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190 210

235

Wednesday, 24th July. Wednesday, 7th August.

Monday, 29th July.

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

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TAIYO MARU

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MISHIMA MARU

IYO MARU

Monday, 12th August.

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AKI MARU

KAGA MARU

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Wednesday, 24th July. Wednesday, 21st August,

.... Saturday,

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† KUMA MARU

9th August.

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30th July.

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Saturday,

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Friday,

19th July.

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Monday,

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RECENT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INCREASES

CARGO VESSELS' IMPORTANCE

The Italian Government has created a special commission to examine the subventions granted to home shipping companies and to recommend, when necessary, increases which

may be deemed advisable in view of the foundation of new services or the im- provement of existing ones. As a re- cult, the committee has recommended that increased subventions should be given to the following companies to the Amaunt stated:-

NOTED SECRETARY

JAMES ADAMSON OF THE MARINE ENGINEERS

LONG CAREER

and filled it with entire acceptance till April, 1915, when, at the age of 65, and after 36 years' service, he re- tired. The occasion was marked by testimonials of esteem from associates and friends on all hands,

meet

Pronounced Development During Mr. Adamson's long period of service there was constant and pro- nounced development in the British India services to and round India. The regular lines of sailings increased, and the steamers added to the fleet advanced in size and speed and in accommodation

ion and equipment. To developments, both in

pk5- senger and cargo-carrying, auxiliary macihnery for various purposes. ventilation and refrigeration, for. example-increased apace, and this imposed on the superintending, well as the operating engineers, extra responsibility and studiousness of the trend of progress. This, of course, was representative of what obtained in many other shipping services.

Under such conditions generally, and with a growing desire locally for better opportunities of mutual help and intercourse, several superinten- dent engineers at the Royal Albert Dock, and others associated with marine engineering industries, in the autumn of 1988 formed's committee to consider and further the pro- Position best of founding a society for the of marine engineers, and for their bearing on the work and main- of Ailsa, tenance of eteamships. The movement

Mr. James Adamson, M.I.Mar.E.. honorary secretary since its founda- tion in 1889-forty years ago-f the Institute of Marine Engineers, is now in his 80th year: he is as alert, vigorous, and enthusiastic as through out his long period. of honorary ser vice. Upon these happy facts hearty congratulations have flowed in upon Mr. Adamson from friends in shipping and engineering circles at home and overseas. A signal honour also has The Florio Steamship Company, been done him by the Worshipful from 28,650,000 paper lire to 27,950 Company of Shipwrights in confer 600 for the present year, and to ring upon him the Honorary Free- 35,475,000 in 1930, this company hav den of the Company, #1 distinction

new lines, the ing initiated two

not given to many. This was con- Palermo-Tripolt and the Genoa-Tunis-ferred at a meeting of the company the discussion of their experiences and Tripoli-Benghazi-Alexandria; the Zara- held on May 15, presided over by tiner

from 980,000 to 2,000,000 the Muster, the Marquis Company paper lire, the services with Zara bay- and the recipient was afterwards en-had in Mr. Adamson, if act the ing been improved; the San Marco tertained at dinner.

moving apirit, certainly a most en- Company from. 16,000,000 to 20,000,-

thusiastic supporter, and he 000 paper tire, and after July 1st

selected to undertake the work of Fiumo- this year to, 22,000,000, the

honorary organising secretary. Ancona servies having been made daily one and the line to Dalmatia the Puglia

a

Early Training Some account of Mr. Adamson's training and career und of the found ing and growth of the institute with which his name is so inseparably as- sociated is opportune at the present

considerably impro000 to 16,950,- time.

Company from 000 paper lire, for the creation of the Bari-Derozzo service.

The committe also recommends that the subventioned steamship companies obliged

to build new ships should have an increase of 10 per cent., but as the funds for the increase of the sub- ventions is limited to 20,000,000 paper lire, and a total increase of 14,845,000 paper lire has already been suggested, the sums at the disposal of the com- mittee for other increases is limited to 5,155,000 paper lire.

Construction of New Vessels The annual report of Signor G. B. of the Fascist Eccchi, president Federation of Cargo Shipowners of the Tyrrenian Sea, unanimously approved at the last meeting of the Federation, has been published. In the federation are associated 974 owners, with a fleet of 1,491 ships of 1,524,236 gross tons and 16,800 employees and seamen.

ships, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Vin Singapore

Colombo, Suez and Port Said.

ALTAI MARU

ATLAS MARU

Sunday, 21st July. Sunday, 11th August.

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

Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.

MONTEVIDEO MARU

BOMBAY Via Singapore & Colombo,

SHUNKO MARU

Tuesday, 30th July.

Friday, 19th July,

The report states that Italians do not fully recognise the economical im- of its cargo portance to the nation

for the successful operation of which a considerable diminution in the costs of production and of working is necessary. This diminution should be the brought about by the substitution of the present ships by others more modern and more efficient, hut this change should be made gradually, and the facilities granted by the new should be Shipping Credit Institute

The considerable carefully.

however, still in a good condition, are nevertheless indispensable to the Italian Merchant Marine. It is con-

to avoid.

the in- crease of cost of insurance on the home and on International markets, and all other causes of loss to these ships,

DURBAN, LOURENCO "MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZAN quantity of the older ships, which are,

BAR MOMBASA Via Singapore & Colem be,

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Taesday, 6th August.

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BORNEO MARU

Thursday, 18th July.

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA. & VANCOUVER Via Japan Porta from saquently necessary to

Shanghai.

MELBOURNE Via Manita. Brisbane & Sydney.

HIMALAYA MARU

EAIPHONG—Via Haihow & Pakhoi.

MENADO MARU

Wednesday 7th August.

.... Thursday, 25th July, 10 a.m.

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

HAVANA MARU

JAPAN PORTS.

INDUS MARU

Via

KEELUNG-Via Swatow & Amoy.

HOZAN MARU

CANTON MARU

TAKAO-Vin SWATOW & AMOY.

DELI MARU

TAKAO & KEELUNG.

Friday, 19th July.

Wednesday, 24th July.

Sunday, 28th July, 3 p.m. Sunday. 21st July, 3 p.m.

Thursday, 18th July, noon.

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The Project

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After circularising ordinary und sundry meetings, he and others had the satisfaction of seeing the project His forbears were. practical ship cation being made in that month for materialise in February, 1889, appli- builders. His grandfather-James catt Adamson-carried on a shipbuilding registration under the Companies Act yard at Aberdeen during the last of "The Institute

of Marine En- decade of the eighteenth and first of gineers," and obtained in July follow- the nineteenth century.

Some time ing. The first meeting was held some later the site of his yard which months later in room rented for the had four or five building berths, as purpose in Stratford, E., and the first

was by shown in an interesting oil painting paper read

the late Mr.

of the time now. with other Arthur J. Maginnis, of Liverpool, Duvenirs, in Mr. Adamson's posses whose death was recorded in January

last.

In 1891 premises were acquired in Stratford, and altered and extended to suit the needs of the Institute; funds for the purpose being generously subscribed to by

many outside friends, including the sum of £300 from tho then president, the late Peter LL.D., Dumbarton, whose

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desirablity of being in closer touch with h

head shipping offices (several of the meeting having had to be held in Gresham Hall and in the Hall of the Society

of Arts), it became neces- sary to consider the advisability of acquiring a site for the erection of

in the city. premises in

Following upon mectings

to consider ways and means fund was

and donations were soon forthcoming.

When a sufficient amount had been raised a site was purchased near the Mint, overlooking the Tower of Lordon. On October 29, 1913, the foundation stone of the present digni- fied and commodious edifice on Tower Hill was Inid by the then Lord Mayor of London (Sir David Burnett, Sir Thomas L Devitt being at the time the president of the Institute. The new premises were ready for DC- elected a life honorary associate of. cupancy in the following year, and the Australian Institute of Marine they were opened on January 20, 1915, Engineers, the distinction and the pre- the inaugural address being delivered sentation of the Gold Emblem having by Sir Archibald Denny, Bart, been conferred, as the record atatas, LL.D., the then president. In 1919,

"in recognition of the magnificent His Majesty the King was graciously work he has performed or bohuit of pleased to accept the office of patron. the engineers of the Empire."

The men

meinbership of the Institute all told companions, associate members, Esaociates, student graduate and graduates--nambered in 1909 some thing over 1,100, having thus trebled for harbour a completed 21 years

in 20 years.

When Mr. Adamson had

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The preparation of the Instituto's transactions, and of the annual reports have, of course, been the work of the Hon. Secretary, and over a long period of years he has himself made contribu- tions of value to the deliberations of

tension, and the business was trans-honorary service the Institute insisted

of constant the society.

was

If it is not possible to reduce the costs with, a rapid modernisation of ships, the report continues, the way to Economy lies in the simplification of services, the elimination of double taxalion, at present under the con sideration of the League of Nations, and the limitation of taxation by the Italian Government.

With the re- duction of coats, is also necessary the elimination of all obstacles hindering the owners' initiative. Private owners must be in a position to purchase old

sion was required or new ships, steamers, or sailing vessels, big or

ferred to Grangemouth,

In October, 1898, he read a paper cording to their special requirements.

Here, after the death of Mr en marking its appreciation and on The Marine Engineer": in This liberty is necessary for the crea-

Adamson, sen, about 1880, the yard esteem in some fitting and tangible March, 1999, on "Seaborne Traffic" tian of healthy and vital enterprises.

carried on by his youngest son way, and he was presented with his in October, 1902, "Our Fuel Supply The president, on the basis of the statistica of the Lloyd's Register of and a nephew, while the eldest portrait in oils by a well-known artist, in October, 1904, "Technical Educa-

son and with a Thomas (Mr. James Adamson's

a cheque for £500, together tion"; in January, 1908, "The Value of Shipping and of the Bureau Veritas pats forward the suggestion that the father), struck out for himself, and with a writing bareau and cabinet for Annealing"; in October, 1996,

earried on a small yard for canal Mrs. Adamson je not an essential ele-

advantage of age of ships is

a Technical Societ craft, The losses from

Clyde appreciation of the kindly help (awarded the Dinny Gold Medal); and ment in total losa.

&c., on the Forth and Clyde Canal, west of Grangemouth. From And hospitality extended to young in 1912 causes independent of the age of the

on "The Celebration of the ships are, according to Signor Beccal, early in the nineteenth century also London, he had received various ac addition he has delivered lectures to

engineers from overseas visiting Centenary of Steam Navigation. 60.992 per cent. of the total. Con-grand-uncle of the subject of our knowledgmunt, one such being the pre- the junior sections of the Institute on

obiography, Thomas Adamson, was a

shipbuilder in Dundee, and from his sentation in 1914, by the High Com-educational and philosophical subjects. yard there emanated many sailing Misioner, of the Gold Emblem of New

He has represented the Institute at lu 1914, also, he vessels of goodly size, and fatterly Zealand.

various Congresses. and meetings of steamships for various early com- panies. For the Dundee and Hall Steam Packet Co. there was built in 1835 the Forfarshire, whose wreck off the Northumberland coast in 1838 brought into the annals of romance and herolam Grace Darling, the daughter of the lighthouse keeper of the Farne Islands.

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Linke With Shipping Born near Falkirk, Stirlingshire, on January 8, 1850, and with family traditions so linked with shipping and the sea, it was but natural that young James Adamson should follow a call- ing concerned with abipbuilding and marine engineering, although his early schooling at Falkirk and Allos, and later at Dollar Academy, where he was 8 pupil from 1862 to 1866, and later still at Glasgow University, was of a character so liberal and varied as might have suggested many other callings.

His apprenticeship engineering was begun in 1866, when he served first for twelve months with a millwright engineer at Falkirk, and subsequently for four years with the engineering firm of Forrest and Bart, Glasgow.

Removed To London Removing to London in 1876, he entered the drawing office of Messrs. J. and W. Dudgon, shipbuilders and engineers, Millwall, and after a time resolved on Bequiring some sea experience, and went on an extended voyaga in the four-masted steamer "Sumatra" to the Straits Settlements, China and Japan, in the latter country paying a visit to the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo. On return ing to

took up a post with

Stephen DI Alex

Sons, through a three years course in Glasgow University,

Back in London again, be secured, in 1880, an appointment as draughts man and Resistant to Mr. Malcolm Campbell,

superintendent engineer

the British India Stean Navigation Co At the Victoria Dock, and sub- sequently, when it was opened for traffic at the Royal Albert Dock Upon the death of Mr. Campbell, in 1869, he succeeded to this important and growingly responsible position,

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kindred institutions. He is at present serving on the committee formed in London to arrange for British techni- cal institutions to take part in the World Engineering Congress, to be held at Tokyo in October and Novem-

ber next.

To the foregoing all too inadequate accourt of Mr. Adamson's work in the interests of the marine engineering profession sentence or two should be added as to his well-known sympathy with and participation in religious and philanthropic work, especially 03 behalf of the young, While in Glas- gow he was closely identified with the Foundry Boys' Religious Society, and devoted his Sabbaths and many of his evenings to ameliorative work in the poorer districts of the city. Embued as he is with the altruistic spirit little wonder need be felt that he inspires the regard of young and old; may he long be spared to witness the fruits of his career.

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