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THE CHINA MAIL,

NAUTICAL RELICS

- MEETING FOR SOCIETY FOR

RESEARCH

BRITONS' DUTY TO JOIN

SHIPPING

SECTION.

mem-

LORD INCHCAPE

DETAILS OF THE NEW EARL'S CAREER

HEAD OF P. & O. CO.'S

Statesman and public benefactor, as well as a great shipowner, such is Lord Inchespe, G.C.SI, G.CMG

K.G.S.I., K.C.I.E.,

COMPANY RESULTS

-ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET

COMPANY

SEVERE COMPETITION

The report of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. for the year end- ed December 31, 1928 (already brief- ly reported), states that after pro- viding for depreciation there is a balance for the year of £729,366, to which is

added the credit balance brought forward from the accounts for 1927, making a total of £802,529, oat of which Debenture and other

dividends

Preference interest, stocks Zor the year 1928 and an in- terim dividend of per cent, less income tax, on the Ordinary stock have been paid. The court recom- of a final divi.

on

mend the payment whom the Kingdend on the Ordinary-stock of 3 per

has honoured with an earldom.

Born in Arbroath, Scotland, in 1952, James Lyle Mackay, as he then was, was left an orphan about the time he left school, and as his patri-

ness

sent, less income tax, making, with the interim dividend referred to, a 5 per cent. for the year total of 1928, leaving a balance of £43,878 to be carried forward.

The volume of saloon passenger

South America shows little fluctuation from year tri year and the supply of tonnage on this route is more than adequate to meet the demand. In spite of severe competition, the company's Tessels during last year obtained a satisfac-

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KOBE YOKOHAMA

The annual general meeting of the Society for Nautical Research, it is announced, was held at the Royal United Services Institution, London, on June 12, and it is an encouraging commentary on the society's progress that on this occasion the meeting is to be (save the "Journal of Com- merea" to hand), not in one of the small upper roots as hitherto, but in the lecture theatre of the institumor amounting to about £2,000, was invested in two barques trading tion. That the address of the Chair- man, Admiral Sir George P. W. Hope, to the East Indies, he naturally turn traffic to and from

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ed to shipping for a career. He first K.C.B., will, in the theatrical phrase.

joined the staff of Gellatly, Hankey be "played to capacity is unlikely,

and Sewoll, shipowners and shipbrok- for the lecture theatre could probably

ers, of London. After two years' accommodate the entire London mem

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study he proceeded to Calcutta, and bership of the society without over-

joined Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie crowding a strange state of affairs

and Co., the the managing agents in the greatest port in the world, but

of the British India Co. By the time true; the growth is steady, however,

thirty he had become the if not spectacular, and the total me he was

partner in charge of the whole busi- bership is now more than 70 per cent.

Genius for Amalgamations. In 1894. after twenty years' strenuous but successful experience in India, he came home and assumed charge of the wide ramifications of the British Indian Steam Navigation Co. and the Australasian United ery share of the traffic moving. The third class business has remain- Steam Navigation for the

Company.

Aug. 13' fed steady, the flow of emigrants pro- Lord Inchcape has tions. En out he combined the intral and. Bastorn Barope approxim

genius for ceeding from the Feninsula and Cer- 1914 terests of the P. and G. and British closely to that of the year and the "Mercury" Collection of thip:

India Companies, and in 1928 the in the present year. It would total ordinary capital of

Cruising business continues to ex- the com- be unfortunate, however, if any im-

the company's Vessels pression should gain ground

panies owned or controlled by the F. pand and that,

and D. Company

to specially equipped for this purpose these great feats accomplished, there £12,6

£12,654,942. These company travelling public. Successful cruises maintain their popularity with the is no more to be done; or that, in a

The parent company, Australasian were made round Ireland and Scot- society that makes such a special ap United, British India, Williara Cory land, from the United Kingdom to peal to the expert in maritime ar-

and Son, Orient Line, Eastern and chaeology, there is not ample room Australian, Federal Steam Naviga Norway, the Baltic, the Mediter for the member who can bring to its study no better equipment than an intelligent interest.

SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports, greater than it was five years ago.

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Constantinople, Genoa,

BINGO MARU

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama,

ATACO MARU

Friday, 9th August.

Tuesday, 23rd July.

DURBAN MARU

Saturday, 20th July.

Monday,

15th July.

Thursday, 18th July. Friday, 10th July. Monday, 22nd July.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

RANGOON MARU

SHANGHAL KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

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Tuesday, 30th July.

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Colombo, Durban & Cape Town. MONTEVIDEO MARU BOMBAY -Via Singapore & Colombo.

SHUNKO MARU

Pro Friday, 19th July,

OWER

There can be na question that the attainment of this excellent result As much

the attention that bas been drawn to the society's activities in connection with the "Save the Vic- tory Fund, under the auspices of the late Admiral of the Fleet Sir Doveton Sturdee, and the acquisition for

of

nation, third, of the Macpherson

Sir James Collection of naval prints a year ago,

models in

The Macpherson Print The expense of keeping such a vast collection as the Macpherson prints,

the

a

amounted

A Nobile Gift Lord Inchcape has made several noble gifts to the nation, both in

year.

been re

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TUES.

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DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR sight, while that upon the Victory large sum of money, on his daughter and dairy produce, apprechu Bhip-eign traffic in 1897, but how many

& MOMBASA-Via Singapore, & Colombo. CANADA MARU

Tuesday, 8th August.

... Thursday, 18th July.

CALCUTTA Vis Singapore, Penang & Rangoon

BORNEO MARU

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Japan Porta from

Shanghai.

ARIZONA MARU (From Shanghai). Monday, 15th July. MELBOURNE-Via Manila, Brisbane & Sydney.

HIMALAYA MARU

HAIPHONG—Via Heihow & Pakhai:

Wednesday,

7th August.

Friday, 19th July,

NEW YORK-Via Japan ports, San Francisco & Panams

HAVANA MARU

JAPAN PORTS.

AMAZON MARU

BATAVIA MARU

KEELUNG-Via Swatow & Ames.

HOZAN MARU

CANTON MARU

TAKAO-Via SWATOW & AMOT.

DELI MARU

THE MO & KEELING

Friday, 12th July. Sunday, 14th July.

Sunday, 14th July, 3 p.m. Sunday, 21st July, 3 p.m.

Thursday, 18th July, noon.

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INC.

The

West Indies, and also be tion Company, General Steam Navi ranean,

tween New York, Bermuda and the Company, Hain

Steamship West Indies. The company's freight Commonly

Khedivial Mail, New

And Brazil Zealand Shipping Company, Jamous services between Europe

And River Plate, Nourse, Strick Line, and the Union

West Indian, Steamship Company of New Zealand. Spanish Main, Central American and

North Facific ports have even on the barest "care and main tenance" basis, is a heavy drain, and

gularly maintained during the past to place it on such a footing as will

Competition was further in- render is resources properly acces.

free service and in actual money. tensified and conditions of trading sible to student and to general public The most notable in the latter cabecerally remained dificult.

The company and its associated alike will call for a considerable regory was the half-million pounds he

the nation in July, 1928. shipping companies have continued to gave to serve of endowment, the provision of which ranks as a first charge upon

This was presented in memory ed and frozen meat imported from

carry a large sum was

proportion of the chill- the

a the third largest river in the Chin- The Victory is

of hig daughter, the the society's energies,

Hon, Elsic "saved" but the end of the nece tempt to fly the Atlantic from east from the River Plate and Brazil iscent trade route was opened to for- Mackay, who lost her life in an at-modities carried under refrigeration Yangtze in importance. This magni- South America. The range of com- se Republic and second only to the expenditure upon her complete res toration and furnishing is not yet in to West. Lord Inchcape settled a

Increasing, and in addition to meat. Museum has hardly begun.

on her

21st birthday, said to be ad In the words of the old chanty, about £1,000,000. After deaths daties ments of fruit are now being export-oreigners travel on this important

ed to the United Kingdom. and other charges

the estate was North Pacific seaboard produced a

waterway? The scenery along the found to be £500,000. Lord Fachcape large apple crop in and his family not wishing to bene- and the vessels of the North Pacific to any person who wishes to spend a the year 1928, oute is beautiful. We recommend it the leading maritime nation in the world can plead justification leaving

fit by his daughter's death, bequeath-

coast service (which is operated by short and economical holiday. ed this amount to the State, to be the preservation and maintenance of its nautical relies to a few hundreds held in trust, and called "The Holland-America Line) carried a con- company in conjunction with the Elgin the Mackay only of its citizens, and ver

- Fund." largely

It was their wish siderable proportion of this fruit. to a single one of them.

kit should ultimately be used to pay It i is a task in which all can share, and in which

off the National Debt, by accumulat all who have anything

ing for 50 years, unless its proceeds to do shipping should take part as a mat-

together with other finds available 81, 1928, states that the balance at serve. The directors report that the should be sufficient to pay ter of course; and a sense of whale of the national indebtedness at

off the the credit of profit and loss account vessels have continued to rum satis- inability to break a lance on terms with Mr. R. C. Anderson, Mr. an earlier date. It is estimated that L. G: Carr Laughton, and the other the sum will, in 50 years at 5 per cent. compound interest, amount to experts who have done so much in

in the £5,733,700. last twenty years to place nautical researeb upon an entirely new plane, is no excuse for remaining apart, but rather the best of reasons for re- pairing, without further loss of time, such a regrettable deficiency Briton's education,

res are hard and the wat

but not so hard nor so low

WARSHIPS HERE

in u

B.O.T. RULES

LINE-THROWING APPLIANCES FOR SHIPS

Eagle Oil Transport Company Report for year ended December

to

for the year amounts to £519,905, to factorily during the year. There has which should be added the balance been allocated the sum of £491,622 from 1927 of

£6,520,

making to depreciation reserve. The cost of less £525,616,

transfer

has been de ordinary running repairs preciation reserve of £481,622, met out of revenue, and the coat of leaving

£43,994; add transfer Lloyd's surveys has been charged from dividend reserve of £122,500 against the repair reserve, which now and deducting dividend on Freference stands at £656,104. share capital for the year at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, ab- sorbing $120,000, there

کا

recom-

Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Directors have resolved to left mend to the shareholders on the "A" £46,494, which it is proposed to al- and "B" registers the payment of an The Merchant Shipping (Life-sav-

locate as follows: Final dividend of actual dividend of 24 per cent., ing Appliances) Ruloa. 1929, dated 2 per cent. on Preference share free of income tax, for the year ended January 19, 1929, made by the Board capital, making 8 per cent. for the March 31, 1929. of Trade under

Section 427 of the year $40,000, and carried forward and 26,494. The decrease in profits as

The following are the warships at Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and present in harbour:-

At the North Basin:-H.M.S. "Tamar," "Moorhen," L15 and 19.

At the North Arm: II.M,S. "Bridgewater" and "Sirdar."

At the West Wall Dock:-H.M.S. "Castor," and "Sepoy."..

In Deck: H.M.S. "Cicala,"

At No. 7 Budy:-H.M.S. "Thracian."

Foreign Men-of-War

C.S. Gunboat "Guam." Japanese Gunboat "Uji."

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMER

The P. & 0.8. "Kidderpore" left Singapore for this port on July 10 at 6 pm, and is die here on July 16 at about noon.

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[649 tona-Capt. G. J. Spink.].

WED. 24th MON. 29th

For information. apply to-

•

KWONG WING

8i, Connaught Road West, Phone: Central 893.

Co., Ltd.

JAPANESE SHIPBUILDING

The announcement that the Naga- saki shipyard is to build four motor liners for the Osaka Shosen Kaisha's Japan-New York service comes as

does forcible reminder

tha Japan her own shipbuilding, and has ceas- ed to place orders in Britain, sayS

The four Home shipping journal. vessels are to of high-class type, of 10,000 tons deadweight, driven by Sulzer-Diesel engines capable of giv

be

ing a speed of 17 knots, and offer-

ing a good, illustration of the work

which Japanese shipyards are able turn out. Time was when such

to

come to British builders.

Star

IRON DUKE BATTLESHIP

J

the Marchant Shipping (Line-throw compared with the previous year is EURIPIDES' NEW COMMANDER an order would almost certainly have ing Appliance) Act, 1923, are now due to the low rates of freight pre- issued by the Board of Trade in vailing during the period. In ac- When the Aberdeen-White leaflet form (price 1d.).

cordance with the arrangements with liner "Euripides" left Liverpool re- The rules state:--

the charterers the dividend reserve, cently for Australia, she had a new which 1. Every ship of 500 tons grogs H was created when freights commander in Captain H. Bowon, tonnage or upwards when proceeding were high, precluded the company late commander of the "Gallic." on 1 voyage 'or excursion from a from calling upon them to pay rates port in the United Kingdom

shait above those ruling on the market, carry the ander-mentioned hae-throw- and a sum of $122,600 has accord ing appliances:-

ingly been transferred from this re-

(a) Four 2 lb. line-throwing rockets capable of throwing a line 5-16 inch in circumfer- ence a distance of 120 yards in calm weather, together with suitable sticks and with port fires or other means of init- ing the rockets.

(b) Two lines of 5-16 inch in cir- cumference each not less than

240 yards in length and hav

:

ing a breaking strain of 150 lbs.

The battleship "Iron Battle" com- pleted her refit at Devonport re- Captain Bowan has 27 years' ser-cently, to replace the "Tiger" as gun- vice to his credit with the White nery ship, while the "Food" is ab- Star Line, and has served in most sent from the Battle Cruiser Squad- of the company's ships.

rón,

SHIPBUILDERS,

SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND

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V.P.G.N. 600 Meters.

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Length 787 Feet. Length on Blocks 750 Feet. Depth on Centre of

Sill (H.W.O.S.T.) 34 ft. 6 ins.

THREE SLIPWAYS-

Capable of Handling Ships Up

to 3,000 Tons Displacericot.

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· Lifting 100 Tons at 70 Feet Radius.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

AGENTS HONG KONG, CHINA & JAPAN.

The rockets with the means of igniting them and the lines shall be kept in a water-tight case?

2. Rule 4 of the Merchant Ship- ping (Life-saving Appliances) Rules, 1924 shall be amended by the inser- tion after

the words "buoyant ap- paratas" of the words "line-throwing appliances."

3. These rules may be cited as The Merchant Shipping (Life-saving Appliances) Rules, 1929, and shall come into operation, on July 1, 1929, and the Merchant Shipping (Life saving Appliances). Rules, 1924 and 1925, as amended, shall have the effect as further amended by these rules,

NOT ENOUGH WATER

So low-was the tide in the River Ouse at Selby recently that it was found impossible to launch a Hifi Ice- land trawler from the Selby shipyard. A large launching party had travelled from Hull for the occaaien. After a ninety minutes wait it was decided to abandon the: launch of the ship as there was not sufficient water in the river, the tide being nine feet below. normal. It was stated that tho exces- sive drought was the cause of low spring tides.

the

A day ahead of her scheduled time, 15,000 Cliner #Orita, after a miles voyage round South America, outward through the Panama Canal and homeward through the Straits of Magellan, arrived at Laver- nool. Her passengers included Mrs F. Hodson, wife of the Governor of the Falkland Islands

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