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THE CHINA

MAIL.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1931.

YKLINE

N.

REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING FROM £83 TO £120 ON SALE

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

CHICHIBU MARŲ

TATSUTA MARU

Wednesday, 4th March. Wednesday, 18th March.

SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghal & Japan Ports.

HETAN MARU

HIYE MARU ..

Tuesday, 24th February at 2 a.m13, Thursday, 26th March.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM vis

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez. YASUKUNI MARU....

HAKONE MARU

Saturday, 21st February. Saturday, 7th March.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

ATSUTA MARU

Thursday.

BOMBAY vin Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

↑ TOKIWA MARU

KAGA MARU

Friday, Wednesday,

20th March.

27th February.

11th March

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via, Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,

Mexico & Panama,

HEIYO MARU

Thursday,

5th March.

SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,

KAWACHI MARU

Thursday, 20th March.

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.

† TAKETOYO MARU

... Thursday, 12th March. LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa.

+ LYONS MARU (call Saigon)... Saturday, 14th March CALCUTTA vin Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,

† CALCUTTA MARU

↑ PENANG MAR!

SHANGHAL KODE & YOKOHAMA,

FUSHIMI MARU

KANAGAWA MARU

TANGO MARU

Cargo only

Sunday, Sunday,

Saturday,

Sunday, Monday,

1st March. Sth March.

21st February. 2nd February. 24 March.

For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

Telephone 30291. Privata exchange to all departments)

K.

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

Brisbane & Sydney.

Tues.,

Gamis MoADIO 1

BRANIOT & CO.

At. Ovorgo's Buliding, Chatar. Boad.

Bulking and Repairs at Bleuser and Motorhips of uracy type.

Telephonse 1977). Night' TION. Tulegma¿zymmarby,**

SOUTH CHINA MOTOR-SHIPBUILDING

REPAIRING WORKS,

WORKS, LTD.

To w WA-KISWLOON BAY, Telephone: 47061 Day and Night, Works Managers W. B. Hammer,

Telegrama HOTTARD,

SHIP-PLANS OF

PEPYS. A

Model of Elizabethan Galleon.

an

A six-foot model of Elizabethan "great ship" has been completed by the authorities of the Science Museum, South Kensington, and is now on exhibition. The smallest details of sails and rigging are accurately depicted.

The plan on which the model is based and all details of construc- tion and equipment have been ob talned from manuscripta collected by Samuel Pepys, the diarist, near-

Amplifying Relays. The detector element (it is ex- plained in the New York Times) while similar in principle to the delicata thermocodples used by ns- tronomers in the measurement of

the radiation of heat from distant stara la placed in a vacuum and the infra-red rays are received through a window of fluorite. The detector thus developed functions in less than a tenth of a second.

Combined with the detector are

special amplifying relays, automatic signalling and recording Instru- ; ments which give a visible and au- dible record, announcing that the detector has picked up an infra-red beam from one of the projectors.

All ships, lightships, lighthouses, channel buoys and similar units

Installation and flopalmy of Dias Engine and Motors for Marine and Stammary = spality.

HATCH COVERS QUESTION.

Shipmasters & Officers Favour Steel,

Among the subjects of import- which were under discution at a ance to the nautical profession

recent meeting of the Mercantile Marine Servico Association

#t

Liverpool, that which created the greatest interest was hatch covers. Preference being shown by members type which has been for so many for the steel instead of the wooden

Several of years in universal use. the members gavo instances of the

ly 250 years ago, when he was pro equipped with the projector can elicacy of the steel hatch cover and

jeeting a history of the Navy. These are still preserved In his library at Magdalene College, Cam- bridge, and are the oldest ship plans extant in Britain.

The hull is of beautiful

design

and shows plainly that Elizabethan shipwrights were far in advance of the few contemporary painters who delineated their handiwork. The 10th Mar. period illustrated is that of the last few years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, when the galleon, with its 6th Mar. castle well set back from the stem,

comparatively fine lines, a fore

and a long beak, WAS Armly catablished. The typically Tudor decoration, relying mainly on bril- linnt and contrasting colours, had not yet given way to the wealth of gold and carving period.

8th Mar,

4th Mar,

LONDON, HAMBURG, ROT-| Amazon Maru

TERDAM & ANTWERP

via Singapore, Catambo.

Suez & Port Said.

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS Hawail Maru

Fri,

& BUENOS AIRES va

Saigen, Singapore, Colom

bo, Durban & Capetown.

BOMBAY via Singapore & Sumatra Maru

FL,

Cth Mar.

Colombo

DURBAN,

MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-

LOURENCO Pananın Maru

Tues.

3rd Mar.

ES-SALAAM. ZANZIBAR

& MOMBASA via Singe-

pore & Colombo.

MELBOURNE via Manla, Sydney Maru

CALCUTTA viɛ Singapore & Tacoma Maṛu

Rangoon.

Fri

Wed.,

VICTORIA,

BEATTLE, Africa Maru

TUOJ

TACOMA & VANCOUVER

via Japan Ports.

Thura..

19th Mar.

Los Angeles & Panama

Call Direct

at

Roston,

Philadelphia & Baltimore.

Mon.,

vice).

HAIPHONG vin Hethow &

Menado Maru.....

Thurs.,

Sun,

Sun.,

23rd Feb.

Eth Mar.

22nd Feb.

1st Mar

Thurs.,

NEW YORK via Japan porti, Hakuroku Maru

JAPAN PORTS (Freight Ser Burma Mara

Pakhoi (Fertnightly).

KEELUNG via Swatow & Hozan Maru

A moy

TAKAO via Swatow & Amy Dell Maru

For further wrticulars please apply to:--

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

Noon 1.

(Every Sunday Canton Maru

(Fortnightly),

Telenkone 28061

31st Mar.

26th Feb.

Donations and Subscriptions must поя

be sent to the Hon. Treasurer, Mrs. H. E.

Goldsmith, 525, The Peak.

HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

SHIPBUILDERS, SHIP REPAIRERS,

BOILER MAKERS,

FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND

ELECTRIC WELDERS,

MECHANICAL AND

ELECTRICAL

ENGINEERS,

warn navigators in befogged arena of their presence, and any ship equipped with the receiving or de- tecting device can pick up the signal and veer off its course to avoid collision. The infra-red rays will plerce dense fogs that would blanket or smuggle the beams of even the most powerful ordinary light beacon.

of its success in collier ships on the American const and in the French

Merchant Navy,

sion, said the question had been

A member, opening the discus thoroughly gone into by the Load Line Committee, and it was decided and marked down that steel hatch Tho covers should predominate. question of how they were going to The greatest accomplishment of handle the large covers was not de- the invention, according to Mr.cided upon, but, on the whole, he MacNell, is its ability to give ac considered that steel covers were pilots concerning other moving have a hinge in the centre or on the coming into more general use. The fogbound

question whether steel covers should ships or the proximity of dangerous shoals, narrows or other hazards. fore part had not yet been decided. And the information comes as an Some were hinged on the fore part, automatic warning

whole body of the cover that the pilot and the

curate information to

can see and hear. It tells from could be lifted up; he believed that of the Stuart which direction the warning signal French vessels had this kind of is coming, and by triangulation ha cover already in use for a 20-foot can tell exactly where the danger hatch, and it had proved very suc

The actual dimensions of the model are those of the Elizabeth

Jonas, as rebuilt in 1597-8, with a

now

burden of 634 tons and a keel- length of 100 feet. For the guns a bronze demi-culverin, inscribed "Richard Phillips, 1601," and preserved in the Tower of London has been taken as a model and the other types of ordinance have been made in proportion.

FOG EYE.

REDUCED DANGERS OF SEA COLLISIONS.

A Fog Eye is the latest instru- ment invented for fog blanketed marine navigators, and it is hoped that ultimately it will also aid air pilota.

lies,

STEAMSHIP

THE EMPRESS ROUTE

Shortest and Quickest ORIENT-AMERICA-EUROPE

SERVICE PAR EXCELLENCE

SPECIAL THROUGH FARES

TO EUROPE'

SPECIAL NOTE

£83

£120 £112

Canadian Pacific representatives mest all steamers at all ports of call to assist passengera. Railroad, Sleeping Car, Hotel and Steamship reservations arranged at any Canadian Pacific Office

CANADIAN PACIFIC

VOREDS GREATEST TRAVELSYSTEM

BRITISH WUCHOW LINE

FEBRUARY SAILINGS.

DEPARTURE HOURS:

Hong Kong 5.30 p.m. Wuchow 2 p.m. 5.8. "TAI HING"

(1,068 tons-Capt. Trott) FEBRUARY.

SAT.

21st THURS. 26th

The Sai Kong (or the West River) is the third largest river in the Chinese Republic and second. only to the Yangtze in import- ance. This magnificent trada rvate was opened to foreign traffic (649 tone-Capt. W. H. Lawton]

FEBRUARY.

in 1807, but how many foreign-

8.8. "TAI MING"

TUES. 24th

travel on this Important waterway? The scenery along the For information apply to route is beautiful. We recommend

it to any person who wishes to SANG WO

spend a short and economical holi-

cessful. He favoured the steel As the device actuates at definite cover with the hinge on the forepart latervals, Mr. MacNeil adds, it also because he considered that if it had gives the added information as to a hinge in the centre it would leak. whether the source from which the Steel covers were undoubtedly infra-red signals are projected la safer and stronger than wooden stationary or moving. In addition ones, said another member, provid- the pilot can, by calculation, judge ed they always remained intact, but the speed of the warning unit and it occurred to him that if the hatch can regulate his movemente accord- covers. were damaged or became weather or Ingly, even though hemmed in by twisted through bad

accident, it would be very difficult. obscuring mist, to avoid collision

The projector operates somewhat to make them watertight without like a telegraph instrument or wize-some repairs being done that could less transmitter in that it sende the not be effected on the ship. With infra-red beams in dots and dashes; regard to larger covers, they must to mechanical appliances but it has the added advantage of have

Hatches Not Battened Down. them, but with wooden automatic operation and reduces the handle

The secretary remarked that that dangers inherent in human falli- covers they could be handled quite; bility. Carefully tended at regular easily. Undoubtedly, steel covers was a local by-law in the Bristol intervals it will always be on the were stronger, and would make a Channel, but he had heard of cases alert in the fog to give its signal ship safer, so long as nothing hapon the East Coast where ships went to sea without having their hatches of warning, word

battened down.

pened to them.

day.

Ltd.,

29. Connaught Road, West, 'Phone 20893.

PASSENGER LISTS.

ARRIVALS.

Per 8.8. Kitano Maru from Japan via poris on February 18:--

Mr. T. Hidajima, Mr. E. Kosona,

DEPARTURES.

It is claimed that it will reduce to disappearing point the danger of collisions at sen, and will also add to the facility of a ship for picking out signals blotted out by fog.

It is due to the patient investiga- | source for a message from the "fog small, if it became twisted they down Some 15 or 20 years ago alla via porte yesterday:-...

The dot-and-dash system pro- cludes the possibility of the pilot mistaking the radiations of intra red, rays

from an ordinary light

tions of Mr. Paul Humphrey Mac- eye." Nell, an architect of Huntingdon, Long Island, that this new device is to be available.

The apparatus consists of two sets of instruments which may be jcompared with modern radio broad- casting units, one a receiver or de- tector, the other a projector. The projector throws out directional beams of infra red rays-the in- visible rays of light and the other

catches or records them, 'just as a

radio receiver in the home picke

music and speech out of the air.

THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

Tel Address

OF HONG KONG, LIMITED.

SALVAGE TUG “TAIKOO'

Wireless Call

V.P.G.N. 600 Meters

TAIK(ODOCK," HONG KONG.

No. 30211

ANS PENNANTZ

DRY DOCK

Length 787 Fect." Length on Blocks 750 Feet. Depth on Centre of

SI (H.W.OST.) 84 ft. 6 ins. THREE SLIPWAYS—

Capable of Handling Ships Up to 9,000 Tons Displacement.

ade at Sea Wall Capable of ting 100 Tons at 70 Feet Radius. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

HONG KONG CHINA & TAPAN

Several Miles Range.

A shipmaster said the Board of Trade surveyors had orders to stop any vessel leaving port which had not its batches securely fastened

Per 48. Kitano Maru for Austra-

Mr. M. Suzuki, Mr. T. Nishi, Mr. T. Soak!, Mrs. Otto Schroll, Mr. Vincente G. Oaranpan, Miss Martha B. Caldwell, Mr. S. Tauchya, Mr.

Great Disadvantage. The president said his opinfor was exactly the same. In the case of a steel cover, whether large or

could not straighten it on board the ship, whereas with a wooden cover Cardiff shipowner offered a reward considered, to any of the masters, officers and the they could, That, he On a test of the invention experimental projector succeedel in was a great disadvantage of steel engineers who could devise some boring its invisible way through a covers. They all know they were effective steel cover, and he remem mile and one-half of fog bank that much stronger and better if they bered there was a lot of controversy end Mrs. Willoquet and 4 children.

about it, but there was no definita | Mr. C. S. Johnsen. had been holding fillers in check over were

decision. At one timo a Cardin firm was on the Admiralty list, and had to send out coal to Malta to the ships of the fleet. The masters and officers refused to take the vessels cross the Bay of Biscay unless the ordinary hatches, in addition to being battened down, had planks

were many

looked after. He had the aerodrome for fear of a collision never heard of a steel cover being in mid-air. Mr. MacNeil explained dainaged, and there later that he had used his marine ships now fitted with them.

It was further declared that there set, and that: he would have to cut down the size for serial adaptation. was no comparison between the old "The penetration of fog, smoke wooden covers and the steel ones. haze and other obscuring factors by They had had the experience of Infra-red radiation has long been wooden covers being stove in at anid across them and screwed down known to scientists, he said, "and time when they could not be pro with wing screws, and then lashed experiments 4 been made in the tected-only with a sail-and that pant with the idea of adapting it to was the best they could do owing to across, with wire, navigation. Icebergs and the heat weather conditions; whereas, if a

Ships which were fitted with steel

of ships funnels have been detected heavy sea dropped on to a stee! covers were running in a special

Per .. Taiyo Maru for San Francisco, via ports yesterday:

Mrs. E. Boyd, Mr. Wm. Stouley Clark, Dr. Emma E, Fleming, Miss Katherine Frand, Mr. C. B. Atwell, Mr. N. Mayekawa, Mr. Leon Mats, Mrs. J. B. Taylor, Mine Taylor, Mr. Mfr. Antonio Castro, D. C. Mons, S. A. Clappen, Mr. K. R. Shupp, Mies F. E. Shup, Mr. Marcel Vigneros., Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Beech, Mr Carlos Pellicer, Mr. Frantise in previous experiments, but no way cover it might bend it a little, hut trade, such as tankers and Amer Valdez, Mr. Florencio Turias, Mr. was found to establish distance; to they would be able to straighten iican colliers, but ho questioned very Conrade: Gonzalez, Mr. Tirao P. much whether steel covers would be Medrano, Mr. Gregorio Labrador, Identify the source or speed of the sufficiently to keep the seas out. objectä,

to determine whether the The secretary said that the re- success in a general cargo ship Mr. J. Van Klaveren, Mr. and Mrs. object was fixed or in motion......

commendation of the Court at the where they had a hatch 25ft or M. R. Lopes, Messrs. Gabino Sawal, "The total distance or limit of Inquiry into the loss of the Radyr 30ft. long, probably loading loco Justine Sawai, Protacio Sawal. operation of the fog eye depends was the adoption of steal hatch motives, or some big heavy lifts Galecia, Aurelio Santos, Delfin, F. which might damage the batch | Cruz, Inocencia Agustin, Daniel in great measure on the character covers. A of the fog formation or other ob In the course of the discussion it Steel hatches should be made in the Pilar, Mr. and Mrs. Rose Mackay acuring factor and its degree of was stated that the trouble with me shape as those In frozen meat and child, Mrs. L. G. Culley. Mr.

| ships, t

and Mrs. Edward Dawson, Mr. A absorption of the infra-red raye ships leaving Cardiff with coal The tests Just concluded have es cargoes was that they were not able An absent member supplied the Hutchison, Mr. José Pasigan, tablished the fast that the range is to get the hatch covers or before following written statement of his Mr. Carlos Resurrection, Mr. Maxim several miles, and easily obtained the ship left, and the chances were views would strongly recom Vorgaza; Miss Josephine Resur refinemente will extend the range that the ship would meet with an mend pressure in the matter of steel rection, Miss Madelain Culson, The device is entirely supplement accident, whereas a steel cover could covers, which, if adopted in the Miss Rafaela Cuison, Mies Manuels

Quizon ary to all existing navigation in be screwed down quieldy before the colller type, of which so many have struments, and its operation in no vessel left port: In reply to this. been lost recently, life and property ways affects them, nor is affected it was remarked, that there was a would have been saved. These are by them. Even the radio does not local law in the Bristol Channal national losses, to be avoided by

CONSIGNEES. NOTICES Interfere with it

stipulating that hatch covers must proper outlook in the future. We The development of the fog eye be on before the vessel left any port had them in the old City of Paris will mean the reduction to a in the Channel with a coal cargo. in 1890, and many colllers in the Consignees of Cargo ex minimum of the danger, of collisions The president said that was quite

Baron Saltoun are reminded to between ships at yes, eBay ayold- correct. The hatches must be Est

take delivery of their goods which ance of properly equipped perman-tered down before the vessel salted,

will be subject to rest after Febru ent obstructions to navigation, the except one batch left open for

The president remarked that that picking up of lightshipt, slight, ventilation fastname

Consignets of Cargo ex honnes, channel lights and Harbour A member here pointed out that letter was pretty conclusive, evid‹ | Oregon Star are reminded to take

umes when

though there was such a law, it was once. The corsersus of opinion delivery of their goods which will obscure visibility

not carried out

was that abeel cove were prefer bo subject to "rent after (February

24 agencies, auch, as for

~~ (Coficínues on Nezk Colunga da able to wooden one

ng

smoke

St. Lawrence trade are now litted that way which is the more peces sary with the large openings for hatchways.