TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24 +420
SHIPPING,
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TRIAL TRIP OF THE "MOLDAVIA,"
THE CHINA MAIL.
Ample natural ventilation is pro-ried up to just about the 20-ft. water vided throughout the ship and is rein. line, where it is scarphed for a length forced by a
generous outfit of of 2 ft. 0 in. The stem bar is liber electrical ventilating fans in saloons, ally rounded off on the fore side above cabins, and hath rooms. Of the the 8-ft,water line. The upper por passenger accommodation generally it 'tion of the stem is formed of a flanged may be said to be characterised by tapering fashion plate carried from comfort and coolbees, as befits a ship designed for travellers in the Tropics, and, in the public rooms, by a restful scheme of interior decoration which will gratify the restrained tants of Eastern voyagers.
the top of the bow chocks down to jabout the 28 ft water line. This is constructed of gin. plating, double riveted to the shell plating. the scam being arranged parallel to the forward edge of the stem for tho fake of ap- pearancs. This fashion plate is of too great a length to be made in one piece oa double-rivated butt joint is pro vided having the butt strap on the inside.
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hama, Shanghai.-Kowloon Wharf,
Suwa Maru, (N.Y.E.) from Yoko
Amoy B12.
Sooches, (B. & S.) from Shanghai,
don, Singapore.--Bo
Benvenue, (Gibb Liv.) from Lon-
Shanghai.-1.
Mantua, (F. & O.) from Kobe, Tulemachus, (Wo Fat Sing) from Saigon.-29.
CHINESE LAB*UR.
WEATHERT
LATEST BUANGHAI DEMAND3, October 24d 10H
has depresed modarsteiz Scarcely a day passos now, says the Shanghai to B. W. Jap N.-O. Daily News, of October 18th, from the Leschoas ta Hotag without the report of a strike in one the Philippines. department of Chinese labour or an The anticyclone is now center other, and the fa-hion of organization Tokio, pakkase and formulation of new demand seems to have spread to every branch
of labour.
Yesterday's Chinese papeis con-
Of Stonecutters.
tainad an interesting repait of a mest Beiatan, (Nemazes) from Amoying which took place at Woosung on Cadarette, (Admiral) from Saigon. ployés of the Shanghai Nanking and Suuday and was attended by em-
which the Shanghai Haugehow Railways, at maceti-g the following presentation in das course:- programme 29 draw up for
040. electric drive, as that it WAS more
and
Satuna, (Ad. Lino) from New York, Shanghai-B26,
Van Overstraten, (J.O.J.L.) from In Deli, Singapore.-Kowloon Wharf.
in first cost greater weights, corvice, however, tha
advantages, being very economical at system is claimed to have great the low speeds at which most warship
Ouderkerk, (J.C.J.L) from Ham- burg, Manila.-Kowloon Wharf. Yokobama, Shanghai,-827.
Toyohashi Maru, (N.Y.E.) from
038, Saichow, (Yue Woo) from TouraDS.
West Paint, Helice, (Kung Chung) from Saigon.
B11. Chinkinog, (B. & 8.) from Canton.
DEPARTURES.
Kingyuan, (B. & S.) for Bangkok Swatow.-October 23,
A new scale of wages, up to a maximum of $100 per month for foremen, $60 for mechanics, $36 får carpenters, $80 for blacksmiths; and $36 for apprentices.
Hongkong "rainfalling the bou ending at 10 am today, 007 thou „Total since Jandiary of his 108-12 Tīna againab an averago of 79,98 fchowaf
Foredat for the: 24-hours "onding" noon on October 20, 1958. VER be winds, moderate to light; fair (
t-Formos Chantal: FAE of vari
Holidays ou Sundays and national festival, without deduction of wages. Work to cesse at 5 o'clock val Saturday afternoon. If ex ra time has to be worked to meet. emergency, two dayı' holiday to be granted, in addition to the regular
success of the system in the Navy. LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. He suggested that a better under standing at metallurgy by the e glacer might hasten matters, as whate fractures have occurred, although the opicers may have suspected that the quality of the metal was at fault he This vessel, the latest to by com
has seldom been able to prove bie ease. pleted of the P. & 0. Co's post-war
Probably stoel m kes themselves mail steamers, just delivered by
would Messrs. Cammell, Laird & Co., ran a
cagineers followed Sir George's advics benefit if superintending serics of successful trials at Birkenhead
in this matter. Whilst some failures on September 19, and bas left the
no doubt have occurred owing to bad Mersey for Tilbury Dock preparatore
Horizontal end vertical sliding
atec!, in other cases it would seen to her maiden departure for Australis watertight doors are fitted in the
that it is the engineer who has bess Jn October 13. She bears the name watertight bulkheads below the
at fault, although the steel raker was of a P. & ), steamer well known on shelter deck, and thoes are so arranged
blamed. Sir George did not appear the Australian trade which was lost in t'at they may be worked by baad
unduly sanguine the war while imployed as an or by the Stone-Lloyd bydraulic Between the fashion plate and the future of the armed merchant cruiser. The new system. The "Moldavia's bolds stem bar there is a steel casting about be stated "Moldavia" presents a variation front are to a inge extent insulated for the 10 ft. long embodying on the forward expensive the type of previous ships designed for carriage of refrigerated Australian side all the curvature necessary to involved Se P. & D. Co.'s Australian mail produce. She is capable of carrying work down the form of the tapering naval line, which will not Iran le 13,500 tons deadweight, and posaceres fashion plate into the flat bar. popularity with voyagers to and from large cargo hatchways and an outfit casting is scarphed at its lower edge, This the Bouthern Dominions. Tof cargo-lifting gear which includes whilcut thetop, which is hollowed out, "Nalders" and "Narkundo, which 23 tubular steel derricks, one of which there is rabbet to take the bottom cruising is done. If the system does Lave been put into service nu their is capable of a lift of 30 tons. edge of the faebion plate. The car make its way, seagoing engineers will completion within the last two grans,
The verac is propelled by twisting has a rabbet on each side to have, as Sir George pointed out, to ara, na passenger steamere, lineal screw double reduction geared turbine house the ends of the shell plates, the devote come attention to electrical descendants of th it forerunners of machinery manufactured by Mesare. whole forming a near and continuous engineering. The prospects of the the M" class, for, while exhibiting Cammell, Loird & Co., who have con- surface throughout its entire length. internal combustion engine wera also the best qualities of their predecessor,structed the ship and the engines The rivate employed in joining the discursed by Sir George, who em they are distinguished from them in from designs prepared in consultation shall plates to the stem and to the phasised the importance of profiting that they embody the accumulated with the P. & O. Co.'s naval architect, casting and also in the scarph aro ef by the experience and observations. improvement in design based upon Mr. C. G. Deane, and their 1 in. diameter, epaced 5 diameters of the engineer in charge. In this experience in the operation of the superintendent engineer, Mr. Robert xpart, centre to centre, and wherover connection, however, one difficulty is carter ships, in gradually increasing Lesl o, O.B.E. She is commanded by possible through rivets are employed, fr.quently excountered, viz., that the numbers, over a period of seventeen Captain Cecil W. Budleigh, D 3.0, tap rivets being fitted orly where seagoing engineer will not confine years. While in the "Naldern" and R.N.R.
Naikunda," cach: of 36,000 ton
himself to describing what he has gros, with a length of 605 feel. HOLT
actually observed, but is inclined to Iccommodation is provided up four
celour his observations by self-formed decks for 688 first and e cord salon.
theories, so that it is often impossible for the designer of the engines to End passengers, the "Meldavin" (and her eister the "Mongolis") of the same
Accustomed as we have become to out what actually did occur. In the the prodigious peeds attained by war carrier portion of his addrees Admiral vessels, some surprise will no doubt bo Goodwin drew attention to the im pecasioned by Sir Gorge Goodwin's mense social and ecoacmic improve statement that when to entered the ments effected during his time and Navy the slowest steamships in ex-contrasted the clean, roomy, well, istence were the men of war aye warmed and ventilated workshops of Engineering. In bis presidential ad to-day with the corresponding shops dress to the Institute of Marine Eng of forty or filty years ago. incere, which was delivered on Tues day evening Inst, he confereed to a number of unauthorised races between or other forina of exercise or et claimed that the accentuated rake steamers, in which the Navy got these early war vessels and mercantile tainment. The cabins are general y on the Ichcape plan, each having limits the extent of the damage that hopelessly beaten, although access by its own porthole or parties would be incurred, in the event of a merchantmen were not of an erieto to outside light and air. On the collision, to those parts of the vessel's cratic clasa. This condition promenade deck are the first-salonstructure which are above the water affairs
coutan Eut music and smoking rooms, lying line, thereby minimising the risk of temporary interlude, die to respetivdy fore and aft of a range of underwater damage to both vessel change over from soil to steam. In fourteen single or two berth cabins involved and reducing the risk of Napoleonic times, the warship appears with, amidships, baths and fav.tories foundoring due to flooding, particular to have been much faster than the
omly in the case of the vessel that is inercantile vessel. and to day thedd tuit inches, and un- the gange rammed. The reason for rounding Navy leads very distinctly in the Lam Lock, Aberdeen, add 10 100 the fore side of the stem is to avoid matter of speed. During his forty Dobos to the belons given to the sable the chafing of mooring ropes when years service Admiral Goodwin eaw theas cross over the bows. The cut the horizontal engine replaced by the of this form of construction is sunie Vertical, and the boiler pressure rise what greater than that of the urial from
a few pounds above
tho type, but it is considered by the atmosphere to the present limits. Owners of the "Autolycus" that the Fareed draught was another innova-
pee it justified in view of the tion during this period, as bas also tha additional measure of safety afforded been the replacement of the taak boi- p. and the subsequent saving in wooring ler by the water tube type, and of
STEAMER'S NEW FORM
OF BOW,
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The Autolycus," which is being tonnage and hangt, are designed built by Mesars. E. and W. Hawthorn, a lesser number. their berthing plublic and Co., for Messrs. Alfred providing for 222 first and 175 second. Holt and Co., is constracted with class passengers, a total of 397. un specially designed raked stem. Not three dreks. The new Moldavias only is a large amount of rake pro- rarry all their passenger acconsauc vided, the exact figure being 1 in 4. tion above the upper deck-s... but the forward edge has been well the promenade, shade and the rounded of above the water line. decke respectively. The first aut The object of fitting this form of second saloon prane nade decks aflod tem in preference to the usual ample eraces for games, dancing vertical or almost vertical form is two-fold. In this fict place it is
The first saloon music
surmounted by an oval staito! gla tinme, is panelled in fuely figure grey word of delicate shade with gut decorated enrichments. A continuous frieze ornamented in gilt runs along the upper part I the panelling.
From this saloon a fine stairway with decorated iron balustrade lead. to the roasis below. The smoking room is walled in oak of the earl or English period with mouldings and emall pols, surmounted by a frieze in the half-timbered style.
necessary.
The ordinary form of rectangular Opening out from the after end of rolled steel bar is employed, for the the music room is a well-furnished lower part of the tem, this being of verandah, pen to the air at the section 10 in. Ey 3 m., and it is ear- but she'tored by the boat deck aimée,) where are the cabins and bath roota, að
the officers and engleeers. Milway un the shade deck below there are planed, || port ani atatbeard, ranges of cabins for one or more occupable, with un ample installation ol bath-100ms, etc. Foriber alt on the chafe dick is the broad second saloon promenade and the second music and smoking rooms. The arcond LOU:ic saloon, furnished in Freach polished mahogany, is finished and decorated in two shades of light baff, with an encased ceiling in flot white decorate d ́ with er riched mouldings. From this room a stairway of mahogany with decorated iron balustrade leads to the saloons below.
On the forward portion of the shelter deck, agaio, are first ealoon cabins, including single berth cabins, with port and starboard alleyways, opening, ait, on to the main com panion. From the main companion, one passes ait to the first dining saloon, which extends through the
width of the vessel, is lighted by: twenty large windows, and offers seat- ing for 228 dinere at restaurant tabler arranged for two, four, sight, or ten peracus. The panelling of this saloon is finished in wedgewood blue with mouldings picked out in white, and is supplemented by a frieze with or osment etched in white. Large flat- od mahogany columns mounted with Corinthian capitals, which are finish d in old gold, uphold a fine ceiling finish- ad in flat white with erriched mould. ings and casinge. The chairs of polished mabogany are upholstered in moroccan leather. Aft on the cause deck is the second dining saloon, where 180 persons may dine at a sitting. Be tween the two anfoons the galleys, pantries, etc., are conveniently placed for the service of either maloon. The remainder of this shelter deck is cu cupied by arcond saloon cabins flank- jog a range of bathrooms and lavato- ries, including an apartment de signated the Ayahe Wash-place "— A feature peculiar to East going eteamers, whose European passergers are frequently accompanied by native Durvants,
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HONGKONG TIDES.
pilost the National Almapa: Uace Lada fin the result of the ana vels il observations taken by means of an intonacie tide-recording machine in the of Nator Iolice Bayu Telin She Toul
taring the years 1905-0.
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reciprocating engines by the turbine.
The zure of the table cresponds with she zero of the sounding fu the Admiralty Jack which has how roued befoet
inches below menu son level fo obtain the depth of water on the ide gaayo at the Victors Naval Yard
Chakang, (J. M. & Co.) for Bang kok, Swatow, October 29.
Laisang. (J.M. & Co.) for Calcutta, Singapore.--October 23,
Java Maru, (0.8.K.) for Kobe, October 2.3.
Changchov, (B. & S for
Newchwang, Weihaiwei.-October 23. Ranchow, (B. & S.) for Shanghai, Swatow.-October 23. Manila,-October 23.
Tjileboot, (J.C.J.L.) for Iloilo,
President Jefferson, (Admiral Line) for Manila.-Cctober 23: │Taito Maio, (N.Y.K.) for Shanghai,"
Amoy.-October 23.
Amberat, (On Fat) for Hoihow.-- October 23
October 29.
Soochow, (B, & B) for Canton.-
Helenus, (B. & S.) for Hamburg. Singapore.-October 23.
Toyohaabi Maru, (N. Y. K.) for Liverpool.--October 23.
Kwangtab, (C.M.S.N.) for Shanghai, October 23,
Fakhoi.-October 24,
Yue Ying Wa, (Cheong Fat) for
Hairaun. (Pe Shen) fer Haiphong, Ho how. October 24.
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Any man absent through injury to receive full pay instead of halt pay as at present.
Haitan, (Mas Wing) for Haiphong, Hoíbow-October 24.
Halching, (Douglas) for Foochov, LOW WATER Swalow.-October 24,
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