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SHIPREPAIRING

MARINE COURT

(Continued from Page 1)

Mr. Davidson:-You cannot say that the whistle you heard was the whistle of the Anking 7-I can say for certain that it was the whistle of the Anking. Every whistle has Capt. Richie could Ite own tone.

whistle in the game identify my

Howaldtswerke and the way

Old Vulkan Yard

I nut when

ft to you heard that a you

that

ship bow, your starboard ол was

dangerous for would be

In a recent report on the closing down lit of the old Vulkun yard at Humburg you to proceed?-lt would be dan reference was made to the re-opening geroua in any other place hut on of part of the yard by the Howaldt the South China Coast, where

wwerke A-G. This firm now state that

the clock every Did you note ing dacks of the company, of 17,500 era. chey have also bought one of the float- there is no cross traffic with ateam. tons lifting capacity, to facilitate re- [The cruisers named are three pair work at their neighbouring yard time you heard the whistle?-No. ships of the Denver class which of the former Janssen and Schmielinskt I did not, but it was noted by the

Therm.

At their two Hamburg yarda, other people.

four

Might Have Been Prevented? vessels.

now have consisted of six

When you heard the second stop had stopped Chattanooga and the Des Moines the Howald:swerke were completed in 1904 and the floating doqka, the respective capacities Vessels being 17,500, 8,500, 4,000 and 1,500 tons, Cleveland a year earlier.

liston? I might say that if the of 3.200 tons displacement, theirnd at their Kiel yard two such docks signal, and if you measurements are length 292 feet, 8,800 and 3,500 tons lifting capacity, your ship, there would be no col- beam 44 feet. When in service the cruisers had a speed of 16.5 knots CONTINENTAL PORT TRAFFIC Anking had stopped, there would and their main armament consisted of eight five inch guns.]

FAR EAST CRUISE Col. Guinness's Yacht Alpha Back

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• CHICHIBU MARU

Wednesday, Friday,

2nd April. 4th Apr.

• Maiden Voyage from Yokohama. TATSUTA MARU

Monday,

14th Aprli.

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MISHIMA MARU

SIBERIA MARU

Friday, Suturday,

4th April. 10th April.

KAMO MARU

Saturday,

KATORI MARU

Saturday,

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

TANGO MARU

AKI MARU

22nd March. 5th April.

Wednesday, 26th March. 23rd April. Wednesday,

27th March.

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TOTTORI MARU

Thursday,

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Mexico & Panama

GINYO MARU

KANAGAWA MARU

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.

Saturday,

The steam yacht Alpha, 698 tons,

owner (Colonel the Walter Guinness, D.S.O., M.P.) and party on hard, has recently returned to her inying-up quarters at Northam after a five months' voyage to the Fax East, during which 27,000 miles were covered.

also have been no collision.

Your clock is two minutes slow New Waterway arrivals in the week ended February 1 numbered 300 of and you have to add two minutes 506,746 net register tong, compared to what you say to make the cor- with 278 of 479.303 tons in the corres-rect time?--Yes. ponding week of last year, and included

The two short blasts were sither

came from the

that timu

69 British, 64 Netherlands and 62 Ger- from the other ship or you had misunderstood it?-The man steamers; the number of bunker entirely

two short blasts calis was 18, against 11 last year.

berthed 217 were

Anking. At Rotterdum

She must have at year; 201 216 of 385,956 tons inst Hon

vessels of 426,452 tous, empared with

In reply to another question heard your signal?--Yes.

two short blasts, and then to find witness said that if anyone had heard the two long blasts, and the the Anking in that position, nu have dreamt that a

You first sawi Mr. Davidson:

did not go her lights, and you master could do a thing like that.

astern?-No.

carried inward cargoes, including 130 general, 30 ore, 14 coal, 10 grain, and wood cargoes. Sailings with cargoes numbered 101 and included 50 coal and Arrivals at Amsterdam in the week coke shipments. Leaving Cowes in mid-August, Alphanded February 1 numbered 63, against picked up the owner and party at in the corresponding week of last Cannes, and then cruised through the year, and included 12 general, 7 coal Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, and and 6 wood cargoes; 15 vessels sailed Imports of British coal at Rotterdam Indian Ocean to Colombo. Thence she

and Amsterdam respectively amounted metrical tons went on to the Dutch East Indies, go

to 26,400 and 10,570 ing about 100 miles up the Eilander river, aff places where cannibalism Is still practised by the natives. After compared with 27,100 and 3,690 tons Thursday Island (Southin the corresponding week of last year; going on to Australia), the voyage was continued at Amsterdam 4,840 tons of Polish coal to Caroline Islands, but this part of the arrived, against 1,940 tous last year. trip had to be abandoned owing to very Among the many rough weather.

other ports of call were Tomate, Tara- St. Jacques, Singapore. kan, Cap Colombo, and Bombay.

cncountered

on the

with outward cargo.

DOCKYARD HOLIDAYS.

of Commons Mr. ITL the House Thorne asked the First Lord of the Alpha returned to Cannes early last Admiralty whether it was the intention raonth, and the owner and party dia of his Department to continue to grant latter part of to manual werkers in addition to the the homeward voyage, but after ahel-annual week'e holiday; and whether in SOUTH AMERICA (East Const) vin Singapore, Cape Town & Ports, embarked there. Stormy weather was all recognised statutory Bank Holidays tering in Corcubion Bay Alpha safely the latter case all employees would reached the Solent. She belongs to the take their holidays at one and the same Royal Yacht Squadron fleet, and is time.

Mr. Alexander. It is intended to continue in addition to the week's holi. commanded by Captain A. Butcher, of Cowes.

day, not only all the paid general holi days formerly allowed, but to give ale an additional public holiday. The an awer to the second part of the ques tion is in the afirmative, but whether Officers and Men of the Royal avery Bank Holiday will also be Navy belonging to the Jewish Faith dockyard paid holiday depends upon a should be given leave of absence, decision which has not yet been taken subject to the exigencies of the nx to the particulth week to be made the service, for the purpose of observ- closed work.

5th April.

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Saturday,

15th March,

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And then when you main mast light you also falled to go astern?-No.

Felt Justifled

The President:-You felt just- fied in not going astern because of the signals the Anking gave? -Yes.

The President:-From what had transpired, the collision would have been averted if you had gone

The enquiry is proceeding. astern 7-Yes.

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He was of the only $40. aged on the starboard side abreast trip and ace for yourself. It costs you of No. 2 hatch. opinion that if the Anking had had more headway, greater damage would have been sustained by her. He thought that the force of the impact was not great.

Lau Cho-yan, wireless operator on the Anking, sald that he was

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It had to be admitted, he said, that 2,090, 96 tons, representing 8.6 per witness said that it had been his 1929, which he read to mebers of the cent, of the total increase for the yest practice to record all messages sent Victoria Institute recently

in-most geologists to-day fould answer for the whole of the ports of the out by him, but the "10.0." mes-

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lions and Colonics..

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strong.

third engineer.

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safetist have been soft

whenre buried, and the

They re found buried latinntinental dimen-. from the port of London. Of these, both corroborated the master's, Northern Asia, of remains of the they plained by posta 510 vessels (720,673 net register tons) (Capt. Ritchies's) evidence given mammoth. ware from and to foreign ports, and yesterday morning. 770 vessels (231,808 net reglater tons) were engaged, in the coastwise trade.

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