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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 29TH, 1923.

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OUTWARD from Finburg via Port of Call

Steemera

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Hindenburg...

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Tassage, dw.

Arrival

9,000 tons

9,000 tona 19,350 time

about end of April about end of May abdyt and of June about and of July

18,850 46

HOMEWARD for Antwerp, Rotterdam and Fambing

Starmers

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8,000 tons 19,250 tons -9,000 to 13.350 cona 9,000 tons

Depertura

about 6th April

about beginning of May about beginning of June about beginning of July

These steamers are fitted with all comfort for the convenience of about 50

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WIND-JAMMERS:

WHY SAIL MAY COME BACK, Sir Herbert Russell writing in the Naval and Military. Record says :—

As a very

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HE Stambip "SOUDAN!? Captain RM. M. Lollyer. B.M. carrying Hie Malory'r Hals will be despatched from this Fort on or stoot FRIDAY SOTH MARCH, 1983, at 11 am taking Passengers and Carge for the above Porta

The loss of the brand-now Gorman five- masted barque Adolf Fenner on the rocks off the Lizard will appeal to all sailormen

affair The fact

that she was Gem will not tincturo; sentiment with much consolation, for a Through Hit of Lading laned for Ratavia, ship cannot help her nationality: The Cutty Parian Galt, Continental, American Sark made the same

claim

and South African Porbe. seafaring affection after she had been sold to the Portugnaso and rigged as a barguentine as

T in the days of her tea-clipper triumpls To sailors the idolf Venner was just a splendid specimen of the modern wind jammer, and there are so few of these now aflost that the loss of one is bound to cause more regret than the disappearance of any other type of vessel to be met with on the high seas.

But is it not probable that we may connderable return of the big Witness mailing

ship in the not distant futures The ides certainly gains colour from the fact that the Adolf Fenner was only plated some three months

and therefo stood as a practical example of material belief in the revival of sail power,

at any rate. In fact, the Con- has never discarded the big aniling ship to the same degroo as our own owners. For years past the Rickmers of Hamburg and Bord Freres of Bordeaux maintained fleets of magnificent fro mastod clippers, whilst the Scandinavians have been spindily buying up the

British |squarn-riggers, which down to the end of the last century continued to ply in the Australian wool trailo and to bring nitrate and wheat from South America.

have

STILL PROFITABIŽ

Bilk and Valuables and Tes for Italy, France and London (under arrangement) will be tran

arcels will be received at this Office unti shipped at Bombay is to the Mail Steamer pro- direct to Marcilles and London.

Noox, the day before sailing. The contenta and value of all packages are required. For farther particulars apply to-

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE

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It is a reasonable assumption that French, German, and Scandinavian ship owners aro persuaded it is still posible to run big sail. ing vessels to profitable:

able advantage, otherwise

"Eye-sight Spací lists.

they would not continue to brild or to buy 67 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL them. The Americans evince similar faith,

only that they prefer the fore-and-aft rig.

No doubl a five-masted schoorier is less cost-

Bly

to turn out and cheaper to work than a five-masted square-rigged ship, although sho would not possess the same all-round quali ties of speed

The

Venner

of 95 carried h officers and men. I have no defnite data. upod the subject, but I think we may take it that her deadweight capacity would be at least 6,000 tons Protably steamer of corrisponding freight capacity would be ran on a rather smaller

bill. pay

But interest on her higher capital cost and fuel consump tion would wake her a more expensive pro position on a voyage of equal time duration. It is in consequence of her ability to save

· Είπο on a passage than roprosents the difference, in respective working coals that she has replaced the sailing ship as a com- mercial proposition

It comes to this, then, that if a sailing ship could carry 4,000 tons of cargo from to port in the sando length of time Puch the average freight steamer would with the ocopy and make her

passages same degree of reliability, she would con mand preference from owners. For sail power is not only the cheapest form of propulsion, it is the most reliable, in the world-always supposing wind enough to render it effective.

fine.

But the foregoing if is abviously beyond the practicability of everyday reallistin inging ahip in the Trades the Hin Bear teamer best any freight stes by knots, probably gira points to any mailboat she is likely to encodater on these routes. The Adolf Venner, with as much 25 she could comfortably. stand ор

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to under all plain sail, and with her braces slightly checked, abould have been good for sixteen knots. There would be approaching record breaking in such a spoed.

The auxiliary steam frigates of the The fastest day's run over recorded by a dipfties and hirtles were fitted with per ship stands, appropriately enough to

hoisting propellers, because they so often

the credit of the LA Venter logged! outran the topmost speed of these when

the size of the Adolf 439 miles -The greatest speed through the water for any sailing ship of which authen- tic record etists was entered in the log of the James Edines, under date of Jane 18th, 1885. The passage runs: "8.30 p.m.--In all atar board stadsaila, ship going 21 Enots with main akysil set"

OVERCOMING DOLDEUMË.

But it is the days of calm, or of shy; winds, which kill the sailing ship as a passage-maker. She may do twelve knots! for a week on end, and then, only tworknots for the next week, so that her fortnight's average will only be aven knots, or con siderably worse than that of a second-rate! "difcher."

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Bat suppose a sailing ship to be installed auxiliary motora capable of giving her speed of about six knota in the dol drums," as in the case of the olf Peaner, we should get a fortnight's average of: knots under the conditions presupposed the foregoing paragraph New this is good enough to attract any number charters. I meɛna ensoring minmam of vix knots throughout the voyage, for when the wind and ses gather too much weight to enable the motors to maintain that speed,

Work, and i asil power will

will take op the

and improve shipowners are

are realizing thin the advent of vessels of the type of the German five marted barque winch re- cently went ashore on the Lizard rocki But are our own shipowners as yet showing similar faith in the future possibilities of the auxiliary sailing They are build

pure

it.

rand stil bi motor craft

ing and simple. But the motor sailing ship is surely a progreat scénomy and

of greater

speed. There would be nothing remarkable in her making a passsge from London to Sydney at twelve knots all the way using her motor power, let ma for one-third of the voyage. We are still a long way from the time when the internal- combustion driven vessel, of five thousand toas deadweight capacity, will be able to secomplish alike performance on suficiently economia likes to rival the auxiliary sailing. ahip.

The

WELCOME PROSPECT.

000 calm belts of the ocean are |

narrow, and with motor

power a sailing vessel would soon get across them. In the equatorial zóná it is no un- common experience for a craft to fost like painted ship on palated ocean for days. end. It is merely the power to keep oring across the breathless surface

'on

is necessary to restore her to her old position as a carrier of merchandise,

For years the famous China tes clippers more than held their own against the of steam. Suppose these same competition of Teasels fitted with aven but modest auxiliary motor power, they would be more thau holding their own still

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coupled up as to occasion racing of the engines. & folding propeller, of astonish. angly small dimensions, is adequate drive a modern clipper up to the full and this oy motor likely to be installed,

“drag” and this occasions, no

when under canvas alone.

In fact, there appear to be very sound practical reasons for anticipating the re- turn of the wind-jeumde. And bow seafaring men aleonto the profpcct!

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