1931-12-31 — Page 9

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1931.

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to Fiume, Genoa, All Italian, Adriatic, Levant,

Black Sea and Danube Porta

Passengers to LONDON (Overland),

NEXT SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG

M.V. HILDA (cargo boat)

8.8. PILSNA (passenger boat)

M.V. COL DI LANA (targo boat)

5.5. GANGE (passenger boat)

S.S. MONCALIERI (cargo boat) *8.8. CONTE ROSSO (passenger boat)..

* Passenger Steamers to Shanghai only.

For Shanghai

& Japan

Jan. 12

Jan. 11

.

Jan. 31

(11a.m.)

Feb. 8 Mar. 4 (Noon)

For Singapore & Italy Jan. 17 Jan. 24

(10 a.m.)

Feb.

14

Feb. 10

(6 p.m.) Mar. 13 Mar. 13 (10 p.m.)

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THE CHINA MAIL

Shipping

Intelligence

NAVY SECRETS OF THE form, the same gystem of fire con-

BIG GUNS

Amazing Progress in Fire-Control.

HUMAN ELEMENT ELIMINATED.

Range-Ending is a vital factor in long-range shooting. At Jutland

out

trot which sends the monster 16in.. shells of Nelson through a target at a range of fifteen miles also en. ables a destroyer, rolling and pitch. Ing in a seaway, to work its quick- firing guns with astonishing accur acy. And there are equally Ingeni instruments for aliming torpe.

does.

So mark

ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.

Tuesday, December 29. La Plata Maru, Japanese str., 4,386

tons, Capt. M, Yajimi, from Kobe, buoy No. AB.-U.S.K. Nankin, British str., 4,848 tons, Capt. A. S. Gordon from 'Moji, Kowloon Dock.-P. & 0. Phaslanella, British atr., 893 tons,

Capt. H. C. Farrington, from Foochow North PointA.POS Titan, British str., 5,749 tors, Capt. W. J. Elfood, from Singapore, Yingchow, British str., 1,216 tons,

Holt'a Wharf.-B. & S.

Capt. J. R. Nisbet,, from Amoy, buoy No. 4.-B. & 3.

CLEARANCES.

Chungkong, for Tourane. itself Eumaeus, for Shanghai.

Wednesday, Deceber 90.

In The Daily Telegraph recently

Phenomenal progress has been I described a "Robot" system of

made in anti-aircraft firing. Six fire-control which has been deve-years ago a well-known aviator vo- loped in a certain foreign navy, 1 lunteered to fly over the Atlantic am now able to disclose a number Fleet while the massed "Archies" of the Fleet fired at him with "live" of facts which indicate the amazing shell. He would scarcely care to progress of scientific gunnery in our own fleet, says Hector Crepeat that offer to-day,

ed has been the improvement in the Bywater, the Daily Telegraph Naval Correspondent.

control and loading gear of the A.A., the aeroplane attacking a squadron gun, and in the shells it fires, that

at sea would be like a grouse, which, battleships carried nothing having grown contemptuous of rifle larger than 9ft telemeters, although ballots, suddenly found for several years previously the British firm that specialises in these caught in a barrage of shotgune. Fooshing, for Canton. instruments had been supplying to me by one of our greatest - La Plata Maru, for Saigon..

These disclosures have been made Kueichow, for Foochow 30ft. instruments to foreign navies, perts on fire control. They have a Malacca Maru, for Moji.' The fact that our own ships bad to direct, bearing on the future of the Newchwang, for Ningpo. rely on 9ft. range-finders was due to big ship, for if the great guns which Pongtong, for Saigon.. Teatriction of space in gun turrets such a vessel alono can carry are Prominent, for "Saigon. and control stations. The German navy, on the other hand, went in capable of being fired with accur Fronto, for Whampos. for very long-base instruments and of vision no further argument for Solviken, for Hothow,

acy at any range within the limits Saint Dunstan, for. Calcutta. enjoyed a corresponding advantage the survival of the battleship is Talyuan, for Amoy.

To-day British battleships and REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING finders of 3UFL to 40ft. base, which gun is still the most destructive

cruisers are equipped with range

For in capable hande the heavyTitan, for Shanghai

Tilawa, for Singapore, FROM £79 TO £120 ON SALE.

are immeasurably superior to the Jutland type. These instruments pedo may

weapon. Damage inflicted by tor- be localised by sub- are so mounted as to be absolutely dividing the hull, but it is doubt unaffected by vibration from the ful if any form of protection would high speed of the ship or the con- keep out a salvo of 16in. high- cussion of gunfire. This is exclu-explosive shell, each weighing a ton! sively a British innovation. Our and travelling at a velocity of latest range-finders, and, indeed, all 2,650ft, per second. the new British-made optical instru- ments which the Royal Navy uses,

V.K.LINE

N.

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Parts & Honolulu.

Wednesday, 18th January. Wednesday, 27th January.

SEATTLE, VANCOUVER via Shunghai & Japan Ports,

Tuesday, Tuesday,

́19th January.

10th February.'

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via

-CHICHIBU, MARU

TATSUTA MARU

HIYE MARU

HEIAN MARU

Singapore, Penang Colombo & Suez.

FUSHIMI, MARU

Saturday,

9th January.

HAKOZAKI MARU

Saturday,

23rd January.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Porta

KAMO MARU

Saturday,

**28rd January.

KITANO MARU,

Saturday,

27th February.

TANGO MARU

GENOA MART

Monday 11th January. Wednesday 27th January.

SOUTH

14th February.

BOMBAY via Singapore, Benang & Colombo,

AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Mexico, and. Panama, BOKUYO MARU

NEW YORK, BOSTON, vla Panama.

Sunday,

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Gienoa

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

& Marseilles,

DURBAN MARU

Thursday,

14th January.

+ HAKODATE MARU

Wednesday,

+ MORIOKA MARU

Friday,

6th January. 15th January.

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA

+TAJIMA MARU

Sunday,

+AKITA MARU (Moji direct)

Monday, Friday,

Brd January. 4th January. Bth January.

HAKUSAN MARU

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in fire-control; have demonstrated

their superiority over the best for-

necessary.

WARSHIPS IN PORT.

eign specimens in the course of ex-were in harbour to-day-

The following British warships haustive tests at the National Phy- sical Laboratory.

+

every

Uncanny Precision. When, immediately after the war, Inter-Allied missione visited Ger- many to superintend the execution of the disarmament regulations, they found not only that German warship had been stripped of its fire-control gear, but that the German factories engaged in manu̟- facturing these instruments had stopped production. Shortly after- wards a German syndicate estab lished two factories in Holland, at Venlo and Hangelo, where fire-con- trol mechanism could be manufac tured free of Allied supervision. Both factories are in full operation to-day, but in quality their products are inferior to the Britsh article.

As regards the British Navy, it is betraying no secret to state that! post-war developments in fire con- trol have exceeded anything in the whole previous history of the science. The human eiernent has been largely eliminated. Instruments Bro ΠΟΥ Iri .use which take the target range from the range-finders and automa- tically Eompite all the data needed for keeping the guna bearing on the enemy, however much he may seek to baffle the aim by altering course or changing speed. Once computed, these 'data are fastantly transmitted, without manual inter- vention, to the various stations 5th Jan throughout the ship. The whole operation is performed with a pre- cision that seems uncanny.

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,

RIO DE JANEIRO, BANTOS Buenos Aires Maru

& BUENOS AIRES vie

Saigon, Singapore, Colom

bo, Durban & Capetown.

MOMBASA ZANZIBAR. Africa Maru

DERHAN

AM, BEIRA.

MARQUES

PORT ELIZA BETH & CAPETOWN THENCE TO RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS A

AIRES via Singa

pare & Colombo spre

ORDNET, MEL-Brisbane Mary

AUCKLAND & WELLINGTON via Manila.

·PORTS - (Fra

JAPAN

· LONDON CANEVE, quent

N. HAMBURG, ROT- Paris Maru

TERDAM &

Singapore

Sats & Port Said.

Colomb

NEW YORK vin Japan porte Kinal

Los Angeles & Paname

Call Direct at Boston

Philadelphia & Baltimore.

BOMBAY & KARACHI via Hague Maru

Bingapore,elem

Belawan Delf; &

Dell

Singapore, Ham

Rangood.

ONG via Holhow

Thurs.,

11th Feb.

4th Jan.

8th Jan.

2nd Ján

Since the data of Jutland: the long-range shooting of the Royal Navy has improved by nearly 100 por cent. Targets are now picked up and brought under accurate fire at ranges that not so long ago would have been deemed fabulous In conjunction with improvements in guns, mountings, and projectiles, this fire, control development has more than doubled the hitting power of individual ships.

Enture of Battle This is a true. of the

an of the battleship. In

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Bruce South wall... Cornflower-East wall. Cumberland-Na, 3 buoy. Herald-East wall. Hermes-No,, 1 buy Kent North arm.,

Marazion-South wall. Medway and Sub-No. 2.buoy, Olympus-East wall. Orpheus In dock, Oawaid-In dock. Forsaus East wall. Phoenix-In dock...... Seamew--East wall. Seraph-North wall. Serapis North wall. Sirdar-North wall Suffolk West wall. Tamar-Basin.

Foreign Man-of-War. Craonne French gunboat.

Gil Eanes Portuguese transport. Mindanao American Gunboit

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