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P. & 0.-British India 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

**From***** Hong Kong About

1931.

5,300 19th Aug. 6,000 22nd Aug. 9,000 29th Aug.

15,000 12th Sept. €,800 19th Sept 9,000

*ALIPORE *IPADUA

*KARMALA

CATHAY

ISOUDAN

*KALYAN

MANTUA +KASHMIR *BURDWAN

13,000 10th 9,000 24th

0,500 J1st

Oct. Oct. Oct.

NALDERA

20th Sept.

Destination.

“ CONSTITUTION.”

In Commission Again.

FAMOUS FRIGATE.

Restored To Proud Place.

THE

1 to the seas in which she stamped her name in history.

"Stand by to cast off fore and The Constitution is ready uft!" to shove off once more,

CHINA

MAIL.

who word callouses on the backs of their knuckles from hauling an aere

Visit to Eath. The Constitution's viaft is

even

great-

Was

significance, .for It that city that Lieuten-,

of canvas over a 'bucking yard when Bath will be of a ship was being "reefed down" in er a galo. Sailors from outside, the in navy have been mentioned as aant Lord received the training possible crew, together with the which fitted him for the dimcult possibility of training a crew drawn task of rebuilding the old frigate. from the navy's enlisted ranks.

Be-

Lieutenant Lord is a native of Bath. His grandfather was Adam Lemont of East Brunswick, fore the boy was 10 years old he was making models of sailing ships. As a young man he served under Frederick Rideout; a noted Maing

Rear Admiral Philip Andrews, U.S.N, retired, holds a different point of view. Admiral Andreive The U. S. Frigate. "Constitution" was the man who played an in-

De portant part in directing the cam is once more in commission. scribed as one of the "Old Iron-paign' for public donations with sides," she turned her prow on July which to rebuild the frigate. The naval architect, and later be enter admiral has had a long and dis-ed the yard, of the New England There he tinguished career in the naval ser- Shipbuilding Company.

the various vice of his country. He bears of worked up through ficial decorations for valiant ser- trades and by the time he was 23, vice in the war zone during 1917 Lieutenant Lord had become the With all the pomp and circum from the United States and other draftsman and shipfitter. in a pro- stance befitting so grand a relic of nations. His experience is ground- ject embracing the construction of the nation's claim to freedom oned in the early midshipman train- 22 vessels. the seas, the rebuilt, frigate was ing in square-rigged men-d-war officially placed in commission to such as the Constitution. day (July 1), wrote Harlan Troth in the Christian Science Monior.

Flags fluttered from lofty mast beads. Beneath them flew the broad pennants of men in high .com mand. Great guns erashed out salvos of salutes to the gallant man-o'-war, and the ranking officer of Navy and State assembled at the Boston Navy Yard for the commis sioning ceremonies.

These statements

ज्ञ

Three years Intor. Lleutenant Lord entered the naval construc- Admiral Andrew's View.

tion corps 20 an assistant ship Says Admiral Andrews: "Folks draftsman. He soon showed his said there were none who could re- ability as a designer in drawing up build her, but the ment from the all the specifications for the United New England coast, proved them States training vessel. Boxer, a In wrong. Now we hear that there brig, built at Portsmouth. are none who can sail her. The 1905, Lieutenant Lord was appoint- auched master builder of the super-

New York

and Navy doesn't harbour any fears."

were dreadnaughts, voiced when the discussion first Arizona. During the World War arose as to whether there was he Built 11 destroyers and six sub- On board the Constitution a cen- sufficient number of horny-fisted marine chasers.

From a staff of naval construc- tury seemed to have fallen from the seadogs of the "old school" left in calendar. The ald-style, full- the Navy to ahoke out her huge tion exports, ranging in grades dress uniform frock-coate-of-the-sails-sheet-them-home-and-haul-from-admirals_down...Lieutenant officers stood out in neat rows along course for the itinerary mapped Lord was appointed for the work the spar deck of the frigate. Gilt out by the authorities.

of restoring the Constitution to its trimmings shimmered and gleamed The second part of call takes the old-time splendour. For two years on cocked hats and epaulets. Of vessel into Bar Harbour. Natives the erstwhile-builder-of-wooden- Straite, Colomba & Bombay. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, casionally a sword rattled in its of the regions around Frenchman's ships occupied himself with the task Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull, scabbard somewhere along the files Bay have been going "deep water" of obtaining "an accurate set of Marseilles, London. Rotterdam, Antas Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton, for many past generations. It lines from the vessel as well as with

werp & Hul.

commandant of the First Naval would be a sight to please the old the designing of docking plans, and District, read the official ordera "model whittlers" around the lobs- a cradle upon which the disintegrat- from the Navy Department placing ter shacks to have the frigate come ed hulk was to rest during the four-

booming in under Mt. Desert under year period of restoration. the ship in commission.

Navy Orders Read.

a full press of canvas and then Then Commander Louls J."back the main yard” right under read the Navy erders the lighthouse. But, according to Gulliver which made him Captain of the present orders from the Navy De Constitution--the successor to Isaac partment, schedules are schedules. Hull, Charles. Stewart and Edward But then if the frigate was going Preble in a long line of distinguish- under sail, a flat calm might leave her sendogs whistling for a "amoky sou'wester" that would waft her into Frenchman's Bay.

Bombay, Marseilles & London Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam & Antwerp. Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Ant-

werp & Hull.

Marseilles & London.

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M'seilles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp. Marscilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rutterdum & Antwerp.

16,000 7th Nov. Bombay, Marseilles & London." +KASHGAR

0.000 21st Nov. M'scilles, L'on, R'dam & A'werp, RAJPUTANA 17,000 Bth Dec. Marseilles & London. CORFU

10,000 19th Dec. Marseilles. & London. *ISOMALI 1 6,800 26th Doc Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, ed commodores.

Rotterdam & Antwerp.

• Cargo only. † Calls Casablanca. Calls Djibouti. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khediral Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

•SANTHIA

TALMA

1931.

23rd Aug.

8,000

3 p.m. 10,000 8th Sept. TAKADA

7,000 21st Sept. SIRDHANA 1 8,000 4th Oct. TILAWA

10.000 14th * Calls Port Swettenham.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Oct.) Singapore, Fenung & Calcutta,

Her pic

To Gel Working Plans. In order to gather a complete set of working plans of the ship, Lieu- tenant Lord was frequently obliged to crawl into the lower part of the ship, squeezing into narrow, low- studded parts of the decaying hall, taking off actual measurements of parts to be restored.

After the reading of the orders, flags were broken out from the

From early morning until late at rigging and the name of the early. From Bar Harbour the Constitu- night, year in and year' out, the defender of the nation at sea was tion goes to Bath, Maine. The noted builder has been on the job written, into the roster of the visit may provide even more of a pouring over plans in the special Navy's fighting fleet once more. thrill for citizens of that thriving office at the navy yard or supervis Gune roared from near-by ahipa little shipbuilding city on the ing the work on board the ship. 17 for Joseph B. Ely, Governor of Kennebec. Bath has been building As soon as work was ready to the Commonwealth; 16 guns for good wooden sailing vessels longer start on the Constitution in 1927, Ernest Lee Johncke, Assistant than any other port in the world. Lieutenant Cord sent down to Bath Secretary of the Navy, and 18 for a Bath has always been known as for a staff of shipwrights whose ability to wield the adz and mawl rear admiral as the Commandant the home of good ships. went over the Constitution's gun- turesque river front was once lined made them especially fitted for the With them came studded side to the thrill accom- with ships in the stocks, and ships exacting work. paniment of a boatswain's pipe. at the rigging and sail lofts. Tall several pieces of machinery which To-morrow is aafling day. But masts mingled with the white could only be found in the port that instead of setting out under sail, spires of the churches that dot the was famous the world over as the

hillside city,

home of the wooden shipbuilding One of these machines was N.H., the first port of call, in tow When the era, of wooden ships craft. of the naval tender Grebe, Can went into the decline, Bath turned a lathe for turning out wooden pins

to laying the keals of great battle for fastening planks to ship? This is the question that ships. Eventually that business These pins are technically known

treenails. Bath's as

The downeasters, has been parried all along the line had its day and many of from the officers' wardrooms to the shipyarda were only a tradition. however, call them "trunnels."

That Lieutenant Lord is an ex- Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney berth decks of the apprentice aca- The biggest and best yard turned

men; from the Navy Department to manufacturing tin pie plates. pert rigger as well as a builder of in Washington to the editorial Bath will surely give the Constitu-ships is evidenced in the cloud- pages of the small-town weeklies. tion arousing welcome. The lofty reaching maze of shrouds and spars

Lieut. John A. Lord, the man who spars of the nation's early defender which can carry rebuilt the old frigate, says there will fit naturally into the sleepy providing the Navy has anyone to Lieutenant Lord, for are no sailors left to man her-no waterfront picture which is Bath sail her. sailors of the marlinespike school to-day.

(Continued at: foot of nazi Column.)

B.L. Apcar Line steainers have excellent accommodation for 1st the frigate will go to Portsmouth, and 2nd class passengers.

FASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South), the navy find a crew to all the old

TANDA NANKIN NELLORE

1931

7,000 2nd Sopt. 7,000 2nd Oct. 7,000 31st Oct.

4 Melbourne.

Regular monthly satings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japon and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days,

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:--

The Union 9.9. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & O. Royal Mall Steamers to Londog and

The P. & 0, Branch Service of steamers to London via Spez

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and. London via Panama Canal

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAÍ & JAPAN. Cheap Summer Trips to Japan, June to Sept.

.TAKADA

*NANKIN

KALYAN

*ST. ALBANS

MANTUA

SIRDHANA

*BURDWAN KASHMIR TILAWA NELLORE SANTHIA NALDERA KASHGAR

TALMA

MACEDONIA.

TANDA

} 1931,

7,000 | 27th Aug, Amey, Shanghal, Moji, Kobe, Yoko-"

hama & Osaka.

7,000 27th Aug. | Shanghai, Kobe 4 Yokohama. 0,000 28th Aug Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, 4,500 81st Aug. S'hai, Moji, Koba, Osaka & Y'hama. 11,000 11th Sept. Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohamo.

Mail, Kobe, & Onnka.

8,000

6,600

11th Sept Kobe & Yokohama.

12th Sept

9,000 25th Sept.

10,000

Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 26th Sept. Amoy, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka,

Oct. S'hal Moji, Koho, Omka & Y'hama. Oct. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.

7,000

5th

8,000

9th

16,000

·0,000

10th

*7.000

Oct. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohams. 27th Oct. Shanghai, foji, Kobe & Yokohama. 10,000 23rd Oct Amoy, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka. 11,000 24th Det. Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. 6th Nov. S'haf, Möll, Kobe, Osaka & Yham. RAJPUTANA 17,000 7th Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 15,000 21st Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama 17,000

6th Dec. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 7,000 7th Dec. S'hai; Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama. 10,000 19th Doc. Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohania.

CORFU

RAWALFINDI

KARMALA

NANKIN

* Carge only. † Calls Nagoya,

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. "Fassangers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses at Bingapore, while awaiting the on-carrying, stemmer.

All Cabins are fitted with: Electris Fans on Punka Louvre System free of charge.MENT.

Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 6 cu. ft. will be received at the Gom pany's Office ups to Noon on the day previons to sailing. |

For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:-

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

P. & O. Building Connaught Pl. C. Hong Kong

+

frames.

a load of canvas

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD., HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS: Telegramı: KOWLOON, HONG KONG HONG KONG OFFICE 28020.

Telephones!

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KOWLOON DOCK 18053. DOCK OWNERS, SHIP DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, IRON, STEEL, AND BRASS FOUNDERS,

FORGE MASTERS, WELDERS AND ELECTRICIANS.

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list of

approved

Cast

Steel

Manufac

turers.

56 T.S.S. EMPRESS OF JAPAN.”

Barbour

Call Flags Engineer

Boller.

maker

Shipwright

No. 1 Dock, Dimensions:---666′0′′. 0.A. x 35′0' x 48'6" Mid. 26,000 tons Gross.

The Company possesses Six Granite Docks and Two Patent Slipways. The dimensions of No. 1. Dock are 700′0′′ x 89′0′′ × 30′€" over sih, H. W. 0.8. T. Salvage Tug "Henry. Keswick 2,000 LH.P. Wireless Call Signal V.P.B.T. and Flag Call Signal TMQB Sheerlegs capable of lifting 80 tons.

Codes Used: Al, A.B.C. Fifth Edition: Engineering, First and Second Edition Western Union, Bentley, and Watkins

Kindly send exquiries to the Chief Manager,

·R. M. DYER, B.Sc., MIN.A., Kowloon Docks, Hongkong.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1931.

S.S. "PRESIDENT LINCOLN"

will sail for

NEW YORK

via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, Los Honolulu, San Francisco, Angeles and Panama Canal.

at

MIDNIGHT

(TUESDAY)

AUGUST 18th.

2

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SERVICE

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TRANS-PACIFIC "AND ATLANTIC COAST SERVICE

via PANAMA. NEXT SAILING

M.V. “TAI YANG”

on AUGUST 18th.

for

SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK & BOSTON.

42 Days To New York.

For Passenger and Freight information please apply:-

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Queen's Buildings.

Agents.

Telephone 28021.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS. BOILER MAKERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment. Is guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Bilp- ways, and can accommodate any craft of 200 feet long. Town Office: 64, Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong. Tel. 20459. shipyard; Shum-shui-po, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Kowloon Tel 57009. Estimates furnished on application

Hong Kong, April 1, 1924.

one, thinks the idea coudn't be, from the fore top gallant yard of the work was being carried out; that sailing her would the ship as be even more difficult than rebuild- brought to a conclusion. Men on ing the ship.

deck scurried around seizing rope Rigging of Rope.

after rope in hopes of "atriking" An old Bath True to the custora of ship rig-the right "cord." ging more than a century, ago, the shipwright dually had to solve the rebulider of the Constitution has intricate problem by walking up to 'set up his masts and spars with the fore fife rail and casting off standing rigging made entirely of the proper line without a moment's ropė,

healtation. Lloutenant Lord couldn't" The odour of Stockholm see where a crew could be scraped' tar brings back memories together who could find the star- sailing ship days, the board top gallant clewline or any great wheels which rudder recall the battles with storm on a dark night without a moment's as well as with hostile ships which hesitation. When a full rigger has are recounted In the vessel's log.to let go a line, sometimes it has The fife raile that hold the rows of to go on the run." But Lieuten- belaying pins for making fast hal-ant Lord has done his job and has yards and clewlines, are a veritable done it well as a bronze plate at puzzle to the modern saflor as much the starboard gangway attests. as to the landlubber.

The frigate is ready to sail if the sailors can be found who can take her to sea under call

of

Black away the starboard, tgal lant" clowline,” shouted a rigger

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