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STEAMER CARRIED IN DECREE AGAINST A KNIGHT,
JUNGLE.
A Great Shipbuilder's
Reminiscences,
INTERESTING `SHIPS.
Sir Alfred Yarrow, the great shipbuilder, who is in his ninetieth year and gave up active, work less than four years ago, writes about some interesting ships he has built the King's torpedo-boat, the first destroyer, and others, in the Evening News.
This agreement provided that through rates are to be the same as direct line conference rates and are to be apportioned, 60 per cent to the Quaker Line and 40 per cent.
My shipbuilding career commenc« cept on, shipments, to ports specified Thames sixty-five years ago, when to the Hamburg-America Line, exed at the "Isle of Dogs" on the in the agreement involving a second bought, the Folly public-house as transhipment at either Curacao,
the place to start my works. Nell Port of Spain or Barbados. On shipments to these excepted porte of Charles II, and it was also
Gwynn had lived there in the time the through rate is to be apportion famous place for meetings of amug. ed, 40 per cent. to the Hamburg glers who, if they were caught, were On all shipments hanged at Blackwall Point, on the the cost of transhipment at Cristobal is to be absorbed by the opposite side of the river, in full lines in the same ratio as the view of their friends,
America Line.
REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING through rate is apportioned.
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KAWA MARU LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
CHICHIBU MARU
TATSUTA MARU
SEATTLE, VANCOUVER via Shanghai & Japan l'orts.
HEIAN MARU
Tuesday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, 24th June. Wednesday,
8th July.
30th June. 28th July,
Singapore. Penang, Colombo, Suez.
KASHIMA MARU
Salurday,
HAKONE MARU...
Saturday,
ATSUTA MARU
KAMO MARU
Saturday,
Saturday,
27th June. 11th July.
27th June. 25th July.
Saturday,
Saturday,
27th Jace. 11th July.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via lunila & Ports.
BOMBAY vit Singapore, Penang, & Colombo,
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu.
Los Angeles, Mexico and Panara.
† HAKODATE MARU
TANGO MARU
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Stambhul (Constantinople), Genoa
GINYO MARU
Tuesday,
NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panamy,
+ TATSUNO MARU
Monday,
30th June.
18th July.
† DURBAN MARU
Sunday,
19th July,
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
• MORIOKA MARU
Monday,
* GENOA MARU
Tuesday,
29th June 7th July.
SHANGHAI KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
+AKITA MARU
Thursday,
18th June.
19th June. 27th June.
+ Cargo only.
Saturday,
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ARRIVALS OF SHIPS,
Sunday, June 14. Daviken, Norwegian str., 1,778 tone, Captain G. Svane, from 'Pakhol, buoy No. A5,-Sing Kee.
Halvard, British str., 1,217 tons, Capt. A. Hall, from Hoihow, West Point Wharf. Wo Fat Sing.
.re.
hand
3
During, those early days I mained at my drawing board Inte at night till the rate came out and rán across my drawing, leaving their little footprints on it—an in- dication that it was time for me to get back home to bed.
Shipbuilding a generation earlier had been entirely devoted to wooden ships. My friend, the late Peter Denny, told me once of a meeting of shipbuilders at which'a man who was in advance of his time hnd the audacity to suggest building Oder, German str., 5,328 tons, Capt. ships of iron. One person present H. Grantz, from Singapore, got, ap from the other side Kowloon Wharf.-Melchers & of the room, came.. round Co.
to the back of the speak Roko Maru, Japanese ́str., 2,011er's chair, and placed a
tons, Captain K. Okubo, from upon his head. On being asked Chefoo, buoy No. B19.-D.K.K. why, he replied: "I am trying to Monday, June 16. find the crack in his skull, for there An Lee, Chinese atr., 992 tons, must be a crack for him to suggest
Chpt. S. Kato, from Swatow, that iron will float!"
The buoy No. 03-Yee Tai Hong.
first ship I built was. a Borneo, British str., 1,297. tons. small steam-launch for use on the Captain R. A. Prichard, from Thames. It was about the size of Saigon, buoy No. B21.-Wo Fat an ordinary bath, and, the engine Sing.
was small enough to be carried Calentia Maru, Japanese atri, 3,213 under one's arm..
tons, Capt. J. Kaneko, from Sakito, Kowloon Wharf N.Y.K. Chenan, British str., 1,355 tons, Capt. J. Newton, from Canton, Holt's Wharf.-B. & S. -*- Feng Lee, Chinese str., 1,259 tons, Capt. Y. Yamaji, from Swatow, buoy No. B17-Loong Tai Hong.. Hangsang, British str. 1,356 tons,
Capt. J. Moodle, from Swatow, West Point Wharf.-J. M. & Ca
Kaiapoi, British str. 1,246 tons, Capt. J. Baldwin, from Port Hon Koke, Shumshui An- chorage. Williamson & Co.
0th July Kiungchow, British str., 1,545 tons, Capt., W. J. King, from Hoi- how, buoy No. B9-B. & S. Kwangtung, British str., 1,570 tons, Capt. A. F. Summerfield, from Holhow, buay. No. BS.-B. & S. 6th July Shun Chih, Chinese str., 1,251 tone, Capt. T. Thorbjorusen, from Saigon, buoy No. C2.-Chang Tong Ha. Sinkiang, British str., 1,616 tons, Capt. F. Gibbs from Canton
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS | Montevideo Maru 21. ↑ Fri;
& BUENOS AIRES via La Plata Maru
Mon.,
20th June 20th July
Saigon, Singapore, Colom
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Mon.,
JANEIRO & SANTOS via
Singapore & Colombo ...
BRISBANE, SYDNEY, MEL Brisbane Mara
Mon.,
BOURNE, AUCKLAND &
WELLINGTON via Manila.
JAPAN
PORTS (Frequent Nitta Maru
Thurs
Services).
Seattle Maru
Wed.,
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROT- Paris Maru
Tues.,
18th Juno 24th June
11th July
TERDAM & ANTWERP
Vin Singapore. Colombo,
Suez & Port Said.
NEW YORK via Japan ports, Tokai Maru.
Wed.,
9th July
Los Angeles, & Pañamo.
Call Direct at Boston,
Philadelphin & Ballimore:
BOMBAY in Singapore, Argun Maru Fri.,
Bolawan Deli & Colombo,
CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Hamburg. Maru
Thur.,
Penang & Rangoon.
Thurs.,
19th, June
18th June
26th June
..Co.
Sun.,
21st June
Sun,
28th June
were in harbour to-day--
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buoy No. B15, B. & S. Talyuan. British str., 2100 tons, Captain R. Robertson, from Amoy, buay No. 320.-B. &. S Trianon, Norwegian str., 2,583 tons, Capt. Jacobsen, from Manila, Kowloon Wharf.-Tharegen &
The order was secured at a price of £145 and the bont cost me £200 to build so it was not a very good speculation. However, I bought her back again at the end of the year for 2100, and sold her to a Russian nobleman for £300; so the venture was financial success. after all.
King George's Command. By degrees the sizes of the launches and their speeds advanced,
Lady W. J. Worthington" Names A Woman.
Mr. Justice Langton, In the Divorce Court granted a decreo; nist to Lady (Winifred Jean) Worthington, of Gillbert Street, Mayfair, on the ground of the mis. conduct of her husband, Sir Edward Scott Worthington. with Miss Pamela Hargreaves. The suit was not defended.
The marriage took place on Octo- ber 31, 1914, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, the wife's maiden name being Wallace. They lived together in London. A boy was born in 1916 and a girl in 1918.
After the war the parties drifted;
apart, it was stated, and differences
arose.
There was a disparity of In their ages. After the birth of the second child Geventeen years they ceased to live together as man and wife.
In May, 1927, they separated, and the wife alleged that, sub- sequently, her husband began to associate with Pamela Hargreaves. Lady Worthington was told about| it by a friend, and arranged to have her husband watched. Ho wrote to her saying mean to return. hotel bill.
Evidence was
he did not He enclosed
given by Lady Worthington and Stanley James an Inquiry agent.
His Lordship granted Lady Worthington the custody of the children,
constructed in 1875 and named after the spot where Livingstone's heart was buried. This little vessel was designed to put down the slave trado carried on by Arabs on Like Nyassa.
The unfortunate slaves were fer- ried across the lake from the west- ern side, and then taken over-land to the coast, where dhows brought them to the Zanzibar slave-market, on the site of which now stands a very, fine British cathedral,
One of the unusual features of Ilala was that she was built in light sections which could be disconnected when the rapids were reached and 'carried through the tropical forests. No piece of her weighed more than se lb, the maximum weight for a native carrier.
When this little vessel, only. 55 feet long, was tried on the Thames, that fine old missionary, Dr. Moffat (Livingstone's father-in-law) was on board,
Ilala was taken to pieces after her successful trial, packed up, and sent out to be "put, together at the mouth of the Zambesi.
On reach.
and then I became interested in ing the rapids, she had to be taken torpedoes and torpedo bouts. The to pieces again and transported by first torpedoes were fixed at the end. natives for 60 miles through the of a long pole which projected from dense forest, Captain Young,, who
the bow of the launch. An attack was in charge of the expedition, darkness, and crews had their faces plenty of native labour, and that the could only be made under cover of let it be known that he wanted blackened to reduce the risk of their wages of each man would be six Ап being seen. This method was used yards of unbleached calice.
army of natives came pouring in during the American Civil War.
Then came Whitehead's invention from all parts, and that journey of the self-propelled torpedo which, through the forest was one of the when once discharged, pro. most adventurous in British colonial ceeded under its avoiding the risks of having the tor
own power, thus adventure.
Had one of the 800 native carriars pedo at the end of a pole. Very slipped and lost his precious bit of few know that one of the very Ilala, or had one of them been earliest torpedo-boats-No. 79, built tempted to steal his cargo, the little by my firm-was commanded by the craft could never have been
It was elected basembled. But, to the credit of the present King. cause it had a speed of two knots raw African natives, and of the more than any other vessel of the white men who commanded them. 80 justly, all went well, and in October,
same type.
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The King once told me that when 1875, Ilala entered Lake Nyassa, No. 79 was under his command he,400 miles from the const, and was always found her ready to carry out the first steamer on an African lake. any manoeuvre that he desired,Her coming put an end to the in- human slave-traffic, and from that while many of the other boats wero time began the dawn of a better unable to keep their stations... The following British warships In 1993 I paid a visit to Lord day for the whole of Central Africa. Manila, Australia & New Zealand.
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
Odin-In dock.X Olympus-Kowloon dock. Otus-In dock.
Parthian-Kowloon dock. Seamew-South wall, Birdar In dock. Sterling North arm. Tamar-Basin,
Thracian-North arm.
Hal Halog Chinese cruiser. Vigilante French gunbost
1,000,000 CRABS CAUGHT:
Fisher, the Controller of the Navy,
and told him I was in possession of
To Relleve Gordon. Another expedition in which I had
via Thursday Island
the détails of the new torpedo boats a share was when we built, some
being built for the French Govern- gunboats for the Nile Expedition ment, and asked him if he would for the relief of Gordon, who had; like some still faster ships for our bean shut up in Khartoum by the own Navy MA RA
Mahdi: We had two partly-finish- Fisher Jumped at the suggestion, ed vessels in our yard, Lotus and threw himself whole-heartedly into Water Lily, and these were com the scheme, and the result was that pleted and sent out, and were the my firm constructed the first two only means of communication be British destroyers, the Havoc and tween Lord Wolseley's headquarters Hornet, with apcedo of 26 and 27 and Cairo, Te knota, mikserome Looking back over a long, active
When the question arose as to the life I am in my ninetieth-year- best name for this new typs of war. I have noticed that all truly success The annual meeting of the East ship Fisher said, "Let them be ful men owe their success to their ern Sex Fisheries, Board--having called destroyers, for they are need, determination and grit, for even jurisdiction': over, the Lincolnshire ́ed to destroy the... ships....of our genlus cannot succeed without these and Norfolk coast was held at enemie
qualities. Overcoming difficulties Spalding:
days when I talked about makes, character and helps one to travel at 20 miles win through in life's grim battle. called a visionary I have never been a pessimist. It have built them to has been well said "A pessimist over 40 miles an is one who finds difficulties in every opportunity; an optimist:)) Ands an opportunity, in every difficulty." We should never have got Hitle Ilala to Lake Nyassaif we had thought of the difficultier
The Inspector's repo stated that bull the number of crabs. landed on the an Norfolk coast, last year was Jun 1,020,610, which was 14,890%, Jest | travel than the pre
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