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Wednesday,
Wednesday,
Wednesday,
20th April.
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Tuesday,
30th April
Tuesday, 80th April.
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AMUR MARU
Saturday, 11th May.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon, Singapore.
Colombo. Burman & Cape Town.
SANTOS MARU
BOMBẠY Via Singapore & Colombo.
HONOLULU MARU
SUMATRA MARU
Friday, 17th May.
Saturday, 4th May.
DURBAN, LOURENÇO MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR
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...Thursday, 2nd May.
Wednesday, 24th April.
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KASADO MARU
Thursday, 2nd May.
Saturday, 18th May.
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JAPANESE DISASTER OFF CAFE ERINO
OVER 100 DROWNED?
Tokyo, April 23, Over a hundred persons are believ- ed to have perished when the "Toyo- kani Maru" went down last night, a few minutes after striking the rocks off Cape Erino, in southern Hokkaido apparently sinklag so rapidly that ahe was able to send out only a single SOS.
Two steamers reaching the scene early, this morning picked up 07 sur- vivors out of 209 known to have been aboard when the vessel sailed on April 22 from Hakodate.
were
the
Naval craft have left the Ominate naval base to search. It is feared that all the remaining 112 are lost.
aboard About 176 people Toyokuni Maru"
shermen bound for Kamchatka for the sum mar's crab fishing.
The disaster is believed to have been due to wind and a snow storm off the Hokkaido coasts, following Sunday's Jashing of Japan proper Reuter.
The "Toyokuni Maru" was an old steel screw steamer of 2,344 tons, built in 1886 by Scott & Co., Greenock, and was formerly named successively the Yang, Chingtufa, and Chingtu. She Hakkadate, was last registered at being owned by Hasegawa Tozaburo.] More Survivors
Tokyo, Yesterday. Another 28 survivors of the ill-fat ed "Toyokuni Maru" have been pick- ed up, including the chief officer and chief engineer, both of whom are in jured.
The captain is still missing-Reu-
SECTION.
WAR INSURANCE
CLAIM A NST A GLEN
XER
GOVERNMENT ACTION FAILS
COM. KENWORTHY.
HIS VIEWS ON SHIPS' OFFICERS
Not being a shipowner himself, Licut-Commander the Hon. J. M. Kenworthy, the Labour M.P., feels that he is qualified to teach shipowners how to run their business. Accordingly, when the Civil Service Estimates come up for revision, he will move a reaslu- tion dealing with conditions and pay of toth officers and men in the Mer- chant Navy. His proposal will embody He desires to see the four points. universal application of the three- watch system to all ships above a cer- tain tonnage, other than coaters; better pay for officers; a rigid enforce- ment of the Plimsoll limits as to load- anding, and the institution of a pension or superannuation scheme. He also in- tends to urge the provision of improved for the men, with accommodation
more facilities and comforts general- ly and hopes to see introduced better training scheme than any which exists at present, so that boys of the right type may be trained for the sea-
As is faring profession.
generally known
the three watch system has The Judge said the
money was paid as compensation for loss of been adopted in a number of British yeasels. Commander Kenworthy can earnings by the German detention of
London In the King's Bench Divi- sion, Mr. Justice Rowiatt found in favour of the Glen Line, Ltd., the Liverpool and London War Risks Association, Ltd., in the Insurance claim brought against the Glen Line by the Government for a declaration £140,000 received by the Glen Line from the German Govern- inent. Under the Treaty of Versailles 80 per cent. should be paid over to the British Government.
of nearly
and
her sale.
any
the steamer. "Gleneara" during the hardly be unaware of the present post- war, and the British Government de- tion of affairs as the result of certain sired to have a ruling that the Glen recent important developments, and it Line hell that sum in trust for the would appear as though he were an- Liverpool and London War Risks In-xious to steal a march on those who surance Association, and that the are bent upon arriving at a practical Government, as reinsurers, were en solution of the problem. Most people The will share his desire to see increased titled to 80 per cent. for it. Government had certainly reinsured pay given to the officers if only the state for 80 per cent.. but the reinsurance of the industry could justify the step. did not apply to such a payment as But the position is analogous to that this. The owners had first been paid of the miner: the industry will not per- o claim for total loss. The Germans mit of it unfess the shipowner is to then returned the boat. and she was turn philanthropist, Freights are no sold by the Insurance Association, higher than they were before the war, arbut the pay of the officers is 60 or 70' the Government receiving 80 cent. of the proceeds
per cent. more than it was under the pro-war scale. Commander Kenworthy That was right.
Then the Glen Line made a claim seems to have forgotten altogether under the treaty for less of earnings about the superannuation fund, which from the Germans, a quite different is a statutory obligation upon shipown. this era, who supply the whole of the money matter,
were awarded £140,000, or rather less. Of that, the surely a unique position in
a better Government also wanted 80 per cent. dustry. As to his desire to see but they ought not to have it or any-training scheme for boys, the work that thing beyond the 80 per cent. they is being done at such centres as the had had of the proceeds of the sale "Worcester," the "Conway." Pang- of the ship by the Insurance Asso-bourne, the "Arethuia" and the Grave ciation. This compensation was per-sand Sea School, in addition to the sonal compensation to the owners for "Warspite" and other training-ships, is the loss of the chance of making fu- generally admitted to be as efficient the as anything of the kind throughout The decision of the Canadian Pacture contracts, and profits, and
the the world. The choice is as wide and at Railway to experiment in the em- Government, had no right to
The Government, as under- attractive as could be wished, and the barkation of passengers for Canada money.
writers, could not claim it because positions held by hundreds of "old at Cardiff has given
rise to hopes he did not, in law or in fact, in- boya" in all the seven seas, in both the direct to the that liner trafic,
sure the loss of profits in lieu of Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy, Dominions and the United States,
which the compensation was given, are good evidence of the success of will become an accomplished fact in
The Government's application would the training. Commander Kenworthy The capacity of the future. South Wales docks to deal with the be dismissed, and judgmen: entered may be expected to arouse sympathy oceau leviathians was demonstrated for the Glen Line, Ltd., and the when he appeals for improved condi- last year, when the "George Wash- Liverpool and London War Risks In- tiens for Jack at sea, but if the Bri surance Association, Ltd., with ecsts. tish shipowner is to hold his own in ington was safely berthed at Car-
shipowners of competition with the diff. The Canadian Pacific Railway of "Kontrose,"
other nations, he must not be hamper- bringing the
increase the costs of operation, zow ever generous may be the inspiration that prompts them. The Australian Government found this to their cost, with injurious results to shipping slays. well as to the trade of the Common- wealth-Syren."
ter.
CARDIFF
to
the
tons gross, Card MARINE INSURANCE ed by regulations which still further
are. 16,500 this month and also in the begin- ning of May and, if this facility is supported regular mailings will doubt less follow. At present, travellers from South Wales and the West of England are compelled to undertake rail journeys to Liverpool and South ampton, involving extra expense and time."Engineering."
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS
The P. & 0. s.s. "Mantua" left Shanghai for this port on April 23 at 3 p.m., and is due here on April 26 at about 6 am.
Projected arrivals at and departures from Hong Kong of steamers under the Bank Line, the management of Ltd, are as follows:--
Arrivals at Hong Kong
"Comlebank" from New The 4.3 York via Panama. April 25.
The 8.a. "City of Newcastle from New York via Suez, May
Departures From Hong Kong The ss. "Glenbank" for Haiphong, April 26.
The s.s. "Comliebank" for Shanghai and Chinwangtao, April 27.
The 6.3. "City of Delhi" for Singa- pore and U.K, May 9,
The
HULL COAL EXPORTS
decided improvement regis- tered in the South Yorkshire coal trade is reflected in the latest off cial retornS relating to traffic vis Hull.
The gross tonnage sent lu that port during January and Febru ary was 78,000 tons greater than that
year.
SERIOUS JAPANESE
CASUALTY
London. The stranding of the Japanese steamer "Barkoku Maru," on Kama Island in the Carolines, is a serious casualty, and 50 guineas is quoted on her for reinsurance. She ia a vessel of 5,954 tons gross, built in 1897, and owned by the Taisho Kissen K.K, her present voyage be ing from Melbourne for Kobe,
A report
CLYDE TRUST BILL
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1929.
FAST LUXURIOUS SERVICE
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America or Europe avoil themselves of speady and conc- fortable service, when they pa Canadien Pacific.
The White Empresses are the largest, newest and fastest liners) on the Pacific. They cross from Yokohama to Vancouver in 9 days; from Shanghai to Vau- couver in 14.
These ships connect with the surrace traius, "Trans-Canada Limited and **' Mountaineer," at Vancouver, enabling Passengers to make the earliest sailing of a Canadian Parific Atlantic liner.
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SAILING DATES FOR APRIL/MAY, 1929 (Subject to change). DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 5.30 p.m., Wuchow 2.00 p.m.
S.S. TAI MING' (649 tons-Capt. G. J. Spink.) APRIL
MAY
S.S. "TAI HING" [1,968 tons-Capt. O. E. Wilks. ] -
28th APRIL SUN
FRI 3rd WED. 8th MON.
13th
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MAY
SUN.
19th
SUN.
5th
FRI.
24th
FRI
10th
WED.
29th-
WED. 15th
TUES.
30th
TUES. 21st
FRI 31st
SUN-26th-
Regular Service of Fast, High Class River Steamers Having Good Ac commodation for First Class Passengers. Electric Light and Fans in State- ooms and Saloon. The ss. "Tai Hing" is Btted with Wireless.
These vessels leave Hong Kong for Wuchow (via Samahui, Shishing, fakhing & Dosing) and return to Hong Kong (via same Ports) every five
Farea for round trip (not including meals) $20. Meal & Wines are to be obtained on board.
Hong Kong Arrivals and Departures from Hol' On Wharf,
For information apply to 87, Connaught Road West, Phone: Central 893.
KWONG WING
Belfast reduced such dues by 50 per on shore.
wanted.
Co.,
Thus on the eve of its birthday, which the movement throughout the world celebrates next summex at Birkenhead in its world jam- boree, there promises to be a further movement itself, but to all who go down and most valualle asset not only to the to the sea in ships.
EFFECT UPON SHIPBUILDING IF PASSED The only other casualty to note is the stranding of the
"Norse;" at Writing to the "Glasgow Herald" on She is
a British the Clyde Trust Bill, Mr. H. BL gent. only three months ago. Instead twenty-first Midnes, Iceland.
of 394 tons grosa, built in Napier says: It has its good points, of 62 per cent. increase & reduction scout 1926, and owned by Messrs. Hellyer but if passed as it stands is not go as one of the depressed industries is Bros., Ltd., at Hull.
ing to do much good to Glasgow and
It is idle for Sir William Raeburn the Clyde. If the dues on trading vessel are increased 20 per cent, ship-Lo say that the increase on any given owners will naturally increase their ship will be small. The whole cost of a ship is made up of small items. rates of freight, as from all accounts
If the Bill passes without modifica. shipowning is not profitable at pre-
tion it will tend to hamper the trade sent, and the selling price of goods
and cause unemployment. will be the same as before.
Shipbuilding is in a worse pog!- Ir. Deceraber, 1928, of the building berths in the country about. per cent. were unoccupied, while! there were and
to the effect that the prospect of rafloating the "Sujameco," ashere near Coos Bay, is doubtful, has sent the reinsurance rate up from 20 to 60 guineas per cent.
The "Beursplein," ashore at Yjotta, has been refloated.
tion.
SEAMEN'S ALLOTMENTS
Next week (says the "Journal of Commerce" DEEP SEA SCOUTS
to hand) Commander Kenworthy is to raise, in the House The boy scout movement, of which of Commons, the question of the amount of the allotment by seamen are many shipyard Sir Robert Baden-Powell is the chief
and firemen to their families, He workers unemployed and on the dole. scout and founder, has inaugurated a There had since been a slight boom, new branch to be known as "Deep will ask the President of the Board but not nearly enough to fill the Sea Scouts." The object of the deep of Trade (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister) vacant berths. If anyone thinks ship-sea scouts is to carry the scout spirit whether he has received complaints building is in a proeperous condition, afloat, and is intended to embrace the on behalf of seamen and firemen of quotations for great body of boy scouts who choose the Merchant Navy that they are such shares on the Stock Exchange, the sea as their profession. Member- allowed to allot only half their wages In all other abipbuilding contres ship of this new branch, however, will to their wives and familles, and whe- (except Greenock, for special reasons also be open, under certain conditions, ther he will consider an amendment of its own) the total cost of dues, to sailors, stokers, artisans, and others to the Merchant Shipping Act so as &c., in fitting out a vessel after in the Royal Navy or the Merchant to enable the men to make a larger
The "Cairngowan," disabled in the Atlantic, was taken in tow by her sister ship "Cairndhu,” but the haw-wor ser broke after ten hours" towing, and although the connection was re- established, the tow was not recom- menced owing to darkness and the
field ice. proximity c
ILL-FATED SHIP NAMES
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AGENTS FOR
At a trial of one of their new linera for the corresponding period last the White Star authorities confessed munching is less than in Glasgow. Navy who have not already been scouts allowance at their discretion.
Shipments for the two months that they had some difficulty nowadays aggregated 200,000 tons, compared. Gnding for their new ships' names with 188,000 tons in January and ending in -ic (according to the practice February, 1928. The January total of the White Star Line) writes Frank was 86,000 tons, while that for Febru- Bowen in the "Evening News." For ary advanced, by 27,000 tons, to
the regulations of most countries aim 118,000 tons. South America was the
at avoiding duplication of ship names, principal buyer. France was second since a mishap to a small vessel, re- on the list, and substantial business ported to Lloyd's, might lead to sorge- was done with other countries, in-
ching like a panic among those who cluding Germany, Italy, Egypt were
were interested in, or had friends on Esthonia, Sweden and Iceland. "En-
hoard, a liner of the same name. Thus ginsering,"
even a barge might stand in the way of a giant liner getting the name her owners desired. in spite of these pre- cautions, there are no fewer than 28 merchant ships of over 100 tons bear ing the *nama "Jupiter.". Curiously enough there is not a single warship in the world named “Jupiter," although there used to be several For mer-
· chantmen “star” names are by far the most popular. In point of number, "Venus" and "Sirius" come close be hind "Jupiter." At the other end of the scale, the most unpopular ship name, at least among signalmen and underwriters who have to write it down m a 'burry, is' surely the "Venaragsow- pakialetchemy" Happily there
only
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Length 787 Feet, Length on Blocks 750 Feet.
Depth on Centre of
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THREE SLIPWAYS--
Capable of Handling Ships Up to 3,000 Tons Displacement. Electric Crane
at Sea Wall, Capable of Lifting 100 Tons at 70 Feet Radius.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS. HONG KONG, CHINA & JAPAN.
one ship of this name—a barque `re- gistered at Jeftina, a port in Ceylon, as she is only 126-ft. long one cannoć help wondering whether her owner found "space" to paint her name along her side! Some companies, such as the O. and British India, give all sister ships names beginning with the same letter. Some have a standard prefix like the "City" of the Ellerman Lines, or the "Clan' of Cayzer, Irvine and Co. Others again have suffixes, of which, besides the White Stars -ic, perhaps the best known is the -ia of the Conard Line.
Оде difficulty which confronts - those who have -to **find of Danzes for ships is the age-old superstition of the sea and the distaste which many zailors have for certain names.
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