Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-06-09
DATA FOR SAILORS
'ILoYD'S CALENDAR" AN IN
TEREsTING COMPILATION.
Covers Every Subject Connected With
the Shipping World-Almost
10000 Vessels on Records
Of the Company.


Few persons, other than those con-
nected with the sea, ever come across
copy Of that marvellous compilation of
marine intelligence, "Lloyd's Calendar. +"
Yet its 5O0-odd pages are crowded with
matter of deep human interest, and its
scope is somewhat astonishing to the
mere landsman.
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 %.
steamers and sailing vessels, their total
tonnage being no less than 33,643, 13I
tons.
And 1t is a 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 11,1S4 vessels, Of 1906, 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 a vessel rises on floating
from fresh to salt water, and that at
Aberdeen harbor, for instance, a 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 1 $50
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 a cooking
pot, cots and dry wood
st. Paul and Kerguelen islands have |
respectively hut Of rough stones and |
a cavern in a gorge containing the same |
supplies in the same quantities. They |
are to be found in iron hooped barrels
coated with tar and sand.
Hog island. in the Crozets, has 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 shlpwrecked sailors to
them. Some Of these depots contain
medicines. and one has a 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-
sr SS7 coaling stations, of which there
are 11S 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
ng the specific gravity of water as 100
there arethree woods which would weigh
heavier mahogany being 1O6. oak lit,
Ind ebony 1873. Cork is only "a.
In the section dealing with the perils
If ice and how vessels avoid them, the
Calendar states that some Of the ice
1ergs encountered in the south Atlantic
turing 1928 were upward Of 20 miles in
ength.
These few facts are culled at random
rom the mass Of maritime information
which Lloyd's Calendar presents to its
'atrons. The work is worthy of the inn
nense organization which yearly pro
Iuces it.
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