1932-01-26 — Page 10

TUESDAY, JANUARY 1932.

LLOYD TRIESTINO

NAV. CO.

EXPRESS MAIL PASSENGER SERVICE. For Brindisi, Venice, & Trieste and London (Overland) vla Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Suer and Port Said.

FEB. 10th, 6 p.m.

NEXT SAILING

S.S. "GANGE"

FOR

FREIGHT & PASSAGES

APPLY TO

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MOTOR SHIPS

WHEN PERFORMANCE

PROMISE,

EXCEEDS

THE NEW ROUTE.

British Ships Avoiding Canal Tolls.

British ships trading between

If any permanent auccess is to bejfigures relating to the Deucalion achieved with machinery or ships, have been given, namely, 97.16 tons Britain and New Zealand are now the performance in service must at per day, for a speed of 16.1 knots, using the once dreaded Cape Horn least be equal to the builders' guar- the vessel being of 7,740, tons gross route rather than pay the heavy antee. If performance can exceed This is equivalent to a consumption tolla for passing through the promise, that is a real achievement, of 0.385 lb. per b.h.p-hour for all Panama Canal. and types of vessels and their en-purposes...

measured.

Can

As the result of the fall. In the

ginea for which so much can be Precisely the same figure is re- pound sterling, canal charges at claimed possess an advantage over corded, for the Amerika for a speed Panama have been greatly increas- others which cannot readily be of 15.46 knots, this being for all ed to British shipowners, who have purposes and bearing in mind that found it more economical to send It is of value, from this aspect, to she has a certain "hotel load" in their vessels around the atormy set down a little of the work that view of the passengers carried; Cape than to take the shorter jour- has recently been accomplished by For propulsion alone the consump. This means 2,500 miles added to

ney through the Canal, important motor ships. For it will tion is 0.37 lb. per bh.p.-hour and be found that in this respect of pro- the lubricating-oil consumption 94.1 the voyage, which fast motor-ships viding performances in excess of kg. per day (about 28 gallons), or

cover in about eight days. promises, the oil-engined vessel at-10.57 gr. per b.h.p-hour.

This extra time is greatly reduced tains a remarkable standard. All During the tests of the machinery when the very slow passage through the more so, when we can make of the Polyphemus, detailed in the the Panama Canal is taken into con- analyses which refer to such widely report of the Marine Oil Engine sideration. varying classes of ship as a typical Trials Committee and published in

For similar economical reasons a cargo liner, a fast North Sea pas-part in this issue, it was ascertain-number of vessels on the England- senger vessel, a big luxury passen-ed that the fuel consumption of the Australia services are being sent by ger liner and a mixed cargo and engine was 0.385 lb. per b.h.p.-hour, way of the Cape of Good Hope, thus passenger ship.

but the trials brought out the way avolding the charges for passing The cargo liner is the Blue significant fact that over a wide through the Suez Canal. Funnel ship Deucalion, which is in-range (from 800 b.hp. to 2,800 Coming by way of compensation tended by the owners to maintain b.h.p.) the consumption did not, at for their loss of the New Zealand to the Panama Canal authorities a 14%-knot steady speed in normal any point, rise above 0.4 lb. per shipping is the relinquishing by

REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING circumstances fully laden. A short b.h.p.-hour.

FROM £79 TO £120 ON'SALE.

·SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghel, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

TATSUTA MARU

TAIYO MARU

SEATTLE, VANCOUVER via Shanghai & Japan Ports.

HEIAN MARU

HIKAWA MARU

Tuesday, Tuesday,

Wednesday, 27th January. Tuesday, 9th February.

18th February.

1st March.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez.

27th February. 26th March.

TERUKUNI MARU

Saturday,

6th February.

HAKUSAN MARU

Saturday,

20th February,

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Porta.

KITANO MARU

Saturday,

ATSUTA MARU

Saturday,

MANILA.

TAIYO MARU

Monday,

1st February.

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

+ GENOA MARU

† YAMAGATA MARU

Friday, Saturday,

29th January. 30th January.

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,

Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama. BOKUYO MARU

Sunday,

14th February.

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama, LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangwon.

17th February.

& Marseilles.

† DELAGOA MARU

Wednesday,

:

† MURORAN MARU

† MALACCA MARU

Friday, Monday,

29th January.

8th February,

SHANGHAL KOBE & YOKOHAMA

† BENGAL MARU (Moj! direct)... Wednesday,

27th January.

† NAGATO MARU

KAGA MARU

Friday, Sunday,

29th January. 31st January.

+ Cargo only.

their voyages

on the

time ago, on a voyage from Aus In other words, throughout prac- charterers in the soya bean trade tralia to Europe, for a period of tically the whole range of power re- of the customary requirements that nearly one month ahe averaged 16.1 quired in the ship, the variation cargoes of soya beans must be knots, with a displacement of 13,772 from the minimum fuel consump Suez. This is the result of the high shipped from the Far East via the tons, incidentally on a fuel con- tion was no more than 4 per cent. sumption of 37.16 tons per day for It is one of the claims of turbo-Suez Canal charges, and many of all purposes. From Port Said to electric propulsion that it provides the ships in this trade are now Dunkirk the average

making speed main-a great advantage over the geared tained by the ship was actually turbine because of the high constant Panama route.. 16.5 knots.

eficiency maintained. at varying The Venus is a fast cross-Channel loads. In tests, of which details passenger ship designed to average have recently been published, of 19 knots under normal conditions, the turbo-electric liner President between Newcastle and Bergen. The Hoover, the consumption at 26.500 weather conditions in the North Sea s.h.p. was aproximately 16 per cent. do not favour a constant adherence greater than when the output of the to trial trip speed, yet out of the machinery of the ship was half this first 81 trips of this ship 67 were quantity. made at a speed of over 19 knots, and last month she accomplished one at over 20 knots.

20.36 knota.

-WARSHIPS IN PORT.

The following British warships were in harbour to-day :----- Berwick-North arm. Bruce-South wall Cornflower-In dock. Cumberland-West wall. · Herald-East wall.. Hermes-No. 1. buoy. Keppel-North arm. Pandora-In dock. Proteus-In dock. Tamar Basin. Verity-No. 11 buoy, Whitehall-East wail. Wishart No. 12 buoy. Wild Swan-No. 11 bucy.

Foreign. Men-of-War. Argus-French river gunboat. McCormick-American destroyer. Mindanao-American river gun-

boat.

́ ́ ́ STEAMERS' · MOVEMENTS.

In estimating fuel consumption, account has now to be taken of the Increased thermal efficiency attained) The luxury liner Victoria, for the by the growing adoption of exhaust Trieste-Alexandria trade, was built gas boilers, which account for the to maintain a schedule involving an equivalent of 5 per cent reduction average speed of 20 knots. For in the fuel consumption. A Diesel her first ten trips the Victoria has engine with a normal consumption] averaged 20.8 knots and on no o of 0.38 lb. per b.h.p.-hour has an casion during the first three months equivalent consumption when operat of service has the speed fallen below ing in conjunction with exhaust gas boilers of about 0.36 lb. The Amerika is a vessel carrying per b.h.p.-hour. In practical about 11,000 tons of cargo and 60 effect, it is found that on passengers. When she was placed a ship with machinery of, say, in commission she was stated to be 5,000 b.h.p., an exhaust gas boller a 14 knat ship. On a recent may save 3 tons of oil per day, re round voyage from Copenhagen to presenting, perhape, an economy of San Francisco and back the average £1,500 per annum for a vessel which The C.P.S. R.M.S. Empress of speed was 15.48 knots. Her mari-is at sea for 250 days per annum, on Britain (R/W Cruise) arrived at mum loaded draught is 29 ft., and the assumption that the cost is Padang on January 25 (Mon.) at on the last leg of the trip, over a equivalent to a ton- ̈

7.80 a.m., left Padang on January period of nearly 10 days, with a This brief examination of recent 25 (Mon.), and is due at Batavia draught of 28 ft. 1 in., the speed results in service of motor ships on January 27 (Wed). She is was 15.52 knots. The Amerika's, abstracted from numbers which are due at Hong Kong on February 11 engine was originally considered to now available gives an indication of (Thurs.), a.m. have a rating of 6,000 b.h.p., and the possibilities of Diesel propulsion The Ben Line 6.5. Benalder was the first of its type constructed. for various classes of vessel which from Middlesbro', Antwerp, Lon- On the voyages in question, of will not be ignored by owners who, don and Straits left Singapore for several weeks' duration, the average in the near future, will have to this port on January 28, and is power maintained was 6,850 b.h.p. consider the type of tonnage which due to arrive here on January 80. Some recent particulars of fuel they must order to replace some of The E. & A. s.s, Nalfore left consumption results may serve to their steam-driven vessels which are Moji for this port on January 28, 11th Feb. bring the performance of the motor now rapidly becoming obsolete p.m., with the Japanese Mails, and

ahip up to date in this respect. The Motor Ship.

is due here on January 27, p.m.

For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

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MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR, Hawaii Mard

Mon.,

1st Feb.

DAR-ES-SALAAM, BEIRA,

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BENTORT ELIZAM

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Thurs.,

4th Feb.

26th Jan,

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