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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRE88, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21st, 1922

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SIGNALLING, AT SEA.

THE NAVY AND MERCANTILE MARINE.

Until brought forcibly to the attention of the authorities by the tate Lord Berei ford, communication” by visual signat between ships of the Royal Navy and the Marcantile Marine was very tire, simply because the latter had neither the skill nor apparatus necessary for the purpose. It is says the London Morning Post indood strange that although, at least for war purposes, the marine of the British Empire is one, the most elementary principle of co- operation-ability for inter communication

had been neglected until about thirty years ago. And it is only within the last twenty years that the matter has been taken up officially and encouragement, given to' officers of the Mercantile Marine to render themselves proficient in signalling. The credit of this advance is dus primarily to Lord Beresford and the beneficial results which accrued therefrom, during the war form a tribute to his power of imagina tion, a power which, exercised in many ways to their benefit, the country and Navy should hold in grateful memory

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The general adoption of wireless and the presence in merchant vessels of any size of at least one skilled wireless operator has, to a certain extent, diminished the importance of visual signalling; but only to a limited degree. In the days before visual signalfing between His Majesty's ships and ships of the Mercantile Marine was practised regularly it was frequently necessary, in order to obtain an item of information, to send over a boat for the purpose. When a man-of-war and a merchant vessel wero passing at sea the former might make a simple flag signal naking a question. The odds na to its being answered before the ships were out of sight of each other were,67 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL however, great.

DIGNALLING AND CONVOY..

This state of affairs was due to lack of practice and encouragement. The officer of the watch on board the merchant vessel-a tramp, for example-had first to make out what the flags flying on the man-of-war were. This is no easy matter with the wind in cartaia directions relative to the positions of the ships. Next he had to lay his hands on the signal book in order to acertain the meaning of the particular combination of flags, after which he had pick out a suitable reply from, the book, go to the locker in which the flags were kept, pull out the correct ones, and finally hoist them. All this because semaphore and Morse signalling were closed books to him. It is hardly surprising that zoplies to signalled questions from men-of-war were very rare indeed.

To officers of the Mercantils Marine must be given the main credit for the changed conditions of affairs which now exist. The Navy with its fine staff of excedingly effent_sigualmen," required no special

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The matter naturally received a very great impetus as a result of the war. The system of convoys, which did so much to defeat the submarines, was rendered feasible largely on account of the general proficiency in signalling which bad by that time been attained by the Merchant Service. It is hardly too much to say that the efficient conduct of a convoy depends sa much on pro- ficiency in inter-communication between the vessels comprising it as it does on anything else. Many master mariners of great repute

WEATHER REPORT.

Dec 20th, at 11.55.-Pressure has in- crewed alightly from Shanghal to Hakodate and at Goam and Labuan. It has increased moderately from Vladivostock to Neuro.

The antigyelane remains stationary ovar

held that the system of convoys would not chinto string monsoon may be expecte d

be possible in practice. They proved to be wrong. Seamanship and signalling were the determining factors.."

CEMENTING COMRADESHIP.

With the advent of peace it is satis factory to nete that there is no apparent flagging of interest in the matter." The Admiralty have isced a summary of the Quarterly Return of Signalling between His Majesty's Ships and Merchant Vessels for the quarter ended June 30th, in which they state that "the reports show a high percentage of successful results, and signall- ing on the whole has been very good."

along the 8E eat of China and over the N. China Sez

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am, s th Dec, 0,00 incb. Total ance January lat, 69.43 inches, against an average of 81.70 lashes.

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as follows:-

FORECAST

DISTRICT

Hongkong to Gap Bock ...

Formosa Channel

N.E winds, fresh; overcast.

NE winds,

strong.

South sosst of Chins between (The same of

No 1 Hongkong and Lamocka

South coast of China between. The same as

Hongkong and Hainan

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

It is particularly appropriate that the ship to carry out the greatest number of successful exercises in the period should have been the Benon, with the Prince of Wales ou board, and, apart from the exercises; it is easy to imagine the satisfaction of passing British Avessair which were, owing to proficiency in signall- ing, able to send a message of humble duty. Two hundred and tweny-nine exer cises were carried out with ships of the leading companies which are specified in the report, there being only two failures; while thiry-six vessels are named as being These names include specially good vessels from companies large and stball, showing that proficiency in signalling in not the province of the great liners alone. Baromater Altogether, 686 exercises were carried out Temperature

Humidity doring the quarter

REGISTER...

Hongkong Observatory, December 20th

Provious; en Dafe; 'n Dato.

Day stp.m. 6.a.m. p.m.

3223 20.13: 80.10

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The ubiquity of the Navy and the Wind Direction Mercantile Marine is manifested in the Weather report by the lowlities in which the arm

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in the report speaks for itself: His | Highest open-sir Temperature on 19th Majesty's ship Hawkins reports that Lowest open-air Temperature on 20th 58 frequent signals were passed with vessels belonging to Batterfield and Bwire, and Jardine and Mathieson at Wei-hai-wei with no trouble whatever."

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depends most of all-for-its continued security and welfare. For those two great There is something in a report of this services to pass each other by at sea with nature which stimulates the imaging out being able to converse with one another, tion. It is not merely a question of as they did in the past was lamentable. signal exercises. It is a process, going Comradeship is impossible without con on day by day, which must inevitably wernation, and conversation et ses is render- serve to cement the comradeship of the two" ett possible by efficient signalling. Visual Services: upon which the British Empire signalling is, moreover," intimate, while

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