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Apr. 10

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Apr. 26

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'CELTIC WRECK BAN

Cobh Council's Protest to Harbour Board

The

Urban Council at Cobh

4 SECTION,

NEW CRUISER

Germany Springs'a Surprise

Germany, sprung another has passed a resolution view-surprise ival cruiser construc-

A FOUL BERTH

Harbour Trustees to Pay] Damages

NEGLIGENCE PROVED

The Second Division of the Court of Session, at Edinburgh, has given judgment in an appeal against the decision of Lord Mon crieff in the action by James Cor- mack, shipowner, Leith, owner of the steamer Colinton, against the Dundee Harbour Trustees for pay- |ment of £5,500 as damages for in-

averred that the steel floors which stay, and support the vessel's through the Colinton taking ground double-bottom tanks were warped in a berth which was assigned het in Dundee Harbour on October 10, 1927. The alleged Hability was founded on their negligence in a signing to the Colinton, through the harbour master, a berth at the Eastern Wharf which was main tained to have been foul.

ing with amazement the attitude tion. The recently-launched Leip-jury to the vessel The pursuer adopted by the Cork Harbour Board in refusing to permit the salvors of the Celtic to bring the wreck into the harbour. They call ed upon the board to revise its attitude on safeguards being given by the salvors.

The chairman, Mr. Lynch, stated that on behalf of the people the duty devolved on the Council to get the board to change its attitude. The_breaking-up of the wreck would

an expenditure of £30,000 in wages. No satisfactory nautical reason was given by the

cause

six (6,000 toile) sets up an entire ly new standard of engineering efficiency, judging by particulars just received om Berlin (writes the Daily egraph naval respondent). She is the first vessel to use steam and diesel-drive for high speed.

cor-

Some ship have steam turbines for high speed and auxillary diessl engines for low speed; others have turbo-electric or dlesal-electric drive, but the Leipzig is unique in having steam and oil engines which, though capable of working

Lord Moncrieff awarded the pur suer the sum of £3,033 11s sd, being of opinion that the damage sustain. ed by the Colinton was proved to

SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1930.

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Wednesday, Friday,

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Monday,

14th Aprli.

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Friday,

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19th April..

Wednesday,

23rd April

Wednesday,

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Monday,

Friday,

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NEW YORK, NOSTON via Panama.

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Colombo, Suez and Port Sald.

ALASKA MARU

...... Monday, 21st April.

BIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Vie Salgon, Singapжe,

BOMBAY Via Singapore & Colombo.

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SHUNKO MARU (Calls at Saigen). Monday, 7th April.

Colombo Durban & Cape Town.

BUENOS AIRES MARU

Friday, 26th April.

SANTOS MARU

Tuesday, 20th May.

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Friday, 4th April.

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Monday, 31st March.

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Friday, 4th April.

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Friday, 18th April

The palatia! $6,000,000 Iner Muenchen, of the North German Lloyd Line, with half a million dollar cargo aboard, went up in astowering pillar of fame and smoke—a total loss—in the most specta- calar catastrophe seen in New York Harbour in many years. This remarkable picture shows a gen- eral view of the firecraft at work trying to save the doomed liner, with dense clouds of smoke which enveloped the entire waterfront.

Harbour Board why the wreck | independently, are both called into could not be brought into the play for propelling the vessel at inner harbour if it came off the her maximum velocity. rocks successfully and proved it. self seaworthy. While the Council] were solicitous about the interests of the port, they did not see why permission should not be given

when the company gave the neces- sary guarantees protecting the harbour Interests.

A committee was appointed to arrange a public meeting of pro- test by the townspeopic.

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ARRIVING

Germany has, at present four "pocket battleships". and five cruisers completed, being built or projected.. When these nine ships are in commission she will possess a fleet unquestionably superior, ton for ton, in fighting power, mobility, and radius, to any naval force in the world.-

have resulted from negligence for which the defenders were respon- sible.

The Division now uphold that decision with expenses.

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5.S. "TAI MING" [619 tons-Capt. G. J. Spink.] FRL 28th

S.S. “TAI HING” [1,088 tons Capt. Trott.] SUN. 90th

MARCH

FRI,

APRIL. 4th

WED. 9th

SUN. 20th FRI, 23th

WED, MON.

APRIL 2nd FRI.

MARCH,

18th

7th

WED, 23rd

TUEB. 15th WED. 30th

SUN.

13th

MON.

*8th

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The Lord Justice Clerk said the case had been contended on both remained for decision were whe sides with such a wealth of testither the pursuer had proved beyond mony, scientific and otherwise, reasonable doubt that the damage that it had become difficult to see suffered was due to the negligence the wood for the trees. There was of the defenders.

one feature of the case which out The Man in the Street The Leipzig's diesel engines are deeply Into It which complicated His Lordship entertained little of an entirely new type, and are

the issue, and which largely ac doubt, after a recital of the facts, claimed by the builders, the M.A.N.counted for the protracted nature and taking a commonsenso view firm, of Augsburg, to register a de-

of the inquiry. It was this, that that the man in the street would cided advance over all previous when the Colinton arrived in assent to the proposition that the marine engines of the heavy-of! Dundee Harbour she did not do so damaged condition was caused in type. The Leipzig has three pre-

as a hitherto undamaged vessel Dundee, and his Lordship thought pellers. Each of the wing shafts

By

the

admission of all that the man in the street would a turbine unit of Per sa. Rawalpindi yesterday: is driven by

parties aha had in Septem-be- right. His Lordship was of Mr. and Mrs. G. Bennett, J. H. 30,000 h.p., so that under a full

ber, 1927, sustained damage opinion that the defenders had Boylan, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd and in-head of steam 60,000 b.p. is de-

of the same nature and quality-as failed to discharge the onus restfog fant, Dr. T. M. Burton, N. V. Cole, veloped. The centre shaft la con-

she was said to have sustained in upon them of proving that the K. T. Cheong, Miss L. M. Dellinger, nected through a special system of Dundee.

The case as ultimately damage sustained by the Collaton H. Hutchen, Mr. and Mrs. R. Igearing with the diesel plant,

which, although taking up little argued was much simpler and could not in harmony with the dic- shorter than when it came into tates of science have been caused Mias C. Meyer, Mrs. B. J. E. Rogers space and being extremely light, court, and the two questions which on the uneven and hard berth in

develops no less than 12,000 h.p.. With the steam turbines cut out, the diesel engine alone is capable of driving the ship 2,500 miles at a continuous speed of 18 knots, or j 3,800 miles at 141⁄2 knots. Alter- natively, with the diesel plant notį working, the turbines can propel the ship at 18 knots for a distance of 8,200 miles. Thus the total radius of action is 7,000 miles.

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CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER—Via Japan Porta from

Shanghai.

ARIZONA MARU (from,S'hai) .... Tuesday, 15th April.

MELBOURNE--Via Manila, Brisbane & Sydney.

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MADRAS MARU

MENADO MARU

HAVRE MARU

INDUS MARU

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WARSHIPS IN PORT

British warships in port this morn

ing were:-

In Basin of R.N. Dockyard: Tamar, Bridgewater, Herald, Iroquale, Seamew, Moth.

North Arm: Serapis, Sandwich, Marazion, Sepoy. West Wall:

Sirdar.

Stormcloud, Seraph,

No. 1 Body: Hermes. No. 6 Buoy: Suffolk, No. 18. Buoy: Bruce. Foreign men-p'-war in port were:---- U.S. gunboat Mindanao. Fortuguese Cruiser Adamastor. Chiasse. Training Ship Tung Chi -Chiness Gunboat Kien Yu.

CONSIGNEES NOTICES

Consignees of cargo "Fiume-L" are reminded to

Even this, however, is only Я nominal figure, based on the amount of diesel and furnace oll

KWONG WING

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Dundee. He was satisfied that the pursuer had proved beyond reason- able doubt that the Colinton was damaged by the berth the defen- ders gave her at Dundee.

On the question of the defen ders' negligence, his Lordship agreed with the opinion of the Lord Ordinary that it had been proved. The defenders had no re gular system of inspection of their berths, and his Lordship was of opinion that they had failed to. rebut the presumption of negli gence which the facts raised against them, and he further thought they. were negligent in assigning the berth without previous sounding and examination, and that their negligence caused the damage

Lords Ormidale, Hunter, and

Anderson concurred.

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With-turbines and diesels run» s..ning at full power her speed will be over 82 knots, and she will ba

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pace for a longer period than say other vessel which has been built up to the present, denga

She is armed with nine - Gin.| guns, four anti-aircraft guns, and twelve torpedo tubes. The bulges afford excellent protection against torpedoes, and the sides of the ship as well as the gun turrets are

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