The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-04-15
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: Few persons, other thIn those con-
nected with the sea, ever come across
a copy Of that marvellous compilation Of
marine intelligence 81 Lloyd 8 Calendar"
Yet it's 500-odd pages are crowded with
matter of deep human interest, and its
scope, is somewhat astonishing to the
mere landsman.#- So"
It deals with the shipping Of the world.
That alone suggests something vast.
Here are some figures. The worlds
shipping, according to "Lloyd's Regis
ter numbers a grand total Of: 29,943
steamers and sailing vessels, their total
tonnage being no less than 33,643, 131
tons. r..
And it is matter for congratulation
to learn that the British empire is mis-
tress Of the seas in one sense from the
fact that the imperial shipping alone
numbers 1,134 vessels, of 16.006,374
tons-almost half the entire worlds
shipping.
The versatility Of the calendar" on
sea-faring topics strikes you on every
page. 1t is interesting, for example, to
know that vessel rises on floating
from fresh to salt water, and that at
Aberdeen harbor, for instance, flush
deck vessel of 20 feet nodded depth may
be laden to four inches, beyond the load
line, as that is the height Of her rise in
the water on passing to the sea.
There is something particularly fas-
cinating in the description Of the various
provision depots for the use of ship
wrecked mariners. in remote ocean
areas.
In the Indian ocean, Amsterdam
island has such depot in large cavern
in the side of hill. 1t contains 1850
pounds of preserved beef, 1925 pounds
of biscuit, ten wooden shirts. ten pairs OF
cotton drawers ten. blankets, and one
soldered metal box holding four packets
+ of matches. There are also cooking
pot, cots and dry wood.
St. Paul and Kerguelen islands have
respectively a hut of rough stones and
cavern in gorge containing the same
supplies in the same quantities. They
are to be found in iron hoped barrels
coated with tar and sand
Hog island, in the Crozets, has 4 rough
hut, in which are beef, biscuits, sar-
dimes, blankets shoes, trousers; spears,
hatchets, and cooking utensils. Pos
session island also has hut containing
supplies for so people for so days.
The outlying islands of New Zealand
have provision depots, with notice
boards to guide shipwrecked sailors to
them. Some of these depots contain
medicines, and one has tank to catch
water. Provisions and clothing are also
hidden in cairns and huts at the en-
trance to Magellan strait and at Van
couver island.
The oceans Of the world have altogeth-
er 337 coaling stations, of which there
are 113 at European and Mediterranean
ports. The Indian ocean and China
seas, with Al, have the fewest.
| A comparison of the specific gravity OF
timber and water is interesting. TAX
ing the specific gravity of water as 100,
! there are three woods which would weigh
heavier-mahogany being 106, oak ILL.,,
and ebony 1873. Cork is only "a.
In the section dealing with the perils
of ice and how vessels avoid them, the
Calendar states that some of the ice
bergs encountered in the south Atlantic
during 1928 were upward of 20 miles in
length.
These few facts are culled at random
from the mass of maritime information
which Lloyd's Calendar presents to its
patrons. The work is worthy Of the i'm
mense organization which yearly pro-
duces it.