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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH," WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1936,

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RECORD BREAKING UPON

ATLANTIC:

THE

WHEN GREYHOUNDS RACE PAST THE BISHOP ROCK LIGHTHOUSE

By Captain J. G. BISSET, Commander Of The Ascania

DEATH.

TRANS-ATLANTIC records, of explanation may be of interest. HOPKINS.-A1 the Vietorin Hospital, like pie-crusts and some The course for the ocean passage les at 3 am on May 27, 1936, promises, are made to be broken, between Bishop Rock Lighthouse und Florence Ada Hopkins, beloved While giving full marks to the the Ambrose Channel Lightship, a wife of Mr. F. A. Hopkins, Assis-great French liner Normandie distance of approximately 3,000 tant Superintendent of Prisons for her marvellous first voyage Hongkong: Aget 50 years. Funeral passes the Monument performance, we cherish the to-day, (Wednesday), at 5 p.m. hope that our own Queen Mary will to-day wrest the mythical blue ribbon from her.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1936.

To those who are unfamiliar with Transatlantic crossings a few words

NOTES OF THE DAY

A mother in Russia will present- ly receive 2,000 roubles annually for every child beyond a total of eleventh. The Soviet seven, and 5,000 for all beyond the is out to raise its birthrate for the Soviet requires mun-power to achieve its nims. This is just another experi- meat. It may or my uut be However, they are

The objection to bonusing his families, we should think, lies in

miles.

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Passing Bishops" at full speed, the exact time is noted when the rock in abeam (abreast). This is termed the "departure." Thereafter euch day at noon the ship's position is plotted on the chart and the day's rith calculat- ed from the previous noon. This in- fermation is posted up for the use of passengers, who usually organise

ence between the chief engpicer's zum and the actual run obtuffet by the navigators is termed and v*-. pressul in nautin miles per cent.

"SI" urles nccording the wercher. In ight winds and anoth scas it may be as little as 3 perfentl but when the ship-is plunging thes heavy hend gate it may risto

a complicated sort of auction sweep- 25 per cont. Navigators learn by ex

perience how much to allow.

The word approximately is used because ships follow different official trucks at certain sensms of the year. For instance, during summer months, when icebergs drift down on the stake on the result.

Labrador Current anet infest the ordinary tracks, ships are diverted to a more souther- ly trock giving a distance of 3,048 miles. During win-

To-night the now Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary sets out on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic. Experts boliavaj that she will have no difficulty in breaking the record set up last year by the French linor Normandie.

when there are no loose bergs about, a more northerly track is used

distance of D

2,002 miles. with Sometimes, owing to extraordinary ice conditions, a ship may be diverted from one truck to another during the vuyage.

Ing in thick wenther,

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THE ship's position is obtained by observations of the heavenly bodies. In ine clear weather the re- suit con be depended on to within a mile or two. This is known as the "observed position." If the sky is overcast, so that no observations can be taken, the position is estimated from the compass, coupe betrening

speed is by means of the revolutions of the propeller, which are recorded an automatte counters in the engine- roum. Before making use of the revolutions, however, it is necessary This is supplied to the ship by the to know the "pitch" of the propeller..

The usual method of estimating

builders.

THE STORY OF THE STEAMSHIP Marck Weber's Orchestra Britain's mammoth luxury Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra liner, the Queen' Mury, sails on Tango Habanera ...Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra her maiden voyage to-day, thus "Follow the Sun"-Solection-Parts 1 & 2

opening another chapter in thei epic story of the Atlantic steam-dangerous. Jack Jackson's Dorchester Hotel Orchestra ship service. Contemplation of used to dangerous experiments E iceberg region comorien.... The Town Talks-Piano Medley Vivian Ellis (Pianist this event recalls that the story Rocial evolution since 1917, and ships proceeding east or west first In Russia-Tibaren Grand Banks of Newfoundland, and Reminiscences of Friml-Paramount Theatre Organ

colf-Wood

venture, progress and romance. there is no real reason why they make for a position south of the systery or "Lifa (Herbert)

And it is largely a British story, should hesitate to enter into the Banks, known as the "corner," and

biological field. It just compli- then carry George Scott-Wood It began in 1802, when theentes their task a little.

on to their destination, Renara (Pianist) wooden vessel, the Charlotte

are laid roughly 60 miles apart in Eust-bound and west-bound tracks Dundas, the first successful

order to minimise risk of ships meet- steamship, attained a speed of progeny for quantity. It is true the risking of the quality of the 34 miles an hour on the Forth in any trade that the product of

Ships bound west

louve their and Clyde Canal. Thirteen speed is regularly inferior to that Channel port and make for a position years later, the Thames had its the comparison since the Russiana This lighthouse stands on an isolated of skill. And we can safely make ve miles south of Bishop Rock. first steam packet. The old themaclves, by the law they are rock at the soulliwest extreme of the certain pitch,-the-most-familiar-ex sailing-ship--captains and the creating, have deliberately com- Scilly Islands, and shows a white ample being the corkscrew, for which crusted old

mercialised motherhood. It does double-fush light of 822,000 candle admirals were not do to fool with Nnture: and power at a height of 143ft. In clear penetrate the cork, divided into the the number of turns required to aghast They saw what they one certainly cannot flog her with- had regarded as the fantastic out leaving a bruise. It is

weather this is visible from a linee's length of the corkt, give the pitch. nightmares of a set of imprac- that the idea of stimulating There is also an explosive fog signal, revolutions from noon to now by the bridge at a distance of about 27 miles. day's run by multiplying the total The chief engineer works out his the birthrate of a nation by the and on another part of the islands a pitch. tical visionaries materialising reward of roubles, or dollars or before their eyes. And they pounds, will result in the rearing radio beacon for guiding ships in leved, the engines would arrive in If his figures alone were be bitterly resented it. Worse was of huge families by persons who fog. Bishop Rock is 198 miles from the propellers are turning in a yield- port well ahead of the ship! But as to come! These impractically it for the job. The children and 240 miles from Havre..

are neither physically nor mental Southampton. 19. from Cherbourg, Ing body of water, they lose a goud famaties contemplated sending a will suffer; and the nation will de-

deal of their thrust, and the differ- steam-driven vessel across the feat its own ends.. Atlantic-which was obviously

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absurd, said the orthodox ex-not a success from a commer- perts; for no ship capable of cial point of view, but it was carrying enough coal for the mor than thirty years before journey would ever be built. In a bigger ship was built. The 1833, the fanatics again startled great claim to fame: she laid

Great Eastern had

one other the orthodox, for the Royal the first cable across the Atlan- William, a paddle boat of 830 tic. Later, other nations began tons, relying entirely on its to compete for the Atlantic steam engines, crossed the trade, and each of them ai- Atlantic to Canada in nineteensel and capture what came to be tempted to build the largest ves-i days. Then began the struggle called the Blue Riband of the for ever-increasing size. The Atlantic. Great first

Britain, great ship

the was the United States of America, Britannia, built on the Clyde in France, Italy and Germany some magnificent craft, until the French 80,000-Lon

1840 for Samuel

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a Nova Scotin merchant. It Normandie started her career was of about 1,150 tons by beating all her competitors. and 235 feet long. British Now comes another supreme shipbuilders then made another British effort to capture all the revolutionary change; they be laurels of the sea for size, speed, gan to build ships of iron and comfort, reliability and luxury. steel and to dream of still Jarger achievement, the Queen Mary Pride of British shipbuilding vessels. In 1860, the first now sels out on her first voyage, "monster" ship, the Great carrying with her the hopes and Eastern, of about 18,915. tons wishes of Britons everywhere and over 600 feet in length, that she may win back for the made her maiden voyage. But premier maritime nation of the world the Blue Riband of the she was before her time. She was built broadside on-the has remarked, the maiden voy- Atlantic. As a Home writer only way there was room to age of this giant vessel should build her on the Thames, and serve the whole world as a sign when she was finished it took that "ancient founts of inspira three months, with the aid of tion" are not lost to Britain, and that nothing is further from chinery to launch her. She was her ocean primacy.

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"Pitch" is the distance in feet and inchies that a propeller would travel Into a solid block during one revolu. tion. Every kimi of screw, has a

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

"I just wouldn't have a comfortable moment, if I let you people go to a hotel while you're here.”

As the ship pro creds on her joy

age the clock is altered each day to allow for the difference in the New York limos five hours behi

London time-though New Yorkda To make might not all admit this. up for this difference on a ship đị the speed of the Normandie the clock would be put back 1 hours cach midnight going west, thus making up the five hours in four nights, and giving a 25-hour day. giving a 224-hour day. This tends „Going inst thin slaaduie pas forward,

people and especially of to upset the sleeping hours of some Allowance is naturally made for the children. ave hours in the calculation of the average speed.

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ALL miles referred to on board ship are nautical miles, distinct from. a Jand mile. A statute or land mile is n purely arbitrary measure and was defined as 5,280ft by an Act of Parliament passed in the 25th year of the reign of "Good Queen Bess." It bears-no-relation" to any scale In nature,

.The nautical mile is 6,080ft, and is arrived at by an exact division of the meridional clrcumference

0,040ft at the equator and 8.108? at mile varies slightly in length, being carth. Owing to

the bulged and flattened, the nauticni the globe being

adopted and this is correct in luth the poles, so

of

a mean of 0,000ft is tudes 48deg, north or south. As an easy reminder, seven nautical miles are equal to 0.06 statute miles,

The nautical mile, a unit of length, must not be confounded with the knot, a unit of speed. To say that a ship is doing 30 knots, means that she is covering 30 nautical miles per hour. To usc the expression knots per hour" is incorrect and im- 30 mediately brands the speaker as Д very amateur navigator.

The Gulf Stream is a factor that enters into Transatlantic records for about a 1,000 miles of the passage before arrival at New York. This stream runs in an easterly direction at the variable rate of 4 to 11⁄2 knota. Going west the ship has to steam against it and is able to have one or two days of poor runs. Going east. It helps her along.

Gamblers on the day's run are keen students of the Gulf Stream, some of them almost conveying the Impres- slon that they have a controlling in- fluence over Its movements. But It Is a fickle Jade and often upsets their calculations, as does the demon fog.

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WHEN, in due course, the ship passes Ambrose Channel Light- ship, the exact time is noted and termed "arrival." The total time on passage is then divided into the total initenge, and we have the average speed in knots and tenths,

Ambrose Lightship is moored in the centre of New York Bay. It carrles a powerful flashing light, also a siten, a radio beacon and a sub- marine bell for gulding ships in thick weather. The pilot boat cruises a couple of miles inside the lightship. and the ship, having stopped to em- bark a pilot. proceeds a distance of 14 miles up the channel and anchors at the Quarantine Grounds for ex- amination by the Port Medical Oncer und the Immigration Omelals, and the mall in discharged into tenders.

She then proceeds another ten miles up the harbour to her dock, where she is nosed into berth by flect of tugs. The record-breaking voyage (il records are broken) is

over."