1930-02-26 — Page 4

NY.KLINE

"ASAMA MARU”

NEW MOTOR SHIP

Sails from HONG KONG

at

10 A.M.

27th FEBRUARY

for

SHANGHAI

Japan Ports, Honolulu, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Due to arrive at Shanghai 1st March, Due to arrive at San Francisco 20th March.

For further information apply to:-

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,

THE CHINA MAIL.

*SHIPPING

PRESIDENT MADISON

Prominent Visitors to the Colony

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SECTION,

Mr. A. V. Nellsen.-Connected with the Great, Northern Telegraph Co., proceeding to Shanghai.

Major M. Lyraberry.-Attached to the Imperial Chemical Co., travelling to Shanghai.

Br. T. Taksudi.-Connected with The following is a list of pro-the M.B.K., on a business trip to minent visitors who arrived at the Shanghai. Colony by the 6.9. President Madison:-

Mr. Chas. E. Dant-Mr. Dant is a wealthy lumberman from Part- land, Oregon. He is touring the Orient, and rejoins his wife and daughter, who came on ahead of him to Hong Kong.

Mr. Joseph Hartzenbusch. Mr. Hartzenbusch is a motor car dealer in Shanghai and comes to Hong Kong on a short business trip.

Mr. G. F. Jackson-Mr. Jackson is a prominent Shanghai Merchant who comes to Hong Kong on bus!

деза.

Mr. Ralph M. Johnson and Miss Melania Johnson-Mr. Johnson is Asst. Director of the Orient for the United States Shipping Board and is en route to Manila, accom- panied by his daughter.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Keith--Mr. Keith is an route aroud the World

accompanied by Mrs. Keith. He is

Phone No. C. 292, 3821 & 3897. (Private exchange to all Depts.) 4.

O. S. K

0.

BAILINGS FROM HONG KONG BUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP-Via Singapore

Colombo, Suez and Port Said. AMAZON MARU

Tuesday, 18th March..

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

Colombo, Durban & Cape Town. LAPLATA MARU BOMBAY Vin Singapore & Colombo,

CELEDES MARU MEIGEN MARU

Friday, 21st March.

Saturday, 8th March. Wednesday, 19th March. BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZI- TGSingapore & Colomba

DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES,

BAR & HOMHAEA

PANAMA MARU

CANADA MARU

SUMATRA MARU

Saturday, 1st March. Monday, 31st March,

JALCUTTA-Yin Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

Tuesday, 18th March,

retired

Chicago, Ill.

business man

from

Mr. Lee Lassner.-Mr. Lassner is a Neon Electric Sign engineer and comes to Hong Kong for installa tion of a number of these signs.

Mr. H. A. Merecki-Mr. Merecki is a prominent Shanghai Merchant. visiting Hong Kong on a short bus ness trip from his home in Shang hai.

Dr. S.-H. Skeldoo-Dr. Sheldon is a prominent surgeon from Port- land, Oregon, touring the Orient.

Mr. P. H. Suckling-Mr. Suckling is General Manager of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd. He is taking up his future residence at Hong Kong.

Dr. Yao Haing-huang-Dr. Yao is Commissioner of Agricultural Inspection of China, and will stay in Hong Kong for several months on Government business.

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER—Via Japan Ports from Samples is a prominent society

Shanghel

ALABAMA MARU (from Bhanghai) Sunday, 9th March.

MELBOURNE—Via Manila, Brisbane & Sydney.

HAIPHONG-Via Hoihow, & Pakkol.

SYDNEY MARU

MENADO MARU

HAMBURG MARU

Thursday, 6th March,

NEW YORK-Vis Japan ports, San Francisco & Panama-

JAPAN PORTS.

HAMBURG MARU

KEELUNG-Via Bwatow & Amoy.

CANTON MARU

TAKAO-VIɑ SWATOW & AMOY.

DELI MARU

TAKAO & KEELUNG.

SOURABAYA MARU

Thursday, 6th March, 10 a.m.

Sunday, 2nd March,

Sunday, 2nd March.

Mrs. M. G. Samples. Mrs.

leader in Charleston, West Vir ginia, U.S.A. She is on a tour of India. She will remain in Hong Kong, awaiting friends, for three

weeks.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND

The following passengers on the 8.9. President Cleveland have sailed from Hong Kong:-

Arrivals

Per s.s. President Madison on February 24:-

1

WELDING IN SHIP

CONSTRUCTION

|PROGRESS IN GERMANY WITH | TWO 610-TON TANKERS

·BOLDNESS OF DESIGN

Since the Fullagar was built by: Messrs. Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., very little has been done lo the construction of ships by means of welding in England, but pro- gross has been made abroad, parti cularly in the United States of America and in Germany. For instance, the German Relchamarine has decidede to uso welding on an extensive scale on their ships, and are, therefore, Instructing numbers D. C. Boyce, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred of their men in the art of this Brush, Mrs. P. V. Botelho, Miss process. It was decided some time C. M. Botelho, P. V. Botelho, S. Y. ago to build a trial ship by means Chur, Misa T. Cory, Mr. and Mrs. of a new method of construction H. S. Dadley, C. E. Dant, T. Y. which would allow for the exten- Denne, M. B. Daniels, R. V. Fowler, sive use of welding, and enable all Miss V. Hay, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. joints, including those of the outer Hacker, J. Hartzenbusch, G. F. parts, to be made by welding. The Jackson, Ralph M. Johnson, Miss measurements of the trial vessel, a M. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Carl motorboat, were 16 by 8.16 by 1.56 Keith, Rober, Lewis, H. Merecki, metres; after many systematic ten- M. R. Nichelson, W. H. Peters, Esile tests in the laboratory, it was Rutger, E P. Remington. Mrs. decided to eliminate riveting alto- M. G. Samples, Dr. S. H. Sheldon,gether. M. W. Stranack, C. A. Steibel, Prof.

H. Schemeras, P. H. Suckling, C. M. recently constructed two 600-ton The Deutsche Werke, Kiel, have

Wise.

SHIPPING ORDERS

The New P. & O. Electric Liners

d.w. oil-tankers in which the maxi- mum possible use of electric weld- ing has been made. The fact that the vessels were not built to the rules of any particular classifica tion the owners meeting their own Insurance-permitted a boldness in |design not otherwise possible. The Measta. Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., vessela are 153ft. in length, b.p., by have secured the order for two 26.86ft. in breadth, moulded, by P. and O. turbo-electric liners. This 16.9ft. in depth, with a draft of in the largest individual order secured

A 19,000-TON DUTCH PASSENGER LINER

Frames and bulkhead

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1930,

FAST LUXURIOUS

SERVICE-

-to America

and Europe

■RAVELLERS bound for

Tamerica or Europe avail

themselves of speedy and com- fortable service when they go Canadian Pacific.

The White Empresses are the largest, newest and fastest linera on the Pacifio. They cross from Yokohama to Vancouver in 9 days; from Shanghai to Van- couver in 14.

Thess ships connect with the summer traius, "Trans-Canada Limited" and "Mountaineer," at Vancouver, enabling passengers to make the earliest sailing of a Canadian Pacific Atlantic liner.

CANADIAN PACIFIC

NEXT SAILINGS

TO MANILA

E/CANADA 5 P.M. Mar. · SEK E/RUSSIA 5 P.M., Mar., 31st

TO THE PACIFIC COAST E/ASIA ........NOON, Mar. 5th E/CANADA......Mar. 19th

WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM

BRITISH WUCHOW LINE

SAILING DATES FOR FEB/MAR, 1930 (Subject to change). DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 5.30 p.m., Wuchow 1.30 p.m.

88. TAI MING" [649 tone-Capt. G. J. Spink.] MARCH

S.S. "TAI HING" [1,068 tons-Capt. Trott] WED, 26th FEBRUARY

TUES. SUN. FRI

MARCH 4th 9th

WED.

19th

SUN.

2nd

MON. 17th

TUES.

25th

FRL

7th

SUN, 23rd

14th BUN.

30th

WED. 12th

FRI.

28th

Regular Service of Fast, High Class River Steamers Having" Good Ac- commodation for First Class Passengers. Electric Light and Fans in State- roome and Saloon. The wa. "Tal Hing” is fitted with Wireless.

These vessels leave Hong Kong for Wachow ́ (via Samahal, Shluhing, Takhing & Dosing) and return to Hong Kong (via samo Ports) every five days.

Fares for round trip (not including meals) #20. Meals & Wines are: to be obtained on board.

Hong Kong Arrivals and Departures from Hoi On Wharf. For Information apply to 87, Connaught Road West,

Phone: Central 893.

KWONG WING

Co Ltd.,

by the Barrow works during the last 12.93ft. The engines (of 70 b.h.p.) ten years, and will vary considerably are aft. There are three main oil relieve the unemployment position, a tanks amidships, with cofferdams the work on the ships will absorb an separating them from the engine- average of approximately 2,500 men room and the forward hold. The for nearly two years in Barrow alone. equivalent Germanischer Lloyd The vessels will be propelled by riveted vessel was taken as the turbo-electric machinery manufactured basis for initial design scantlings. by the British Thomson Houston Co., of Rugby, acting in collaboration with maximum rivet-spacing of 3% As, however, for oll-tight work, a Vickers-Armstrings, Ltd. The boiler diameters must not be exceeded, will be of the labeat high-pressure type only about two-thirds of the plat- designed by Messrs. Yarrow anding is really intact. Theoretically, the boilers for one ship being by Yarrows and for the second ship by the adoption of welding should per- Vickers-Armstrongs.

|mit of a corresponding reduction in | plating thickness. Actually, how- ever, the riveted shell thickness of 8mm. was reduced to 7mm. Only the centre-line bulkhead keel-bar, The Marnix Van St. Aldegonde, gunwale-bar and stern-frame shell sister ship to the Johan Van Olden- connections are riveted, everything|

Shell and deck barnevelt, has been launched from the eise is welded, Netherland S.B.. Co.'s yard. for the Netherland S.S. Co., and is 600 belts across the ship, as the usual She is plating ware welded in transverse feet long, with a beam of 74 feet and need for a shift of butts no longer a depth of 55 fent 8 inches. The gross existed. register is 19,000 tons. Bulzer mastiffeners are of the bulb-plate type, chinery built the De Schelde B.B. and the usual connecting flange of Co. will be installed, comprising two 10-cylinder motors, each developing the bulb angle is unnecessary. The 7,000 b.h.p. at 100 r.p.m., and having centre-line bulkhead is continuous cylinders 760 mm. bore, with a piston through the transverse bulkhead. Sunday, 2nd March, Noon.'

Mr. A. A. Rasmussen-Sales provided for 866 first-class, 281 second- camber. The vessel was built on stroke of 1,340 mm. Accommodation is The deck is made without sheer br Thursday, 27th February, 10 am Engineer of the Johns Manville, class and 64 third-class passengers, an enclosed slipway; this added riveting, yet the overall costs for; constructed by the most modern International Corpn. New York, whilst 60 will be carried in the fourth considerably to the convenience a ship of given dimensions are methods, one of the foremost in- Friday, 14th March..

travelling to Shanghai,

class. The crew total 344, and the fall and expedition of the work practically equal; and for equal | novations being the fact that weld- Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Moore and complement, therefore, will be 1,115. family-Travelling home to the The Marnix Van St. Aldegonde will outfit steel, of the riveted vessel tually the cheaper.

The structural weight, excluding dead weight the welded ship is ac- Ing has completely taken the place United States. Mr. Moore is con- maintain a speed of 18 knots to 18 amounted to 208 tons, compered

of riveting. It has been found expedient to She and her sister ship are the

Riveting has before been partial- Rected with the Shell Of interests knots,

fargest motor vessel built and owned with 144.5 tons for the welded are electric arc welding in con- ly replaced by welding and good in Borneo.

in Holland.

vessel, The greatest saving was structing the new German cruisers | results have been obtained, but in effected in bars. For example, in of the Koenigsberg class, owing to this case, the results have exceed- the bulkheads the riveted structure the great saving in weight which ed the expectation of all the ex- had a plating weight of 25.9 tone has been obtained by using this perts. Mrs. H. T. Welsbecker and

with bars weighing 144 tons; in process. A very high grade of steel family-Missionary worker from

On the eve of his departure for the welded structure the corres- was selected and electric arc weld- Siam, returning home to the U.S. Cannda, where he is to be marine super ponding weights are 17.9 tons and ing has completely taken the place intendent for the Canadian National 3.52 tons, representing economies of of riveting. On the 18th October, Mr. and Mrs. J. Vlaser-Travel Steamships at Vancouver, B.C., Com-32 and 83 per cent respectively and the anniversary of the battle in ling to Europe via the U.S. Mr. mander A. S, M. Nicholis, of the Cana- total saving in weight of 47 per 1818 at Leipzig, the new German Visser is the Secretary of the B-dian National Steamships, London, was cont. So far as cost is concerned, cruiser Leipzig was launched. liton Tin Co., with Headquarters in presented with a silver ten tray by his while the cost per ton of steel is This ship which is 180 metres long The Hague, Holland.

colleagues in Great Britain. In mak- higher with welding than with and has a tonnage of 6,500 has been ing the presentation, Mr. P. A. Clews, European traffic manager of the Cana dian National Kailways, paid a high friend and business associate, and sald tribute to Commander Nicholla as that never had he received anything but co-operation from him. the greatest loyalty and the heartiest

For further parlculara please apply to—OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

Tel: Central No. 4088, 4089, 4090,

M. TAKEUCHI, Manager,

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SHIPBUILDERS,

SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Gillis.~Return. Ing home to the U.S. Also con. nected with the Shell Oil Interests.

ou furlough.

Mr. Ben Moss.-Morchant from Java, returning home to the United States.

Mr. Chau King-yat-Proceeding to the U.S. to further his studies in the University of Oregon.

Mr. Herbert Dewhirst-Travel ling home to Europe. via the U.S. Mr. Dewhirat is in the Yarn busi ness in Huddersfield, England.

DRY DOCK

THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

OF HONG KONG, LIMITED.

BALVAGE TUG “TAIKOO".

Wireless Call

V.P.G.N. 600 Meters,

Length 787 Foot. Length on Blocks 750 Feet.

Depth on Centre of.

· 811 (H.W.0.8.T.) 84 ft. 6 ing.

THREE SLIPWAYS.

bis of Handling, Ships Up

000 To

isplacement,

Wall: Capable of 76 Feet: RadÍ KOSK

ORE

PRESENTATION TO C. N. S. SUPERINTENDENT

Mr. C. J. Smith, European vice- president, expressed his personal re- grets at losing such a loyal worker, and Mr. Geo. E. Cowie, general freight agent, added his tribute..

WARSHIPS IN PORT

British warships in port this meen- ing, were:

In Basin B.N; Dockyardi Tamar, Bridgewater, Sandwich, Taran-

North Arm: Sirdar.

West Wall: Kent, Petersfield.

In Dock: Seraph, Herald, Iroquois,

No. 6 Buoy Suffolk.

No. 8 Buoy Bruce.

No. 11 Buoy: Stormcloud

No. 12 Buoy Cicala.

No. 18 Buoy Thracian.

Foreign mer-o-war in port were:

U.S. Destroyer Stewart.

U.S. Gunboat Helenă.

-Japanese Training Ship Taisal Marn.

Portuguese Gunboat Patria, Be

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMER

The CPB. R.M.S. Empress of Australia B/W: _Cruise, arrived at Chinwangtio on February 24 (Mon.) at 6 pm; leaves Chinwany tao on March 1 (Bet) t:8 pm and

in, due at Beppu on March 4 (Tugs.) at 6am

CONSIGNEES NOTICE:

By the utilisation of this process of construction, the Leipzig has been able to increase her dimen- sions without increasing her ton- nage. The welding of warships should, it is confidently believed. give them greater fighting value, higher speed and more space for housing their personnel.

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NEW YORK, BOSTON, & BALTIMORE

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9th March

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