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DAY,

APRIL 18, 1932.

YK.LINE

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19th April. Tuesday Wednesday, 4th May..

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Tuesday. Tuesday,

26th April.

24th May.

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BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

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ARRIVALS OF SHIPS

Friday, April 15. Dorry, Chinese str., 1,083 tons.

" to be no question that there is an ample sufficiency of oil in the world for the needa of the next few centuries, and it may yet come to parity of price with coal.

"Previous to coal being used for

Isar, German str., 5,686 tons, Capt. G. Brake, from Sngapore, buoy No. All-Melchers & Co. Kaying, British str.. 1,672 tons, propulsion at sea this country had Capt. P. Green, from Canton, not the hidden bunus, or subsidi- ary, which our coal measures un- buoy No. B20.-B. & S.

doubtedly gave us at the opening tons, Kutsang, British str., 3,648

We had then to com- Sin- of that era. Capt. F. Mooney, from gapore, Kowloon Wharf.-J.M. pete with other countries using the Bame free-air for propulsion as

& Co.

Taishan, Norweigan str 3,622 tons, Capt. Christiansen, from Mani- la, buoy No. A3.-Dodwell & Co.

Capt. J. Bruhn, from Amoy buoy No. C3.-Chau Yue Teng.

Saturday, April 16, Anshun. British str., 1,868 tons, Capt. J. A. McCulloch, from Swatow, buey No..B16.-B.' & S. Hermod. Norwegian str., 840 tons,

Capt. S. Eliassen, from Bang-Ruhr. German str., 3,583 tons. Capt. ourselves, and it may be that we W. Fick, from Manila, Kowloon shall return to the same equality: kok, buoy No. B17.Thoresen

of conditions, with oil instead of Wharf. Jebsen & Co. & Co.

air as the common factor. Twenty years ago the British coalfields were the main sources of fuel for marine use, and our supremacy was based Tjikembang. Dutch str., 8.013 tons, on the coalfield steamer and the Capt. P. Abbo, from Amoy, coal export trade. To-day we are building ourselves oil engines to buoy No. A13.—J.C.J.L.

compete with those countries which have no native fuel. The condition of survival for our fleets is that? by one means or another we remain as efficient as our rivala. Some of these rivals are now exploring the possibility of becoming airship owners and transporting their pas- sengers apeedily and comfortably in that element. Will flying and wireless telegraphy, jointly, kill the demand for the fast passenger ship?"

Huichow, British str., 1,222 tons, Capt. E. M. Gellie, from Wei- hal-wei, buoy No. B21.-B. & S. str., 561 tona, Hydrangea, British

Captain P. W. Grierson, from Swatow, Chiu On Wharf.-Chiu! On & Co.. President Hayes, American str., 5,195 tons, Capt. O. A. Flersen, from Shanghai, Kowloon Wharf Dollar Line.

CLEARANCES.

Saturday, April 16. Siblgo, Dutch str., 1,594 tons,. Capt. Asia, for Singapore.

G. Bottéma, from Samarinda, Borneo, for Saigon.

Canton, for Haiphong." Yaumati Anchorage.-J.C.J.L. Sinking, British str., 1,616 tona, Chinhua, for Canton.

Capt. J. S. Anderson, from Chung Kong, for Touranc. Swatow, buoy No. B20.-B. & S. Dogra, for Amoy. Solviken, Norwegian str., 1,485 Fushimi Maru, for "Kobe. tons, Capt. N.. Norvalls, from Kaying, for Canton. Swatow, Taikoo Dock-Wallem Kittawa, for Swatow, & Co.

Morioka Maru, for Singapore. Tjilehoot. Dutch str. 3;625 tons, Nakusan Maru, for Hongay,

Capt. J. Adriaanse, from Balik-Nankwa Mary, for Queng Yen. papan, buoy No. A1.-J.CJ.L. President Cleveland, for Shanghai.

Pronto, for Saigon. Sibigo, for Whampoa. Sirkiang, for Canton.

Sunday, April 17. Ardent, Norwegian str., 1,803 tons, Captain H. A. Johnsen, from Bangkok, buoy No. B8.-Choo Yick. Corona, Norwegian str., 1,953 tons, Capt. O. M. Klette. from Can- ton, buay No. B25.-Dodwell & Co.

Cinyo Maru, Japanese str., 6,128

Sunday, April 17. Asama Maru, for Manila. Benlawers, for Takao. Corona, for C. W. Tao. Deli Maru, for Canton. Eng Lee, for Tientsin. Helos, for Swatow.

tons Capt, S. Fujimura, from Hozan Maru, for Amoy. Nagasaki, buoy No. A9.-Kaying, for Amoy.

Kwangchow, for Swatow. N.Y.K. Hirundo, Norwegian str., 1,125 President Hayes, for Manila.

tons, Capt. J. A. Pedersen, from Szechuen, for Swatow. Swatow, buoy No. B18.-Thore- Tamahine Maru, for F. Courbet. Ben & Co.

Yatshing, for Swatow.

SHIP PROPULSION. [rectly the signs of the times and

Parting of the Ways.

"Modern

осеап

In this reference to the present exploitation and the possible up setting interposition of airships in the line of development of transport, Mr. Freeman goes fur- ther than the writer of the article our on "Steamship Progress" in January issue. Referring to the! seemingly limitless advance in pro- ducing and operating larger and faster liners he states: "The limit indeed, it may yet be found, will actually be determined by develop- ments in aviation and by enlisting! -as is already done--the swift aeroplane or airship to take up the running when nearing terminal ports, and thus nullify the costly- earned speed to the last fraction' Επ ocean transport."-Nautical Magazine.

WARSHIPS IN PORT.

The following British warships were in harbour to-day- Bridgewater-East wall. Bruce-No. 8 buoy. Cornwall-West wall. Cumberland-North arm. Hermea-No. 1 buoy. Keppel-West wall.

Medway and submarines-No. 2

Moorhen--East wall." Odin-In dock.

Orpheus-in dock.

Otus-In dock.

stuck to their sailing ships dropped out of sea transport. "The idea that purchased coal could compete with free breezes; that machinery which occupied much space in the Under the comprehensive title, ship, which loaded her down and Types of Propelling was very noisy and dirty, could 7th May Machinery for Mercantile Marine compete with the quiet, clean grace- Use," an able paper-the fourth ful hull, clear from end to end for Thomas Lowe Gray Lecture was cargo, seemed fantastic to many buoy. 21st Apr. recently delivered before the Insti- living at that time. And yet the tution of Mechanical Engineers by change came, 1867-68 being the C.B.E., critical years. In spite of the in- Mr. Sterry B. Freeman, 19th Apr. M.Eng.M.I.Mech.E., superintendent troduction of composite hulls, steel engineer of Messrs. Alfred Holt hulls, mechanical handling of sails, and Company, the Blue Funnel and even auxiliary motive power, 21st Apr.

Line. Progress up to the latest the sailing ship has practically 24th Apr. date in the several main, and passed away."

"Are we now," asked Mr. Free- numerous side, lines of merchant- ship-powering-steam, oil, internal man, "at another parting of the combustion-was clearly traced ways, and is the tremendous spirit 21st Apr. und summarised, and the future which has been achieved in steam- speculated upon. The author ask driven machinery analogous to, ed whether we were now at a part- and as ineffective as, that inventive ing of the ways" such as occurred activity which was exhibited in the when steam driven machinery be-last period of the sailing ship? In gan to supersede salls and free-those days coal in comparison with air in ship propulsion. He recall-air was relatively dear. To-day oil

is re with coal ed that they who in the "sixties" in comparison

1st May

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