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P. &O.-British India SAILOR'S AID TO

Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND), 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, EUROPË, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

8.8.

*MIRZAPORE

BHUTAN

RAJPUTANA MANTUA

SOUDAN

RAWALPINDI RANPURA

"BURDWAN

MALWA

RANCHI ++*SOMALI

NAVIGATION

Shooting the Sun.

COMING OF THE QUADRANT

THE CHINA-MAIL

HARBOUR OFFICE.

Moderate Freight Figures Reported.

HOW M2 IS TO BE RAISED

The Navy's Boldest Salvage Effort.

DIVERS FEATS

The Harbour Office Reports for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. yesterday To the layman and passenger on gave a free movement of vessels

London, June 10. Freights board the liner there is no more with a high tonnage,

So much progress has been made interesting part of a sailor's job were moderate, both the inwards towards salving the M 2 that it is than the discovery of his precise and throughs falling to reach five hoped, with reasonable luck in reficat the position in mid-ocean, a job which figures. The total tonnage enter-weather and tides, to

submarine now lying with the goes by the general term of "Shooted was 41,823,

There were 11 inward regis bodies of her crew 100ft. deep in ing the sun," although as a matter of fact there are to-day many tries, of which one was British West Bay, Portland, and tow her secondary ways of doing it in addi- and two of four figures, while of Into harbour in about a month's tion to the age-old one of measuring the eight throughs,, two were Bri-time. the sun's altitude and working from tish and four of four figures. Two that.

vessels arrived in ballast.

Detalls follow:-

This is the most ambitious sal- vage effort the Navy, which has no

Those responsible, believe that Arr. H'Kong Dep. Through the compressed air blown into the

Cargo

Tens hul will give the M 2 sufficient 1,230 buoyancy to rise. It is calculated 1,851 that she will have in her over 100 1,854 tons of loose water which cannot be 1,828 forced out, and to ensure stability 3,452 in these circumstances will be one of the mest anxious problems of the entire operations.

Cargo Tons

285 7

2

514

1

i

1,800

4,822 75

Totals 18 7,503 18

9,516

of the

The earliest form of navigation! Passengers entered during the salvage service, has ever made at was, naturally, the coastal or point-period included 98 Europeans and such a depth. In view of weather to-point system in which the sailor 1,598 Asiatic deck, British vessels and tidal difficulties the work, done very seldom ventured out of sight carrying five out of the total in all so far has not taken much longer of land and when he did it was only classes.

than was expected. from one well-known point to an- other. Yet by this elementary sys- tem the navigators of old carried Nationality out some very remarkable achieve-British ments, for it' was the only one Americar. known to the Phoenician traders Dutch ... who ventured out of the Mediter- Norwegian Portuguese raneun in search of Cornish tin and

Japanose every other commodity, such men, as Chinese Hanno the Carthaginian whose Danish feats would be creditable to any modern navigater with every instru- ment, and to the masters fleets which brought the tribute worked on the same idea about the with special cement, and hoses have grain to Rome.

year 1666 but had failed to bring it been fitted to them, to carry com- to a practical conclusion, and the pressed air. To provide means for 7th July Stralts, Colombo, Bombay & Karachi. All these feats are, considering famous leaac Newton is also sup- the water to escape, holes have been

4 p.m.

the circumstances, remarkable posed to have thought of it. But burnt and drilled in the outer and Bombay, Marseilles, London, Havre, enough, but they pale into insigni- Hadley made the quadrant practical inner hulls, sealed with steel and

H'burg, B'dam, Á'werp & Hull.

Scance besides one which, although and he also Invented the octant, rubber patches and fitted with Bombay, Marseilles & London, Bombay, Karsailles & London, not yet confirmed by absolute proof, having an arc of one eigth of a valves.

Divers' Fents. Bombay, Harellies, London, Harris a theory which is put forward on circle,

H'burg Rʻterdain,

Tone HourKons

From

About

1932.

8th July

6,700

6,000

17,000 18th July 11,000 80th July 6,800 6th Aug.

17,000 18th Aug. 17,000 27th Aug. 6,500 3rd Sept.

11,000 10th Sept 17,000 24th Sept. 6,800 1st Oct.

14,000 - 8th Oct. 16,000 22nd Oct. 8,500 29th Oct.

CARTHAGE

NALDERA

1 BANGALORE

RAJPUTANA

17,000 5th Nov.

*Cargo only. † Calls Casablanca.

Destination.

From, Arabia to China

Bombay Marseille A tarp Hauch good authority that it merits

London.

Marseilles & Marseilles,

London

Havre, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull, Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.

Marseilles, London, Havre, Hamburg

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, London, Havre, Hamburg

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

+ Calls Djibouti.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

A great deal of the necessary work has been done. The consipg tower and hangar have been sealed

Before navigators adapted Had- When the vessel is floated the very careful consideration, and that ley's idea to the sextant which is in compressed air pumped into her will is that Egyptian Arabs found their universal use to-day, using an arc force out the water. She will rise, way as far East as China by this of one sixth of a circle, experiments it is planned, bow first. When on coastal navigation at the very dawn were made with a quintant and also the surface divers will close the of history, and that the eye which with a double sextant which is valves, and she will be watertight decorates the bow of so many Chin- generally used for surveying. Re- and ready for towing to harbour.

unprecedented number of ese junks"No have eye, how can flecting circles, taking the whole see?" asks the Chinaman-is simply perimeter instead of only an arc, hours have been spent under water the Eye of Osiris with which these were invented about 1750 and were by the pick of the Navy's most ex- Arab bows have been decorated occasionally used as a fad by the jperienced deep sea divers. From since time immemorial.

old sailing ship masters although March 5 to May 30 diving hours Coming of the Quadrant. they were never general With the aid of a nocturnal, the

sextant

horizon

An

totalled 247. One diver remained Minute Calculations.

underwater continuously for the Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con-cross-staff and astrolabe could al- AB John -Hadley's idea astonishing period of 5 hours and stantinople, Pireans, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the

so be used for night work with the has been adapted to the 40 minutes. Khedivial Mail Steamship, Co.

Pole Star and those instruments, modern

When the vessel is salvaged, and, backed of course, by the mariner's glaas is divided, half being plain immediately after the bodies of her compass which had bean In general and half mirrored. The mirror captain and crew have been re- use in Europe for over a century, shows the reflection of the sun when moved, the most experienced men in Jenabled him to carry out his voyage the hinged arm and sight is pointed the submarine service will carry out and also to be the first to note the straight at it, while the plain section a completa examination. Every con- variation of the compass from true is directed at the horizon. It is trol in the ship will be exactly as North.

when she took her last necessary to bring the aun exactly it was The Arat great improvement on on the horizon, with no windage and plunge. It is hoped that this ex- these methods was the Introduction no overlapping, then to clamp the amination will reveal the mystery of of the backstaff about 1590 by John arm and make. the final minute ad- her sinking. Davis, the celebrated Elizabethan justment with the tangent screw, navigator. This was a great im- having the exact time taken by

1912.

TAKADA SIRDHANA TILAWA

7,000 12th July 8,000 24th July 10,000 8th Aug.

Singapore, Pezang & Calcutta.

THE ARCTIC REGIONS.

Leningrad.

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for provement on the fore-staff for it chronometer, and read the 1st and 2nd class passengers.

had the advantage that the observer angle оп the gauge, The

the worked with his back to the sun and difficulty of getting

ab- The famous Russian Icebreaker, took the angle of shadow. The next solute accuracy necessary when Krassin, which was instrumental in EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South), great improvement was in 1781 a small ship is rolling and pitching saving the survivors of the ill-fated when John Hadley's quadrant re- may be imagined, and due allow-Italia expedition a few years ago, placed the astrolabe. Like the back-lances have to be made for such returned on Saturday from a five staff it was indirect, working on factors as the height of the ob-months trip into the Arctic. Manila, Habsul, Brisbane, Sydney & reflection, and although it was very server above the water before the Owing to its usual leo conditions

from the the elumsy, being between two feet six position is worked out

proved extremely Inches and three feet long, its prin- angle by logarithms or previously hazardous, the return trip, alone ciple is in use to-day.. Hooke has prepared tables.

requiring three months.

1932.

NELLORE TANDA NANKIN

7,000 80th July 7,000 2nd Sept. 1st Oct. 7,000

Melbourne.

1

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan

and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 daya.

Frequent connections from Australla with the following:-

The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & 0. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P.&O. Branch Bervies of steamers to London via Buen

The New Zealand Shipping Com pany's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN. Cheap Summer Trips to Japan

RAWALPINDI *KASHMIR TILAWA *BURDWAN TALMA RANPURA TANDA

SANTHIA

MALWA

SOMALI

TAKADA

RANCHI SURDEANA JE

CARTHAGE

BANGALORE NÄIDERANGE RAJPUTANA

1912.

voyage

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO.,

HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS:

LTD.,

Табортала: KOWLOON, HONG KONG HONG KONG OFFICE 15158.

"MANIFESTO, HONG KONG”,

Timog A Mieten dakika KOWLOON DOCK 18683. DOCK OWNERS, SEUP DESIGNEES AND · BUILDERS; MARINE AND "LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, IRON, STEEL, AND BRASS FOUNDERS,

FORGE MASTERS, WELDERS AND ELECTRICIANS.

June to Sept.

Ou Lloyds

Mot of

17,000 14th July Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

9,000 14th July Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 10,000 17th July---Amoy, Holl, Kobe &. Yokohama. 6,500 27th July Shanghai, Well, Kobe & Oanka.

Moji, Kobe Yokohama. 17,000 28th July

7,000

10,000 th July Amonst, Kobe & Yokohama.“

S'ha Moll

5th Aug. S'hal Holl, Kobe Osaka..& Y'hama. 8,000 11th Aug. Amoy, Kobe & Yokohama. 11,000 11th Aug. Shanghal, Moji, Kobi & Yokohama.

Aug Shanghal

8,800 23rd Aug.

(7,000* 25th; Ang. 17,000 25th Ang.

KORkohama,

Kobe

& Osaka,

2000 Bth

8th Sept. Amoy 11,000 8th Sept Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,

8/200 17th Sept. | Shanghai, Kops & Yokohama ta 16,000 22nd Sept. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yalonama, 17,000 i 6th - Oct; Shanghaij Kobe dei Volmhama.

Cargo.only.

All dates oNE -

Cast

T.S.S.“ EMPRESS OF JAPAN.”

:—6540" 0.A.1673: K'586" Mild. 26,000 tens "Gross- Six Granite Docks and Two Patent Blipways. Dock are 700

Harbour

Skipwright

all Signal V.PET. and Flag

and

WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1932.

JAPAN

ROUND TRIP TOURS

·SPECIAL REDUCED

SUMMER FARES.....

On Sale Until September 15th.

FULL PARTICULARS ON

APPLICATION

DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AND AMERICAN MAIL LINE

EXPRESS

FARAMA

LIE

SERACE

BARBER WILHELMSEN

LINE

TRANS-PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC COAST SERVICE

via PANAMA.

NEXT SAILING

M.V. "TAI PING YANG"

on JULY 18th

for

SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK & BOSTON.

42 Days To New York.

For Passenger and Freight information please apply:---

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Queen's Buildingu. ·

TEACHING TOILERS OF THE SEA.

Work of North Sea Missions.

Lord Radstock presided

Agents.

Telephone 28021.

HONG KONG TIDES.

The time used is Standard, or mean time of the meridian of 120 deg. Ej 100h. In midnight, 1hrs., is zoon. The

heights are referred to the datum of

the largest scale Admiralty chart of the place and should be added to the {depths given on the chart unless pre- recent-ceded by an asterisk (*), when they hould be subtracted from the depths.

1982. July 6 to 12,

ly at the sunual meeting of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen at Caxton Hall, Date Westminster.

The Chairman said they heard

July

8

7

High Water Low, Water Standard Ht. Standard Ht.

Timas Times. H. M. F..

H. M. F. .00 12 4.0:08 23 8.8 10-197.6 17 10 11 010 00 .48 4.1 · 04:05′ 8.3

11 45. 71–1938, 0.5 01 55 14.2′′ OF 40 8.8 21 817 8.5 19 50 0.9

12 03 25 15 07 08 8.2 13 20 5.7 20 40 15

08..00 4.7 08 43 8,0 14 20 49 21-20 1.0. 03 40 40 10 24 15-50-.8.9 00

a great deal of the brotherhood Wed: of the sea, and as président of the British Sailors Society: The Thurs. felt that annual gathering aford- ed a practical opportunity of Fr linking up the two organisations. Sat About 27 years ago he was invit- ed to go out to the North Bea, Sun. where he was able to see first

Mon. hadd the noble work which i was being accomplished by that mis- Tues. 12 sion. In many respecta it was 'unique · work, and he rejoiced to think ⠀ they were † doing i their | fishing vessels at sea, and in port utmost to take advantage of ; à 16,044. Twenty-two. Thipwrecked great opportunity. He came away men were cared for in institutor from his visit feeling a very high Addresses were given by Skip regard for the mission and all per E. HII and Skipper H. W. that it didan jalandh Thorpe on the work at Fleetwood EDEF WAWillway (secretary) and at sen, and by Miss N. R. gard the mission had received Hamlin (secretary. Young Traw! £2,570 towards the extensión: –of ers' Union).pd their work

Wickrand

tilford, Commander, R. C. Studd (RN Haven, and they hoped to go presided at the evening me forward with the enterpri The thére Being again à Jargé summary of work during the year Log Addresses - wer

showed that 8,045, services

were|| Mr.H. Howes i (Folkestone) Evlilia H¢K! Archibald (depu

and Cary), Skipper{G}

deen), Captain. D-PK3