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DODWELL & COMPANY, LTD.

FOR NEW YORK AND BOSTON via SUEZ.

LLOYD TRIESTINO

REGULAR MONTHLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE (FIUME). TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING TO GENOA, ALL ITALIAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANT, BLACK SEA AND DANUBE PORTS. REDUCED PASSAGE RATES.

BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE

NEXT SAILINGS.

LIFEBOATS

ON THE "EUROPA" AND "BREMEN"

necessity tended to £75.0.0.

OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJI.

S.S. ROSANDRA"

M.V. "ROMOLO"

S.S. "FIUME"

SS. VENEZIA'

From Hong Kong.

Sails on/or about 27th April. Sails on/or about 27th April. Saila on/or about 14th May. Sails on/or about 23rd May

HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE.

5.S. "DUCHESSA D'AOSTA" M.V. "ESQUILINO" S.S. "ROSANDRA"

M.V. "KOMOLO”

From Hong Kong. Sails on or about 29th April. Sails on or about 3rd May. Sails on or about 25th May, Sails on or about 28th May:

NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS

FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.

S.S. "UMZUMBP", S.S. "UMVOLOST"

Sails from Calcutta 2nd May. Sails from Calcutta 4th June.

Regular Passenger and Cargo Service to South African Ports. Through Bills of Lading issued from Hong Kong.

For Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply to:--

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Telephone Central 1030.

NYISLINE

THROUGH BOOKING TO EUROPE AT REDUCED RATES, £120, £112, £110. £102, £83, via San Francisco. £95, £90 10s. via Japan and Seattle. SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

SHINYO MARU

Wednesday, Wednesday, SIBERIA MARU SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shan ghai & Japan Ports.

.... Monday, Monday,

MISHIMA MARU

IYO MARU

1st May. 15th May.

6th May. 20th May.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.

HARUNA MARU (Calls Holl)

BOMBAY vin Singapore, Penang; & Colombo.

Wednesday,

Saturday,

KAMO MARU

Saturday, 4th May. Saturday,

18th May.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

KAGA MARU

Wednesday,

TANGO MARU

Wednesday,

22nd May.

20th June.

+ HAKODATE MARU

1st May,

TAMBA MARU

11th May.

Mexico & Panama.

GINYO MARU..

HAKATA MARU

+ LISBON MARU

THE CHINA MAIL,

SHIPPING

SECTION.

ultimately been rounded up

to the

IN LIQUIDATION

UNSECURED LIABILITIES

£24,700

Unsecured liabilities of £14,700 were disclosed at the statutory meeting of the creditors of the R. S. Steamship

Co., Ltd..

Mr. Barton, the liquidator, said that the company were the owners of two paddle steamers well known

to the

The value

head of the cradle, and hac engag public, the "London Belle' and the ed on the forks provided thereon, the

Sovereign." **Royal mntor, in addition to the boat itself, those steamers, according to the com picks up the cradle also and pulls both this and the boat back up the pany's books, was £18,855, and the

remaining assets only

were stock, trackways. In order to avoid acci-book debts and furniture to the total dent through careless hoisting, the value of £380. There was a bank main current is automatically cut off overdraft of £4,200 secured by a first by a limit switch, placed in a suit-

the ships, and also able position, at a point where the mortgage on cradle has yet some 10 to 12-in. to second mortgage of £5,280. In addi- travel before it retehes the finally tion, there were debentures of £10,000. Mr. Barton was of opinion that the stowed and inboard position, these 10 or 12-in. being travelled by means of the first and second mortgages, and it assets would not be sufficient to cover the special hand gear provided on the was very doubtful whether the deben winch, and thereby eliminating all ture holders would receive a dividend.

All sheaves and risk of accident.

器

UP-TO-DATE INSTALLATION Hitherto, on many large passenger liners the only possible way of pro- viding a sufficiency of boats "to con- forin with the present regulations has been to employ nesting, or super- imposing of boats, and this has of multiply in an I undesirable and often dangerous man- ner the number of operations which must be parforized bofore such boats can be safely loaded and lowered int) rollers are provided with graphical. The prospect of the unsecured creditors the water.

A solution of this diffly self-lubricated bushes, while effi-receiving anything was very remote.

The meeting was adjourned for a cient rope guards make it impossible culty is to be obtained by reducing

week. substantially the number of lifeboats for the wires to fall or run out of the sheaves, which latter are, more- carried, although this obviously in- volves the substitution of boats of over, designed with such diameters #y

Lo ensure that the wire falla are not YANGTSZE RIVER large dimensions. In its turn the

The winch itself use of bigger lifeboats involves the unduly stressed. provision of davits and launching gear of far greater strength and power if the boats are to be handled with safety and efficiency, and to be capable of getting away from the ship's side with the requisite smart- ness Details of this equipment have been given by Dipl.-Ing. Biederinanin, Technical Director of the Norddeuts cher Lloyd in a paper presented to the Schiffsbautechnische Gesellschaft in Berlin,

N.D.L. and the Problem The Norddeutscher Lloyd, in con- sidering the problem of the lifeboat equipment for their two new North Atlantic linere "Europe" and "Bre- men," finally came to the conclusion that the large single boat system was to be preferred, and each of these vessels is, therefore, to be equipped with 26 lifeboats, each one of which is driven by a motor engine, and

vesse

each one carried in its own pair of Idavits. Of the 26 feboats, far are of the ordinary type, 27-ft. 10-in. in length, these being employed for gen. eral purposes, at the same time be- ing available as lifeboats if required, In addition to these, each carries 22 large single non-sinkable motor-driven lifeboats, 38-ft. in length by 13-ft. 5-in. in breadth and 4-ft. 11-in. in depth, rated for 145 persons each. The hulls are of -in. steel plate, having air-tanks built into the of such a capacity hull, which are

that even with the boat weighted to represent the full number of persons, and filled with water there still re mains a reserve bucyancy sufficient to support a few extra persons. Each boat is driven by means of a 28-H.P. Swedish "Penta" engine, giving

6. kuots. speed of between 5 and This motor is installed in a special watertight compartment, and will continue running even with the boat. ful of water, there being a small constantly operating, which pump immediately ejects any water that may accidentally enter.

Seating Accommodation

The seating accommodation is ar ranged athwartships. thereby facilit ating embarkation, while at the same time the seats are arranged in tiers Bo that no one person sits immedi

The boats are ately over another. of very stiff build, and on actual test a fully loaded boat showed no mes- surable deflection. The boats are fit- ted with suspension hooks of the Welin design, which facilitates easy unhooking ás soon 38 they ате water-borne. The boats are handled by the well-known Welin-Maclachlan gravity system, but while the general configuration of the davits thent- selves remains more or less standard in outline, certain details have been modified in order to fit the gear for

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, the unusually arduous duties which

NEW YORK via PANAMA.

Thursday, 30th May.

it

is called upon to perform. The davits themselves, or cradles, as they are termed for the sake of onveni.

SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Porta. ence, which slide down the trackways

Monday, 6th May.

Wednesday, 1st May, LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Geneva, Marseilles,

21st May. TOYOOKA MARU

30th April. Tuesday, Wednesday, 8th May.

*

Tuesday, ¿ALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

TOKUSHIMA MĀRU

+ MALACCA MARU

HANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

ATSUTA MARU

SADO MARU (Calls Nagasaki)

† MORIOKA MARU (Moji direct)

Cargo only.

Tuesday,

30th April. Thursday, 2nd May. Saturday, 4th May.

Reduced 1st Class Excursion Rates quoted between Manila and Australia.

For further information apply to NIPPON YUSEN RAISHA.

Tel. Central No. 202 and 3897. (Private exchange to all departments.)

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has undergone considerable modifica

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NOTICE TO MARINERS

Notice is hereby given that owing in the ambiguity existing as to the status of the channels of the Yang- teze River, the Chinese Government has defined the Yangtaze River throughout its length channel, within the meaning of Ar- ticle No. 25 of the "International Re- gulation for Preventing Collisions at

Sua

as a narrow

The term "throughout its length" moans from the source of the river to a line joining Yangtaze Cape with position in latitude 81 deg. 60 min 30 segs. N., longitude 1 deg, 07 min. 30 secs. E., and thence in a

straight line to Shaweishan Light-

bouge.

The "International Regulations for Preventing Callisions at Sea" are binding only on Chinese vessels of foreign type and are not applicable to Chinese native craft.

EASTERN PORTS

PLAGUE, CHOLERA AND SMALL-POX

The health bulletin of Eastern porta for the week ended April 20, issued by the Director of Medical and Sani- tary Services, gives the following cases, the figures in parenthesis in- dicating deaths:

Plague: Bassein (2), Bombay (1), Rangoon (4), Colombo 2 ((2), Prom Penh 3 (8).

Cholera:

Bassein (47), Calcutta (97), Moulmein (4), Rangoon (2). Bangkok 16 (18), Fon Penh & (5) Saigon 3 (1)

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tion from the original Maclachlan

Small-pox: Bagdad 1, Basrah 1 (1. type now to be found on so many Aden 17 (4), Bombay 37 (30). Cal- orean-going vessels, and in order to extta 24 (16), Karachi 57 (29), (1), obtain as much clear deck space as Madras 81 (26), Moulmein 1 possible, is situated on the sun-deck Rangoon 2. Vizagapatam 4 (4), Pondi- The drums of the cherry 2 (2), Macasser (4). or casing top. winch have been arranged in pairs Samarinda 1, Haiphong 2 (1), Faom side by side, while the winches are Ponh 19 (18), Macao (0), Canton 21 arranged in twin-units, each unit (3), Dairen 2, Swatow 22 serving one lifeboat, the motor of 30 H.P., with its controller being (56). situated between the two winches. The drums are of sufficient diameter to accommodate the whole length of wire in a single layer, and are groov-

Cerebro-spinal meningitis: Shanghai

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS

Arrival at Hong Kong

ed so 43 to facilitate smooth run- Projected arrival at and departure ning. The drums are moreovor, step-from Hong Kong of steamers under ped, the smaller diameter counter-the management of the Bank Line, balancing the heavier pull, which is Ltd., are as follows:- encountered as soon as the block en- the cradle- the force at gages in head, and the waight of the cradle has to be carried up the trackways in addition to that of the boats them- selves.

Toothed-Ringed Drums

The 9.3. "City of Newcastle" from New York via Suez, May 1,

Departure From Hong Kong The "City of Deih!" for Singa- pore and. UK., May 9.

CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.

ore

Consignees of cargo ex As

are reminded to take "Bennevis" delivery of their goods which will be subject to rent after May 1.

M.V. AX Consignees of cargo

lake reminded to "Romelo" delivery of their goods which will be subject to rent after May 3.

of

C.S. Consignees

cargo are reminded to take delivery of their goods which will be subject to rent after May 3

The ruins are provided with tooth- ed rings driven by a common pinion, which can be readily disengaged it at any time it should be necessary forming part of the structure of the ship, are built up of plate and chan- to adjust the effcetive length of either nels into a box-section, the interior of the two falls. The brake in gen. of which is hermetically sealed, hav- oral principle is somewhat analogous

to a band brake, ing all sheaves and rollers in posi-

but the band takes the form of tions of greatly increased accessibi-

two separate semi-cir- ty on the outside. In addition to cular shoes.

These are connected by this, the customary single wire fall springs, and so urranged that one has been replaced by a two-part ar- shoc automatically comes off before rangement, being led up one side of the other, leaving the second one in "Rosandra" the cradle, Iove round single position and ready for a finer ad- sheaved block, upon which bangs the justment of the lowering spend. buat, and brought back down the The motor is reversible and capable other side to a suitable position of driving either the one or other of the trackways, to which it is secur the two winches forming the unit. The installation causes but little en- cumbrance on the docks, there being only the trackways themselves and the sun part of the gutterway of deck to be considered. It may be

ly anchored. The added purchase obtainable by this arrangement ren- dere possible the use of 2 more flexible wire, a consideration obvious- ly of paramount importance

when handling loads of this magnitude. noted that the deck is relieved of ali The operation of lowering the boat undue strain, so much so, indeed, is identical with that of all that the usual steel plating below the Maclachlan gravity davits, and the planks has been dispensed with, pendant arrangement which pulls the beat radially into the ship's side. where it may be safely loaded with passengers, has been retained in its ertirety. As is customary with this type of gear, no electric power is re- quired for lowering, everything being done by gravity alone under the con-

consideration of the utmost import- ance in stubility calculations, Severe tests were recently carried out under the supervision of the Germanischer Lloyd at the works of Schlosser & Ferbusch, at Dusseldorf, an a set of these davits, in order to ascertain if the cradles carrying the lifeboat would start to move by the force of gravity alone and without assistance The hoisting is effectad by Я when the vessel had a list of 15 deg. special lifting winch driven by an and a pitch of 5 deg.Shipbuilding eleotris motor. When the block has ❘ and Shipping Record,"

LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP—Via Singapore trol of a hand brake,

Colombo, Suez and Port Said.

AMUR MARU RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon, Singapore,

BOMBAY Via Singapore & Colombo.

Saturday, 11th May.

Colombo, Durban & Capo, Town.

SANTOS MARU

Friday, 17th May.

HONOLULU MARU

SUMATRA MARU

Saturday, 4th May. Sunday, 19th May.

MEXICO MARU

Thursday, 2nd May.

SEATTLE MARU AN

Thursday, 2nd May.

KASADO MARU

Saturday, 18th May.

DURBAN, LOURENÇO MARQUES, BRIKA, Dik-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR

& MOMBASA Via Singapore & Colombo.

CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Japan Ports

LONDON MARU (From Shanghai) Monday, 29th April.

MELBOURNE VI Manila. Brisbane & Sydney, N

HIMALAYA MARU

BANGKOK-Vis Saigon.

HAIPHONG_Vk Hoihow & Pathoi.

MENADO MARU

Wednesday, 8th May-

Thursday, 9th May 10 am.

NEW YORK-Via Japan ports, San Francisco & Pansman.

HAGUE MARŲ

JAPAN PORTS.

BATAVIA MARU

ALTAI MARU

MEELUNG-Vis SWATOW & AMOT.

CANTON MARU

HOZAN MARU

TAKAO Via SWATOW & AMOY.

DELI MARU

TAKAO & KEELUNG

BATAVIA MARU

SANUKI MARU..

Wednesday, 15th May.

.Sunday, 5th May-

Wednesday, 15th May.

Sunday, 28th April 3 p.m. Sunday, 5th May 3 p.m.

Thursday, 2nd May noon.

Sunday, 5th May. Wednesday, 22nd May."

For further particulars please apply to OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA, Tel, Central No. 4088, 4089, 4090.

M. TAKBUCHI, Manager.

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SUN.

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WED.

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FRI.

24th

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26th

MON.

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WED. 15th

FRI.

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