Page 12 ATLANTIC VOICE Saturday 7th. September 1946 Bulletins From Britain camore tons.
to crew an UNOFFICIAL AIR Pandit Nehur and SHIP THAT WILL RECORDS the New Executive LINK THE Council WORLD While waiting for the weather to become propitious for The new Executive Indian Ready to play her part in breaking the world air speed Council headed by Pandit extending post. war commu.
record, British pilots have twice within the past fortnight Nehru has an opportunity to nications is Britain new demonstrate the elasticity of ble. laying and repair ship broken the record unofficially, British constitutional structur. the 8, 050. ton Tele once at 626 miles per hour, ånd once at over 620. They es and to prove how unneces. graph Ship Monarch, which sary has been the suspicion has just been completed. She flew Gloster Meteor jet prop with which some Indian lead is the largest vessel of her elled fighters, the type that set the world official mark at ers have regarded the Vic. kind in the world and is cap.
tory power of veto. able of carrying approximately 606 miles per hour last NovThe Dominions won their 2, 500 nautical miles of deep ember in England.
Each time this month the present independent status, sea submarine cable sufficient not by demanding to have to lay transocean communicaMeteors flew under adverse their rights and powers clearly tions between England and weather conditions. On Au.
defined by statute, but by ex. America in one operation.
gúst 14th there were squalls, ercising such powers and then The new Monarch, which low clouds, and a temperature having them recognised by now provides the British Comof 17 degrees Centigrade the British Parliament. In the monwealth with the finest and (about 63 degrees Fahren.
heit. but the Meteor achieved same way, Nehru and his col best. equipped vessel of its a rate of 626 miles per hour: leagues will find that they type in service, embodies the have much on August 16th, it was even and freedom of action than tific developments.
authority latest improvements and sciencolder, and the record was would appear from a study broken unofficially a second of the Viceroy powers on Great Storage Capacity time.
paper.
It must be remembered that Capable of a speed of 1472 Ideal weather for record.
the central government at knots, she is powered by two breaking is a hot day with New Delhi has never func triple expansion engines, hav.
good visibility, and, for the tioned as planned under the ing a total horse. power of British official course, an on 1935 constitution. The task of 5, 000. Steam is provided by oved wheels in pulleys for Taut wire gear fitted at the shore wind, with the tide high Lord to eliminate the possibility of Wavell and Pandit four cylindrical Scotch type handling the cable and one stern pays out a fine steel Nehru is to keep in motion boilers, burning oil fuel from stern sheave are fitted, the wire, which is measured and bumps rising from the hot sand. Temperature is impor bersome machinery of the.
the more antiquated and cum a bunker capacity of 2, 000 bow sheaves for repairs and recorded in a near by control for picking up cables, or even room. Similar instruments retant, a thermometer reading 1919 Government of India Every attention for laying short cable lengths cord the amount and slackof 30 degrees Centigrade (86 degrees Fahrenheit) being op 1935 Act which related to the est construction Act. The provisions of the. comfort is given in this new in shallow water. while the ness of cable paid out of Britain stern sheave is used for lay important factor which helps timum. In warm weather, the speed of sound is greater than central government never be cable. laying fleet. This is a ing long cables in deep water to take account of rapid chancame effective. because that particularly important matter To handle the vessel in cold, the variation ranging Act planned for a federation in ges in seabottom level.
this specialised service, 000 tons of cable, two huge The Monarch is the first from 660 miles per hour to of British India and the In where the machines ship company winch. like about 760. Difficulties in the dian States, and negotiations must prepare are cable ship to be fitted with to spend fitted at the forward end and electrically. driven cable gear.
control of high speed aircraft with the rulers of the States many as 100 days at sea with one aft. Because they have to and electrical equipment, inincrease when the craft reaches a certain fraction of the were still in progress when out refuelling or entering port. pick up cables, the two bow cluding turbines and generinterrupted by the outbreak Amenities for the Mo machines are each fitted with ators, switchboards, cable ma.
speed of sound. Therefore, on of war.
narch crew of 130 include electric motors of 160 horse chine motors and control geor hot days, when sound travels a library, writing. rooms and power, which give them a in British manufactured.
faster, difficulties in control of the Gloster Meteor do not set of kms, just opposite Ang nical washing machines. Heavy mechanical brakes to Radar Fitted canteens, laundry and mecha lifting power of 26 tons.
in as early as on a cold day, mering. on. Sea.
and the craft may attain hig: Most careful plans have spacious saloon will seat 40 check the paid out cable are people.
the after machine, Pitometer equipment with her speeds. is estimated that een made for monitoring the Because of the prolonged which has an air fan brake repeater dials in strategic a drop from 30 degrees Cen forthcoming official attempt of absorbing 160 points throughout the ship, tigrade to 29 degrees means on the record. The Interna period at sea, the Monarch capable has been designed with ex horse. power. The motor can measures the vessel speed a loss of about one mile per tional Aeronautical Federation the distance travelled hour for a Gloster Meteor. will have two official observer ceptional storage capacity. As also be employed as a brake and the ship might dispose of by allowing it to work as a relative to the water, and rapresent. There will be specially 5, 000 tons of cable 000 dynamo, and to generate elec dar is fitted as a navigational The regulation run for of adapted reconnaissance tons of fuel and 1, 000 tons of trical power which be aid. The most modern comficial speed records in En meras and 16mm. cine came.
fresh and feed water, special used to help light the ship. pass and radio equipment, ingland is at Tangmere, on the ras in timing boxes, marker arrangements have been made Four huge circular tanks, 41 cluding a direction finder, is Sussex coast. The course is a balloons at each end of the for water ballasting in order feet in diameter, house the also carried.
kind of figure eight, with a course, Mosquito observation to maintain stability, 12, 500 miles of submarine calong straight run, in the mid aircraft, and Air Sea Rescue To keep the vessel as steady ble in the centre of the ship. Boisterous weather in the dle of which is a timed stretch air and marine craft.
as possible during cable lay central cone in each tank Western Approaches gave thi ing operations, bilge keels prevents cable kinks when Monarch her chance of fulf GROCERY and CANTINA projecting 24 inches out from paying out, and between the ing all expectations. In the side of the hull have been cable tanks and the cable difficult conditions she fitted. As a result she is an machine the cable passes over and picked up a long ler.
exceptionally good seagoing a series of cotrolling pulleys of deep sea cable in 1, 500 (Corner 5th. Avenu and Sth. Street) LIMON craft. Because of the para and guides.
fathoms equivalent to one It is the high quality of our liquors and other drinks why mount importance of manoeu Cable tension. a vital fac and threequarter miles with vrability in a vessel engaged tor in this highly skilled oper out a hitch.
our friends of BATAAN. THIS CITY on this service, reciprocating ation. is recorded by dynaCOASTAL AND OTHER LINE TOWNS have chosen engines have been installed mometers placed between the COMERCIANTE our establishment as their meeting center.
instead of turbines, as desig cable machines and the bow DETALLISTA THE HOUSE WIVES PREFER TO BUY AT OUR ners considered that this gave or stern sheaves. The apparGROSERY COUNTER the most suitable and efficientatus is of supreme importance Licores. Abarrotes. CristaleExperience taught them that our foodstuffs are propulsion. Electricity for po as it enables the cable engineer ría. Materiales de Ferretería y wer and lighting, however, is who is also the Navigating Eléctricos. Todo se encuentra provided by two steam tur Officer. to gauge what is en este Establecimiento THE BEST. Corbetts bines of the impulse type. happening fathoms below the Mutiplerkowcabsayesionar de stoetab surface deofituthuvamatera Rica. JOSE ACHIONG as fitted on cacan BATAAN Este documento es propiedad de la Biblioteca Nacional