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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1986.

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RECORD BREAKING UPON

ATLANTIC

TRANS

THE

WHEN GREYHOUNDS RACE-PAST- THE BISHOP ROCK LIGHTHOUSE

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

of

used

Passing "Bishops" at full speed; the RANS-ATLANTIC records, of explanation may be of interest. HOPKINS-At the Victoria Hospital,

like pic-crusts and some The course. for the ocean passage les exnet time is noted when the rock Is at a.m. on May 27, 1930, promises, are made to be broken, between Bishop Rock Lighthouse and abeam (abreast). This is termed the Channel Lightship, a "departure." Thereafter each day at Florence Ada Hopkins, beloved While giving full marks to the the Ambrose

approximately

noon the ship's position is plotted on 3,000 wife of Mr. F. A. Hopkins, Assis- great French liner Normandie distance

the chart and the day's run calcuint- Lant Superintendent of Prisons, for her marvellous first voyage miles.

ed from the previous noon. This in- Hongkong; aged

The word approximately is Funeral passes the Monument performance, we cherish the to-day. (Wednesday), at 5 p.m. hope that our own Queen Mary because ships follow different ocial formation is posted up for the use of passengers, who usually organise will to-day wrest the mythical tracks at certain seasons of the year. blue ribbon from her.

For instance, during summer months, a complicated sort of auction sweep.

the stake on the result. To those who are unfamiliar with when leebergs drift down on Transatlantic crossings a few words

Labrador Current and infest ordinary tracks, ahips are diverted to a more souther- 15 track giving a distance of 3,048 miles. During win- ter, when there are no louse bergs about, a more northerly track is used with a distance of 2,002 miles. Sometimes, owing to extraordinary ice conditions, a ship may be diverted from one track to another during the

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1936.

NOTES OF THE DAY

VoyaKc.

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ence between the chlef engineer's run and the actual run obtained by the navigators is termed "slip," and ex- pressed in nautical miles per cent.

"Slip" varies according to the weather. In light winds and smooth seas it may be as little as 3 per cent., but when the ship is plunging into a to heavy head gale it may rise- 25 per cent. Navigators learn by ex- perience "how much to allow.

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

** region comprises

huge area in the vicinity of the. Grand Banks of Newfoundland, and

A mother in Russia will present. THE STORY OF

ly receive 2,000 roubles annually THE STEAMSHIP Faithful Jumping jack (Heykens)

for every child, beyond a total of Marek Weber's Orchestra

seven, and 6,000 for all beyond the Britain's mammoth luxury eleventh. The Soviet is out to Standchon (Heykons)

..Marek Weber's Orchestra BD-331 · Obstination

Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra liner, the Queen Mary, sails on raise ila birthrate for the Soviet Tango Habanera....Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra her maiden voyage to-day, thus requires man-power to achieve its C-2833 "Follow the Sun"-Salection-Parts 1 & 2

opening another chapter in the aims. This is just another experi- ment. It may, or may not be (With Vocal Rafrain}

epic story of the Atlantic steam-dangerous. However, they are Jack Jackson's Dorchester Hotel Orchestra ship service. Contemplation of used to dangerous experimenta

Russia.

They have Teen || BD-337 The Town Talks-Plano Medley Vivian Ellis (Pianist) this event recalls that the story

carrying out the most explosive BD-338 Reminiscences of Friml-Paramount Theatro Organ of the steamship is one to thrill sort of research in political and

Foort

the heart of every lover of ad-social evolution since 1917, and BD-336 Songs of Songs (Moya) (Piano Accordeon)

venture, progress and romance, there is no real reason why they should hesitate to enter into the George Scott-Wood

And it is largely a British story, biological field. It just compli- Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life (Herbert)

George Scott-Wood It began in 1802, when thecates their task a little.

The objection to bonusing big Gorshwin Medley

Remara (Pianist)

wooden vessel, the Charlotte

families, we should think, lies In Dundas, the first successful

the risking of the quality of the steamship, attained a speed of progeny for quantity. It is true Thirteen speed is regularly inferior to that of skill. And wa.can.safely-make first steam packet. The old themselves, by the law they are sailing-ship captains and the creating. have deliberately com- mercialised motherhood. It does admirals erusted old

were not do to fool with Nature; and aghast. They saw what they one certainly cannot flog her with had regarded as the fantastic out leaving a bruise. It is our nightmares of a set of imprac-fear that the idea of stimulating the birthrate of a nation by the tical visionaries materialising reward of roubles, or dollars or before their eyes. And they pounds, will result in the rearing radio beacon for gulding ships in bitterly resented it. Worse was of huge families by persons who tog. Bishop Rock is 186 miles from

are neither physically nor mental- Southampton. 100 from Cherbourg.. to come! These impractically fit for the job. The children | und 240 miles from Havre. fanaties contemplated sending will suffer; and the nation will de- steum-driven vessel across the feat its own ends. | Atlantic-which was obviously

and Glyde Canal.

ships proceeding cast or west first make for a position south of the Bunks, known as the "corner," and then carry on to their destination. East-bound and west-bound tracks are nid roughly 60 miles apart in order to minimise risk of ships meet- ing in thick weather.

Ships bound west Leave Their Channel port and make for a position tive iniles south of Bishop. Rock.

rock at the southwest extrane of the Selly Islands, and shows a white double-flash light of 622,000 candic power at a height of 143ft. In clear weather this is visible from a liner's bridge at a distance of about 27 miles. There is also an explosive fog signal,

THE ship's position is obtained by

of observations the heavenly bodies. In fine clear weather the re-

a thlic or two. This is known as the sult can be depended on to within

overcast, so that no observations can be taken, the position is estimated from the compass, course, and speed. This is known na "dead reckoning."

"observed position." If the sky is

The usual method of estimating

As the ship pro- ceeds on her voy- age the clock i altered each day

to allow for the difference in time. New York time is five hours behind London time-though New Yorkers night, not all admit this. To make up for this difference on a ship of the speed of the Normandie the clock would be put back 14 hours each midnight going west, thus making up

the five hours in four nights, and giving a 2544-hour, day,

Going cast the clock is put forward, giving a 224-hour day. This tends" to upset the sleeping hours of some

of the propeller, which ure, recorded speed is by means of the revolutiong people and especially of children.

on automalle counters in the engine room. Before making use of the revolutions, however, it is necessary

Allowance is naturally made for the five hours in the calculation of the average speed.

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to know the "pitch" of the propeller. ALL miles referred to on board ship

This is supplied to the ship by the builders.

"Pitch" Is the distance in feet and inches that a propeller would travel into a solid block during one revolu-

certain pitch, the most familiar ex-

are nautical miles, distinct from

a land mille. A statute or land mile is a 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."

nature.

S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. 34 miles an hour on the Forth in any trade that the product of

years later, the Thames had its the comparison since the Russiang This lighthouse stands on an isolated on. Every kind of screw........... has.."---13-bears"no"relation"to"sny"sëule"in"

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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 more than thirty years before journey would ever be built. In Great Eastern had

a bigger ship was built, Tho one other 1833, the fanatics again startled great claim to fame: she lald the orthodox, for the Royal] the first cable across the Atlan- William, paddle boat of 830 tic. Later, other nations began tons, relying entirely on its to compote for the Atlantic trade, and each of them .at- steam engines, crossed the tempted to build the largest ves- Atlantic to Canada in nineteen sel and capture what came to be days. Then began the struggle called the Blue Riband of the for ever-increasing nize. The Atlantic, Great Britain, the first

of the United States

Amerien, great ship Britannia, built on the Clyde in France, Italy and Germany built some magnificent craft, 1810. for Samuel Cunard, until the French 80,000-ton a Nova Scotia merchant. It Normandie started her career was' of about 1,150 -tonsby 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. Pride of British shipbuilding steel and to dream of still larger achievement, the Queen Mary vessels. In 1860, the first now sets 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 premier maritime nation of the made her maiden voyage. But world the Blue Riband of the she was before her time. She Atlantic, As a Home writer was built broadside on--the has remarked, the maiden voy- 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 tion" are not lost to Britain, three months, with the aid of and that nothing is further from,

'chinery to launch her. She was her ocean primacy.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. specially built, powerful maher thought than resignation of

and on another part of the Islands a

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rple being the corkscrew, for which

the

number of turns required to penetrate the cork, divided into the

length of the cork, give the pitch, day's run by multiplying the total revolutions from noon to noon by the

The chief engineer works out his

plich. If his gores alone were be-

port well ahead of the ship! But as Deved, the endiner, would arrive in the propellers are turning in a yield- ing body of water, they lose a good dent of their thrust, and the differ-

By George Clark

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

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The nautical mile is 0,080ft, and is arrived at by an exact division of the meridional circumference of the earth. Owing to the globe being bulged and flattened, the nautical mile varies slightly in length, being 6,048ft at the equator and 6,108ft at the poles, su

mean of

tudes 48deg. north or south. As an easy reminder, seven nautical miles ore equal to 0.00 statute mites.

adopted and this is correct in lati

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 use the expression

#30 knots per hour" is incorrect and im- inediately brands the speaker as 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 ensterly direction at the variable rate of 14 to 11⁄2 knots. Going west the ship has to steam uguirist It and is able to have one Going or two days of poor runs. eist, it helps her along.

Gambiers on the duy's run are keen students of the Gulf Stream, some of them almost conveying the impres sion that they have a controlling in- fluence over its movements. But t is a fickle Jude and often upsets their. calculations, as does the demon fog.

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WHEN, in due course, the ship

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

Ambrose Lightship is moored in the centre of New York Bay. It carries a powerful flashing light, plso n siren, a radio beacon and a slib- Imarine bell for guiding ships in thick. weather. The pliat boat cruises n couple of miles inside the lightshilp, and the ship, having stopped to cm- bark a pilot, proceeds a distance of 14 inlles up the channel and anchors at the Quarantine Grounds for ex- umination by the Port Medical Oficer and the Immigration Offcials, and, the mail is discharged into tenders.

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