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P.&O.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

THE CHINA MAIL.

By A. J. Villiers.

OLD SHIP

from the Cape Verdes to New Bed- ford and back again. They were carried in the 'tween decks, where the remnants of their accommoda- tion are still to be seen. The decks are cluttered with wooden houses which, Portuguese fashion, are so placed that nothing can be led to the main capatan. Broken pigsties, smashed-in fowl pens, derelict closets lie about the decks, disputing what space there is with the halves of broken yards, the re- msins of the splintered foretop- mast, and rubbish from the saloon. In the 'tween decks I saw a rough [The author made the voyage in, She has been sailing beween wooden board which had been the a Scandinavian sailing ship from New Bedford and the Cape Verde passengers' eating-place; around Islands, they told me, for about it were coarse places for old- |ten years—always in trouble. She fashioned shelf-bunke. There was film "Windjammer."]

amuggled aliens and was arrest a frightful stench everywhere.

THE BRAVE OLD "CORIOLANUS” 77 Days to Calcutta 55 Years of Service Under Four Flags.

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). Australia which is recoredd in the

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.)

**SOUDAN

CARTHAGE

TOWE

From Hong Kong About

1932

Destination

6,800 6th Mar. Marsailles, London. Havre, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Anwerp & Hull. 15,000 12th Mar. Marseilles & London. RAJPUTANA 17,000 26th Mar. Marsellies & London. **BURDWAN 6,600 2nd Apr.

15,000 9th RAWALPINDI 17,000 23rd

CORFU

RANPURA

**SOMALI

17,000 7th 6,800 14th

CHITRAL

15.000 21st

17,000 4th 6,500 11th

RANCHI

†BANGALORE

NALDERA

Marseilles, London, Havre,

R'dam, A'werp & Hull. Marseillas

& London. May Bombay, Marseilles & London

Aps • London

Apr. Bombay"

I came acrosa ber tied to a pier ed. She was found with opium She had been little batter than a near the bottom of Walnut Street, aboard after another passage and slave ship, except that those who

was arrested again. Through suc-were transported paid. in New Bedford, the other day. Icessive bankruptcies she passed, She came into New Bedford six- knew she was there, and had gone but always she changed owners teen months ago, partially dis- especially down from Boston to and carried on. There was no masted. The Cape Verde Islands

thing wrong with the ship. Bee her.

"Coriolanus-Prais," learnt that she had been sold, on cane which had caused the dam- I said they had been in a bad hurri- read 011 her counter. Praia? the occasion of her first bank-age. They claimed insurance. Where is that? I had to look it ruptcy, for $4,000 without sails. The accessors found that ships in up. It is in the Cape Verde Is- There were two sail lofts in New the same latitude. and longitude at lande-queer place for a lovely Bedford then (the whaling the time of the reported hurricane end her days. But the Coriolanus Morgan were still in commission), thing more. They were suspicious Scotch-built, full-rigged ship to barques Wanderer and Charles had experienced a mild blow-no- has borne many names since the and the Portuguese buyer soon of some of the damage. It looked day she was launched in 1876, and found a suit of canvas for her, as if the "hurricane" that caused has been registered in many porta. The sails were too small. What it might have been at least assist-

She lay dejectedly in the slug- matter? She had goed lines; she ed by the crew. gish water with the schooner Ar would sail with tarpaulins lashed, was not paid.

The Insurance The Coriolanus thur James ahead of her and an on her yarda.

then went bankrupt. arrested rum-runner astern. Her

She had a hundred Cape Verde Islands

Now that suit of sails is sold to

foetopmast was gone and her main 4 New Bedford coal merchant, who aboard, none of whom had visas t'gallant-mast broken off short. sea them for laying on pavements to land. She was covered with rust, so when she delivers coal. heavily that it was with. dificulty

Mayburg,

Marseilles, London. Havre, Mayterdam, Antwerp & Hulyards.

June June

Bombay,

gburg,

Marseilles

London.

London

Marcelles Lotion, Havre her boats were gone, and 18,000 18th June Bombay, Mare, Antwerp

KAISAR-1-HIND, 12,000 2nd

RAJPUTANA

MANTUA

"SOUDAN

RAWALPINDI

RANPURA

MALWA

*Cargo only.

17,000 16th

the

2

Be-

She was told to take them back Early this year the ship was again where they came from. I discovered she had been painted sold for $690. Last week she was ing dismasted and bankrupt, she grey The figurehead had been sold again for $250.

Two youths could not do it. The hundred is- prised out with an axe; the wheel bought her. I found them aboard, landers lived

aboard the ship was missing; she was nothing but one with a yachting cap

on his throughout the Winter, burning a rusted wreck, with what was left head and no stern in his trousers, her woodwork to keep them warm. of her running rigging hanging in the other with three sweaters on cluttering her decks with filth, liv- unsightly Irish pennante from her It was a cold day. They were re-ing in indescribable misery. They The foreyard had been ticent about their plans. One was sold everything they could out of broken off short on the port side; an insurance clerk, he said; the her to buy food-sails, boats, the

other was in

binnacle, the standard compass, & Hull. davits with

Her white The one them.

tourist .agency. paint on the deckworks was peel-said he was a sailor. Marseilles & London.

the running gear, even the belay- with the yachting cap July Bombay, Marreer & London. & London.

ing pina (to The other

an antique shop ing off. July Bombay,

She was barque-rigged, claimed experience in power-boats. whose proprietor knew nothing of Bombay, Marseilles & Lenden.

and had been so for years, they Marseilles, London, Havre told me: only the mizzen-mast was conditioning the ship, putting a wrought-iron lions' heads from the They said that they proposed re- the Coriolanus's history) and the Antwerp & Huil, whole. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Diesel engine in her, and using what they could neither sell nor catheads. From the look of her, Maragilles & London.

I went aboard, up a rickety her in the tourist business between burn they smashed. The ports are Bombay, Marsailles & London.

wooden ladder from the pler. New York and the West Indies.kicked in, the wheel torn from its Calls Djibouti.

was saddening to mount her rail They guessed that would cost and take in the untidy dejection about $30,000. I told them it from its hinges. By the port main hub, the saloon door wrenched, of her decks. Poor ship! Was would be a much better plan to thin the brave old Coriolanus that buy the German barque Bremen, stove in by the falling t'gall'at rigging her bulwarks had been once had held the record between on offer as she lies at Bremer mast; the decks leaked. Half her Calcutta and the United Kingdom? haven for 45,000 Reichsmarka; the hatch-covers were gone.. Seventy-seven days it was, and it Bremen has

11.000 80th July

6,800

Oth Aug.

17,000 18th Aug. 17,000 27th Aug. 11.000 10th Sept Calla Casablanca.

Bomb 'terda

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Pireans, Bmyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mall Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

1932,

TILAWA SANTHIA

10,000 7th Mar. 8,000 22nd Mar,

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

accommodation for

had never been lowered in sail. sixty cadets, and could easily be She was given a silken flag for it, fitted to carry passengers, They as long as her proud royal yards, were not interested.

The islanders had at last been sent back to their homes at the expense of their Government, and

and when she came up the Thames The one with the cap expressed many others who had been brought

or up the Hooghly the steamers satisfaction with the number of

across in the Coriolanus had been with the sail-trained officers toot-anchors that cluttered the Corio-they had ruined the ship before: rounded up and deported: But ed her a welcome on their notay lanus's fore deck the only detail

they had gone. Everything was

BL. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st sirens. . For fifty-five years which seemed to give him concern. gone from her, save the sweetness

and 2nd class passengers.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). London, for å while in the guard patrol, and power-ships at amelling now, a wreck aloft and s

1982

TANDA

NANKIN NELLORE

7,000 4th Маг,

4 p.m. 7,000 2nd Apr. 7,000 20th Apr.

Manila, Rabaul & Melbourne

she had sailed the seas, through Anchors are, of course, necessary of her lines. I noticed the sweep wars, through storms innumerable. for holding rum depot ships at an of her lovely bow and the grace She was under the Stewart flag, Inchorage outside the limits of coast of her counter. Rusted and foul- eightles; and now she is the last night can soon run the liquor in. wreck below, she still sat clean- survivor of that great line that I do not think the Coriolanus will ly and clipper-like in the water, still crosses yards. They sold her ever carry tourists to the West her iron hull yet staunch and Brisbane, Sydney to the Germans as far back as Indies,

sound 1891; from them she passed

and the sweet seaworthi- She already has the distinction mess of her gallant lines plain to Norway, before the war, and after of being the last square-rigged the sailor's eye. the war she went to Portugal and ship in the Atlantic packet trade. later, the Cape Verde Islands. She regularly carried passengera] (Continued at foot of next column.) Seventy-seven days to Calcutta!

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.

Frequent connections from 'Australls with the following:---

The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Zealand, Vancouver, Ban Francisco, etc.

The P. & O. Boyal Hall Steamer to London and

The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Sust. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

↑NANKIN *MIRZAPORE

KASHGAR TALHA

LPINDI

A STEAMER NELLORE PROMALI RANPURA A STEAMER CHITRAL TILAWA

BANGALORE

RANCHI

NALDERA

1832.

7,000 7th Mar. 8,700 9th

9,000

11th

11th

10th

10,000

15,000

17,000

24%

26th

7,000 6,800

17,000

B'hai, Moll, Kobe, Osaka & Y’hams Moji, Kobe & Oiska.

Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. Mar. Amoy, S'hai, Mojí, Kobe & Osaka.

Kobe & Yokohama. MAX.

Her.ahal, Robe & Yokohama.

Mar. Amoy, Holl, Kobe 4 Yokohama, 4th Apr. S'hai, Moll, Kobe, Osaka &

& Yhama. 5th Apr.

Kobe & Tokohama. 7th 7tb Apr.

8th Apr. Amey

15.000 21at Apr. 10,000 22nd Apr.

17.000

*1208

6.500

8,000 7,000

19th

18,000 "BHUTAN

6,000 29th KAIBAR-I-HIND! 12,000 2nd

Kobe & Yokohama.

Kobe ‚d'Ozuka.

S'hal, Moll,

Robe & Tokoh

&Yokohama. Moll, Kobe & Yokohama.

Koba &

Kabe

Kobe

Shal

Moga Holi,

Lab & Osaka

T'hama

Kobe, May Shanghai, Moji, Kobe, & Yakokams. May Shanghal, Kobe Yokohama,joka June Shanghai, Moli, Robe & Yokohama. RAJPUTANA -17,000 16th June Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. PROUDAN

6,800 28th June Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

Cargo.only. ↑ Calls Nagoya

All dates are appreminate and subject to alteration without, motion. All-Cabins-are-fitted-with-Elastele

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Mazring. not more than

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