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BRITISH MERCHANT MARINE ENGINEERING IN

SHIPPING.

LORD INCHCAPE'S DEFENCE.

NOT BECOMING OUT-OF-DATE. |

FRANCE.

OIL FUEL REPLACING STEAM?

THE ILE-DE-FRANCE."

The success of the 'machinery of new French 42,000-ten liner the fle-de-France as illustrated by her maiden voyage between Havre and New York, is likely to increase R further the confidence of stil! French shipowners in the Parsons turbine dirept drive that had al- the dy given such entisfactory re-

A question of great interest to shipbuilders and shipowners has been raired by Lord 'Inchcape, chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental and the British India Companies. Steam Navigation Lord Inchcape, whose knowledge of everything associated with

was

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9th, 1927.

DIVE TO SAVE A CREW.

SILENT HERO'S DEED, IN THE NORTH SEA.

· JAMBOREE,"

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Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for Delivery from Godown as Optional Cargo will not be landed hers, and after 8th September. anless Notice Las been given prior to Steamer's arrival,

An enthusiastic send-off was given the battleship Nela when she left Mr. Frederick W. Williams, net. the Tyne. Built at the Walker (

navat yard of Messrs. Armstrong, C ing sected officer of the South Whitworth & Co., the Velion has Metropolitan Gas Company's cala dispiacement of 25,000 tons, and lier Bedrift, is an exceptionally her cast, including guns, was £7,000,000. She will become the brase young man. He arrived at flagship of the Atlantic Fleet.

She was launched in September, Greenwich aboard the Redrit, hav ing jumped into the North Sen off 1925, after three years preliminary building, and is a sister ship of Whitby in an attempt to rescueda, launched at Birkenhead in three fishermen whose boat had December, 1925. come into collision with the collier. Those are the bare facts of the

The master of the Redriff was little better. He is from the north, " too. "The second officer would not thank you for saying anything about it," he remarked, running a sinawy hand through a mop of thick black baid.

"There was

Preceded by a harbour master's launch. and police patrol launch, her progress down the river was greeted with cheering from the crowds on the banks and by the Shields and hooting of sirens. Tynemouth piers, and every van- crowded with tage point were spectators as the lion made her way into the waters of the harbour. At the river mouth an aeroplane took part in the demonstration, the airman diving and banking and performing other feats as a fare well greeting to the Tyne's latest triumph in battleship building.

but carried ôn fram

part to port to the final pork of call to All broken, chafed and damaged Goods

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be

the option extends,

to be left in the Godowns, where they Friday between the hours of 10.43

Fros Storage period. and Noor within the Fros

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's Godowe, and all Goods masining undelivered after the 11th September, will be subject to Rent

All Claims against the Stramer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 18th September, or they will not be recognized."

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practical operation of ships is not sults in the France and the Paris story, but even so stated they will and in charge of five powerful tugs.al be examined on any Tuesdays and execeded by that of any other The mean speed of the "Ile-de-arobably strike Mr. Williams as shipowner, does not think that be- France during her outward (Juneg wordy. He is a north cause British owners are not order-22nd-28th) and homeward (July country sea-going man from South about 23 Shields. He becomes dumb on the ing motor-ships as largely as others 2nd-8th) voyages the British mercantile marine is knots, which may be regarded as subject of himself. falling behind ia efficiency or in a very successful performance ste- It has ing that the designed trial speed its up-to-date character. heen said over and over again that was 23.5 kaots.

making countries Bro foreign greater progress in the renewal of their feets than Great Britain, and that in these countries motorships are superseding steamers at a rate which will soon relegate British thipping to a secondary place in general up-to-dateness, if not in of actual numbers and tonnage voares. British owners, it has been arved, are too conservative, too un willing to cast aside vessels, which have had their day and have ceased to be economical in comparison with those of the newest types, and too much afraid to venture on new and experimental lines, with the result that the mercantile Sect of the country is failing behind in comparison with the fleets of much Amaller and less important nations.

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some sort of jamboree, that is all. Sorry, old man," and he turned away to look at the Thames Ris main concern was to get away with the next tide.

The consumption rate of the e-de-France is a matter of great interest to all concerned ship ping and shipbuilding, and it is anticipated that, thanks to several improvements introduced, as ecm- pared with the Paris, among them the adoption of Prudhor Capus ac celerated, sirvalation boilers, the rate will be somewhat lower than that of the Paris. There is no doubt that the performance of the

Pitch Darkness. machinery of the ship, after sho has resumed her regular service on

This is the full story of the the New York run (her next sai ing from Havre is scheduled (for jamboree," Imagine the Redrif, August 10th) will be borne in mind an honest, bluff collier, nosing her She by the Compagnie Generals Trans way over the swell in pitch dark- atlantique when they have to de-ness off Whitby at 1.85 a.m. ride on the type of prime mover to be adopted for their next a be placed in liner, which is due service not later than 1939.

Motor Liners. While in view of these satisfac-water tory results it seems likely that French shipowners will remain faithful to steam at least for the biggest, line:s, it is understood that they are at last making up their mind to put to the test the Diesel drive in several new liners of medium size that are to be built

World's Youngent Fleet. The chairman of the P. and 0. Company does not accept this line of Argument. To begin with, be does not accept the promises on He does not which it is based admit that British merchant ship ping is becoming out-of-date. The mercantile fleet of Great Britain is, he says, the youngest and most efficient in the world, and it is a because mistake to suppose that there has not been in that feet a greater displacement af steam by motor tonnage all is not well with British shipping. As he has found it quite possible to obtain vessels the mest economical and efficient types for his particular services without departing, until France quite lately, from the old system

machinery. of propeiling" opinion for this rensen, if for no other, must be treated with the greatest respect. Hence, when he any that British shipping is not lesing ground by its failure to adopt oil engines more rapidly it beromes all concerned to and out what he really means

of

on

is bound from Hartlepool to Lon don with 2,300 tons of coal. Mr Williams is on the bridge in charge of the ship. Nothing breaks the monotony of the blindfold voyage. The engines thud a quiet tune. The

with parts beneath the blunt bow

Crash Mr. Williams jumps to There the engine-room telegraph. is a confused shouting borne along the Redrif's waterline.

A marmur

That is the prologue. Mr. Wil lams thereupon wasted no time. He gave the alarm The first of

Leap Overboard.

A SENSIBLE BISHOP.

ADVISES NATURE'S GARB FOR PACIFIC ISLANDERS. South Sea Island fappers are wearing more and more clothes and the one who most strenuously opposes the new style is Joseph Darnard, Bishop of Samoa and the says, are ruining their health by Union Islands. The natives, he

Only the scantiest clothing allows the adoption of white men's habits. them to remain well, so the women waar even the flimsy should not lingerie of their white sisters. HONG KONG METZOROLOGICAL

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in the near future, and it is pre-cer came on deck at a gallop and hable that the Messageries Mari took over the ship. The night was time will not for long be the only black, and the Redriff slowed down, to operate Awallowed unseeing, and bearing French, company notor passenger liner and to have only the shouts of men from the anther under construction. In water. the meantime it is interesting to

Mr. Williams ran to the side, Highest open-air Temperature, 7th: 20 observe that out of the 20 motor-

Lowest open-air Temperature, 8th: 71 ships building and completing in paused for a second, then, sprang June 30th, 1927, overboard. A sprash heralded the

B-Blue sky; C-Cloudy; D= supremely Quixotic shown by the returns of Lloyd's beginning of

F-Fog: L-Lightning; his Register, there are only three adventure. If he had reflected be Driale;

French chips-viz, the Messageries might have asked himself what M-Mist: O-Overcast; F-Passing Maritimes finer Eridan, just men good could he do? He could not showers; Q-8qnalis; B-Rain; T- tioned, and two tankers. All the see the men, and, even if he found Thunder. other motor vessels under construc- them, how could be support the tion in France are for foreign crew of a fishing boat? But he cid owners.

not stop to think. He acted in. If some companies are still de- stinctly, and be beat the Redrift initely in favour of steam, it ap-boat to the water by minutes.

The boat rowed out and was BUG- pears probable that several others would have already ordered motor- cessful in picking up the fishermen. mast He and Mr. Williams. cheerful, but as taciturn as ever.

So much for the main action of the story. The epilogue is staged ot aboard the Redrig in a setting hot blankets, hot cofee, and prac tical silence while Mr. Williams Sat. and the rescued men-the crew of the sailing cobble Guide Me-ex- Sun, 11 m change by some species of nautical telepathy the liveliest feelings of Mon. 129 goodwill.

In effect, Lord Inchcape's con- tention is that no good purpose motor-ships fer steamers unless it can be shown very clearly that the latter are so much out-of-date as to be unprofitable on service. Owners of efficient British steam- ships are not, he says, parting with them merely to replace them with motor vészela. The tendency under present trade conditions is to replace obsolescent British ships by their tonnage equivalents rather than to increase tonnlige; and thus the growth of motor tonnage is Britain is necessarily slower than it is in countries which owned small mercantile fleets before the war, and whose aggregates have been increased considerably since the war, in many cases by large proportions of motor-ships. It is all very well, he seems to say, for a country almost wholly of motor- ships, but Britain has a young and most ccient steam fleet, and the process of conversion, if it is to be carried out, can take place only ship by ship as replacements are called for in the regular way of

business.

Bate Of Scrapping.

The

special circumstances of the mo- ment which are responsible for nearly total stoppage of orders for new vessels. The persistent delay noticeable in France with regard to the adoption of Diesel engines is thus accounted for less by the reluctance of French shipowners in this respect than by lack of money necessary to order new-ton nage.-S. Time.

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It may be that the British wer cantile fleet is at present the youngest and most efficient in the world, but there must be taken into account the other fact that it is by a long way the largest fleet in the world, and contains many vessels which are most decidedly uneconomical in comparison with ships of the latest types. owners of these vessels-know-that different firms, he must take into they are uneconomical, but the account the special circumstances The capital necessary for new construc-in their respective trades. tion is not available; if it is, it P. and O. Company are, no doubt, may be invested in other profit-quite right in pinning their faith able ways, or

the owners may or such a length of time to the But prefer to carry on with the ton-reciprocating steam engine. Dage they have and allow time for that does not prove that the North further developments in hulls and Atlantic companies were wrong in machinery belare they reconstruet hanging over to the steam turbine, their fects. There is more than or concerns like the Bank Line a tendency to replace obsolescent wrong in going in. wholly for vessels merely by their tonnage motor-ships. What has beca prov- equivalents. There is a tendency ed over and over again is that to hang on to such vessels for too it does not pay ultimately to post-

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THE

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"GLENLUCE"

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