TNAG-0421-FCO40-467-Registration-of-merchant-shipping-in-Hong-Kong-1973 — Page 57

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FM TOKYO 270755Z

CONFIDENTIAL

CONFIDENTIAL

1973

Eco.

TO ROUTINE DTI TELNO SHIP 5 OF 27 NOVEMBER INFO F C 0.

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FOR ARCHER FROM COWLEY.

HONG KONG SHIPPING REGISTER.

1.

SAFETY EQUIPMENT.

HONG KONG OWNERS WOULD NOT ACCEPT INSISTENCE ON BRITISH EQUIP-

MENT UNLESS JAPANESE EQUIPMENT DID NOT REACH SPECIFIED PERFORMANCE. MODERN EXTENSIVELY EQUIPPED TESTING STATION

HAS RECENTLY BEEN OPENED UNDER SPONSORSHIP OF JAPANESE SHIP

DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION AT COST OF £2 MILLION. STATION IS

AVAILABLE TO ALL MANUFACTURERS OF MARINE EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS USED ABOARD SHIPS FOR PROTOTYPE TESTING. JAPANESE MOT WILL ACCEPT

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TEST RESULTS

TAKEN IN JAPAN.

NO DTI TESTS FORESEEN WHICH COULD NOT BE UNDER-

2, SURVEY OF EQUIPMENT AND INSTALLATIONS.

INSPECTION OF SHIPS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND NEWLY BUILT SHIPS

IN OPERATION INDICATES POOR APPRECIATION OF FIRE FIGHTING

REQUIREMENTS BY SURVEYING AUTHORITY, E.G. EMERGENCY FIRE PUMP

LINES RUN THROUGH MACHEINERY SPACE AND FIRE HYDRANTS ARE FITTED

TO DECK BALLAST MAIN.

3.

INTERVIEW RESULTS UNDER STUDY TEAM BRIEF.

ELEVEN CHIEF ENGINEER CANDIDATES. SIX QUALIFY CLEARLY INCLU-

DING THREE SUPERINTENDENTS. THREE QUALIFY MARGINALLY AND

TWO DID NOT QUALIFY. EIGHT SECOND ENGINEER CANDIDATES.

FOUR QUALIFIED AND FOUR DID NOT QUALIFY. TWENTY-ONE MATES AND

SECOND MATES PUT FORWARD. SEVEN QUALIFY BUT THREE OF THESE SHOULD

ATTEND RADAR OBSERVER COURSE. NINE DO NOT QUALIFY.

FIVE ALL FROM WORLD WIDE WILL SHORTLY TAKE STATUTORY SECOND

MATE EXAM IN HONG KONG AND WILL PROBABLY PASS.

REMAINING

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ENTIA!