Yarrow Expert Studying Gorges for Special Contsruction The problem of safely navigate ing the Yangtze river between Iqhang and Chungking is becoming more and more important for the development of the vast natural resources of Szechuan.
The history of steam navigation on these waters—since 1897 when Mr. Archibald Little took his launch Szechuan up through rapids and gorges safely to Chungking—is well known to most of the shipping folks in this part of China, all of whom will be very interested to learn that Sir Alfred Yarrow, head of the far-famed shipbuilding firm of Yarrow & Ca., has now sent out Mr. W. W. Marriner, one of his most talented and experienced experts in the art of light-draught shipbuilding, to investigate steam navigation conditions on the Upper Yangtze.
Mr. Marriner is already in the Gorges, where he will make a study of the characteristics of the rapids and other phenomena peculiar to that section of the river, and where he has already met Capt. Plant and has collaborated with him on the many technical points in connexion with steamships on those turbulent waters.
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