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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1931.

LLOYD TRIESTINO

NAV. CO.

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1915 EXPLOSION

H.M.S. NATAL.

Was It Caused by Enemy Action ?.

SALVAGE WORKERS' DISCOVERY

THE CHINA MAIL.

tory.

冷

Shipping

Intelligence.

ON in the Austrian ofjcial war his pump having an output of 100 tons per hour against a head of Further, it is known that 75 feet, direct coupled to one of bomba skilfully camouflaged to the new Gardner "L" type, high resemble blocks of coal, oil speed, full diesel engines, run- drums, and parts of ship's gearning at 1,000 r.p.m. and develop- were produced in Germany, in ing 19 B.H.P. This departure the hope of "planting" them in from the usual practice of Atting Allied men-of-war and mer- a reciprocating pump has result- chantmen. A bomb factory for ed from highly Batisfactory the same purpose was actually | results obtained on a similar set established in one of the German] which was installed in the No. 2]. liners interned at New York, and Waterboat, several Allied ships crossing the Atlantic were destroyed by mys- terious fires and explosions, which were traced back to the products of this factory.

(By Hector C. Bywater.) I understand that salvage operations on the sunken cruiser Natal; in Cromarty Firth, are new and possibly a shedding sinister light on the mysterious fate of this ship.

Natal, a heavy armoured crui- ser, was destroyed by an intern. al explosion on December 30, 1915, while lying in Cromarty Harbour, and when a number of Jocal civilians, including children, where guests on board at a New Year party.

Observers in other ships aud- denly noticed flames and smoke rising from Natal. A general alarm was éounded and boats were ordered to be lowered, but before anything could be done a terrific explosion took place. The after part of the ship was blown, to pieces, and she sunk in four! minutes.

At first ascribed to an enemy submarine, the disaster was Inter

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part of the ammunition, Now, however, the official verdict may have to be revised in view of a jrecent discovery.

Infernal Machine Theory.

KOWLOON DOCK.

Launch of a New Motor Vessel.

J

The latest addition to the fleet of waterboats owned by the Union Waterboat Co., Ltd., the motor vessel Tai Sam Ho 3 was successfully launched yesterday at the West Yard of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock. Co., Ltd.

This is the twelfth waterboat built by the Dock. Co. for the. same owners over a period of 25 years. The first nine of these boats were propelled by com- pound surface condensing steam engines with a pumping outfit consisting of steam driven hori- zontal duplex pumps, while the latest three bouts have propell-

the Diesel type.

-105'0"

22'0" 10'0"

For fifteen years the wreck laying machinery and auxiliaries of off Cromarty, only partially sub. merged at low tide. This year the Middlesbrough Salvage Co. was commissioned to demolish it. Up to now the double bottom of the ship has been nipped away, and engines condensers, and metal fittings have been removed, but owing to the slump in metal, prices the salvors have suspended operations for the time being.

good

-¡ numerous

I am informed 011

authority that magazines and shell-rooms, which were as- sumed to have exploded, thus destroying the ship, have been found intact, with the cordite charges and projectiles still in their places.

If that be so, some other ex- planation of the disaster must be sought. Many people in the Cromarty district believed at the time, and still believe, that the ship was destroyed by enemy action, the theory of an infernal machine in the conl bunkers be- ing held by the majority.

While there is no actual evid

A petrol driven compressor is fitted as a standby for pumping up the air bottles in case of ne- cessity or loss of air when the main engine is shut down,

Lighting for the engine room and navigating lights la provid- ed by a 32 volt battery which in its turn is charged by a dynamo driven from the pumping set.

WARSHIPS IN PORT.

The following British warships| wero in harbour to-day:--

Berwick No. 8 buoy. Bruce-South wall. Cornwall-No. 5 buoy. Folkstone-West wall. Hermes-No. 1 buoy. Kent-North arm. Medway and Subs.-No. 2 buoy. Olympus-In dock. Osiris-In dock. Perseus--In dock. Sepoy-East wall. Sirdar-Kowloon - wharf. Sorapis-North wall. Somme-East wall Stormcloud-No. 11 buoy. Suffolk-West wall.

Tamar-Basin.

Thracian-North wall.

Foreign Men-of-War.

Argus-French gunboat. Craonne-French dispatch vessel. Gil Eanco-Portuguese transport. Helena-American gunboat. Houston-American gunboat. Isabel-American gunboat. Mindanao-American vinboat.

SPAIN AND MOTOR SHIPS.

The Tai Sam Ho 3 has a steel hull with dimensions:

Length Breadth Depth Machinery is placed aft and the hold amidships is divided in four water tanks by fore and aft and athwartship watertight bulk- heads. Suitable accommodation [ is provided for the crew on deck! forward in a steel house with the

Since first experimenting with motor vessels several years ago, bridge deck and steering position over. Vessel is designed to and will have a speed on service machinery for their new vessels, carry 380 tons of fresh water practically all Spanish shipownerя have adoptod Internal-combustion of about 7 knots,

whether cargo or passenger. velop shipbuilding in Spain so far It is evidently the intention to de- as possible when normal circum- of installing the most up-to-date stances return-and even before and economical machinery on they return, if one may judge from the market.

In this

་་

new boat the Union Waterboat Co., Ltd., have again followed their progressive policy

Ая

The adoption of crude oil en- the tanker orders recently placed gine drive enables all the ma- it would seem that Spain represents chinery for propulsion and pump-a good field for the sale of marine

ing to be installed in a compact sent is built in that country.

Diesel engines, since none at pro-

and well laid out engine room.

Propelling Machinery.

the recent orders

Of

for internal-

has been

la.

As in the No. 2 Waterboat, the combustion machinery for ships-- ence to support this idea, it is a main engine consists of a Gard- that is to say, within the past three coincidence that all three of the ner "J" type, two stroke, full or four years not one British warships Bulwark, diesel engine, developing 162 placed with British builders, and Natal, and Vanguard which B.H.P. on the shaft. The engine this is a circumstance which were destroyed in the war by in direct reversing and its water somewhat disquieting, When re- internal explosion, should have circulating pump and air com-ciprocating steam engines weru uni- been coal-burning ships.

pressor are fitted integral with versal, a large proportion of those Bomb Factory on Liner. the engine and driven from the required for installation in ships in It may also be recalled that main shaft. Fuel costs when Spain were supplied from British two Italian battleships, Bene- running at full speed, will be in works. Quite apart from the loss detto Brin and Leonardo da the neighbourhood of $2.00. per of orders which are so much need- Vinci, were destroyed by infern-hour.

ed at the present time when they are for export, the breaking down

Auxillary Machinery, -

al machines, which Austrian agents had secreted in each of The pumping machinery con- of a very long association is regret-

4th Dec.the ships. This is acknowledged sists of a two stage centrifugal' table.

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