Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-10-12
HANDBOOK FOR MARINERS.
Full Of Interest and Valuable Infor-
nation for Sailors and a Guide
for Castaways.

Few persons other than those con-
nected with the sea ever come across
copy of that marvellous compilation
II marine intelligence, Lloyd's Calen-
lar. Yet its 500-odd pages are crowd
I'd with matter of deep human interest,
ind its scope is somewhat astonishing.
o the mere landsman.
1t deals with the shipping of the
world. That alone suggests something
Tast. Here are some figures. The
worlds shipping, according to Lloyd's
Register, numbers grand total of 49,
'43 steamers and sailing vessels, their
:otal tonnage being no less than 49,
S43, 131 tons,
The British empire is mistress of the
seas in one sense from the fact that
he imperial shipping alone numbers
II, 1S4 vessels of 16,OO6,374 tons-al-
most half the entire worlds shipping.
The versatility of the Calendar on
;eafaring topics appears on every
page. 1t is interesting, for example,
% know that a vessel rises on floating
rom fresh to salt water, and that at
Aberdeen harbor, for instance, a flush
ieck vessel Of 20 feet nodded depth
nay be laden to four inches beyond
he load line. as that is the height
If her rise in the water on passing to
he open sea.
There is something particularly
fascinating in the description of the
Tarious provision depots for the use
II shipwrecked mariners in remote
ocean areas
In the Indian ocean Amsterdam is
and has such depot in a large cav
,rn in the side of a hill It contain:
1850 pounds of preserved beef, 1,15t
pounds of biscuit, 10 wooden shirts
10 pair of cotton drawers, 10 blankets
md one soldered metal box holding
our packets of matches There are
llso a cooking pot, cots and dry wood
st. Paul and Kergueleon islands
lave respectively a hut of rough stones
md cavern IN a gorge containing the
same supplies in the same quantities.
They are to be found in iron-hooped
oarrels coated with tar and sand
Heg island. in the Crozets, has
cough hut, in which are beef. biscuits
;ardines, blankets, shoes, trousers
spears, hatchets and cooking utensils
Possession island also has a hut con
aiming supplies for so people for 81
lnys.
The outlying islands of New Zealand
nave provision depots, with notice
boards to guide shipwrecked sailors
% them. Some of these depots con
tain medicines, andA one has a tank
20 catch water. Provisions and cloth
ing are also hidden in cairns and huts
at the entrance to Magellan strait ano
It Vancouver island.
%4ere are some versified settings OF
he rule of the road at sea- When two
steamships are passing:
Green to green-or red to red,
Perfect safety-go ahead
The oceans of the world have alto
5ether 337 coaling stations, of which
here are 113 at European and Medi
;erranean ports. The Indian ocear
md China seas, with Al, have the few
iSt.
A comparison of the specific gravity
IF timber and water is interesting
Taking the S. g. of water as 100, there
are three woods which weigh heavier
mahogany being LOG, oak 1T and
ebony 1873 Cork is only "a
In the section dealing with the per
Is of ice and how vessels should avoid
them the Calendar states that some
If the icebergs encountered in the
South Atlantic during 1928 were up
Of TI1i1oc IN Io1,or+l,