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SATURDAY, JUNE 27,
VINTAGE YEARS
AT SEA
MAURETANIA'S LONG RUN OF GLORY
WAR-TIME NAME MYSTERY
For nearly two years, early in the present century, a wooden launch, 47ft. long, ran back wards and forwards in the Northumberland Dock on the Tyne.
1936.
Tiny Craft of 1812. Broke Trail For
NEW
The Queen Mary SENSATIONS
Glasgow June 15, Back about a century wad a quarter ago, in the beginning of the experience in steam. navigation which culminated in the triumphant emergence of the superilner Queen Mary, a tiny vessel made her way down the Clyde to the astonishment and wonder of a group of in- credulous onlookers. The little. vessel was the Comet.
Monotonously, the launch travel Jed up and down on its restricted course of a quarter of a mile. It
On her decks a knot of people was constantly modified and alter- ed: its owners loaded it with new congregated and no doubt apecu- lated upon the future and the Apparatus. From innumerable trials and repeated experiments it possibilities of the new stonm
boat. The Comet: carried two gave an accurate prophecy of what classes of passengers. The fare # steel ship 16 times greater would do on the high seas. That ship was to be the Cunard liner. Mauretania.
ton,
for first cabin was da and second erin 3. She plied between Greenock and Glasgow in the early stage of her career,
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The record of this most beloved of Hiners, her landfalls and departures BECAME A JAUNTING BOAT of 25 years, is set down in a hook,
Although she succeeded in making published to-day, which Mr. Humfreyeven miles an hour and thus short- Jordan, the author, calls simplyened the time on water conveyances "Mauritania" (Hodder and Stought-
not finan then available, she was When the 10%, (d.).
Queen Mory safled from Southampton cially successful. Her owner
obliged to take her off the route and those win travelled in her, and who make her what he enlled a jaunting watched her departure, must have boat which would mail round the been reminded of that other liner shores of Scotland, England and which for a quarter of a century was Treland. "familiar as the greatest of hrt Sho was a quaint looking craft. Her funnel was held in place by stays and served as a kind of mest, having
yard and square sail to
kind."
EVERY INCH A LADY
emergency;
The englic of the Comet wan 3 h.p. It was made by John Robertson of Glasgow in 1811 and now finds an honoured place in one of the museumis of London.
Mr. Jordan writes of her with pride supplement her steam power and to and affection. She was, he says, asserve 'as an auxiliary in ease of men speak of a horse, "all quality," quality she Added In- To her dividunity; éves her movements were her own.
She did not wallow in a seaway. although she might be wet in one; in good weather and in bad she had a grace of action which male most ather ships look like labouring tugs.! That was her primary distinction: even the sea-timid and sea-careless recognised if at once. To that added speed, comfort, reliability and her own atmosphere.
START OF GREAT INDUSTRY Originally, it is said, the Comet, which began service in 1812, had two paddle wheels on, each side, but one. set was dispensed with when it was found that the arrangement did not work well.
Although the public in general whts steam slow to appreciate the new service, once the idea had caught on it was not long before a number of paddle stemmers were put into course of construction.
"She was in animate thing of steel, but her individuality was 30 near to personality as to be really living for very many thousands of ordinarily sensitive human beings, All ships passing at sen attract the attention of others. The Mutireturin,
Indeed, although niany sailing ships Poming from the horizon, would bring were built on the Clyde before steam men from their work and from their was adopted and the Comet came in- pleasure to the ralls to stare into existence, the innovation of this wonder
type of conveyance really marked the beginning of the great shipbuilding industry on the river.
Greenock and Port Glasgow were
Mr. Jordan has produced a worthy memóriat. He has not described the Mauretania in elaborate and technical detall. He has sought, rather, in his then famous for the products of their wn words, "by using the backgroundvards. but the real development of of events, to show her working shipbuilding on an extensive sente through 25 crowded years, as part of only enme with the application of the history of those years." The steam to navigation. Since then the result is a book both vital and excit
ing.
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Few people will remember that, for a time during the War, the Mauretania changed her name. She was acting In 1910 as an armed transport, hring- Ing American troops across the Alan
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Clyde, dredged and improved in many11ONGKONG AND SHANGHA{THE CHARTERED, BANK OF respects, has gone from triumph to triumph until such liners as the Aquitania and warships like the Road and Renown have been emwtrusted in the yards on its banks.
The little Comet, which murked a departure in the system of navigation Europe, in the end crashed in the
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lie. Nobody board her, from her rocks of Craignish Point, but her Caplain down, knew that she wash.p. engine was salvaged and is now going to thange, her name, or evento exhibition at a Loude museum. That she had changed it, wail after sur- the event Captain Rostron was prised when, on arrival at Liverpool! from New York, he received offeint letter addressed to the Com- manding Officer of a slip unknown to him and was assured that the letter was being delivered to the right man and ship,
"But,"
writes Mr. Jordan, "the authorities loved a little mystery war and had the prettiest taste in fancy names. ... The Admiralty, seeking
for the 1 new name Mauretania would have their Jeite. They called a great sea beauty, the fastest merchant vessel on the seas. H.M.S. Tuberose
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index includes the curious Trouser button. a French. This refers to an occasion in 1024 when the Mauretania was over- hauled at Cherbourg. The turbines were belag closed-an anxious task. for in other ships there had been "cases where a small tool or even chip of metal had been forgotten and efosed down in a turbine with most unhappy results. When the turbing was revolved the stranger inside it played the devil with the blades,"
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The fact that the Admiralty hats recently placed orders for a num ber of motor torpedo bouts lends special interest to the amazing CALCUTTA performance of a vessel of the CHEFOO type which Messrs. J. I. Therny- COLOMHO croft and Co. hafe just built for is foreign Government.
CANTON
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On her recent HONGKEW thachine-guns.
(LOILO speed trial she carried a full londo
results of 10110RE of fuel. The official various rans over ab Admiralty KO measured mile were as follows:
Best run
48 knols. Best pair of runs 46.64 knots True and mean
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hocties shut up in them"; then came
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speed of 6 runs 45,094 knots Mauretania turbine were Thus, at maximum speed, the wreelted, the east of repale might be boat was travelling at 654 m.p.h. some thousands of pounds. Thus the Sho is, therefore, claimed to be work at Cherbourg was carried out the fastest tumpedo-carrying vessel HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK. Hambur with anxious care. Five of the
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"A French workman, elther humorist of the misguided order, or a thrifty soul who did not like, to see When Queen Victoria, as your the finish of a lucrative job approach Crandmother," sent him a letter ing, hadi ficked it from the rear rank of rebuke, he mude dofonco of Bangkok when he and his mates stood back. his conduct that, as Mr. Benson Tombay His skill as a flicker; it seems, was never rightly appreciated in the says, "was almost as silly as the Calcutta Mauretania. . .”
telegram itself." This episode is bell Calla Admirers of the Maurelania will striking part of the story of
Hongkong find in the boolt the story of her long-drawn-out duplicity which is Howrah Atlantic records and of that voyage | told in Mr. Benson's book. when she failed to get back the Blue Riband from the Bremen, but "failed so gallantly that the failure ranks as an unforgettable success,
"She was known on only two of the Seven Seas," Mr, Jordan wrlies, "She never crossed the Lino. She never made a long voyage, as long
voyages are reckoned, Yet wherever men go in ships her name is fomillar as the greatest of her kind.
"Does she want an epitaph beyond that?
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