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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. - SATURDAY,

WORLD'S LARGEST LIFEBOAT.

Christened by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.

The launching of the longest and wars, settled in the Isle of Man and fastest lifeboat in the world was turned his energies to saving life recently accomplished at Dover, from shipyards. He appealed to when H.R.H. the Prince of Wales the nation, and as a result, the In- formally named the vessel "Sir stitution was found in 1924. Sir William Hillary. In congratulating William was concerned in the res- the committee on the name chosen, cue of 305 lives, and three times His Royal Highness reminded his received the gold medal of the hearers that Colonel Sir William Institution.

Before giving you some of the she embodies the essential qualities. details of the Life-Boat before you of a Life-Boat she is not in the full I am tempted to put Д question meaning of the word a Life-Boat which probably many present think proper, and I think you can readily they can answer, while at the same understand that, when you look at time, possibly, a certain number are her and realise the departure from unable to. That question is "What the ordinary method of construc- is a Life-Boat?"

tion employed by the Institution.

The Dover Motor Life-Boat was

eighteen months building and cost $18.430. 03. Od.

I am often asked why Life-Boate take so long to build and why they cost so much money, and I want to try and tell you the reason.

The answer is:

A Life-Boat must be something by better than any ship. vessel, yacht, his its way on to the high sens for, if

Hillary was a great English soldier, The Lifeboat was described saller, scholar, philantrophist, and Captain H. F. J. Rowley, R.N., trawler, drifter, boat etc. that finds the greatest of lifeboatmen, who Chief Inspector of Lifebonts, after serving in the Napoleonic speech being as follows:

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She has a length of 64", a breadth of 14' and a maximum draft of 51", with a displacement of 27 tons.

You will see that she has a good flare of bow and her remarkably clean tunnel lines permit her two 375 HP. Thornycroft Y.12 Engines to attain a speed of 17.174 knots at 1750 Revolutions per minute.

She is fitted with a Marconi Re-

ceiving and Transmitting Wireless the ordinarily built craft could Telephony Set, enabling her to keep stand up under all conditions of in touch with the Shore Stations weather to the stresses and strains at Lympne and Ramsgate, and also put upon her, there would be little with the various Light Vessels in or no need of the Life-Bont Institu. the Goodwin area. tion, except to guard against the human error, which can never be leliminated.

She carries 350 gallons of Petrol which will give her a cruising range of 78 miles at full speed and of 94 miles at 12 knots.

But, hs a matter of fact, many

The skin of the Hull consists of ordinary vessels can unt stand up double planking of two 1/2" Maho to all conditions of weather, for to embody the qualities of a Life-Boat gany thicknesses and, her timbers are spaced from 5" to 9" apart, in all vessels would unfit them in resulting in an unusually strong many respects for their ordinary and clastic Boat, whilst her keel 12" calling and also would prove yery expensive.

OCTOBER 11. 1930.

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stout.

A Life-Boat, therefore, must be She has 8 watertight Compart- what 1 may describe as a"Super ments with Steel Bulkheads and Boul." The material must be some 82 Air Cases, which in effect "Super", the equipment must be mean that she has 90 watertight super," the machinery must be Compartments, and she has an ex- super," and, further, the method cess of bouyancy of 50% of her of construction must also come un weight. der that description.

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confidence, not only in their Boat but in their equipment, for there are occasions when a Life-Boat has to take seas that no other craft could face.

In consequence a Life-Boat be eomes "super" în cast."

her stability may be said to be very good indeed.

She has two Cabins, and her capacity for passengers is such that the Coxswain can carry 219 many as he can put on board under moderate weather conditions; this The designers, Messrs. Thorny- number, of course, being reduced croft and Co. and Messrs. G. L. when the conditions of weather are Watson and Co., Ltd, represented more severe, but her maximum here to-day by Sir John Thorny accommodation may be said to croft, and Mr. J. R. Barnett, the amount to 200 persons. Consulting Naval Architect of the In addition to what I have told Institution, have had a very difficult you the Boat has a Line-Throwing

job in trying to embody the essen- Gun capable of throwing a line 80 tial qualities of a Life-Boat with a yards, Oil Sprays in her bows for much higher rate of speed than is distribution oil in a heavy sea-way, jusually required for the Institu- and she is lighted electrically Lion's service, the function of the throughout and carries a Search Boat before you being to deal sole Light.

ly with cross-Channel traffic, both Such, Mr. Mayor, Your Highness, sea-borne and air-borne and with My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, such casualties as might take place is very briefly an outline of the in open water. Speed is therefore Boat before you and I have no doubt lessential, and it is not intended that her crew, consisting of seven that this Boat should serve casual- picked men, will render a very good Lies either on the main or on the account of the Boat they have to out-lying banka. In fact she is not manoeuvre and which is required built for it.

for the very special and double By this mean that although purpose I have described.

"What car is that George? It went by us like a shot. I never saw a car. travel with such effortless speed."

"That's the new Buick Eight-in-a- line. It's no use our trying to pass them-my engine is up to the limit now.".

The New Buick Straight. Eight has reserve power under its hood and perhaps more speed than you may ever care to use,

You can buy the new Buick with the same confidence with which you have bought Buick products for the past 25 years

Everybody who drives it-or rides in it-says: "Never in my motoring experience have I seen such a car!"?

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GASOLINE CONSUMPTION

Desecration of Rural England.

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estimated as an average of almost $80 for every motorcar registered.

Speaking at the opening of the All-British Motor Exhibition at Adelaide, Australia, recently Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven, V.C., the. Governor of South Australia, said A SENSIBLE PROTEST. that although the object of the (Australian-Association of British Mr. Stanley H. Dodwell is of Manufacturers was to foster Bri- course well-known in China, and itish trade in Australia it did not: therefore the following letter he has prejudice the principle which the sent to The Times, may be of whole Empire was trying to ac

hieve namely, that every State

interest-

As a protest against the desera- should develop its own resources. tion of rural England by the petrol. The aim of the exhibition was to pump, and to encourage those who prove that British cars and motor artistically camouflage their pump keycles, with sufficient encourage- || stations. I make a point, whenever ment could compete with foreign. possible, of replenishing my tank manufacturers.

from the latter variety of station. If others of the motoring public

The above. Chart shows that would do likewise we should soon gasoline consumption in the United sound the death knell of the hideous States increased from more than 25 monstrosities which are too often million barrels in January to 36 a blot upon the landscape.-Mr. million in May and June, of this Stanley H. Dodwell, 24, St. Mary

Axe, E.C.3. year.

BY THE WAY

The number of motor bus pas ment, The Automobile Association, House, New Coventry sengers his jumped 200 per cent, in Fanum the past seven years, according to Street, W1. the American Automobile Associa tion. More than 782.000 miles of route are now covered by bus lines,

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Pedestrians who do not cross the streets of Paris at the marked ser tions are liable to a fing of 100 frones.

Regent Street, London, is being repaired at the busiest traffic sea-

The Automobile Association an nounces that a Port Office has been opened at Fishguard Harbour tele phone number Fishguard 59, tele graphic address: "Fanum Fish-son of the year, and the disloca- tion is causing enormous 'inconven- ghardharbour."

ienee.

This port is a popular gateway to the Irish Free States, and the office has been fully equipped to enable One may judge of the popularity members to obtain every possible of British motor touring from the assistance they require in connex- fact that the Automobile Associa lon with the shipment of their tion, during the past month, re- vehicles and Customs formalities. ceived some 26 letters for each working minute, and that approxi- A uniformed A.A. Port Officer mately 1,872,000 milos of prepared has also been stationed at Rosslare itineraries were posted every day. who attends the arrival and depar- An analysis of output indicates that ture of all boats.

motor touring has increased about 15% over 1929, while the influx of

A law making it compulsory for foreign visitors has risen by an motorists to install cigarette and even higher percentage.. American cigar ash trays in their cars for visitors-despite the slump on Wall the disposal of finished smokes is Street-are more numerous than being consideed in Oregon as a ever, and the cross-channel trafe possible means of eliminating for- to and from the Continent bas never been heavier, Ireland is a est fires.

very popular, touring ground.

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A Safari in East Africa" was the It is announced that the United title of a film exhibited privately at States will spend $1,750,000,000 this the Carlton Theatre, Haymarket, year on road construction which is

S. W., 'recently by Lieut.-Comman- der Glen Kidston. Commander Kid- ston, it may be recalled. in the; spring visited East Africa by nero- plane. The pictures he obtained on that occasion of giraffes and lions in particular in their native haunts kept his audience spellbound, some of the scenes being unique close- ups. An idea of the difficulties in connexion with car transport fal- lowing the rains was also given,j for inch by inch the vehicles had to he dragged up river banks. One scane depicted a practically new Buick touring car which had to bel abandoned in midstream with water almost up to the top of the bonnet.

The prospect of better weather is causing an increasing demand for short runs into the country. By means of the special A.A. "Day Drives", issued by the Automobile Association, covering areas-with- in reasonable reach of London, the motorist is enabled to make inter- esting afternoon and evening trips. Accompanying these drives, are defailed directions which enable. a stranger to follow the less con- ventional routes without difficulty. A sketch map is thcluded in addi-j tion to the itineraries and descrip- tions.

Applications for copies should be made to the Home Touring Depart

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