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THE CHINA MAIL.

ROMANCE OF THE ment the lightship may also flash

Floating Beacons That Warm Mariners.

I notice of vessela in distress to life!

saving

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With their powerful engines and i the great mushroom anchors of

P. & 0.-British India MODERN LIGHTSHIP stations

Apcar and Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND).. MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS. TAKING | CARGO FOR

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

8.5.

Tons

BAWALPIND

**PERIM

17,000

7,700

KHYBER

9,000 $*KIDDERPORE 5,300 *ISOMALI ! 6,800

RAJPUTANA *PADUA

+KARMALA

*ALIPORE CATHAY

SOUDAN

1EALYAN

From

Hong Kong Aboul

| 1931,

Noon

Destination,

18th July 28th July Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rutferdam & Antwerp: 1st Aug. M'seilles. L'don, R'dam & Awerp. 5th Aug | Straits, Colombo & Bombay. 8th Aug. Marseilles, Gibraltar, Havre, London,

Hamburg, Rotterdam & Antwerp. Benbay, Marseilles & London, 17,000 16th Aug.

6,000 22nd Aug. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam & Antwerp, 9,900 29th Aug. Marseilles, London, Rotterdam,

werp & Hull.

Bombay, Marseilles & London.

5,300.

2nd Sept. 15.000 12th Sept. 1 0,800 19th Sept. 9,000 26th Sept.

Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Bombay, Marseilles & Lunden. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Ant

werp & Hull.

Rotterdam & Antwerp.

Cargo only Calls Casablanca. Calls Djibouti.

§ Calls Karachi & Port Sweltenham,

1732 AND TO-DAY.

severals thousand pounds, the light- ships are able to hold their own in almost any kind of a sea and aro seldom driven from their stations. For the reason some of them have beca stationed in deep water many miles from land and mark a point from which arriving and departing vessels take their bearings.

It has been almost two centuries since the first "modern" lightship began its all-night vigil as a guide Three of the latest additions to to seafarers who were forced to the lightship feet in the service of make their way into port after dark the United States are the "100 through dangerous waters. It Blunts," the "113 Swiftsure," and was "modern" because it had, as in the 114 Fire Jeland." Built in the case of many modern products Portland, Oregon, at the Albins of its day, a prototype in the Iron Works, this trio of vessels, ali ancient world-the Roman Coast of them identical in construction, Guard Galley which existed in the represent the very latest in engineer inst few centuries before Christ. ¦ ing efficiency."

lightships had These ancient Patrolled the Roman Coast through out the night and the light from tires in their open basket served as a guide to vessels.

Measuring 133 feet in length, these new vessels are equipped with

.

NEW REVOLVING BEACON.

To Be Introduced Into Lighthouse Work.

A new type of revolving beacon, having two 36-inch lenses, is being introduced into lighthouse work, it having proved satisfactory for the lighting of airways, according to the U.S. Lighthouse Service. The new beacons, of weather-proof construc- tion, lend themselves to installation on skeleton steel or similar towers. The

motor. which revolves the beacon, producing the flashes, is contained within the base, and the

. The possibility of the light fail-

instantly With a

entire beacon is so constructed that a power plant of four cylinder, fourt will operate for long periods cycle, 112 B.H.P. air injection without attention, Electric current Winton Diesel engines with a nor is used both as the illuminant and The Nore, the first of the mal operating speed of 450 rpm for driving the motor. "modern" lightships, was establish Each ship carries two powerful ed in 1732 nt the mouth of the lanterns 65 feet above the surface. Thames River, in Britain, and It of the water at the top of the ing. through the burning out of a boasted oil-burning lanterns among masts. The light from these lan-bulb is guarded, against by a lamp which marked its terns' is visible for 15 miles under changing device; when one lamp other things superiority over the earlier light-ordinary weather conditions.

burns out another ships. It proved such a valuable Two enormous mushroom an- aid to navigation that in 1736, a chore weighing 7,000 lbs. hold the swung into position. second lightship was put into ser- vessels at the exact point indicated thousand-watt lamp the new beacons send out a beam of light of vice. It was called the Dudgeon on every marine chart. A heavy Shoal. So that the Dudgeon Shoal windlass for the raising and lower 1,200,000 candle-power, and with could be easily distinguished from ing of the anchors is driven by a simple alterations the light may be made alternating white and red, the Nore, a different kind of light 60 h.p: motor. ing was used. Thus, it appears A four-mounted stren, with: sound white and green, or red and green. that the now characteristic lights being produced by alr diaphone, The speed of revolution may also for all beacons originated aboard screams out its signal of danger to be varied between limits of two to

an approaching vessel within a six revolutions per minute. the lightship.

range of four miles. This now air whistle is considered much better for the service because there is no loss of water through escaping steam.

Nore.

SAILING RECORDS.

"Vessels Faster in the Fifties Than Now."

on

The lightship of 1931, called the "bravest of little ships" because they brave all sorts of weather from hurricane to calm, are an example of modern engineering skill and,

Standard equipment for these equipped with many modern con

new lightships includes 12 fuel veniences, perform a greater num ber of services to navigation than tanks with a capacity of 12,000 Ant-did the now ancient lightship, the gallons; 1,680 gallons of lubricat- ing oil and 65 gallons of kerosene. With the advent of steam and it is estimated that the ships can electric engines for propulsion, the go from six to nine months without

the All of the new American light engineers in the US. Bureau of refueling..

have brought Lighthouses

now on duty at their present-day lightships to a high ships are

stations. The 100 state of efficiency and they do moro respective than mark the danger spots at Blunts is located 40 miles south of night-they are beacons by day, Eureka, California, at Blunts Reef: platforms for lights by night and the 113 Swiftsure is stationed at the Bank entrance of Puget Sound; sound signal stations in fog.

Present-day lightships can easily and the 114 Fire Island has taken be moored on shifting choals and up its duties off First Islands, NY By completing the 6,268-mile run banks where foundations for light- hauses could not be laid. When the from Portland, Oregon to New York danger point of the shoals shifts, a in 31 days, 12 hours and 49 minutes. corresponding change la, promptly of which the actual running time made in the position of the light-was 756 hour and 30 minutes,, the 114 Fire Island is credited with ship.

Another advantage of the light-making one of the longest Voyages Atlantic race of 1905 the schooner ship is that vessels may steer direct-ever undertaken by a vessel of this yacht Fleur-de-lys, of 86 tons, and, ly for the light or the fog signal.type. Average speed for the entire suppose, between 70 and 80 feet

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Carge to Con- stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

1931.

*SIRDHANA

TILAWA SANTHIA

B,000 27th July 20,000 8th. Aug. 23rd Aug. 8,000

* Calls Fort Swettenham.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

Those of your correspondents. who have recently cast doubts the records of the emigrant clippers are comparing them with modern steel vessels, overloaded, under- manned, and often sadly in need of docking, writes a correspondent to the London Morning Post.

The fast ships of the Fifties were pas- songer liners, always in their best sailing trim, carried four times a many hands, and were docked every six months-not for cleaning but to see that their copper was smooth and undamaged. They were, in fact, comparable to yachts carrying a

racing crew.

1 find that during the Trans-¦ ¦

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st without danger as long as a colli-trip was 9.8 knots, while the high-long; made a day's run of 304 set

and 2nd class passengers.

ision is avoided. It acts as a guide est speed attained was 10.3 knots.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). Bell signale for submarines, one

NELLORE TANDA

1 1931 7,000 Ist Aug. 7,000 2nd Sept. 7,000 2nd Oct.

NANKIN

to the outgoing as well as the in-She made other history too. It is believed that she is the first coming vessels in harbour traffic.

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through the lightship to Panama Canal

Much credit for the remarkable performance of the 114 Fire Island fe due her master, Captain Jacob Nielson and her chief engineer, F. H. Conant.

of the modern improvements which have been added to the lightship, are proving highly satisfactory, Mani, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney The range and accuracy of direc

& Melbourne.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan farther in water than they do

and Hong Kong to Australls.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:--

The Union S.3. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & D. Royal Mail Steamers to Londen and

tion of the bell signals are a great help in directing the course of these submerged craft. Not only do these signals travel faster and

in air, but at the depth where the bell hangs, the successful transmis sion of the signal is not prevented by the heaviest gale.

Equipped with the latest radio sending and receiving devices, the lightship is invaluable as a relay

PORT OF STETTIN.

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miles. This agrees closely with the formula given by Dr. Worth for the maximum speed of a yacht; viz., 1.4 times the square root of her, length. Applying this to a ship 300 feet long would give maximum speed of about 24 knots,

Obviously, wooden masts and hemp rigging could not stand up to the force of wind required, but a run of 500 miles in exceptionally favourable circumstances was re- garded as a possibility, and the speed of the James Baines was es- timated at 21 knots for a short time. Probably the Lighning in- cluded spells of 20 in her day's average 18.2.

The port of Stettin has done comparatively well in the shipping crisis, but is suffering more now from the competition of Danzig

Do es- I believe. the navigation in those! and Gdynia, Poland has tablished railway connection be- days was more accurate than now. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and ataton. Its position, at the centres tween the coal and industrial region All the captains were collecting data for Lieutenant Maury's wind London via Panama Canal.

and current charts, which were of supreme interest when every pass- age was sailed as a race.

The P. & O. Brunch Service of steamers to London via Suez.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

Cheap Summer Trips to Japan, June to Sept.

ALIPORE SANTHIA KARMALA TANDA *BOUDAN CATHAY ITALMA

NANKIN

⚫ Cargo only.

21st July Shanghai, Moji & Kobe.

1 1981.. Į.

5,300 8,000 9,000

31st July Amoy, Moll, Kobe, Y'hama & Osaka. 81st July Shanghai. Moji. Kobe & Yokohama.

7,000 7th Aug. S'hai, Moll, Kobe, Osaka & Yhama.

0,800 8th Aug. 15,000 14th Aug.

10,000 14th Aug. 7,000 27th Aug.

Shunghal, Kobe & Yokohama.

Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osako. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.

Calling Wel-hai-wei, Tsingtau & Shanghal on return from Japan.

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice: Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses at Singapore, while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.

All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans' on Funka Louvre System free of charge, the dat

Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels mensuring not more than 5 ed. ft. will be received at the Com- pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.

of the lanes of sea travel enable it of East 'Upper Silesia and their to pick up and pass on messages port of Gdynia, and this must have which might otherwise fail to reach a great effect in favour of the their destination. With this equip- latter port.

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SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1931.

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SATURDAY, July 18.

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