Tingsung a Mass of Ice from Siem to St Northeasterly Gale Causes Many Delays Exceptionally. bad weather was encountered in the Gulf i of Chibli and off the north-cas:
this week and a li-known China coasters S. Shuntien ant" her sister ships, the Fengtien aad Tungchow, ha re often been described as india rubber ships.
They seem to bounce and forge ahead through the heaviest seas and wretched weather encountered during the run from Shanghai to Tienta Weihaiwei and Chefoo but they always turn up little the worse fo wear and iti Very seldom that they fail to keep schedule. 'The last trip, however, of the Shuntien from to Tientsin was one of the worst ever encountered in her ung experience being over ty days late on a normal three days' ox enveloped the ship soon of she gut out of the river but nothi out of the ordinary happened until Some 12 hours out when a fierce north-easterly gale swept the seas, While the vessel was heading straight into this weather, hee jater ship the Fengtien had let' and away from it at full speed encountering big seay all the way. he Shuntien was swept from stem to stern and took seas over the bridge and funnel. Capt, Christian already had out her speed dowa and with her reduced way the stern tossed vessel searcely made any Headway at all, the captain was the bridge almost continuously for Due tothe careful and exper: handling the ship rect she suffered no damage to her structures or lifeboats and to enable her to make up time, extra gangs of cargo coolies were put on at Tongku to expedite her despateh.
The F arrived little the worse for wear but received a ite hammering all the way down Morris Car Damaged by Waves The Jardine coaster Tingsang was not s0 fortunate. It was not so bad to Chefoo but from then on the most dreadful weather was encoun tered. Two hours out from Chefoo and at night, three hue waves land~ ed on the deck one after the other.
Unfortunately, shipped on deck was, a Morris car and its condition on arrival Shanghai is better imagined than described. It was towed to a garage. On arrival mechanics were engaged in straight-ug the various metal works bent by the tons of sea water which dropped on the ear. The ship was] one mass of ice from stem to stern for the greater part of the trip and conditions to officers und crew were most "trying. Some iron stanchions were bent and the: window of the Chief Engineer's:
bin was smashed by the heavy' connection with this bad weather in the Gulf it is interesti to note that Sieea: vei reported on the morning of February 2 as follows: "The continental anti-cyclone splits in two centres, the one over Lak. Baikal and the other between Tien-sin and Shanghai."
The big ocean liners apparently suffered little. The C. P. 0. S. Empress of Asia had an exceedingly pleasant trip across the Pacific. Indeed, on approaching: Yokohama she was ahead of her schedule and accordingly slowd down. She did encounter a tittle boat weather from Yokohama to Shanghai but nothing out of the ordinary.
The LO. S. Chaksang wirelesser that she was aground off Foochow, but soon got off with no damage and proceeded on her voyage to Swatow. This grounding was not due to ba! weather but she touched mud on the Bar.
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