THE CHINA MAIL.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1930.
NY.KLINE
REDUCED THIROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.SA. VARYING
• FROM £83 TO £120 ON SALE
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SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghal, Japan Forts & Honolulu.
CHICHIBU MARU
SHINYO MARU
Thursday, 9th October. Sunday, 19th October,
SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Porta.
HIYO MARU
... Wednesday, 22nd October.
LONDON. MARSEILLES. ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM vla
Singapore; Penang, Colombo, Suez. HAKONE MARU
SUWA MARU
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
AKI MARU
KITANO MARU
TANGO MARU.:
+ TOTTORI MARU
Tooulay,
Tuesday,
BOMRAY vin Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
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SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Ilenolulu, Los Angeles, AIR CONNECTIONS.
Mexico & Panama
BOKUYO MARU
SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Porta,
KANAGAWA MARU
Saturday, 18th October at 7 a.m. Saturday,
1st November.
21st October.
18th November.
Saturday,
11th October.'
:.. Monday,
"27th October.
Saturday, 20th November.
Saturday,
18th October.
..... Friday,
17th October.
Tuesday,
14th Octoboz.
Thursday, Wednesday,
9th October. 29th October.
Thursday,
NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.
*†LISBON MARU
Calls Baltimors & Havanu.
LIVERPOOL, via Port Sald, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa.
+ LIMA MARU
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
+ MURORAN MARU
*† RANGOON MARU
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
KITANO MARU, (Nagasakl direct)...Wednesday TERUKUNI MARU
+ CALCUTTA 'MARU (Moji direct) Saturday,
+ Cargo only.
15th October. 18th October. 18th October.
For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
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SAILINGS FROM HỌNG HONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION, LONDON. HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singaporn
Calambo. Sties and Port Said.
ALASKA MARU
AMUR MARU
Thursday, 9th October. Saturday, 8th November.
Q10 DE JANEIRO: SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Vis Saigon, Singapore,
Friday, 81st October. Friday, 28th November,
Colombo. Durban & Cape Town. SANTOS MARU RIO DE JANEIRO BOMBAY VI Singapore & Colombo
BORNEO MARU SHUNKO MARU DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES,
ZIBAR & MOMBASA-VL PANAMA HARU CALCUTTA-Vis Singapore, Penang
SEATTLE MARU
HIMALAYA MARU
Sunday, 19th October. Monday, 3rd November. BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZAN- Singapore & Colombo.
Wednesday, 5th November. & Rangoon,
Saturday, 18th October. Saturday, 1st November.
VICTORIA, SEATTLE. TACOMA & VANCOUVER.
ARIZONA MARU (from Shanghai) Monday, 20th October. MELBOURNE-Vin Manila, Brisbane & Sydney.
. MELBOURNE MARU
YUPHONG-Via Helhow & Pnkhol
Thursday, 6th November.
NEW YORK-Via Japan ports & Panama.
LOS ANGELES, PANAMA, NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, AND
PHILADELPHIA.
JAPAN PORTS
SANYO MARU
ANDES MARU
KOHSO MARU
TACOMA MARU
TEELUNG Vis Swatow & Amoy.
CANTON HARU...
TAKAO-Via Swatow & Amoy.
TAKAO & KEELUNG.
KOHSO MARU
Saturday, 25th Octuber.
October. Sunday, 12th Monday, 13th October. Friday, 24th October. Sunday, 12th October, Noon,
Monday, 18th October,
For further parieglar- please appl• to—OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA
*T⚫T ZAGA?
M.S. TABINTA. NEW CARGO SHIP FOR D.E.I. EXPRESS SERVICE.
M TAKEUCHI Manager.
type with forecastle, bridge and poop, and has been specially ar- ranged for the carriage of a great number of pilgrims.
FOR N.Y.K. PASSENGERS AT AMERICAN PORTS.
Installation and lispalms of Diesel EPECTION ATI Mours for Marine and Ntationary Apalality.
SALVAGE SCHEME, LOSS OF THE TAHITI.
SEALING OPENINGS WITH A
WALL OF ICE.
In addition to rail services to
A company has been formed in Seattle, passengers boarding or leav- Berlin to develop a scheme, due to ing Nippon Yusen Kalsha ships at Herr W. Kiwull, for salvaging Seattle or San Francisco can cut ships by sealing openings with a down travel time by using the air wall of ice. The construction of plane services of the Roeing System the pioneer plant was entrusted to between Seattle-San Francisco-San Masara. Escher, Wyss and Com Blegs; Seattle-Portland-Salt Lake-pany, of Zurich, who were respon-
direct from San sible for the detalled design. Chicago; or
The main element is a portable Francisco to Chicago.
electrically-driven ammonia
Boeing System planes leaving Seattle at 7 p.m. arrive at the Oak-frigerating machine, which was land Airport, on San Francisco Bay, required to be capable of working when submerged. at 2.40 a.m., Los Angeles 6.35 am. satisfactorily
The output demanded was equiva- and San Diego 8.10 a.m.
lent to the abstraction of 120,000 B.Th. U. per hour at a temperature of31 deg. F., the freezing point of sea water being 27 deg. F.
There is a twenty-four hour ser- vice between Seattle and Chicago, via Portland and Salt Lake City, and a twenty hour schedule between San Francisco and Chicago over the direct Boeing route:
ар-
The plane schedule is proximately three times faster than that of the fastest trains.
On the Seattle-San Diego route, the one-way fare is the equivalent of one-way train travel costs, and on ap the trans-continental route proximately 10 cents per air mils. The fare from Seattle to Chicago via Salt Lake City is $200 and the fare from San Francisco to Chicago direct is $200. Thirty pounds of baggage are carried free.
Boeing System has recently com- pleted 10,000,000 miles of flight, half of it at night, and is one of the largest air transport companies In the world.
Ticket reservations can be made through Nippon Yusen Kaisha re- presentatives or at Boeing System offices in various American cities or through the leading travel-bureaus.
the
STOWAWAYS.
COST TO SHIPOWNERS ILLUSTRATED.
SUGGESTED CAUSE OF THE DISASTER.
London underwriters were glad to observe that all the passengers and crew of the steamship Tahiti, which met with trouble in the Pacific Ocean, had been transfer- red to the United States liner
Ventura. According to a message received by the owners from the head office in Wellington, New re-Zealand, the Tahiti had sunk, and other messages indicated that there was no hope of salving her. The vessel is understood to have been valued for insurance at £100,000, and on the news she be came quite uninsurable, whereas 30 per cent. had been quoted at first to cover the risk of total' loss The compressor is a single-act- and 60 per cent, was quoted just A ing reciprocator, with one high-before the close of business. pressure and three low-pressure report that the vessel was carrying 50 a consignment of gold was discuss. cylinders. It is driven by a h.p. directly-coupled three-phase ed in the market, but so far, at any motor, running at 485 r.p.m. The rate, there do not appear to be in- whole is enclosed in a watertight dications of insurances on cylinder designed to withstand an having been arranged which affect- external pressure duc to a head of ed the London market. It is as- tain amount of cargo in the ves- pressure should there by any 130 feet and also a high internal sumed that there would be a cor-
zel. chance be a leakage of ammonia,
waf
It
The detalls of the design are The Tahiti was a twin-screw such that the plant will operate steamer, belonging to an owner- satisfactorily even in an inclined ship of high standing, and the
Both condenser and statement that the casualty position. evaporator are located outside the due to the loss of the starboard
and propeller was also discussed. cylinder in which the motor
was suggested that water poured compressor are housed.
through the propeller tube and broke down, the balkhead between hold No. 8 and the engine room. One idea advanced in the market] was that the loss of the propeller may have been due to the vessel's striking a submerged object, a sug- gestion which was put forward when the propeller shaft of the Italian liner Principessa Mafalda
The acceptance teats included a continuous run of 386 hours when A submerged in Lake Zurich to depth of over 10 feet, and this was passed successfully. In a further test in a large shipyard the depth of immersion was 40 feet, and some four tons of ice were pro- duced on the surface to be cooled.
LINER'S RAPID TURN broke in October, 1927, while the
CANADIAN PACIFIC
SPANS THE WORLD
WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM
BRITISH WUCHOW LINE
SAILING DATES FOR OCTOBER 1930 (Subject to change). DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 5.30 p.m., Wuchow 2 p.m.
S.S. "TAI MING" S.S. "TAI HING".
[849 tons--Capt. G. J. Spink] [1,068 tons-api. Trott.]
OCTOBER. OCTOBER.
TUES.
13th MON.
THURS. 23rd FRI.
29th WED. SAT. 18th MON. WED.
Regular Service of Fast, High Class River Stoamers Having Good Electric Light and Fans Accommodation for First Class Passengers..
10th. 15th
21st 27th
In Staterooms as Saloon. The as "Tal Hing" is Atted with Wireless. These Tessols leave Hong Kong for Wachow (via Samshul, Shin- hing, Takhing & Dosing) and return to Hong Kong (via same Ports) every five or six days.
Fares for round trip (not including meals) $20. Meals & Wines are to be obtained on board.
Hong Kong Arrivals and Departures from Tai Hing Wharf. For informatior apply to 29, Connaught Road, West, Phone 20893.
KWONG WING
Co.,
As an illustration of the cost to NOTABLE FEAT AT LIVERPOOL gentina. Water then reached the DESTROYER'S TRIALS | 40 knots. The next day a similar
which shipowners may be put by presence of stowaways on their ships, the case" of the Liver- peol steamer Mistley Hall may be cited.
DOCKS.
.on
:
When the Canadian Pacific liner Duchess of Atholl was fixed in the ailing list to leave Liverpool on Saturday in mail week for Quebec and Montreal it was expected she would have reached the Mersey the previous from Canada Wednesday.
Some delay, however, occurred on the other sido before commenc ing the homeward trip, and a spell of bad weather and rough seas
the inability of the pilot to get happening off the Bar Lightship,
aboard, with the result that the liner did no reach her berth in the Gladstone Dock until nearly noon on Friday.
vessel was off the coast of Brazil on a voyage. from Europe to Ar- boilers, and the ship capsized and sank with heavy loss of life. The technical commission of inquiry GOOD PERFORMANCE BY THE attempt was made to press the
CODRINGTON.
into the loss of the Italian ner held that the immediate cause of the disaster was a fracture in the
Particulars appear in The Ship- drive to the port propeller shaft.
works magazine of yard, the There was an inrush of water, 850 tons being shipped in 20 minutes. Messrs. Swan, Hunter, and Wig- This, the commission added, was ham Richardson, Ltd., of the high not an irreparable mishap, but, un- speeds made by H.M. destroyer
The Berwickshire coast this summer. fortunately, it proved to be im- Codrington, built by the firm for possible to close the doors of the the Admiralty, on trials off the In deep water a mean speed of water-tight compartments. Principessa Mafalda was of 9,210
performance was maintained for over six hours.
As usual on Admiralty trials, no
machinery of 39,000 s.h.p. to the full, but it is added, "If there had been any desire to obtain the maximum power, some famous re cords might have been made.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE
This vessel is engaged in the trade between Baltimore or other and South ports contiguous American ports on the eastern On the latest voyage, Santos-Baltimore, side of the continent. There are five holds and a deep she called at several intermediate tank behind the motor-room. The ports, and incidentally picked up On August 18 and 19, the single- lower part of two holds has been seventeen stowaways (ten Portu bullt for the Stoomvaart Maats- of palm oil. The vessel has been ard), who were later found in the the vessel was further delayed by tons, built in 1908, whereas the 88 knots was recorded; and this delivery of their goods which will screw motor cargo vessel Tabinta, specially arranged for the carriage guese, six Chinese, and one Spant chappy Nederland by the Nether equipped with one derrick of 40 ballast tanke.
of 20 land Shipbuilding
tons lifting capacity, one Co., (Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw tone, one of 15 tons, and 11 of Maatschappij in Amsterdam, suc- three to six tous, and six cranes. cessfully ran her trials.
The winches and deck machinery are all electrically driven.
Ltd.
On arrival at Baltimore their presence was declared, and the master was told that he would have to take them back on his re turn journey, as is the law in the States.
The vessel. is intended for the
The vessel is propelled by a
The vessel is now on the return express cargo service of the com- pany to the Dutch East Indies. Werkspoor-Sulzer-engine of 7,000
The voyage, and these undesirables will be put ashore at the places The principal dimensions are: b.b.p., built in by Messrs. Length, 485 ft.; breadth, 62 ft.; Netherland Graving Decks, Ltd. where they joined the vessel. The (Nederlandsche Dok Maatschap- and depth, 86 ft, Sin., with a carry- ing capacity of about 10,000 tone.pl, N.V.), Amsterdam, giving the ship has to bear the cost, which The vessel is of the full scantling' vessel a speed of 15 knots.
SHIPBUILDERS,
SHIP REPAIRERS,
BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND
ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.
will be considerable.
DRY DOCK
THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
OF HONG KONG, LIMITED.
SALVAGE TUG TAIKOO
Wireless Call
VP.G.NX 600 Meters
* HONG:
Length 787 Feet. Length on Blocks 750 Feet,
Depth on Centre of
Sill (H.W.0.8.1) 34 ft 6 lñs. THREE SLIPWAYS
Capable of Handling Ships Up
Disp
to 8,000
Electric Cr
Sea Wall, Carible of
JAPAN
The result was that a very short period yns left available for the liner to turn round in time to keep her appointed place in the outward sailing programme, yet so splen didly and rapidly did all shore de operations that the whole business partments fulfil their multifarioan of discharging cargo and passen. gers, reloading outward cargo, re fuelling, revictualling, etc., was completed in 24 hours, and the Duchess of Atholl, with 1,080 pas- sengers aboard, duly left the Liverpool landing-stage quite up to time and according to plan,
The complete facilities and or- ganisation of the Gladstone Dack played a.conalderable part in the success of this, notably quick turn- round.
NEW ITALIAN STEAMER.
The Italians.8. Tevere pald her," first visit to Hong Kong yesterday, when she arrived in port early in the morning, and went alongside one of the Kowloon wharves At 5.80 p.m. she sailed for Shanghai, The ahip left Tricate for the Far East on September & and sailed from Singapore for Hong Kong on Octo ber. She In under the command of Captain Bommarchen, with a craw 01-1343 ropeans and eight Asiatics
vin: scrow.
The Tevere steamer
was
length
Consignees of cargo aË 18.8. are reminded to take Tevere, Tahiti was of 7,898 tons, bulit in was maintained for four hours, the be subject to rent after October
speed on certain runs approaching 18. 1904. The Times.
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