at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent.
No Fire Instrance will be effected by me in any case whatever,
All damaged Packages must be left in the, Godowns and a certificate of the damage, ob tained from the Godown Company within ten days after the Vessel's arrival hero, after which no Claims will be reinguised.
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Superintendent. Hongkong, 15th December, 1899. AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA.
TION COMPANY,
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FROM KOBE. “
Optional Cargo will be forwinded unless notice to the contrary be given before Noon, TE Steamship
TO-DAY,
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 21st instant, will be subject to rent.
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All Claims must reach us before the 28th instant, or they will not be recognized."
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and instant, will be subject to rent.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
"GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.
FROM MIDDLESBORO, ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS. THE Steamship THE
"GLENLOCHY," ►
having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her, are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Lỗ, at Kowloon, where 'cach consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
Optional cargo will be carried on unless
Intimations. CARROLINEUMAVENARIUS
With the Utmost Success.
Thoroughly reliable preservative for. Wood and Stone against White Ants, Decay, Fungus Rot and Dampness.
Sole Agents for China, -LUTGENS. EINSTMANN & Co...
•Hongkong, 11th September, 1896.
JUST LANDED. S.S. Chingtu.
Instructions are given to the contrary before A SMALL Consignment of PINEAPPLE
4PM, TO-DAY,
Goods not cleared by the goth instant; will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
All ship damaged packages must be left in the Godowns, and a certificate of the damage obtained from the Godown Co. within ten days of steamer's arrival, after which no claims will be recognised.
MCGREGOR BROS. & GOW. Hongkong, 13th December, 1899. [1548
AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM TRIESTE, FIUME, PORT SAID, ADEN, BOMBAY, COLOMBO, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
HE Steamship
TH
" GISELA,"
having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained. This vessel brings Cargo:--
From Trieste, er S.S.Imperatrik, transhipped at Bombay.
From Venice, er S.S. Massimiliano tranship- pcd at Trieste,
Optional Cargo will be discharged here unless notice to the contrary be given immediately.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all claims must be sent in to the Office of the Undersigned before Noon on the 21st instant, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the zist instant, will be subject to rent.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SÅNDER, WIELER & CO., Agents. Hongkong, 14th December, 1899, Osica
OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAM-
·SHIP COMPANY.
NOTICE.
CONSIGNEES DORIC
CONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship
The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are heretry requested to send in their. Bill of Lading for Countersignature, and to.. take immediate delivery of their Goods, from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense
JS. VAN BUREN,
Agenti Hongkong, 18th December, 1899,
BRAND
AUSTRALIAN FRESH
STREAKY BACON.
H. RUTTONJEE, 13 & 15, D'Aguilar Street, Hongkong, and
21 & 22, Elgin Road, Kowloon, Hongkong, 24th November, 1899. [1464
DUMINY & CO
CHAMPAGNE
EXTRA DRY
дно
Carte D'Or
800
Billery
Dem! Boo
Blanche
Chateau de Sharmle
M. OPPENHEIMER & Co., Paris
RIGAUDE
WHITE VICKET
This fugative and delicate perfume is persistant as an
Extract for the handkerchief while as a Soap
and Powder, it has been adopted by
the most re Oned French Suciety.
RIGAUD et Cle
PERVORGAS
EXTRACT
10:000 White Violets
pl each bouts of
PARIS Bgand's Extract
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