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on
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1st Feb.
29th Jan
Mrs. E. M. Clark," Mrs. F. G. Ryan,
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Shipping
Intelligence.
WRECKED SEAMEN. THE “WORST VOYAGE
ENTITLED TO TWO MONTHS'
PAY.
The House of Lords affirming judgments of the Court of Appeal and Lord Merrivale, decided that John Murray, af Birkenhead, who was an able-bodied seaman in the Croxteth when she was wrecked, off the Dutch coast, and Joseph Comerford, of Liverpool, who was a refrigerating greaser in the Celtic when she was wrecked off the Irish coast near Queenstown, were entitled to two months' wages from the date of the wrecks.
Murray would have been paid off cleven days after the wreck of the Croxteth had she reached Middles- brough, and Comerford would have been paid off one day after the wruck had the Celtic reached Liverpool.
In
EVER."
Seas A Hundred Feet High.
Scarcely a day passes at this time of the year but some liner's captain reports the "worst voyage he has ever known,"
OCEAN SURVEY.
MAKING THE FAIRWAYS SAFE.
H.M., Burveying ships like dor- mice are now entering their Winter quarters, writes Commander H. M. Daniel, D.S.O., R.N. in the Daily Mail.
In Home waters the Fitzroy and the Kellet have already been re- Often, however, the speaker has duced
to Winter complement at The pale Chatham,
the his tongue in his cheek.
Beaufort follows passengers totter ashore with half suit at Plymouth, and the Flinders boastful ous
murmurs of "mountain- Seas" and "nearly, turned turtle," and the shipmaster, poor man, careful of their feelings as of what he is ex- their lives, says pocted to say.
at Portsmouth.
The crew of each ship will be paid off and return to general service, with the exception of about three dozen men, who will be kept for care and maintenance duties.
And yet, on. any bad Winter's passage, the unceasing assault of
The four officers left in each; Neptune's wet battalions piles "ship now enter on a period of work, the tension on everybody's nerves, which if not harder le certainly the so that the captain, particularly more tedious than the actual ser-
might well think each ordeal to
veying season in the Summer. have been the worst.
From now onwards for several months they may be found poring] over drawing-boards in their office in the dockyard, while pneumatic
He stops short, though, of any
seas were "mountains ing the high." because it is part of his job Hable mentally to take the
these circumstances owners of the ships, the Elieman Lines, Limited, and the White Star Mail Steamers Oceante Steam Line of Royal and United States Navigation Company, Limited, con tended that they were not under the provisions of the Mer chant Shipping (International Labour Conventions Act), 1925, section one, to pay the two months'
wages.
measure of
each gigantic roller; and he knows, for example, that the worst Atlantic storm seldom raises seas that are In more than 50ft. in height, Pacific cyclones some observers have reported seas that were 70ft from trough to crest.
There is a close relation between wind and sea. Speaking generally of deep-water conditions, it may be said that a 60 m.p.h, wind will raisa
hammere carrying out
repaira
make their ship impossible with their maddening din.
Here these officers laboriously plot on paper the triangulation and soundings which they have observ A Custom.
ed between April and November Viscount Dunedin, moving that
when "working in the field." Each of several thousand sounds taken the appeals of the companies should be dismissed, said that he
in the Summer has already been had considerable difficulty in com-
corrected before it can be entered ing to a conclusion, but in the end
on the fair chart; that is, an ad-' he had come to think that the judga gen of 30ft., and a more or less justment was necessary to reduce ment of the Court of Appeal was sustained blow of 100 m.p.h. might it to the level of low water
spring right. It was shown that it was be the dreadful occasion of 60-ft. tides. The figure recorded them the custom for men who had been seas, while the terrible ridge raised represents the rainimum depth of on these ships to be allowed to sign by a submarine upheaval (the no water which a ship might normal- on for the next voyage. The ship called tidal wave) might be 100ft.ly encounter at any time of year.
The "record" sen is said to be ping companies were very anxious
observed by to point out that the Convention to that
Sir James give offect to which the Act was Douglas, the lighthouse engineer, passed, used the word "indemnity," at the Bishop Rock Light, in the This sea, in it apath, and that the only proper indemnity Scillies.
the light that could, therefore, be given was deposited gravel the wages so far as they could be house platform-and the platform due under contract, which contract la 120ft. above sea level!
He, was frustrated by the wreck. however, did not think that there was much in that argument.
Lords Warrington, Tomlin, and Macmillan concurred.
Lord Blanesburgh who dissent ed, said he would be tendering a disservice to Parliament if, without compelling words, he were to im- pute to it an enactment which, as sought to be interpreted for the seamen, was as entirely discordant with legislative precedent as, in his judgment, it was opposed to good sense and fairness,
The appeal was dismissed.
02
As the ses Is 100ft. deep in this place, it was argued that the wave must have been 270ft. from crest to trough in order to have scooped up gravel. This is not completely convincing evidence, however.
Safe Fairways.
In order to get the position of each marks must first be fixed with the utmost precision on the chart to serve as reference points for plotting the soundings and so re- gistering the positions, of hidden dangers in the form of rocks and shoals.
especially that near the edge of the coast, is always changing: be- sides, ships are ever desiring a higher degree of accuracy, such as would have seemed laughable to our forefathers.
It is strange to think how this work which has been actively carried out for more than half a century, and in some measure for Blocks weighing 41 tons were ton times that period never seems shifted by a big sea of Feterhead,, likely to come to an end. To begin though they were embedded 87ft.with, the bottom of
the sea, blow spring tides. Yet the local thing feet went about its business and nobody noticed much amiss. Why? Because little ships sidle down and up the slopes, while a liner smashes through the waves.
Indeed. If her commander keeps. her at it beyond a certain moment she will got battered to bits. There may come a moment when it is not merely prudent but actually vital to heave-to, letting the ship take An Lee, Chinese str., 992 tons, the Beas about end-on, without Captain S. Sano, from Dairen, "driving." To miss this moment Stonecutters.-Yee Ta! Hong. is to jeopardise the ship.-John Apoey, British str., 1,776 tons, Scott Hughes in Evening News.
Captain C. W. Shearer, from Hongay, Hok Uon Anchorage. --Wo Fat Sing, Glenworth, British str., 3,516 tons,
ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.
Sunday, January 25.
Captain D. W. Aitchison, from Antwerp, Kowloon Wharf. Dodwell & Co.
Helenus, British str., 4,810 tons, Capt. James Davie, from Kee- lung, buoy No. A19.-B. & S. Hirundo, Norwegian atr., 1,125 tons, Capt. J. A. Pedersen, from Swatow, buoy No. C6— Thoresen & Co.
Prosper, Norwegian str., 1,377 tons, Captain E. D. Knutsen, from Holhow, buoy No. B17-K. Larsen & Co.
Wharf
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
The following British warships were in harbour to-day:-
Bruce No. 5 'buoy, Cornflower-North arm. Cumberland-West wall; Herald-South wall. Iroquois North wall. Osiris-In dock Oswald-In 'doɛk. Petersfeld-North wall. Sandwich-No. 18 buoy, Seamew-East, wall. Sepoy No. 9 busy. Seraph-North wali. Serapis East, wail. Somme No. 6 buny. Sterling-No. 7 buoy. Stormcloud-No. 6 busy. Thraclan No. 7 baoy..
Foreign Men-of-War. Adamastor-Portuguese cruiser. Helena-American "gunboat.". Mindanao-American gunboat.
- STEAMERS MOVEMENTS
The C.P.S. R.M.3. Empress of Canada arrived at Honolulu on
Modern liners demand the right; of steaming through
pilotage waters with only a margin of inches under their bottoms, al- though the contour of the ocean bad is ever changing. Only re- cently the unsuspected extension of a shoal in the Duke of Edin- burgh Channel, the main big ship fairway for ships approaching London from the southward, was responsible for a big liner touch- ing the bottom. Fortunately по damage was done.
Immediately ย ship * was despatched to survey the vicinity, where it found that the depth of water had unexpectedly decreased from thirty-six to thirty-one feet. A warning was immediately broad. cast by wireless, and an Admiralty. notice was issued to sailors, all over the world.
On completion of the charts in February some of the officers will be drafted for foreign service, where also the surveying work For goes on without cessing. instance, on the China Station there are H.M.S. Herald and Iroquola: in the Persian Gulf the Ormonde, and the Endeavour in the Red Sea.
*. But there are still hugė tracts of
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1931.
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the ocean's surface which are only WALTZ OF THE
roughly charted and which need an) accurate survey. The vast area' around the Barrier Reef on the north-east coast of Australia is al good, example.
....
At the end of the winter season the fair charts are sent to the
· DOG."
cause of this legend as "Le Valst du Chien? (The Walts of the Dog). George Sand's Revelation.
The true details of Its composi.. tion were revealed to Ulrich's
Hope of Chopin at Last mother, he declared, by George
Attains Realisation,
Sand in a cafe in the Boulevard des Italiens in 1868.
"The cafo was a haunt of n coterie of virtuosos, Ulrich said, "and one night the subject of the waltz was discussed Sand" said
Rondo, Dutch str., 4,755 tons, Capt. P. C. Cristie, from Shanghai, buoy No. 48.-J.C.J.L Shinsel Maru No. 6, Japanese str., 2,127 tons, Captain S. Ozawa, from Singapore, Yaumati An- chorage-Yuen Seng Tal. Taiyuan, British str., 2,100 tons, Captain R. Robertson, from Amoy, buoy No. B20.-B. & S. atr., 3,061 tous, Tiliwong, Dutch
Capt. A. A. Berkhout, from Moji, buoy No. A7.-J.C.J.L..
Monday, January 26. Athel Regent, British str. 6,231 January 23 (Fri.) at 6 am, left Admiralty and from these the
ton, Capt. J. F. Taylor, from Honolulu on January 23 (FL) at published charts are corrected or Chopin's wish that his famous Probolingo, Co.'s
5 p.m., and is due at Hong Kong new ones constructed. The fair waltz in D. Fiat should be a "spring Puro Cano Molasses & Co. February 7 (Sat.). She leaves charts, together with the data song" has at last been realised. Bremerhaven, German str., 917 tons, Hong Kong for Manila on Janu- from which they were compiled, Chopin always hoped that some
Capt. J. Engles, from Madang, Ary 7 (Sat) at 5 pm.
are safely stored in the archives of one would write words which would huby No. A6-Melchers & Co Russia arrived at Vancouver on demand for reference,
The C.P.S. R.M.8. Empress of the Admiralty, being constantly, in enable the walts to be sung by a a song of the spring. He could not Canton, French str., 976 tons, Capt January 24 (Sat.), leaves Vancouver. However tedious the task, there 32-year-old composer has fitted to hoped that someone would do it and coloratura singer. John Ulrich, the manage the words himself, but ho F. L. Morvan, from Haiphong.
on January 31 (Sat), and is due is always humour fer those with the music words like those which that the last line would be and thus buoy No. B15-M. M Emp, of Asia, British str., 8,883 At Hong Kong on February 23 wit to see and tongues to wag. The Chopin is said to have had in mind, on high sings the lark
(Mon.). She leaves Hong Kong yarn, goes that a surveying captain and the composition was sung for "In 1880, with the help of Jules tons. Captain LD. Douglas for Manila on February 23 (Mon.) was giving one of his subordinates the first time at the Queen's Hall, from Vancouver via porte The P. & 0.8.6. Allpore left what the bluejacket knows as a London, recently, by Madame Rit Kowloon Wharf C.P.S. Khiva, British at 9,000 tons Singapore for this port on Janu "good rub down for some mistake. ter Clamp, the Paris spora star.
Capt. B. B. W. Dawson, from ry 26 at 2 pm, and is due here Exasperated beyond measure he "There used to be a legend," said London via Singapore, Kow on February 2 at about noon,
kdemanded, “Who the blazer ever Ulrich in a Press Interview," "That Paloon Wharf M. M. & Co.
made you a surveyor, I should-like Chopin was inspired to write the to know?WERSEAN als by the sight of a little dog Lahn, German. str. 6,500 tons.
Quick as a flash came the reply running round and round after his
the junior stood to attention. tall. The tilting, melody often re- After her recital at the Queen's-
criminating – auth-peated was supposed to be like the Hail, Madama Bitter Ciampi is go
"you in continuous revolutions, of the dog.ing to the United States: where-the
I TADEO, the walls was known he will sing the song United Press.
Cant Nimsen, from Shanghal Yuen Sang, Britlal str. 8,220 tons,
No: A&Melchers & Co.
We Pettigrew from
f America
tone's Capt BA
Shanghai, Dollar Line
re, Penang and:
The same
ommand of
that Chopin had told her that, when he composed it he wished to welto
Mary, I fitted the words to the music, but the manuscript was for gotten until a few weeks ago when Madame Ritter Clampi⠀ found it among a pile of my old folios.""
"She immediately selsed upon it and declared that. It would sult her perfectly,
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