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THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
JUL 18 1963
A 500569
ANNUAL
DEPARTMENTAL
REPORTS
KONGY
1961-62
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1961/62
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DIRECTOR OF MARINE
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A view of Hong Kong Harbour.
HONG KONG
ANNUAL DEPARTMENTAL REPORT
BY THE
DIRECTOR OF MARINE
FOR THE
FINANCIAL YEAR 1961-62
PRINTED AND Published by S. Young, Government PRINTER at the Government Press, Java Road, Hong Kong
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EXCHANGE RATES
When dollars are quoted in this Report, they are, unless otherwise stated, Hong Kong dollars. The official rate for conversion to pound sterling is HK$16=£1 (HK$1=1s. 3d.). The official rate for conversion to U.S. dollars is HK$5.714=US$1 (based on £1=US$2.80).
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
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PORT ADMINISTRATION
Director of Marine Organization of the Department -Advisory Committees, Port Committee and Port Executive Committee-General review.
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CHAPTER II
PORT CONTROL DIVISION
(i) ADMINISTRATION
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Assistant Director of Marine.
(ii) PORT CONTROL OFFICE
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Functions-Ocean-going shipping-River and other local shipping-Maintenance and use of harbour buoys-Minor moorings-Aids to navigation-Com- munications-Pilotage Examination Board-Laid-up Shipping and Ship-breaking-Marine Casualties and Inquiries-General-Visitors from overseas-Sunday cargo working permits.
(iii) MARINE LICENSING OFFICE
Functions-Local
trade figures-Principal ferry services, Cross Harbour and Outlying Districts- Examinations for local certificates of competency- Accidents to licensed craft-Resettlement ashore of boat squatters-Import of Timber-Typhoon 'Alice'.
(iv) MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICE
Functions-Engagement and Discharge of Crews- Distressed Seamen-Collections and Disbursements on behalf of other authorities-Births and Deaths-- Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund.
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PORT CONTROL DIVISION-Contd.
(v) REGISTRATION of Ships
Registry fees.
(vi) MARINE Magistrate's Court.
Principal Offences-Number of cases dealt with.
(vii) GOVERNMENT EXPLOSIVES DEPOT
General-Visitors from overseas-Improvements in- stalled-Supply of fresh water-Imports and re- exports.
(viii) GOVERNMENT SLIPWAY
Functions-Hong Kong Government fleet-Repairs and maintenance-New Vessels-Fuel consumption ---Departmental Training School and Examinations ---Accidents.
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CHAPTER III
SURVEYS DIVISION
(i) ADMINISTRATION
Assistant Director of Marine.
(ii) FUNCTIONS OF THE DIVISION
Duties of Surveyors-General Review-The Ship- yards--Supervision of construction for other adminis- trations-New vessels for the Hong Kong Govern- ment-Surveys of passenger ships-International loadline surveys-British registry and tonnage certi- ficates-Safety equipment certificates-Radio surveys -Locally licensed craft-Grain-carrying ships- Overloading of ships-Revision of legislation- Examinations for certificates of competency-Review of engineering examinations-Gas holder exami- nations-Emigration certificates Miscellaneous- Revenue and Work Summary.
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CHAPTER IV
Committees AND WORKING PARTIES
(i) ADVISORY Committees
Port Committee-Port Executive Committee and the Professional Sub-committee-Port Welfare Com- mittee Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund Com- mittee-Dangerous Goods Standing Committee- Pilotage Board.
(ii) WORKING PARTIES
State of congestion in the Colony's Typhoon Shelters and anchorages with particular references to boat- squatters-Navigational aids in the waters of the Colony-Pollution in the waters of the Colony- Re-provisioning of the Government Slipway- Conditions of Service of Government Marine Crews.
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CHAPTER V
STAFF CHANGES, Welfare aND BUILDING
(i) STAFF CHANGES
Promotions; Appointments; Acting Appointments; Retirements; Resignations; Leave; Confirmations to the Permanent and Pensionable Establishment and Efficiency Bars.
(ii) WELFARE
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Staff-Sports and Recreation-Seamen visiting Hong Kong.
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(iii) BUILDINGS
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Headquarters-Government
Slipway-Lighthouse
Section-Government Explosives Depot-Outstations
of the Marine Licensing Office.
(iv) VISITS
(v) APPRECIATION
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APPENDICES
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APPENDIX 1(A)
Vessels entered 1961-62.
APPENDIX 1(B)
Vessels cleared 1961-62.
APPENDIX 1(C)
Summary of Foreign Trade-Comparison between 1961-62 and the previous year.
APPENDIX 1(D)
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Arrivals of all vessels 1961-62 (vertical bar chart).
APPENDIX 1(E)
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Number, tonnage and nationality of foreign-going vessels entered (chart).
APPENDIX 1(F)
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Number of vessels by nationality of entering the port between 1954-62 (graph).
APPENDIX 1(G)
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Comparison between 1961-62 and the previous year of the numbers and net tonnage of vessels entering and clearing.
APPENDIX 1(H)
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Port Communications-Annual statistics.
APPENDIX 2(A)
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Junks and power-driven vessels entered, 1961-62.
APPENDIX 2(B)
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Junks and power-driven vessels cleared, 1961-62.
APPENDIX 2(C)
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Licences permits issued and fees collected by M.L.O. Victoria, 1961-62.
M.L.O
APPENDIX 2(D)
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Number of licenses issued, 1961-62 (chart).
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APPENDIX 2(E)
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Number of local master certificates issued, 1961-62 (chart).
APPENDIX 2(F)
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Amount of licensing revenue, 1961-62 (chart).
APPENDIX 2(G)
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Comparison of revenue collected at Marine Licensing Stations between 1961-62 and the previous year.
APPENDIX 3(A)
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Total net tonnage of all classes of vessels annually, entered and cleared, since 1946-47.
APPENDIX 3(B)
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Quantities of import and export cargo, in deadweight tons, annually since 1949-50.
APPENDIX 3(C)
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Marine Casualties and inquiries during 1961-62.
APPENDIX 3(D)
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Light dues collected during 1961-62.
APPENDIX 4
Mercantile Marine Office Annual Statistics.
APPENDIX 5(A)
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List of Ships registered at Hong Kong during 1961-62.
APPENDIX 5(B)
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List of registers closed at Hong Kong during 1961-62.
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APPENDIX 6
Government Explosives Depot annual statistics.
APPENDIX 7
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List of the Government Fleet as at 31st March, 1962.
APPENDIX 8(A)
Summary of work of the Ship Surveys Division, 1961-62.
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Comparative statement of work of the Ship Surveys Division for the past three years.
APPENDIX 9
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Establishment of Marine Department as at 31st March, 1962.
APPENDIX 10
Plan of the Harbour as at 31st March, 1962.
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Photographs
A view of Hong Kong Harbour
Waglan Lighthouse and Signal Station
Aberdeen Harbour
Passenger ships berthed at Kowloon Wharves
Government vessels berthed at the Government Slipway
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Director of Marine
Assistant Director
(Ship Surveys Division)
Assistant Director
(Port Control Division)
Treasury Accountant
STAFF LIST
AS AT 31ST MARCH, 1962
Senior Executive Officer (Secretary) Senior Surveyors of Ships
Surveyors of Ships
Ship Draughtsmen, Cl. II
Ship Draughtsmen, Cl. III
J. P. HEWITT, Extra Master.
W. GRIEVE, Extra First Class Engineer, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Mar.E., A.M.R.I.N.A.
K. MILBURN, Extra Master, M.I.N., Assoc.
R.I.N.A.
TONG Shiu-cheung, O.St.J.
J. Owers.
R. W. COLEMAN, M.I.Mar.E., Chartered Marine Engineer, A.M.R.I.N.A., First Class Motor and Steam Certificate. H. TORRANCE, M.Eng., M.R.I.N.A., A.M.
Inst.W., Naval Architect.
A. FLETCHER, B.Sc., (Dunelm), A.M.R.I.N.A., A.M.N.E. Coast Inst. of Engs. and Ship- builders.
A. BUCKLEY, A.M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Mar.E., A.M.R.I.N.A., Chartered Mechanical Engineer, Chartered Marine Engineer.
R. BLACKLOCK, First Class Combined Steam
and Motor Certificate.
H. M. MUNRO, M.I.Mar.E., Chartered Marine Engineer, First Class Steam and Motor Certificate.
D. E. MCKENNA, A.M.I.Mech.E., First Class
Steam and Motor Certificate.
A. RAWSON, B.Sc., M.R.I.N.A., Naval
Architect.
G. T. McGRUER, B.Sc., A.M.R.I.N.A., Naval
Architect.
G. BEESLEY, Extra Master, M.I.N., Assoc.
R.I.N.A.
P. E. J. DAVY, Extra First Class Engineer,
A.M.I.Mech.E., A.M.I.Mar.E.
J. MAYO, Extra Master.
CHAN Kin-on, A.M.R.I.N.A. Lam Sik-kui, A.M.R.I.N.A.
YEE Fook-cheong, A.M.R.I.N.A.
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Senior Marine Officers
Marine Officers
Superintendent of Lights Mechanical Engineer, Marine
Mechanical Inspectors, Cl. I Mechanical Inspectors, Cl. II Officer in charge of Explosives
Depot
Principal Lighthouse keepers
Lighthouse Keepers
Assistant Marine Officers
Assistant Registrar of Shipping Assistant Shipping Masters
C. E. HULSE, Master Mariner.
E. M. J. A. BOWER, Master Mariner,
Grad.Inst.T.
W. D. LEIGHTON, Master Mariner. J. M. EBBS, Master Mariner.
R. C. TRAILL, Master Mariner, A.M.Inst.T. A. J. S. LACK, Master Mariner, M.I.N. M. J. ALEXANDER, Master Mariner, M.I.N. W. F. HUNT, Master Mariner, M.I.N. J. H. Gould, Master Mariner, M.I.N. G. A. MILWARD, Master Mariner.
G. D. HabeSCH, Master Mariner, M.I.N. Wu Park-jame, Master Mariner, M.I.N. H. NG-QUINN, Master Mariner,
T. V. COURTNEY.
A. P. TARGETT-ADAMS, A.M.I.Mech.E., A.F.R.Ae.S., First Class Engineer Certi- ficate of Service.
P. HUGHES, A.I.Mar.E.
C. H. RENFREW.
C. H. GOUGH.
G. B. E. Harris.
C. B. A. H. THIRLWELL.
W. J. GUTTERIDGE.
LI Chih-tou
LEE Sik-leung.
LEE Hin-chung.
CHOW Yun-lam.
CHOW Tat-man.
F. A. ROBERTSON. F. BROOK.
L. GOMES.
V. R. NORONHA.
F. J. A. Brown.
Lo Sui-cheung.
R. A. CASTRO.
A. F. GUTTIERREZ.
Au Ming-kay.
Au Wing-hui. Carl YUEH. LEE Tien-ming. WAN Kam-fan.
J. HOOSEN.
CHU Wing-yuen.
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Director of Marine
CHAPTER I
PORT ADMINISTRATION
THE Director of Marine is the principal adviser to the Government on all matters concerning merchant shipping and is responsible for the efficient operation and administration of the port. Under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1953, the Director has statutory functions as the Registrar of British Ships in the Colony and as the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office, and is the Emigration Officer under the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915. He has lesser responsibilities under the Pilots Ordinance (Ch. 81), the Sunday Cargo Working Ordinance (Ch. 84), the Tallyclerks (Licensing) Ordinance (Ch. 85), the Ferries Ordinance (Ch. 104), the Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund Ordinance (Ch. 119), the Marine Hawkers Ordinance (Ch. 160), the Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Company (Services) Ordinance, 1951, and the 'Star' Ferry Company (Service) Ordinance, 1951.
2. The Director was, during the year, the elected chairman of the Port Committee of which he is an ex officio member, and also by virtue of his office was the Chairman of the Port Executive Committee and of the Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund Committee, and a member of the Advisory Committee on Public Transport. He is also a Marine Magistrate and a Justice of the Peace under the Magistrates Ordinance (Ch. 227).
Organization of the Department
3. The Department has for the past fifteen years been organized in two separate divisions, one primarily concerned with international con- ventions on shipping and the safety of life at sea and the other with the entry, safe mooring and clearance of international shipping using the port and the operation and maintenance of Government's marine transport fleet. The Port Control Division and the Ship Surveys Division are each under the charge of an Assistant Director; the former division comprises the Port Control, the Mercantile Marine and the Marine Licensing Offices, the Government Slipway and the Lighthouse and Signal Station section, each being the responsibility of a Senior Marine
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Officer or Superintendent. The latter division is divided into three sections, each under the supervision of a Senior Surveyor of Ships. The total establishment of the Department on 31st March, 1962, was 1,040 officers, details of their posts being shewn in Appendix 9 and the main functions of each office or section are set out as a preamble to the reports of their activities in the past year.
Advisory Committees
4. Two committees are in being to advise Government on various aspects of port administration. The senior of these committees, concerned mainly with long-term policy, is the Port Committee, appointed in 1947 to consider and advise upon all matters relating to the welfare, control, administration and development of the port. The members of this com- mittee are, ex officio, the Director of Marine, the Director of Public Works, the Manager and Chief Engineer of the Kowloon-Canton Rail- way, and the Commissioner of Labour, appointed members being the Commodore-in-Charge and British and foreign representatives nominated by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and by the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce. The junior body is the Port Executive Committee, first instituted in 1946 and consisting, under the chairman- ship of the Director of Marine, of appointed members representative of the Royal Navy, the Army and of shipping and wharf companies, together with one nominee (representing trade interests) of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. The terms of reference of this committee were revised in 1954, and it now undertakes a constant review of the day-to-day problems experienced in the port, in order to bring to the notice of Government any short-comings in the administration and maintenance of the facilities and to suggest appropriate remedies.
Port Committee
5. During the past year, the Port Committee met on three occasions. The main matter under consideration was a report by the University of Hong Kong of an investigation into the use of deep water buoy berths in the harbour; as a result the Committee recommended that, over a period of five years, five 'B' class buoys normally for the use of the smaller type of coastal ships should be converted to 'A' class buoys to meet the needs of the increased numbers of ocean-going ships now using the port. Other matters reviewed were the proposed cross-harbour link by bridge or tunnel and a proposal to extend the western boundary of the harbour, on both of which matters recommendations were made to
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the Government. The Committee also took note of the investigations of proposed reclamations in various parts of the Colony, undertaken on behalf of the Public Works Department at the Hydraulics Research Laboratory of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, at Wallingford, England.
Port Executive Committee
6. The Port Executive Committee met twelve times during the year and had under review, amongst other immediate problems, the following
matters:
(i) The issue of seamen's identity books to Chinese crews employed locally and the adoption of a standard romanization system for the Chinese characters of seamen's names by all the authorities and ship- ping lines concerned.
(ii) The incidence of pilferage of cargo from ships in the port.
(iii). The proposal to establish a new passenger ship terminal at Tsim Sha Tsui.
(iv) The pollution of the harbour waters by refuse.
(v) The insurance claims arising from lighters and cargo being damaged after typhoon conditions had given rise to congestion in the typhoon shelters within the limits of the harbour.
(vi) The need to establish a public correspondence service in the port, in view of the increasing numbers of ships which are fitted with V.H.F. radiotelephone installations.
(vii) The proposed increases in port charges and ship survey fees. (viii) The need to institute special measures to ameliorate condi- tions of over-crowding at the port after typhoons, when ships have been required to await either a vacant buoy or berth or the use of lighters.
On this last subject, a professional sub-committee was convened in February, 1962 and on its advice the Committee approved special meas- ures to meet any temporary shortage of buoys which may arise in the future.
General Review
7. During the past year, the port administration has in its particular field been under the same pressure as other departments in the Govern- ment. Most markedly this has been apparent in the number of ocean- going ships entering and clearing the port, each of which required a safe berth at a buoy or a wharf or at anchor, to discharge its import cargo
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and to take on consignments of the Colony's manufactured exports or of re-exported goods. The statistics shewing these increases, referred to in paragraph 12, and in Appendices 1 and 3 of this report, record but coldly the actual picture of orderly chaos visible in the harbour on any day of the past year, when a normal average of 70-80 ships were accommodated at safe berths and served during their short stay by some two thousand lighters, junks or launches and by bunkering, victual- ling and watering vessels. The past year recorded, for the first time since the Second World War, a peak number of over five hundred vessels entering the port in any month, the slow build-up to this figure having commenced, as the following table better shows, in 1956-57.
Year's Month Peak
1956-57 1957-58
1958-59
1959-60
1960-61
1961-62
Total Average Month
3,822
319
345
4,291
357
398
4,569
381
397
5,098
425
444
5,429
451
477
5,647
471
502
8. As one indication of the standard of living that the Colony has attained, the population travelled across the harbour, seated on ferries or in their cars, in increased numbers. This urge to travel either to and from work or in the pursuit of week-end pleasures is recorded at para- graph 32 of this report by the figures of over two million cars and lorries which crossed the harbour and of over 160 million passengers who travelled on the various ferry services within the harbour, or to and from the out-lying islands. Hong Kong's port lies roughly in an east- west direction and the largest ships, travelling at a speed, legally, not more than ten knots to and from their berths, follow very similar courses. The public crosses the harbour, generally and in greatest numbers, from north to south or back, in launches and ferries. It is inevitable that there will arise at any time of the day risks of collision, and it is regrettable that a total of seventy-six such collisions in Colony waters occurred during the year, with three lives being lost and two persons missing after one collision and six persons missing or drowned as a result of other accidents.
The same pressure has built up in the past decade amongst the users of the harbour typhoon shelters, the larger of which at Yau Ma Tei was completed in 1915. This shelter and that at Causeway Bay are now inadequate in size to protect in bad weather the ancillary craft of the port in addition to the junks and sampans of the boat people who seek
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shelter. The solution of this problem has had urgent attention in the past two years and on 19th December, 1961, Executive Council, in order to relieve congestion in these marine places of refuge, approved as a general policy both the resettlement of boat squatters ashore and the construction of additional typhoon shelters at various places in the Colony, as funds and land development permitted.
9. Following representations by the Port Executive Committee as to the increase, both within the harbour and on bathing beaches, of floating rubbish, an inter-departmental working party was set up on 8th September, 1961, to consider measures to prevent pollution of the waters of the Colony. Experiments to determine the sources of floating matter, and in operating a cleansing service within the harbour, have been carried out and information has been received from other large ports of the world, as to the methods employed to keep their waters clean. It will be of interest to note that the Port of London Authority collects and burns some 4,000 tons of floating rubbish and driftwood each year from the Thames at an annual cost of £15,000; the only authoritative report which has been received on the subject of harbour or river pollu- tion is that of the British Ministry of Housing and Local Government on the pollution of the tidal Thames, published in 1961, following the report of a departmental committee set up in 1951 as the result of many complaints about objectionable conditions in that river.
CHAPTER II
PORT CONTROL DIVISION
ADMINISTRATION
10. The Assistant Director in charge of the Port Control Division is responsible to the Director for the general and efficient operation of all those facilities of the port maintained by the Government. He is, ex officio, a Marine Magistrate, chairman of the Dangerous Goods Standing Committee and of the Pilotage Board and is, in addition, a member of the Port Welfare Committee.
Functions
PORT CONTROL OFFICE
11. The Port Control Office exercises some of those functions which in other ports are the responsibility of a harbour master's office, and is concerned with the administration and enforcement of the Merchant
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Shipping Ordinance, 1953, as it relates to the regulation and control of shipping using the waters of the Colony. This office maintains the Colony's navigational buoyage system, and is responsible for the ordering and maintenance of the heavy cable and shackle components, and for the highly important surveillance and recording of their 'wear- down' in use, for the 52 mooring buoys laid within the harbour limits for ocean shipping: also for the laying and maintenance of 52 minor Government moorings, sited within the typhoon shelters or elsewhere in the Colony waters. Primarily the Port Control Office is responsible for the speedy and efficient operation of a buoy or anchorage allocation system, being in constant touch with shipping lines and agencies to ensure that their needs are met and that the minimum of delays are caused in the turn round of ships calling here. The port continued to enjoy during the year the same reputation it has earned in the past, for the fastest turn round of ships of any port in the Far East. The control of vessels, which convey dangerous goods or explosives to or from the port, thereby ensuring the safety of littoral installations and of other ships is a third function of this office, and the collection and dissemination of local navigational information for the use of ship- masters and shipping agencies, and for the Admiralty Hydrographic Office, is a further duty. Another service performed by this office which is useful to both owners and charterers of vessels based upon Hong Kong, is the declaration of 'weather non-working' days. When a ship is engaged on a voyage charter, one of the clauses incorporated in this type of marine contract relates to lay days, which is the period of time the ship's charterer has at his disposal for the loading or discharging of the cargo on board the vessel. Lay days are normally restricted to days that are not public holidays or days when adverse weather conditions prevent the working of cargo. Consequently in charter parties, in order to avoid subsequent litigation in connexion with the calculation of lay days, a convenient phrase is often stipulated therein that these lay days shall be weather working days. In order to assist shipping interests to decide whether a day was in fact a weather working day or not, this Department has, for many years, published in the local press a Marine Department Notice to the effect that a particular day has been declared a weather non-working day. The decision on whether a day is classed as such is based on the amount of rain recorded by the Royal Observatory between 0700 hours to 1700 hours on that day. This practice has become a 'custom of the port' and is normally accepted by all connected with the business of shipping
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Waglan Lighthouse and Signal Station.
Aberdeen Harbour.
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Passenger ships berthed at Kowloon Wharves.
Government vessels berthed at the Government Slipway.
in Hong Kong, and also by other Government departments and com- mercial organizations, in the calculation of working days for their construction projects. During the period under review, 18 days were declared weather non-working days by the Department. Following the recommendations of the Port Committee referred to in paragraph 5, the office has been proceeding with plans to provide additional 'A' class buoys, and during the year, with the co-operation of the Chief Engineer, Port Works Office of the Public Works Department, sound- ings and borings have been made of a selected area in the central harbour. Arrangements were also made, with the assistance of the Commodore-in-Charge, that H.M.S. 'Dampier', on her surveying visit to the Colony in the summer of 1962, should make a re-survey of the harbour bottom at those parts where shallower water impedes the entry and mooring of the larger and deeper draught ships now visiting the port.
Ocean-going shipping
12. Hong Kong has remained a popular port of call for cruising as well as regular liner services, and in the year 453 passenger ships, with 34,087 transit and 21,625 disembarking passengers, arrived and were berthed mainly at the Tsim Sha Tsui piers of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Ltd., or at Holt's Wharf. The largest of these vessels was the Netherlands liner 'Rotterdam' of 38,645 gross tons. The total number of ocean-going ships engaged in foreign trade which entered and cleared the port last year amounted to 11,261 ships of 35,329,522 net registered tons. This is an increase of 465 ships (4.3%) and 2,484,475 net tons (7.6%) in comparison with last year and is a post-war record. Of the above, 5,647 ships of 17,735,830 net tons entered and 5,614 ships of 17,593,692 net tons cleared. Cargo brought into the Colony by these ships amounted to 5,377,828 deadweight tons as against 4,729,630 deadweight tons in the year 1960-61, and represents an increase of 648,198 deadweight tons (13.7%). The tonnage loaded was 1,887,461 deadweight tons, being 33,471 deadweight tons (1.7%) less than the previous year. Decreased exports of general merchandise and of scrap iron (see paragraph 22) are mainly responsible for the fall in the tonnage of cargo. The figures of import and export cargoes carried by all shipping are contained in Appendix 3(B). In the post-war years and particularly in the last seven- year period since 1955, there has been a considerable and sustained increase in the annual numbers of ocean-going ships arriving in Hong Kong, and a still greater increase in their tonnages, indicating the larger
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individual sizes of ship entering the port and the decline in the numbers of the traditional coastal type of ship previously employed in the Chinese emigrant and other local trades. Reference to the graph at Appendix 1(F) indicates that whilst ships of all nationalities have shared in this general increase, the most marked growth has been achieved during the past 4-5 years by Japanese ships.
River and other local shipping
13. One thousand nine hundred and seventy one (1,971) river steamers of 2,314,737 net registered tons, entered and cleared the Colony during the period under review. This is an increase of 28 vessels (1.4%) and 29,367 tons (1.3%) over the corresponding figures for the previous year. In the river trade both imports and exports tonnage figures registered a decline, with imports decreased by 1,309 deadweight tons (10%) and exports by 526 deadweight tons (2.9%). The passengers in this trade totalled 1,053,864; this was 33,705 (3%) less than the previous year. However, the cargo tonnages for junks and launches engaged in external trades showed a substantial increase in both imports and exports in comparison with the preceding year. These classes of vessels discharged here 1,052,408 deadweight tons, an increase of 52,035 deadweight tons (5.2%) and loaded outwards 203,282 deadweight tons, an increase of 69,756 deadweight tons (52.2%) (see also paragraph 31).
Maintenance and use of harbour buoys, etc.
14. The 29 'A' class moorings and 23 'B' class moorings maintained by the Department were fully utilized throughout the year. The more popular buoys continue to be those 'A' class moorings which are near the centre of the harbour, whilst the 'B' class moorings near Yau Ma Tei anchorage were in greatest demand for ships under 450′ in length. Visit- ing warships and fleet auxiliaries, both British and American, were the principal users of moorings B-1 to B-4 inclusive. There was a tendency this year, however, for more merchant ships than warships to use the central A-29 buoy situated off Holt's Wharf, a change from previous years. The 25 moorings maintained as typhoon moorings underwent severe tests this year in typhoon 'Alice' on 18th - 19th May, 1961, and to a lesser extent in severe tropical storm 'Olga' on 8th - 9th September, 1961. Three ships broke their own cables or shackles during typhoon 'Alice' but no damage was caused to any Government-owned facilities. The recommended maximum draughts for vessels entering the port remained at 28 feet for the Sulphur Channel and Southern Fairway
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entrance and 36 feet for the Lei Yue Mun pass at the eastern end of the harbour, both at Mean Low Water Springs: the deepest ship which entered the harbour during the year was drawing 32 ft. 4 inches, being a tanker proceeding to the Kwun Tong oil installation.
15. During the period under review the annual overhaul of all harbour moorings was completed, and all moorings components were tested as required at the premises of the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineer- ing Company of Hong Kong Ltd. Over the past few years considerable quantities of mud and sand have had to be dredged from the vicinity of the majority of harbour moorings which has therefore involved this Division in additional expenditure. In order to make them more easily visible 23 'A' class buoys were painted white in situ by seamen attached to the Port Control Office and on 3rd February, 1962, a quick-flashing white light was fitted to A-1 buoy to assist cross harbour ferries to locate more readily its position during the hours of darkness. The 52 harbour moorings were in use (occupied and booked) for an aggregate of 16,094 days, revenue from this source amounting to $678,840, an increase of $32,800 (5%) compared with 1960-61.
16. All navigation mark buoys, both inside and outside the harbour, were maintained and overhauled during the year. Port and starboard fairway buoys were laid at Sai Kung on 9th March, 1962, in order to mark the channel. All light buoys, which now number seven, were main- tained on station and overhauled during the year according to schedule. During November, 1961, a starboard hand wreck buoy was laid off Ngai Ying Pai, in the eastern approaches to the harbour to mark the wreck of the s.s. 'China Fir'. The Lei Yue Mun turning buoy was fitted with an improved-type pillar and a radar reflector, the character of this light being changed to a flashing white light every 1.5 seconds. Imple- mentation of the policy of converting, where possible, navigation buoys to fixed beacons, and the electrification of all lighted navigation beacons proceeded during the year. Particulars of light dues collected are shewn at Appendix 3(D).
17. Following a formal inquiry by a Marine Court under Mr. W. F. PICKERING, Senior Magistrate, assisted by three nautical assessors, into the stranding of the Hong Kong ship 'China Fir' on 18th April, 1961, a rider to the findings of the Court recommended that the navigational aids in the eastern approaches of the harbour be improved. As a result, a departmental working party, under the chairmanship of the Director was convened on 24th July, 1961, and thereafter met at regular intervals
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throughout the year to consider the present adequacy of all navigational aids with particular reference to those at the entrance to the port. With the assistance of the Port Works and of the Architectural Offices of the Public Works Department, planning was initiated for the siting of addi- tional beacons in the Tathong Channel, and also in the deep channel between Ma Wan and Tsing Yi Islands at present used by tankers pro- ceeding to Tsuen Wan, and in pursuance of a policy to limit the dis- charging of logs into the water to an area off the north coast of Lantau Island.
Minor moorings
18. A total of 52 minor moorings are now maintained for the use of Government vessels, of which 33 are in the Kowloon Camber and Yau Ma Tei Typhoon Shelter, providing typhoon and night moorings for Government craft, and typhoon berths for Hong Kong Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Army Service Corps vessels. The remainder are situated in various parts of the waters of the Colony and are used by craft allocated to Government departments. During the year a new mooring was laid at Aberdeen for use by the Marine Police, bringing the total in that port to six. Private moorings in the waters of the Colony, sanctioned by this Department, now total 505, resulting in revenue amounting to $29,630, an increase of $3,605 (14%). 75 new moorings were authorized and 16 cancelled during the period under review.
Aids to Navigation
19. The principal light beacon for vessels approaching Hong Kong is Waglan Lighthouse, originally built in 1893 by the then Chinese Maritime Customs and Lighthouses Service, and coming under the opera- tion of this Department in 1901, as part of the New Territories leased at that period. The beacon, placed at a height of 225 feet above Mean High Water Springs, shows two white flashes every 30 seconds and is visible to approaching ships at a distance of 21 miles. A twin-G diaphone fog horn is operated by compressed air in conditions of limited visibility and sounds two blasts characteristic of this type of horn, every minute. The lighthouse station and beacon was inspected by His Excellency Sir Alexander GRANTHAM, G.C.M.G., on 3rd October, 1956, and again by His Excellency Sir Robert Brown BLACK, K.C.M.G., O.B.E., on 12th May, 1961. All lighthouse beacon lights and fog horns or bells functioned satisfactorily throughout the year and no major failures occurred. During last year there were 56 periods of fog at Waglan and 52 periods at Tathong with fog signals being sounded for 384 hours and 336 hours
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at Waglan and Tathong respectively; at Kap Sing the fog bell was sounded for a total of 64 hours. The fortnightly relief of lighthouse staff was delayed on three occasions due to heavy seas and bad weather. The landing facilities at Waglan and Tathong demand the greatest skill from coxswains handling the relief vessels, and it is to the credit of these officers that the regular reliefs of staff at these isolated posts were not more frequently disorganized.
Communications
20. The signal stations situated on Waglan, Green Islands and at Blackhead Hill are all connected by radio telephone to the control tower situated at headquarters in Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong. This radiotelephony network, also embracing various Port Health and Marine launches, continued to operate satisfactorily throughout the year. The harbour stations, operating 24 hours a day, received and dispatched 54,461 messages, including 26 emergency and 14,032 ordinary flash lamp signals. Messages passed on behalf of shipping interests and the public totalled 14,783, for which fees amounting to $7,391.50 were collected. Full details of port communications are shewn at Appendix 1(H). Waglan signal station reported the passing of 12,616 ships, and in March, 1962, a portable radiotelephone set was installed at Tathong lighthouse thereby linking these two stations. Staff of this section assisted in the calibration of the direction-finding equipment on one hundred ships at the range outside Green Island, which was an increase of twenty six on the total for the previous year. The Strong Monsoon and Local Storm Signals were hoisted on six and nineteen occasions respectively. On 1st July, 1961, the practice of hoisting Non-local Storm Signals at Blackhead Hill was discontinued as the widespread radio receivers made their display no longer essential.
Pilotage Examination Board
21. The Pilotage Examination Board under the chairmanship of the Assistant Director examined two candidates, under the Pilots Ordinance (Ch. 81) for pilots' licences during the year. One candidate was successful and the other failed. There were sixteen licensed pilots and three ap- prentice pilots actively serving the port on 31st March, 1962. Nine of these pilots and two apprentices are attached to Messrs. Wang Kee and Company, and the remainder to the Harbour Pilot Services.
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Laid-up Shipping and Ship-breaking
22. On 31st March, 1962, 10 vessels of 19.417 gross tons were laid- up in the waters of the Colony, a decrease of one vessel and 4,083 gross tons compared to the end of last year. The revenue realized from anchor- age dues was $32,576.80, an increase of $824.40 (2.6%) compared with the previous year. From a peak of 28 vessels of 194,947 gross tons being broken up at the beginning of the year, the number of ships fell to 13 vessels of 76,362 gross tons in January, 1962. At the end of the year 17 vessels of 98,461 gross tons were in the process of being broken up, a decrease of 9 ships and 103,911 gross tons from the end of the previous year; a total of 56 vessels of 355,841 gross tons had been completely demolished by the end of the year, this being a decrease of 24 vessels and 188,398 gross tons on the figures from the previous year. In August 1961 the former P. & O. liner 'Strathaird' commenced breaking up; this ship of 22,568 gross tons, is the largest ship ever to come to Hong Kong for this purpose. During the year, exports of scrap iron amounted to 151,959 deadweight tons, the bulk of this scrap being shipped to Japan; this was a decrease of 56,986 deadweight tons compared with previous year's figures.
Marine Casualties and Inquiries
23. During the year thirty-one major or minor strandings or colli- sions involving ocean-going ships were reported in accordance with the statutory requirements of Merchant shipping legislation, as having oc- curred within the waters of the Colony, or where British ships were in- volved, in adjacent seas. Two strandings of British ships were the subject of preliminary inquiries under section 49A of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1953, one of which resulted in the appointment of the Marine Court referred to in paragraph 17, by whose direction the certificate of competency of the Master of the s.s. 'China Fir' was suspended for nine months. In the same period, one hundred and twenty collisions involving local vessels occurred; of these collisions ten were the subject of local marine inquiries in seven of which Government launches were involved and in the case of the stranding of a Government launch, one depart- mental disciplinary inquiry was held. Fuller details of these casualties and other incidents are contained in Appendix 3(C).
General.
24. Inspections, as required under the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, continued to be carried out in conjunction with Port Health Officers, and 63 vessels carrying 6,332 emigrants were cleared for
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South-east Asia and Australia. The arrangements for the well-being of the emigrants were found to be generally satisfactory. A summary of Asiatic emigrants embarked is as follows:
Flag British Dutch
Norwegian
Total
Ships Emigrants
31
4,065
16
1,254
16
1,013
63
6,332
There has been little employment for the smaller locally-based unberthed passenger vessels, from the Colony or elsewhere during the past year.
Visitors from overseas.
25. Visitors from overseas to the port included:
(i) senior officials of the Indonesian Government headed by Mr. A. G. ETHERINGTON, United Nations Technical Assistance Advisor to Indonesia, who visited the Colony from the 2nd to 4th October, 1961, and were conducted on a tour of the port installations, including the Taikoo Dockyard, the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown premises, the Lai Chi Kok Oil Installation and the Green Island explosive depot;
(ii) members of the Long Beach Port Authority, led by Mayor Edwin W. Wade, and Messrs. Salim and Yusef of the Port Trust of Chittagong, both parties arriving on 3rd November, 1961, and availing themselves jointly of a tour by launch of the various port facilities;
(iii) Dr. Martin WILMINGTON, Director of Industrial Development, New York City, who was taken on a tour of the harbour on 19th January, 1962;
(iv) senior officials of the Port of Kobe, led by Mayor Chujiro HARAGUCHI who visited the Colony from 11th to 15th March, 1962, and were conducted on a tour of port installations. Places visited included the North Point Wharves, the Department's buoyage yard, ship- breaking sites and the central harbour area;
(v) the chief reporter of 'Lloyds List and Shipping Gazette', Mr. D. M. BURGESS, who arrived on the inaugural flight of the B.O.A.C. Boeing 707 service to the Far East and was shown the harbour on 30th March, 1962.
26. On 7th November, 1961, the Shun Fung Ironworks, Ltd., was prosecuted for emptying rubbish into the harbour from the 'Strathaird' and was fined $500. On 8th February, 1962, Messrs. Mackinnon,
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Mackenzie & Co. of Hong Kong Ltd., agents for m.v. 'Somalï', were prosecuted in the Marine Court for a similar offence, the company being fined $250.
Sunday Cargo Working Permits
27. Under the Sunday Cargo Working Ordinance (Ch. 84) vessels over 60 tons net register are not permitted to work cargo on Sunday except under and in accordance with a permit issued by the Director of Marine. During the year under review, 3,661 such permits were issued, from which revenue amounting to $462,733.68 was collected. This particular levy on shipping was originally intended to discourage cargo-working on Sundays, in order to enable seamen to make recrea- tional visits ashore at least once a week, and also to provide funds to establish a seamen's home. In 1881, it was ordered that the sums so collected should be received into the general revenue of the Colony, from which annual subventions are now granted by the Government towards seamen's welfare and sea training.
Shipping Statistics
28. Full details of the nationalities, numbers and tonnages of ocean- going ships, river steamers and the junks and launches entering and clearing the Colony throughout the year, together with the deadweight tonnages of cargoes imported and exported and the numbers of passen- gers carried into and from Hong Kong by sea are contained in Appendices 1(A) to (G), 2(A) and (B), and 3(A) and (B).
Functions
MARINE LICENSING OFFICE
29. The chief function of the Marine Licensing Office is to licence ferry vessels, motorboats, tugs, lighters, fishing vessels, and all classes of small craft as required by Part XIII and Part XIV of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1953. Licensing is preceded by a survey of the vessel and her equipment, conducted by a surveyor of ships in the case of ferries, launches and mechanically propelled craft, and by a marine officer in all other cases. It is a statutory requirement that the master and engineer of a mechanically propelled vessel shall be in possession of a local certificate of competency and it is a second function of the Licensing Office to examine candidates for the former certificate. Thus is ensured the safety of life at sea in relation to small craft plying in the waters of the Colony. In addition to the Victoria Licensing Office (Headquarters), six other licensing stations are maintained, one each
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at Yau Ma Tei, Aberdeen, Shau Kei Wan, Tai Po, Cheung Chau and Tai O. These stations are for the convenience of fishing and trading vessels based on these ports of the Colony, in order that fishermen and others may arrange for the inspection and licensing of their craft without delays. The officers in charge of these stations are responsible for a defined patrol area within which they exercise control of all small craft. The Marine Licensing Office is also concerned with waterfront reclama- tions; berthing facilities for ferries, launches, lighters and junks; typhoon shelter accommodation; clearance of boat squatters and the use of waterfront quays and sea-walls. Details of the licences issued and revenue collected by the Marine Licensing Office are shewn in Appendices 2(C) to (G).
Licences
30. Particulars of the numbers and types of vessels or of persons requiring licences coming under the control of this office were as follows:
(i) The total number of vessels licensed under Table E to ply as ferries and launches during the year was 502; a further 65 had received certificates of survey, but had not by the end of the year, applied for licences. Of the total
332 were licences for Class I (Harbour Limits),
96 for Class II (Specified sheltered waters),
45 for Class III (Waters of the Colony),
29 for Class IV (River Trade Limits).
(ii) The total number of vessels licensed under Table 14 as local trading vessels, i.e. other than ferries and launches, was 19,362. Of this total 3,879 were power-driven vessels and of these, 3,545 were fishing vessels.
(iii) New licences issued to mechanized fishing vessels totalled 1,503 thus bringing the all-mechanized fishing boat licences to the above number of 3,545. Reference is made in Appendix 2(C) to 'non-valid' licences in various of the above classes. This means that the owners have failed to renew their licences during a total period of two years. After two years non-renewal these vessels are struck off the registers. The reasons for non-renewal vary, some craft having left Hong Kong waters, and others being broken up without a report having been made to a licensing station. Marine licensing patrols were carried out four days per week by launch to Castle Peak, Lantau, Sai Kung, Sha Tau Kok, Tap Mun, Kat O and many other anchorages where fishing boats
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congregate. The revenue collected by these parties often exceeded that collected by the area station, particularly so at Castle Peak, which is within the patrol area of the Tai O licensing station.
(iv) A total of 974 Marine Hawkers' (Steamship) Licences were valid at the end of the year. During the year 902 were renewed and 72 new issues made. In addition, there were extant 108 Marine Hawkers' (Native Craft) Licences of which 101 were renewals and 7 new issues.
(v) A total of 1,326 Tallyclerks' Licences were on issue at the end of the year of which 1,281 were renewals and 45 new issues.
River and local trades
31.
The local trade figures were as follows:
(i) Cargo imported from Canton and West River ports amounted to 955,104 deadweight tons whilst 69,548 deadweight tons from Chinese mainland ports (east of and adjacent to Hong Kong) and 27,756 dead- weight tons from Macau, were also landed at Hong Kong.
(ii) Canton and the West River ports received 79,301 deadweight tons of cargo, whilst 33,475 deadweight tons to Chinese mainland ports (east of and adjacent to Hong Kong) and 90,506 deadweight tons to Macau were also exported.
Ferry Services
32. The principal ferry services transported totals of 160,741,883 passengers and 2,109,826 vehicles during the year. Details are as follows:
(i) Cross Harbour Services
(a) Wilmer Street (b) Jubilee Street (c) Jubilee Street
(d)
Jubilee Street
Passenger)
(d1) Rumsey Street
Jordan Road
(Temporary Vehicular service) (Passengers in vehicles)
Passengers Vehicles
Sham Shui Po
10,275,896
Sham Shui Po
15,673,843
Mong Kok
16,923,967
Jordan Road (Vehicular &
22,240,461 1,464,418
645,408
5,273,970
(e)
Stewart Road Jordan Road
25,543,799
(A)
Tsim Sha Tsui
42.804,430
(g)
North Point
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Hung Hom
5,473,082
(gl) North Point
Ngau Tau Kok
516,449
(h)
Shau Kei Wan
Cha Kwo Ling
681,194
Ngau Tau Kok
126,167
Sam Ka Tsuen
1,067,590
Kowloon City
8,835,347
Total
155,436,195 2,109,826
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Shau Kei Wan
(h2) Shau Kei Wan
(k)
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(ii) Outlying District Ferry Services
(a) (b)
Shau Kei Wan/Rennie's Mill/Yuen Chau/Hang Hau
Jubilee Street
Passengers
405,439
Cheung Chau (Direct)
748,235
(b1) Jubilee Street
Peng Chau, Silver Mine Bay
Cheung
Chau
130,847
Wilmer Street
ATTA
Cheung Chau (Direct)
39,515
(cl) Wilmer Street
Aberdeen
Cheung Chau
11,233
(d) Jubilee Street
Silver Mine Bay
628,649
Jubilee Street
Peng Chau
336,143
Jubilee Street
(1) Jubilee Street
Chung Tai O
Tai O (Direct)
59,841
Kap Shui Mun
Castle Peak
Tung
96,098
Wilmer Street Aberdeen
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Tai O
17,123
Aberdeen Ap Lei Chau
1,243,757
Ma On Shan Ho Tung Lau Ma Liu Shui
144,698
Tai Po Shap Sz Heung, Sham Chung, Lai Chi Chong,
Tai Tan, Chek Keng, Kau Lau Wan Tap Mun (k) Jubilee Street Tsuen Wan Tsing Yi
105,970
1,338,140
Total
5,305,688
33. The North Point-Hung Hom and North Point-Ngau Tau Kok services continued to operate on a temporary licence under the Ferries Regulations (Ch. 104) pending implementation of the eastern harbour ferry services proposals approved by Government in 1960. Public tenders were called for two services, one from Shau Kei Wan to Rennie's Mill, Yuen Chau and Hang Hau for a period of three years, and the other from Ho Tung Lau to Ma On Shan and Ma Liu Shui. In the case of the second service, the Governor in Council decided that it should be excluded from the Ferries Ordinance for a further period of one year. Small 'Kai Fong' and other ferries were permitted to operate on a tem- porary basis using mechanized junks. These are patronized by villagers in outlying districts taking produce to and from markets. There are at present 48 junks engaged in this type of service. Complaints regarding lack of cleanliness on certain outlying district ferries were investigated and recommendations made to the company concerned regarding methods to improve the internal appearance of their vessels.
34. After discussion with the Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Co. Ltd., it was agreed that the company would introduce a third class monthly ticket for their Cheung Chau service which has continued to grow in popularity. This company extended its vehicle ferry service from Jubilee Street from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m. throughout the week while the 'Star' Ferry Company extended its weekday service to 2 a.m.; the weekend service continuing to 2.30 a.m. as before.
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Local Certificates of Competency as Master
35. There was no reduction in demand for examinations for local certificates of competency as master and examining officers were under heavy pressure due to staff shortages and changes. The waiting list continued to grow and at its peak showed 991 candidates waiting for examination. The high percentage of failures, 63%, aggravated this situation but towards the end of the year improvement was made. The average number of candidates examined per month was 167 and the total number awaiting examination at the end of the year was 939. A bar-type chart at Appendix 2(E) illustrates the relationship between passes and failures in this examination.
Accidents to licensed craft
36. A total of 129 accidents were reported during the year as follows:
(i) Within the Waters of the Colony:
Number of accidents
Capsized
Collision
Other accidents
76
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Number of lives lost:
8 and 2 missing.
(ii) Outside the Waters of the Colony:
Number of accidents
Number of lives lost:
1 washed overboard and missing.
3
2
In addition to taking statements from witnesses the Licensing Office is often requested by members of the floating population to arbitrate in minor collision incidents and in a majority of cases their respective claims are settled on the basis of the advice furnished.
Typhoon Shelters
37. The ever-increasing number of cargo-lighters, junks and other small craft requiring shelter at the onset of storms, coupled with the decreasing sheltered space due to reclamations and the congestion created by boat-squatters posed a major problem for the officers controlling these areas during the typhoon season. The normal requirements of fairways and fire-lanes cannot be enforced under such crowded condi- tions. Further tabulation of boats was carried out during the year and planning proceeded in close liaison with the Resettlement Department to commence the resettlement ashore of boat-squatters from the Yau Ma Tei and Causeway Bay typhoon shelters in the harbour, during the summer of 1962 in furtherance of the recommendations of the Working Party on Congestion of Typhoon Shelters and other Anchorages which
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have now been approved by Government. The progress of the reclama- tion at Tsuen Wan boat anchorage has necessitated a clearance of squatters there involving 326 boats which were broken up by the owners under the supervision of this office. Liaison meetings with the District Officer, Tsuen Wan, and the Resettlement Department officers were held to co-ordinate this resettlement with the closing of the boat anchorage and a total of 2,101 persons from these boats were settled in estates at Tsuen Wan over a period of one month ending 25th January, 1962. Dredging of the typhoon shelter at Tsing Yi was completed during the year and transit marks were erected to demarcate areas for various classes of fishing craft.
General
38. General matters coming within the purview of the Marine Licensing Office were as follows:
(i) Large imports of timber have continued to enter the Colony and floating timber logs stored within harbour limits have become a danger to vessels. Strict measures were taken during the year to prevent obstruc- tions caused in some areas, which resulted in 78 prosecutions with a following number of 76 convictions being obtained. Importers are still loath to store their timber at the allocated areas at Lantau Island but have been warned that no floating logs may be discharged directly into the water, within harbour limits, after 1st January, 1963.
(ii) During the year only one typhoon caused any significant damage to small craft, this being typhoon 'Alice' on 18th-19th May, 1961, which resulted in 89 local craft being sunk or damaged out of an estimated 16,746 vessels in all ports of the Colony at that time.
(iii) A new marine restaurant, Tai Pak Fong' commenced business at Aberdeen Harbour as a replacement for the old one of the same name which was transferred to Castle Peak Bay where it is now operating under the name of 'Tai Pak". Another similar restaurant, the 'Sea Palace Annex', was sold to owners in Macau and towed there in January 1962. (iv) Inter-departmental meetings with the Marine Police were held to discuss policy regarding beach pleasure hire boats which had proved to be somewhat difficult to control in the summer of 1961. Adventurous hirers often take these small boats beyond what are considered to be reasonably safe limits and when they get in difficulties, it falls to the Marine Police to go to their assistance. As a result of these meetings new conditions of licensing were imposed on the hire companies limiting the range of the boats from any particular beach, this limit being clearly demarcated by a floating boom.
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(v) Close liaison was maintained throughout the year with officers of the Co-operative Development and Fisheries Department, in particular with regard to the occasional obstruction by fishing fleets of the eastern approaches to the harbour.
Functions
MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICE
39. The Mercantile Marine Office, more commonly known as the Shipping Office, performs virtually all its duties in a similar way to those of the Ministry of Transport shipping offices in ports in Britain, though manned by Marine Department officers and maintained by the Hong Kong Government. It is concerned with the administration and enforcement of the Merchant Shipping Acts, Ministry of Transport Regulations and Parts III, IV and V of the Hong Kong Merchant Ship- ping Ordinance, 1953, as they relate to both British and indigenous seamen. Seamen employed on all British ships, and in ships whose flag has no consular representation in the Colony, are required to be engaged and to sign articles of agreement before an officer of the Mercantile Marine Office, after that officer has satisfied himself that nothing con- trary to law is entered on these articles as to conditions and terms of service, that the rates of pay are clearly stated and known and that both the master and the seamen have agreed to them. Upon the com- pletion of a voyage and the closing of the articles of agreement the seamen are discharged only after an officer of the Mercantile Marine Office has checked the balance of wages due to each seaman and approved as legal any deductions therefrom. Disputes between masters and seamen are discussed before the officer in charge, and whenever possible, settled without recourse to civil suits. Close liaison is main- tained with the Labour Department, whose functions include that of arbitration in cases involving Chinese seamen.
Engagement and Discharge of Crews
40. The financial year 1961-62 proved another busy period for the Mercantile Marine Office with further increases being recorded in the number of seamen engaged and discharged, these increases amounting to 12% in respect of engagements and 5% in the case of discharges when compared with the previous year's figures. To conform with the relevant sections of the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1,071 articles of agreement were opened and 667 were terminated during the past year as follows:
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(1) British vessels (2) Taiwanese vessels (3) Liberian vessels
Totals
Articles opened
On Board
At M.M.O.
Articles terminated
On Board At M.M.O.
496
539
497
136
24
23
12
11
508
563
508
159
1,071
667
Full details are included in Appendix 4.
41. Although it was envisaged at the beginning of last financial year that the demand for Hong Kong seamen's discharge books would lessen, this has not proved to be the case since the number issued was doubled. Factors contributing to this increase are that Hong Kong ship- owners are purchasing additional tonnage, other British or foreign ship- owners are now manning their vessels with Hong Kong seamen and that the final dispersal of former ratings of H.M.S. 'Tamar' together resulted in over 200 additional discharge books being issued. Overseas immigration authorities continued in the past year in some cases to refuse seamen permission to land unless they were in possession of a discharge book, in addition to holding the Hong Kong seamen's identity book.
Distressed Seamen
42. 85 distressed seamen were taken in charge during the year and arrangements made for them as follows:
(a) Sent to United Kingdom
(b) Sent to Amsterdam (c) Sent to Bombay
(d) Sent to Calcutta
(e) Sent to Singapore
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1
2
2
2
(f) Sent to Sydney
1
(g) Joined vessels
4
(h) On being repatriated to Hong Kong and finally out of
charge
61
Total
85
Collections and disbursements on behalf of other authorities
43. The office continued to work in close liaison with the British Ministries of Transport at London, and of Pensions and National Insurance at Newcastle. On behalf of the former the sum of $79,363.93 was received, mainly consisting of the wages deposited of living,
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deceased and deserted seamen and of fines duly allowed. Disbursements in this account amounted to $80,772.89 being payments in respect of seamen's wages deposited, payments to deceased seamen's dependants or to their legal representatives, and payments of subsistence and travelling expenses for distressed British seamen. One of the duties of this office being to assess and collect, in particular cases, monies on behalf of the British Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, during the period under review a sum totalling $51,834.73 was received and forwarded in respect of seamen through the Ministry of Transport. In connexion with these duties, 66 seamen who were landed sick or injured at this port from vessels on articles of agreement opened in British ports were looked after and regular reports sent to the respective authorities.
Examination fees
44. Fees in respect of 238 candidates for the examinations for masters, and for mates' and engineers' certificates of competency were received by this office; there were also eleven applicants for the radar maintenance certificate. Sixty-one certificates of competency were issued to those candidates who were successful in passing these examinations, nine of these certificates being issued on behalf of other overseas British authorities. The shortage of both certificated mates and engineers continued to be felt during the past year and arrangements had to be made to obtain the appropriate dispensation for forty-nine merchant vessels and five fishing trawlers in accordance with section 115(1) of Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1953. The persons designated by the owners to act in a certificated officer's capacity were required to take special examinations conducted by either the Examiners of Masters and Mates or of Engineers; detailed figures in respect of these special examinations are shewn in parts V and VI of Appendix 8(A).
Births and Deaths
45. The number of deaths among seamen reported to this office during the year amounted to seventy-one. Inquiries under the Merchant Shipping Acts were held into the cause of death of fourteen seamen and full reports were duly forwarded to the British Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen at Cardiff. Two births were reported on British vessels registered in Hong Kong during the year under review.
Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund
46. In accordance with the instructions of the Committee administer- ing the Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund, the sum of $19,989 was
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distributed throughout the year to the various beneficiaries. With the assistance of officers of the Social Welfare Department the circumstances of each person receiving such a grant were kept under constant review.
REGISTRATION OF SHIPS
47. Registry of British ships in Hong Kong was first undertaken in 1855, when a three-masted barque 'Black River Packet' was registered by means of a hand-written entry in a small volume on 7th June that year, as being owned by a Mr. Beng TIAT, merchant. Both procedures and ships have changed in the last hundred years and during the present period, 61 ships were registered under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and the registers of 87 were closed. The correspond- ing figures for the previous year were 62 and 29, respectively. Reasons for closure of registry were, in ten cases that the vessels had been sold for breaking up, in twenty-two cases were sold to foreigners and in fifty-four cases had been transferred either to another British port or for the majority of vessels, to Malaya. In one case, closure was effected when the vessel s.s. 'China Fir' was declared a constructive total loss.
48. The largest vessel now on the Hong Kong Register is the motor tanker 'Hamilton Sleigh' of 18,772 gross tons and 11,318 net tons, and the total number of vessels remaining on the Register as at 31st March, 1962 was 487, having a gross tonnage of 747,070 tons, made up as follows:
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49. The registry fees collected amounted to $20,824.50 as compared with $23,802 in the previous year. Complete details of all vessels entered upon the Hong Kong Register, or expunged from it in the year, are included at Appendices 5(A) and (B).
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MARINE MAGIstrate's couRT
50. At the Marine Magistrate's Court during the period under review, 1,191 cases were heard, this number showing a decrease of 374 cases (25%) as compared with the number heard in the previous year. The principal offences were:
(i) Lying inshore during prohibited hours without a permit.
(ii) Lying outside of the permitted number of craft abreast alongside
a ship.
(iii) Failing to take out a licence.
(iv) Failing to exhibit regulation lights.
(v) Mechanically propelled vessel underway without certificated
master or certificated engineer on board.
(vi) Mooring alongside a public pier or praya wall whilst not being
engaged in taking on board or landing passengers or cargo. (vii) Mooring logs at places not allocated by the Director of Marine.
General
GOVERNMENT EXPLOSIVES DEPOT
51. The Government Explosives Depot is situated on Green Island at the western approaches to the harbour and consists of four magazines and a detonator store constructed in about 1908. It has been modernized to provide efficient handling and safe storage of Government and privately-owned explosives during the period between their importation into the Colony and re-distribution by re-export or for local consump- tion. The establishment operates a self-contained fire fighting unit capable of immediate action pending arrival of the fire services personnel.
52. Subjects of operational and technical interest were discussed during the course of a conducted tour on 3rd October, 1961, arranged for Indonesian members of a visiting United Nations-sponsored course of technical instruction. A visit by Mr. M. L. LIANG of India Explosives, Gomia, provided an informative comparison of the storage properties of individual explosives in relation to differing methods of packing under varied storage and climatic conditions.
53. During 1961, air conditioning and forced draught ventilation improvements were installed in certain magazines and the petrol-driven fire engine was replaced by a Rover gas turbine pump. Living quarters at the Police Post have been extended and modernized and the installa- tion of a water supply tank with pipeline connexions to all quarters
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marked the first stage of the scheme to provide the island with piped water.
54. Importations for local requirements were confined to explosive materials of British and Japanese manufacture, with shipments of the former including increased quantities of Ammonia Gelatine dynamite that is being extensively used in connexion with the Shek Pik, Fung Wong Shan (Lion Rock) and Shuen Wan Hoi (Plover Cove) water development projects. Re-exports from the depot included the first consignment to China for over a decade. Prolonged storage in excess of the recommended periods resulted in the deterioration and destruction of 25,600 lbs. of commercial special gelatine explosive. A comparison of commercial explosives and accessories handled by the depot with corresponding figures for the previous year reveal increases of 720,005 lbs., 187,965 lbs. and 618,077 lbs. in imports, for re-exports including transhipment and for local consumption respectively, leaving a balance at the end of the year in the depot of 588,288 lbs. During the same period receipts and consumption of Government-owned explosives declined by 17,663 lbs. and 23,881 lbs. respectively, leaving a balance of 26,476 lbs. An increase of revenue of $37,403 was recorded in respect of storage dues during the period under review. Fuller details are shewn in Appendix 6.
Functions
GOVERNMENT SLIPWAY
55. On the 31st March, 1962, the Hong Kong Government owned and operated 111 powered craft, 35 lighters and 90 dinghies. The maintenance and operational efficiency of this fleet, whose units range from ocean-going tugs, fisheries research vessels and firefloats to small fibre glass jet propelled speed boats, used by the Police and by the Commerce and Industry Departments for anti-smuggling duties, is the responsibility of the Director of Marine. The functions of this branch of the Division are undertaken at the Government Slipway, which is situated within the typhoon shelter at Yau Ma Tei. At Appendix 7 will be found a complete list of all units in Government's fleet showing their allocation to the various Government departments. The Director of Marine has authority for the selection, training and examination of all engine room crews and similarly for deck crews (other than those provided in the Police and Fire Services Department) for this fleet. The well-being and discipline of the floating and slipway staff which, on 31st March, 1962, numbered 704 and 110 respectively, are also within the scope of the responsibilities of the Senior Marine Officer
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in charge of this branch. The continued expansion of the fleet and of crews is contained with difficulty in the site and the buildings of the present premises, which were built some fifty years ago.
Repairs and maintenance
56. The single slip at this yard was occupied by 139 vessels for 350 days during the year for routine slipping, painting and repair work, and for the remaining 15 days it was out of commission solely for overhaul purposes. The maintenance of the fleet is, for the most part, carried out by contract labour. All work is, however, authorized and supervised by the slipway's professional officers who, during the year under review, prepared 629 tenders which were despatched to contractors calling for the repair or overhaul to Government vessels. 382 tenders were accepted for hull, deck and tailshaft work which necessitated these vessels being slipped at the successful contractors' shipyards, while another 247 tenders were accepted for machinery overhauls which were carried out by con- tractors at the Government Slipway. A further 354 vessels were slipped at commercial shipyards on an emergency basis. The slipway's artisan staff was, in addition, fully employed throughout the year on day-to-day maintenance work which ensured that all fleet units were maintained to a high standard of repair and efficiency. The total cost of maintaining the fleet for the period under review amounted to $3,209,902.96, which sum includes the expenses of all stores for vessels and of engine spare parts.
New Vessels
57. Five new powered vessels as listed below were received from the builders and put into service during the year. Two of these, 'Marine No. 43' and 'Police No. 35', are built with fibre glass hulls of 18 feet overall length powered by water jet petrol engines capable of producing a maximum speed of 37 knots, and were put into service for the New Territories Administration and the Police Force. 'Marine No. 41', a twin screw lighter with an overall length of 71.5 feet, was commissioned for service with the General Post Office. A fast 33 feet personnel launch for the Preventive Service of the Commerce and Industry Department entered service during the year and was named 'C. & I. No. 3'. Finally, a 45-feet crash tender, 'Civil Aviation No. 2', fitted with an auxiliary Rover gas turbine pump capable of pumping 500 gallons of water per minute, was put into service with the Civil Aviation Department. The total cost of these additions to Government's fleet amounted to $748,710.
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'Civil Aviation No. 2'
'Marine No. 41'
'Marine No. 43'
'Marine No. 35'
'C. & I. No. 3'
Builders
Hong Kong & Whampoa
Dock Co. Ltd. The Hong Kong Shipyard Messrs. Cheoy Lee
Shipyard, Hong Kong
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Messrs. John I. Thorny-
croft, Singapore
Date Delivered June 1961
August 1961 November 1961
November 1961
December 1961
58. In addition to the above, a refuse lighter L.57 was converted to a boring barge during the year by Messrs. Cheoy Lee Shipyard, Hong Kong, for use by the Port Works Office of the Public Works Department. 'Marine No. 29', a 67 feet patrol launch formerly used by the Preventive Service of the Commerce and Industry Department underwent major modifications at Messrs. Hip Hing Cheung Shipyard to enable it to be used by the Agriculture and Forestry Department. With the formation of the new Immigration Department, two harbour launches were re- allocated to that department after suitable modifications had been made.
59. With the introduction by the Urban Services Department of the Sheriff-Baker system of refuse collection, that Department was able to release three lighters, L.64, L.65 and L.66, during the year which were subsequently withdrawn from service and sold by public auction. The sum realized from this sale amounted to $67,800.
Fuel Consumption
60. The following table shows the quantities and cost of fuel con- sumed by the Government fleet during the year under review compared with the previous year, which show an overall reduction of $88,061.04.
Petrol
Diesoline
1,554.00 tons
$199,499.00
1960-61
Quantity
Price
3,523.00 gals $ 4,175.80
2,228.25 tons
$515,933.17
Furnace Fuel Coal Lub. Oil Kerosene
Total
44.00 tons $ 3,682.35 23,738.50 gals $ 90,433.35 2,806.50 gals $ 3,074.10
$816,797.77
1961-62
Quantity
Price
3,027.00 gals $ 3,173.70 2,136.00 tons $469,394.75 1,367.25 tons
$166,955.22
32.00 tons $ 3,026.50
22,243.50 gals
$ 83,182.17
2,898.00 gals
$ 3,024.39
$728,736.73
Departmental Training School and Examinations
61. An extremely busy year was experienced at the Departmental Training School with five courses being conducted of which the follow- ing figures are relevant:
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(i) Class IV Engineers and Stokers from 20.10.61 to 19.11.61-24 candidates.
(ii) Class II and Class III Engineers from 26.11.61 to 23.12.61-17 candidates.
(iii) Seamen Class II from 1.4.61 to 23.5.61-25 candidates. (iv) Seamen Class II from 22.2.62 to 26.4.62-31 candidates. (v) Senior Coxswains from 21.8.61 to 3.10.61-6 candidates.
All courses were well attended and the enthusiasm and keen interest displayed by the candidates were reflected by the high percentage of those later passing the appropriate statutory or departmental examina- tion, with results as follows:
(vi) of the candidates who attended the above courses for the pro- motion step to Coxswain Class II and were subsequently examined, 62.5% passed, while of the candidates who attended for the course for Coxswain Class I, all passed.
(vii) The Mechanical Engineer (Marine) and Mechanical Inspector conducted examinations for the following grades of engine room per- sonnel with results as shown:
Chief Launch Engineers (Police) Launch Engineers Class I
Passed Failed Total
5
1
6
39
39
Launch Engineers Class II
54
54
Launch Engineers Class III
49
9
58
Launch Engineers Class IV Stokers Class I
127
24
6
30
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7
Totals
178
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Accidents
62. 58 accidents to various Government vessels were reported during the period under review. Two of these accidents were of a serious nature, involving the stranding of the Department of Civil Aviation's air-sea rescue launch 'Civil Aviation No. l' on the airport runway and the beaching of the Marine Police patrol vessel 'Police No. l' following a stranding in the Aberdeen Channel. In both these cases salvage opera- tions were successfully carried out under the direction of the slipway's staff and the vessels were returned to service after completion of repairs.
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Administration
CHAPTER III
SHIP SURVEYS DIVISION
63. The Assistant Director in charge of the Ship Surveys Division is responsible to the Director for all technical matters in connexion with ship surveys. The signing and issue of International Passenger and Safety Certificates and Load Line Certificates and certain other Safety Certificates have been delegated to the officer holding this post. He is responsible for the design of, and alteration to, Government vessels and advises on all questions of marine safety referred to him by or on behalf of the Director. He is also, ex officio, a Marine Magistrate.
Functions of the Division
64. The basic purpose of the Ship Surveys Division is the safety of life at sea which is pursued by examination of designs, survey during construction and periodical surveys of ships and their equipment and by the examination of the men who sail in them. The standards required are promulgated by several Orders in Council or Statutory Instruments applying the United Kingdom Merchant Shipping Acts to the Colony and by the Hong Kong Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1953: these measures are in turn based upon the International Load Line Conven- tion, 1930, and the International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, 1948. These services from the Division are not restricted to British ships nor to the Government fleet but are available on request to all vessels, large and small, of any nationality. The regulations made under the above legislation in general extend beyond safety measures to provide also for the well-being of crews and passengers and have become extremely complex in the past thirty years. Much of the survey work entailed is carried out away from Hong Kong, notably in Japan; inevitably, this throws extra work upon the surveyors remaining in the Colony but every endeavour is made to meet requests from owners and from the British Ministry of Transport in London for the services of surveyors and for the issue of the certificates of survey arising from these tasks. A further duty of the Division is the measurement of ships, for registry under the Merchant Shipping Acts and Merchant Shipping Ordinance, and for the issue of special tonnage certificates required by the Suez and Panama Canal Authorities. This is a large and com- plicated task which has grown with the increase in the number of Hong Kong-registered vessels and has become even more complex with the increasing number of vessels building abroad. Within the scope of this
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work is included the application and control of Crew Accommodation Regulations.
Duties of Surveyors of Ships
65. The special qualifications of the surveyors are used in fulfilling another function of the Division, namely in the design and construction of Government craft and in carrying out large overhauls or modifica- tions to vessels of the Government fleet. Administrations other than the Hong Kong Government often make use of this service, at a fee, when orders have been placed to build vessels in Hong Kong. Included in this sphere of the Division's work are items which are not strictly vessels, namely mooring buoys and beach rafts and a diversity of work boats carrying a variety of special equipment for particular tasks. The survey of safety measures for the multitude of small local craft is an additional duty which takes the surveyors into many corners of the Colony waters. Fire is a grave danger amongst small craft, especially when packed in congested typhoon shelters, and a regular check is kept upon fire-fighting and life-saving appliances. These measures do not generally extend to pleasure craft but simple tests are being applied to the users of such craft, in the interests of general safety, a lead which is being followed by authorities in British and other well-organized communities. The particular business of the Division is on the water and in the shipyards around the Colony waters, but the services of its officers are utilized to inspect the Colony's gasholders and in case of accidents involving explosions in machinery, its surveyors invariably act as export investigators if an inquiry is considered necessary. A representative of the Division serves on and advises the committee which allots loans to fishermen who wish to mechanize their vessels. The demand for surveyors' services in the past year varied with the volume of shipping in the port but was always urgent because of the high cost to owners of delay to a ship, and the Division continued to make all earnest efforts to meet these conditions: in practice delays were of very rare occurrence.
General review of the year's activities
66. The scales of Ship Surveys fees date from 1935, and since then many changes have taken place in the shipping and shipbuilding indus- tries, new outlooks have developed and the scope of various surveys has changed. The total of fees reported at paragraph 88 does not there- fore truly reflect the volume of work performed by the Division, but so wide is the variety of tasks that it is the only measure readily avail-
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able. The consistent increase in fees earned year by year reflects the steady increase in the pressure of work and during this financial year the total fees showed a 30% increase over that of last year. There is also a change in the distribution of work, more expensive surveys and fewer cheap ones being completed. The building of large vessels in the Colony, which attracts but a small fee in relation to the work involved, has tended to decrease because of the high costs of imported materials and also because of a reduced price differential in the cost of labour. It has been replaced by the building of many small specialized craft at which local yards are particularly adept and which pay better fees in relation to the work done. There has been a large increase in time-consuming tonnage measurement work, but the greatest increase has been in the very large numbers of individual fees collected from the survey of small craft.
67. The traditional local business in carrying unberthed between- deck passengers has continued to decline, whilst standards for their accommodation have increased. Limitations on immigration into neigh- bouring countries do not support extensive sea travel by the poorer classes of persons, and such as do travel now require better facilities than in previous years. Several vessels have been fitted with bunks and lockers with a consequent reduced number of passengers being allow- able but with an improvement in the space, sanitary and cooking facili- ties provided.
68. Developments in the use of modern materials have proceeded locally and one shipyard is now able to supply glass reinforced plastic boats and foam plastic lifesaving appliances at competitive prices. This may well prove to be the first step in a radical change in the appearance of locally-employed small boats, a change already apparent elsewhere but which will be more evident here because of the large number of boats in use.
69. Cheap and efficient ferry services have long been a feature of Hong Kong and these are expanding rapidly with the continued prog- ress in the establishment of new communities. In this expansion, whilst safety standards have been maintained, it has sometimes been necessary to sacrifice comfort in the craft used in the early stages of development of ferry services.
The Shipyards
70. Ship repair and maintenance work has remained fairly steady throughout the year which has been a reasonably profitable period for
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Colony yards despite the worldwide slump in shipping. To the dis- advantage which the Colony suffers of not being a terminal port in Far East trades must be added the factor of increased labour costs. However, Hong Kong continues to be able to boast of the speed at which it can effect high grade repairs and it is this advantage over other ports which attracts work to the Colony. Vessels requiring large and difficult repairs have been brought long distances to Hong Kong and excellent towage facilities for this purpose are provided by companies in the Colony. The long-established dockyards are well provided with machinery and equipment as well as with technical staff and highly skilled craftsmen and have attracted specialized repair and building work from all parts of South-east Asia extending as far afield as India and New Zealand. Delivery of materials and equipment from the United Kingdom con- tinued to cause frustrating delays but this has been countered to some extent by the holding of increased stocks. The larger firms of equip- ment suppliers have co-operated in this stock piling and the Colony as a whole is able to offer efficient and expeditious service to any vessel which may require it. There is a well-developed export industry for wooden yachts, using Borneo timber and local skills, which competes with yacht building industries in all parts of the world. Modern methods are used in this industry where suitable.
(i) The Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company of Hong Kong,
Ltd.
The larger tasks of this dockyard have ranged over a field comprising the building and fitting out, including the manufacture of the engines, of a large cargo vessel, the insertion of a completely new midship section into a tanker and the refitting and renovation of two ships purchased from foreign owners for purposes of British registry. Also of interest was the completion of two survey launches for use on the Mekong River Scheme, one presented by the New Zealand Government and the other by that of Britain. Other mercantile marine construction work included three coasters, twenty barges and four tugs. Repair and maintenance work have involved 894 vessels totalling about 5,331,000 tons, an improvement of 12% compared with that of the previous year.
(ii) The Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company Ltd.
This firm's larger tasks have embraced extensive repairs and refitting of a large passenger vessel, the reconstruction and renovation of a passenger vessel for the Eastern trades and the repair of extensive bottom damage to a large cargo vessel. There was no outstanding vessel
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built during the year but a wide range of smaller craft were completed, including two vehicle ferries, two tugs, eight barges, an auxiliary ketch, a timber carrier and a small passenger and cargo vessel for service amongst the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Repairs were effected to 1,232 vessels totalling about 6,991,000 tons, an increase of 18% over the total for the previous year.
(iii) The Cheoy Lee Shipyard
This establishment has been concentrating on new construction rather than on repair work and has developed a large export trade in pleasure yachts, of which thirty-six have been completed in the past year, provid- ing work for many skilled carpenters. Whilst thus using the old skills, this yard has progressively developed the use of new materials and is now building vessels in glass-reinforced plastic, and making life saving equipment using rigid foam plastics for buoyancy. Two sea-going launches have been built, as well as nineteen commercial vessels of which ten were barges.
(iv) The Hong Kong Shipyard
The principal employment of this yard is the maintenance of the fleet of the Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Company, Ltd., but similar work is undertaken for the Government and for other owners. In all, 430 vessels were slipped during the year and two vessels, a Post Office lighter and an oil barge, were built. A non-shipbuilding task of building oil tanks has provided considerable employment. A new ferry has been completed and work was commenced on another similar type of vessel.
(v) The Pacific Islands Shipbuilding Company, Ltd.
Despite the handicap of re-organization during the year this yard has built a wide variety of craft including two tugs, two cargo vessels, a utility boat, a crane barge, nine other barges and an auxiliary sloop. One of the cargo vessels was delivered to New Zealand under its own power and this company has provided a regular service of deliveries under tow for themselves and for other builders.
(vi) The Wing On Shing Shipyard
This organization is about to lose its present premises due to the reclamation at Cheung Sha Wan and has been handicapped by in- creasingly restricted access to its slipways. It has nevertheless slipped 460 vessels and built eight pleasure vessels, six pontoons and three lighters during the past year.
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Supervision of construction for other administrations
71. The supervision work undertaken by the Ship Surveys Division has included the two Mekong River survey launches donated by the New Zealand and British Governments, a steel sea-going launch for Malaya, a steel shallow draught launch for Sarawak and a small cargo and passenger vessel for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. In this work the Division assists in drawing up the contract and specification, approves the building plans, supervises the general construction and machinery installations, observes all trials, documents and receives the vessel on behalf of the owners, and expedites the delivery arrangements.
New vessels for the Hong Kong Government
72. The Division is responsible for the design of Government craft to suit the requirements of the user departments within the limits of funds available. It later supervises their construction and outfitting, finally taking delivery of them from the builders after adequate trials. During the past year five vessels were completed and put into service and a further four craft were commenced.
Surveys of passenger ships
73. The local passenger trades have continued in a depressed state, with little change in the number of vessels surveyed but with each vessel doing less business. The larger and recently modernized vessels are able to find reasonable employment and others have continued to im- prove their amenities in order to attract some trade. The general effect of this situation is to increase the work of the Division, since the additional improvements have both to be approved and inspected in addition to the work involved in the usual annual surveys. Fifty-nine certificates have been issued to thirty vessels in the past year. There has been a resurgence in the Pilgrim trade from neighbouring countries to Jeddah and some difficulties have been experienced because of mis- understanding by owners of the differences between the requirements for this particular trade and for other shorter Simla Convention trades. A new ship is building in Norway for the Eastern passenger trades to the order of local owners.
International loadline surveys
74. All leading classification societies have been approved as assign- ing authorities on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong for load line surveys involving Hong Kong ships and surveyors of the Division are not often called upon for this service except in the cases of delivery
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voyages for new vessels which are not built for employment on inter- national voyages. There have been five such cases during the year. British registry and tonnage certificates
75. The number of vessels surveyed for British registry has continued to increase, there being fifty-three new cases this year in many of which the task involved not only re-measurement but also a refitting of the crew accommodation. In addition there has been a large increase in the number of vessels measured for British tonnage without registry, this number being fifty-eight against the usual average of about thirty-five per annum. The complexity of the system of measurement and following computations is such that finalization of the tonnage tends to lag behind the completion of repair work on the ship and so causes delay, but in general the Division has managed to complete its work on time. The number of vessels building in Japan for Hong Kong registry increased during the year, involving the Division in much correspondence and liaison with surveyors there. Performance of the measurement tasks in Japan involves extra delay due to the vagaries of existing postal services, since final calculations of the formulae in these cases and the issue of the certificate of survey for registry purposes are required to be com- pleted in Hong Kong.
Safety equipment certificates
76. This branch of the Division's work has now attained a steady level and most of the cases for biennial survey are renewals but the increase in the number of ships previously foreign-owned, seeking registry as British ships, brings these within the scope of the life-saving appliance regulations and these tasks are usually as complicated as new cases. Much second-hand equipment from ships broken up in the Colony has been brought back into service after careful survey and re-certifica- tion. The special cases of ships which change to Hong Kong registry without visiting this port cause considerable difficulty, since these newly- registered vessels have been found deficient in foreign ports before either they have been inspected here or before any records of the ships' equip- ment have been obtained. Many foreign governments have continued in the past year to use the services of the Division for safety equipment surveys and many Hong Kong-registered ships were surveyed abroad.
Radio surveys
77. The majority of ships visiting Hong Kong require radio inspec- tions or surveys and since the certificates are valid for one year only there are twice as many surveys for radio certificates as there are for
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safety equipment certificates. Ports with efficient radio surveying and servicing organizations such as are provided in Hong Kong are few in the Far East and this continues to attract many vessels, both British and foreign, to the Colony for surveys and maintenance. One Govern- ment launch, specially fitted for calibration of ships' radio direction finders, is in regular use on the range outside Green Island and is often over-booked.
Locally licensed craft
78. The number of passenger launches has continued to increase by about 5% annually, the total being at present 567 in service in Colony waters. There have been complaints by the public that many of these useful craft are not aesthetic in appearance: be this as it may, con- siderable efforts are made by the Division in approving plans, the super- vision of building and the testing and construction and survey of equip- ment, to ensure the safety of the travelling public. Each launch is submitted for a check survey at six-monthly intervals, usually at the smaller more distant slipways in the Colony and also at the Marine Department buoy in the Southern Fairway and the number of such inspections rose to 913 as against a total of 871 for the preceding year. Motorized junks and cargo boats are also inspected, the Division being mainly concerned with the safety of the engine and fuel oil installations, and with anti-fire precautions. The number of these inspections has increased very rapidly to in this year a total of over 4,500, an increase of more than 50% over last year. Three vehicle ferries, actuated by Voith-Schneider propulsion, came into service during this past year, making a total of four such highly manoeuverable vessels operating on cross-harbour routes: two similar ferries, with added passenger accom- modation, were under construction. The vessels for the new North Point vehicle ferry service are now available and will go into immediate service upon completion of the necessary piers. With the six older ferries of diesel-engined screw propellor motivation, the vehicle ferry fleet will total twelve by late 1962.
Grain-carrying ships
79. The grain trade has increased due to China's need to import foodstuffs and a close surveillance has been maintained upon vessels not normally used or fitted for this special trade. The stowage of grain requires elaborate precautions against any dangerous shifting of cargo when the vessel concerned is in motion at sea and, whether from ignor-
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ance or a desire to save the expense involved, there is a regrettable tendency sometimes to evade the safety regulations.
Overloading of ships
80. This is a dangerous practice the detection and proof of which has occupied much of the surveyors' time in the past but this year, although called upon to examine a number of borderline cases, there were no ships against which legal action required to be taken.
Revision of legislation
81. His Excellency the Governor in Council is empowered under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1953 to make regulations controlling various features of ships and aspects of shipping. In the past year, the Hong Kong Merchant Shipping (Crew Accommodation) Regulations, 1961, were published and brought into force. The revised Hong Kong Merchant Shipping (Life Saving Appliances) Regulations, 1961, have been published and will come into force in January 1963. The Hong Kong Merchant Shipping (Minimum Passenger Space) Regulations have advanced to the final draft stage. A revision has also been carried out of the local rules governing the issue of, and examinations for, Certifi- cates of Competency for Masters and Mates in the Merchant Navy.
Examinations for certificates of competency
82. The Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1953, requires that all British ships and other vessels of whatever nationality using the port be manned by officers in possession of certificates of competency of a grade at least appropriate to their station in the ship. In the case of British merchant ships, these certificates are obtained after acceptable training and experience has been proved and after subsequently passing the appropriate examination. This is a vital safety measure aimed at en- suring that a sound and well-equipped ship shall have officers capable of using it to the best advantage in any emergency which might arise and the same principle involved extends beyond the officer's grades to include the examination of crew members as lifeboatmen. Unfortunately, the supply of certificated officers is not sufficient to meet the demands of the present number of ships and the provisions of the law require to be used to allow persons not holding the statutory qualifications, after due examination, to serve in grades higher than those to which, by their certificates, they are so entitled. The number of ships needing to take advantage of this facility continues to be high, particularly in the en- gineering grades. Examinations, both written and oral, are held in the
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air-conditioned examination room maintained by the Department and the increased number of candidates in the past year has frequently strained the facilities available. It is however encouraging to be able to report such an increase, which must eventually lead to a reduction of the incompletely qualified officers. Examination of candidates for Certificates of Competency as Master, Mate and Second Mate in foreign-going ships, and as Trawler Master, were held on sixteen occasions during the year for 123 candidates. In addition, the examination of Marine Police can- didates for certificates of navigation and pilotage certificates has pro- vided another 35 candidates. Special examinations were held for radar maintenance certificates and for radar observers certificates at which 37 candidates attended. These latter certificates are not a statutory re- quirement for officers but are intended to improve the use made of modern equipment by ensuring that the operators have been trained.
83. The Trawling Master examinations were introduced in 1960 to meet the needs of Hong Kong's expanding and modernized fishing fleet. Only three certificates had been issued prior to the year under review, these being held by officers in the Co-operative Development and Fisheries Department, but in the past year 18 candidates, mostly non- government, presented themselves for examination, of whom 15 were successful. Language problems have presented considerable difficulty but this has been largely overcome by the introduction of a form of question paper which requires the candidate to write numerals only. Examinations of candidates for certificates of local validity have con- tinued at a high level, and an increasing number of certificates were issued to bona fide fishing vessel engine drivers and pleasure craft owners. About 400 such local certificates, including all categories, were issued in the last year.
Review of engineering examinations
84. A review of the engineering examinations for the period 1950-61 was carried out with regard to certificates having Commonwealth vali- dity. This showed that a steady increase of candidates from about twenty per annum up to 1950, to eighty per annum in 1960 had taken place. The number of expatriate candidates had declined steadily from approxi- mately twenty to five per year at the end of this period, whilst local candidates had provided most of the four-fold increase. Many of the indigenous candidates holding Second Class Certificates as Engineers are now at sea and an increased number of applicants for the First Class examination may be anticipated in the future. With the increase
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in facilities for primary and secondary school education the number of candidates is bound to increase even further, although it will unfor- tunately still fall far short of the number required to overcome the necessity to allow some uncertificated persons to act in statutory capaci- ties as ships' engineers. The increasing number of technical supervisory positions in industry in Hong Kong is another factor which mitigates against the shipowners in their search for qualified marine engineers. The increase in the number of candidates examined for certificates of competency of Commonwealth validity as Engineer officer, is due largely to the increasing number of locally-domiciled young engineers who are now finding employment at sea on completion of their workshop training and technical education ashore. The percentage of successful attempts remains approximately the same and results on the whole may be said to be satisfactory. One engineering candidate completed the exami- nation during the year for the Extra First Class Certificate of Com- petency and was successful, this being the first occasion that this exami- nation had been completed in Hong Kong. The number of candidates presenting themselves for examination in order to act in capacities for which they were not statutorily qualified again showed a big increase and illustrated the increasing shortage of certificated marine engineers at this port.
Gasholder examinations
85. An external examination of all gasholders before 31st March in each year, in the presence of a Government observer is required by the Gasholder Examination Regulations and it continues to be the duty of the Ship Surveys Division to provide these official observers. It is a further requirement that the gasholders be examined internally every seven years but although some holders are due it has not always been found practicable to examine them due to the lack of reserve storage facilities during the present period of reconstruction and expansion of the gas industry.
Emigration certificates
86. Under the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, vessels clearing the port with more than twenty passengers being natives of Asia require a certificate of measurement from the Ship Surveys Division. Forty-two passenger vessels of various nationalities were measured and issued with such certificates by surveyors of ships.
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Miscellaneous
87. (i) It frequently happens that owners or agents of vessels docu- mented by other British or foreign administrations find it a convenience to have parts of the ship or its equipment examined in Hong Kong in order that they may have more time available for other inspections at their regular destination ports. In these cases the Ship Surveys Division examines the equipment or section of the ship involved and issues a certificate of inspection which can later be presented to the appropriate surveying authority to show that the items detailed have been found satisfactory. A common case is the internal inspection of fuel tanks; this enables the tanks so inspected in Hong Kong to continue to be used for stowage of oil at the time of subsequent surveys elsewhere. Specific items of equipment manufactured here and not assigned to any particular ship, such as navigation lanterns, life-boats, buoyant appara- tus, lifebuoys, lifejackets and fire-extinguishers are also inspected and issued with certificates before they are placed in stock.
(ii) In December, 1961, an Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East working group on prototype coasting vessels held a seminar in Hong Kong and two members of the Ship Surveys Division participated in its deliberations. The working group visited various shipyards during its five-day session in the Colony, the meetings being held in the mor- nings each day in the Legislative Council Chamber.
Revenue and Work Summary
88. The total revenue earned by the Ship Surveys Division from all sources amounted in 1961-62 to the sum of $477,809.86 as against $365,440.77 for the previous year. This increase of 30% reflects the increased activity in the Division since fees have remained unaltered during the period under review. The summary of the many tasks carried out by the Division is shewn in Appendix 8(A), with a comparative statement of this work for each of the past three years being shewn at Appendix 8(B).
CHAPTER IV
COMMITTEES AND WORKING PARTIES
Advisory Committees
89. I acknowledge with thanks the advice and assistance given by members of the following various advisory Committees during the past year, the activities of which have been referred to in the appropriate sections of this report:
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(i) Port Committee: Hon. A. INGLIS, Director of Public Works; Mr. LAM Po-hon, Manager and Chief Engineer, Kowloon-Canton Railway; Hon. P. C. M. SEDGWICK, J.P., Commissioner of Labour, (replaced during his absence on leave by Mr. R. M. HETHERINGTON, D.F.C.); Commodore A. R. L. BUTLER, D.S.C., R.N.; Hon. W. C. G. KNOWLES, J.P.; Hon. H. D. M. BARTON, M.B.E., J.P.; Mr. Allen C. C. NG and Mr. J. R. van OSSELEN. (ii) Port Executive Committee: Lieut. Cmdr. B. H. GOULDING, R.N.; Mr. G. R. Ross; Mr. A. D. TARR, O.B.E., Mr. G. J. P. Carey; Mr. H. M. G. FORSGATE; Mr. G. T. TAGG and Major A. E. SAUNDERS, R.E.; The professional sub-committee of the Port Executive Committee: -Captain G. I. LAWSON; Captain L. KING; Captain O. L. WORK and Captain C. INGLEDEW.
(iii) The Port Welfare Committee: Mr. G. J. P. CAREY; Mr. A. S. BANKS; Mr. E. J. Bower; Dr. C. S. Ling; Mr. C. L. C. BLOTT and Mr. W. M. O'BYRNE; Mr. D. T. K. WONG; Mr. P. E. NETTLE; Rev. J. R. PRECIOUS; Pastor L. AAGAARD; Father P. J. CUNNINGHAM, S.J.; Mr. A. K. K. LAM and Captain H. EGBERINK. (iv) Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund Committee: Mr. G. T. TAGG; Mr. M. C. ILLINGWORTH; Mr. P. E. NETTLE; Rev. J. R. PRECIOUS and Mr. J. M. EBBS.
(v) The Dangerous Goods Standing Committee: Mr. K. Milburn; Mr. E. COLLINS; Mr. E. J. BOWER; the Director of Fire Services; the Commissioner of Police; Mr. R. FIRKINS; Mr. I. H. KENDALL; Mr. A. D. TARR, O.B.E. and Mr. C. H. W. ROBERTSON.
The Secretary of the Marine Department was Secretary ex officio to each of the above Committees.
(vi) The Pilotage Board: Mr. E. J. BOWER; Lieut. Cmdr. P. V. STIGANT, R.N. (replaced by Lieut. Cmdr. M. J. N. FOSTER, R.N.); Mr. G. BEESLEY; Captain C. INGLEDEW; Captain G. I. LAWSON; Captain G. R. TORRIBLE, O.B.E. (replaced by Captain L. KING).
Working Parties
90. Members of the Department served on the following working parties which met during the year:
(i) The inter-departmental working party on the present state of congestion in the Colony's typhoon shelters and anchorages with particular reference to boat-squatters was re-convened under the Chairmanship of the Director of Marine on 10th August, 1961.
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(ii) A departmental working party on navigational aids in the waters of the Colony was formed with the Director of Marine as Chairman on 24th July, 1961, and met at regular monthly intervals thereafter.
(iii) An inter-departmental working party on pollution in the waters of the Colony with the Assistant Director of Marine (Port Control) as chairman was convened on 8th September, 1961, and met at regular intervals during the year.
(iv) An inter-departmental working party on the re-provisioning of the Government Slipway at the former Royal Naval Camber under the Deputy Financial Secretary as chairman, met at convenient intervals.
(v) An inter-departmental working party on the conditions of service of Government Marine crews consisting of an officer from the Establishment Branch of the Colonial Secretariat and the Senior Marine Officer in charge of the Government Slipway, met at times when their other duties permitted.
CHAPTER V
STAFF CHANGES, WELFARE AND BUILDINGS.
Staff Changes
91. The following staff changes occurred in the year under review:
(i) Promotions
Mr. J. P. HEWITT, Senior Surveyor of Ships,
promoted Director of Marine w.e.f. Mr. W. GRIEVE, Surveyor of Ships, promoted
Senior Surveyor of Ships w.e.f.
Mr. K. MILBURN, Surveyor of Ships, promoted
Assistant Director of Marine (Port Control) w.e.f. Mr. J. M. EBBS, Marine Officer, promoted Senior
Marine Officer w.e.f.
Mr. W. GRIEVE, Senior Surveyor of Ships, promoted Assistant Director of Marine (Ship Surveys) w.e.f. Mr. A. FLETCHER, Surveyor of Ships, promoted
Senior Surveyor of Ships w.e.f.
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(ii) Appointments
Mr. P. E. J. DAVY appointed Surveyor of Ships w.e.f. Mr. J. MAYO appointed Surveyor of Ships w.e.f. Mr. Wu Park-jame appointed Marine Officer w.e.f. Mr. Hugh NG-QUINN appointed Marine Officer w.e.f.
(iii) Acting Appointments
Mr. E. J. BOWER, Senior Marine Officer, appointed Acting Assistant Director of Marine (Port Control) w.e.f.
19. 7.61
1.11.61
18.12.61 27.12.61
14.12.61
Mr. R. C. TRAILL, Marine Officer, appointed Acting
Senior Marine Officer w.e.f.
14.12.61
Mr. A. J. S. LACK, Marine Officer, appointed Acting
Senior Marine Officer w.e.f.
14. 1.62
(iv) Retirements
Mr. C. CAIRNS, Assistant Director of Marine (Port
Control), retired w.e.f.
16.11.61
Mr. A. G. PARKER, Director of Marine, retired w.e.f.
10.12.61
Mr. D. L. P. EDWARDS, Senior Marine Officer,
retired w.e.f.
13.12.61
(v) Resignations
Mr. J. N. LEWIS, Marine Officer, resigned w.e.f.
(vi) Vacation Leave
28.10.61
Mr. A. G. PARKER, Director of Marine (on leave
prior to retirement)
5. 5.61
Mr. H. TORRANCE, Senior Surveyor of Ships (Ship) Mr. D. L. P. EDWARDS, Senior Marine Officer (on
leave prior to retirement)
8. 5.61
Mr. J. H. GOULD, Marine Officer
Mr. K. MILBURN, Assistant Director of Marine
(Port Control)
Mr. C. E. HULSE, Senior Marine Officer Mr. T. V. COURTNEY, Superintendent of Lights Mr. G. T. MCGRUER, Surveyor of Ships (Ship) Mr. P. HUGHES, Mechanical Inspector Class I Mr. R. WOODWARD, Assistant Director of Marine
(Ship Surveys) (on leave prior to retirement)
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(vii) Returned from Vocation Leave
Mr. R. C. TRAILL, Marine Officer
26. 5.61
Mr. R. BLACKLOCK, Surveyor of Ships (Engine &
Ship)
21. 7.61
Mr. R. W. COLEMAN, Senior Surveyor of Ships
(Engineer)
Mr. H. TORRANCE, Senior Surveyor of Ships (Ship)
(viii) Confirmed to the permanent establishment
Mr. J. H. GOULD, Marine Officer w.e.f.
(ix) Efficiency bars
Mr. T. V. COURTNEY, Superintendent of Lights,
passed an Efficiency bar w.e.f.
Welfare of Staff
24. 9.61 10.11.61
1. 5.61
1. 3.62
92. Tenders were called for during September 1961, for the con- struction of 10 flats for local officers; this scheme was sponsored by the Acme Co-operative Building Society formed in 1958 and formerly known as the Maidstone Housing Society, the tender being awarded to Messrs. Sai Wing Construction Co., Ltd. During the year a large number of low-salaried staff received assistance in the form of advances of salary, repaid by monthly instalments, to assist either in removal expenses or for the purchase of nourishing foods for officers' wives who had been confined.
Sports and Recreation
93. All staff of the Department will wish to join me in congratulating most heartily Mr. W. D. LEIGHTON, Senior Marine Officer, in winning the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club Championship, and Mr. R. BLACKLOCK in winning the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club Junior Championship for 1961-62, a double feat which is unique in the annals of the Department.
Welfare of visiting seamen
94. Arrangements for the welfare of seamen visiting Hong Kong are co-ordinated by the Port Welfare Committee, which was established by His Excellency the Governor in 1949. Serving on the Committee are representatives of each of the major voluntary Societies, the Social Welfare and other interested Government Departments. The activities of this Committee are directed towards all merchant seamen visiting the Colony regardless of race or colour. An appeal is made annually to all shipping and allied firms for donations and Government makes
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an annual subvention. Official figures show that more ships are entering and clearing the port which fact places an increasingly heavy burden on voluntary organizations such as the Sailors' Home and Missions to Seamen, the Norwegian Seamen's Mission and the Apostleship of the Sea, in carrying out their essential work. The annual appeal for funds totalled $187,291.89 which included a subvention of $90,800 by Govern- ment. This sum was disbursed by the Committee among the three voluntary Societies and the Merchant Navy Sports Club.
Buildings
95. The Department's headquarters have been housed in the present building on the Connaught Road water front since 1906. No doubt this building was considered adequate some nearly sixty years ago. With the continuing expansion of shipping and port activities since the re- occupation of the Colony the Department has been obliged to expand also, and the existing building is therefore no longer wholly suitable. It is hoped, however, that a new building on Stage II of the Central Reclamation will become available in three to four years time. The Government fleet of 236 launches, etc. is maintained by the Government Slipway located inside Yau Ma Tei Shelter, Kowloon. The Lighthouse Section maintains lighthouses at Waglan, Cape Collinson, Green Island, Kap Sing and Tathong Point, and mans the Signal Stations at Waglan, Green Island, Blackhead Hill and Marine Department Headquarters. A Government Explosives Depot is situated at Green Island. Outstations of the Marine Licensing Office at the Marine Department Headquarters are located at Yau Ma Tei, Aberdeen, Shau Kei Wan, Tai O, Tai Po and on Cheung Chau Island.
Visits of Inspection
96. His Excellency the Governor visited the Headquarters, the Surveys Division, the Port Control Division and the Government Slipway, Yau Ma Tei on 26th June, 1961. His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government visited Headquarters during the after- noon of 31st August, 1961. Owing to the time available it was only possible for His Excellency to visit selected sub-departments. The Deputy Colonial Secretary visited the Headquarters of this Department on 3rd October, 1961, for discussions with the Director and his two Assistant Directors. He then visited the Explosives Depot at Green Island, the Government Slipway at Yau Ma Tei, and the ex-Royal Naval Camber, Kowloon.
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APPRECIATION
97. The year 1961-62 for the Department continued the trend which commenced in 1956-57, of increasing numbers of vessels calling at the Port. This past year has also been one of important changes in the administration of the Department, since four senior and experienced officers proceeded on retirement leave at its beginning. These two external and internal factors gave occasions to all officers of the Department to display their talents in work and co-operation, and the resulting effectiveness of their combined efforts has my greatest admiration. To all members of the staff of the Marine Department whether afloat, isolated at the lighthouse stations or nearer at hand around the Harbour on their various duties, I wish to offer my appreciation and my gratitude for their support and loyalty during a year which has been both strenuous and rewarding. I wish also to record my thanks to the Heads and the officers of other Departments in the Government Service who have given freely of their assistance and co-operation in the many fields where marine affairs have impinged on their activities.
J. P. HEWITT, Director of Marine.
MARINE HEADQUARTERS,
HONG KONG,
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APPENDIX 1 (A)
VESSELS ENTERED 1.4.61 TO 31.3.62
Class and Nationality of Vessels
Number
Tons
of Vessels
Net
Passengers Landed
Cargo Landed Tons Dead-
weight
Ocean Going
Foreign Trade
British
1,588
Cambodian
4,646,263 1,114
17,031
1,969,831
1,593
Canadian
A
Chinese ...
466
169,691
1
202,186
Czechoslovakian
1
3.795
Transit
Danish
234
...
790,853
196
273,656
Dutch
313
1,339,278
5,230
336,510
Egyptian
Finnish
11,441
14,514
French
100
***
463,187
1,734
58,709
German..
82
390,357
439
62,663
Greek
46
250,494
5
124,648
Indian
38,095
1,906
Indonesian
Irish
Israeli
17
68,590
2
6,487
Italian
30
146,214
1,696
58,316
Japanese
780
2,651,417
79
386,611
Korean
36
74,730
4
33,988
Lebanese
3
11,340
4,456
Liberian
72
249,305
274,803
Norwegian
543
1,561,796
2,300
798,353
Panamanian
305
411,010
78
285,720
Philippine
86
438,887
19
28,798
Polish
34
128,099
15
42,387
Portuguese
16,740
26
54
South African
I
5,830
5,182
Swedish...
107
377,385
81
217,542
Swise
2
6,602
1,885
Thailand
1
1,376
1,615
U.S.A.
310
1,723,596
3,866
169,395
U.S.S.R.
Yugoslavian
22
57,089
9
16,020
5,198
16,034,574
32,811
5,377,828
Ocean Going (In Ballast)
British
Cambodian
Carried forward
179
676,355
78
5,377
16,710,929
32,889 5,377,828
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APPENDIX 1 (A)--Contd.
VESSELS ENTERED-Contd.
Class and Nationality of Vessels
Number
Tons
of Vessels
Net
Passengers Landed
Cargo Landed Tons Dead-
weight
Brought forward
Ocean Going (In Ballast),
Contd.
Foreign Trade
5,377
16,710,929
32,889
5,377,828
Canadian
Chinese ...
Czechoslovakian
Danish
Dutch
Egyptian
Finnish
1
4,214
10
31,444
16
63,614
14
81,746
178
1
197
3
12,987
French
German
2
4,821
1
4,367
Greek Indian
15
...
71,039
Indonesian
Irish
5,740
Israeli Italian Japanese Korean Lebanese Liberian Norwegian
Panamanian
1
12,504
67
294,943
25.192
15,191
52
254,252
55
57,975
64 8
Philippine
2,061
Polish
19,383
Portuguese
South African
1
4,384
Swedish...
2
16,567
5
Swiss
Thailand
2
3,252
U.S.A.
7
28,763
2
U.S.S.R.
10,265
Yugoslavian
www
Total Ocean Going
5,647
17,735,830
33,146 5,377,828
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APPENDIX 1 (A)-Contd.
VESSELS ENTERED-Contd.
Number
Class and Nationality of Vessels
Tons
of Vessels
Net
Passengers Landed
Cargo Landed Tons Dead-
weight
Foreign Trade
River Steamers
British
774
879,179
409,154
11,726
River Steamers (In Ballast)
British
214
280,558
122,730
Total River Steamers...
988 1,159,737
531,884
11,726
Junks
8,173
1,008,527
960,901
Junks (In Ballast)
528
49,765
Total Junks
8,701
1,058,292
960,901
Power-driven vessels of 60 tons
net and under
3,107
144,137
91,507
Totals Foreign Trade
1961-62 ...
18,443 20,097,996
565,030 6.441,962
1960-61...
18,767 18,854,779
584,591 5,743,036
Comparison
324 + 1,243,217
P
19,561 + 698,926
1.73% + 6.59%
3.35% + 12.17%
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APPENDIX 1 (B)
VESSELS CLEARED-1.4.61. ro 31.3.62
Emi-
Cargo
Bunkers
Class and Number
Nationality
of Vessels
of Vessels
Tons Net
Passengers grants Embarked Em-
Loaded Tons
Tons Deadweight
Dead-
barked
Coal Fuel-Oil
weight
Ocean Going
Foreign Trade
British
Cambodian
1,266 2
4,125,071 1,114
15,666) 4,065
565,117
89,661
500
240
Canadian
Chinese
388 139,891
12
60,697
100
4,881
Czechoslo-
vakian
1
3,795
Transit
Danish
219
729,671
198
86,639
21,471
Dutch
302
1,311,928
2,791
1,254
112,359
7,055
Egyptian
Finnish
4
11,441
11,461
French
95
449,520
2,518
49,865
5,551
German
80
382,730
569
16,231
470
Greek
36
197,443
6,219
3,105
Indian
9
38,095
3,500
Indonesian
1
3,772
150
50 350
Irish
Israeli
17
68.590
7,000
200
Italian
27
129,132
2,064
2,919
Japanese
814
2,884,610
183
400,649
5,292
Korean
34
69,568
3
27,488
3,944
Lebanese
1
4,331
Transit
N
Liberian
57
147,268
36,795
Norwegian
508
1,439,418
2,263
1,013
245,626
36,973
Panamanian..
211
333,746
16
110,882
1,350
16,591
Philippine
85
438,526
61
19,135
5,716
Polish
33
123,968
4,415
11,020
Portuguese
16,740
2
277
South African
Swedish
97
320,498
100
36,531
4,500
Swiss
2
6,602
60
350
Thailand
1
1,376
400
100
U.S.A.
307
1,707,748
5,635
73.074
3,742
U.S.S.R.
Yugoslavian..
22
57,089
11
9,472
250
4,623 15,143,681, 32,096
6,332 1,887,461|
1,450
221,512
Carried
Forward
4,623 15,143,681|
32,096
6,332 1,887,461|
1,450 221,512
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VESSELS CLEARED-Continued
Class and Nationality
Number
of
Tons Net
of Vessels Vessels
Emi- Passengers grants Embarked Em-
barked
Cargo Loaded Tons
Bunkers
Tons Deadweight
Dead- weight
Coal Fuel-Oil
Foreign Trade
Brought
Forward
4,623 15,143,681
32,096 6,332 1,887,461|
1,450 221,512
Ocean Going
(In Ballast)
British
494
1,147,189
140
55,137
Cambodian
Canadian
Chinese
Czechoslo-
vakian
Danish
88
53,264
1,296
44
...
Dutch
1223
29
124,041 98,894
1
5,527
22
1,405
Egyptian
197
40
Finnish
3
12,987
374
French
6,612
970
German
7,508
270
Greek
24
120,405
7,846
Indian
Indonesian
Irish
5,740
Israeli
Italian
29,586
1,200
Japanese
32
58,776
1
439
Korean
2
5,162
250
Lebanese
15,359
Liberian
18
115,005
Norwegian
86
373,397
201
100
1,770
21
9,363
Panamanian..
147
137,656
5
14,473
Philippine
3
2,422
10
Polish
7
27,227
420
Portuguese
South African
Swedish
TE
11
69,633
106
865
Swiss
Thailand
U.S.A.
28,686
U.S.S.R.
10,265
800
Yugoslavian..
Total Ocean
Going
5,614| 17,593,692| 32,396
6,332| 1,887,461| 1,450 324,071
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VESSELS CLEARED-Continued
Emi-
Cargo
Bunkers
Class and Number
Nationality of
of Vessels Vessels
Tons Passengers grants Net Embarked Em-
Loaded Tons
Tons Deadweight
Dead-
barked
Coal Fuel-Oil
weight
River Steamers
Foreign Trade
British
835
962,094
447,159
17,662
4,590
River Steamers
(In Ballast)
British
148
192,906
74,821
271
Total River
Steamers...
983
1,155,000 521,980
17,662
4,861
Junks
2,680 302,191
171,021
Junks
(In Ballast)
6,238 755,608
Total Junks...
Power-driven
vessels of 60
8,918 1,057,799
171,021
tons net and
under
3,104 144,273
32,261
11,623
5,030
Totals Foreign
Trade
1961-62
18,619 19,950,764|
554,376
1960-61
18,718 18,589,695,
577,556
6,332 2,108,405] 6,627 2,072,646|
13,073 333,962 14,425 323,450
Comparison...
99+1,361,069
23,180
295+ 35,759
1,352 10,512
-0.53% +
7.32% 4.01% -4.45%+ 1.73%|-
9.37% +3.25%
APPENDIX 1(C)
SUMMARY OF FOREIGN TRADE
Number
Cargo
of all
YEAR 1st April
classes of
vessels
to 31st March
Tons Net
entered
and
cleared
Passengers Emi- loaded
landed
grants
and and Em- discharged embarked barked Tons
Deadweight
Bunkers Tons Deadweight
Coal
Fuel-Oil
1961-62
1960-61
37,062 40,048,760 1,119,406
37,485 37,444,474 1,162,147|
6,332 8,550,367
6,627 7,815,682
13,073 333,962 14,425 323,450
Comparison
423+2,604,286)-
42.741
295+ 734,685
1,352 + 10,512
1.13% + 6.95% 3.68% -4.45% +
9.40%
9.37% +3.25%
52
Digitized by
13,000
12,000
11,000
10,000
APPENDIX 1(D)
ARRIVALS OF ALL VESSELS, HONG KONG, 1961-62
9,000
Junks
8,000
7,000
6,000
5,000
4,000
Foreign
3,000
British
2,000
1,000
Steamers under 60 tons
(Foreign Trade)
13
Foreign
0
(Number of Vessels)
I
2
3
12
11
10
8
7
British
6
5
Steamers under 60 tons
(Tonnage of Vessels) (In Million Tons)
Junks
Digitized by
Digitized by
APPENDIX 1(E)
NUMBER AND TONNAGE OF FOREIGN GOING VESSELS OF EACH NATION ENTERED AT PORTS IN THE COLONY OF HONG KONG IN THE YEAR FROM 1ST APRIL, 1961 TO 31ST MARCH, 1962
TOTAL VESSELS (18,443)
Powered
vessels
under 60 tons
17%
British
15%
TOTAL TONNAGE (20,097,996)
American 2%
Chinese 3%
All others and powered vessels under
60 tous
29%
All others
8%
Japanese 5%
Norwegian 3%
Chinese Junks
47%
Japanese
15%
*.9
Norwegian
9%
Chinese Junks
British
320%
9%
MILJOMY
0
No. of
ships
1,900
1,800
1,700
1,600
1.500
900
800
700
600
APPENDIX 1(F)
NATIONALITIES OF OCEAN-GOING VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT BETWEEN 1954-62
500
++
400
300
200
100
0
54/55 55/56
56/57 57,58 58/59
59,60
60/61
61/62
British (31.3%)
Japanese (15.0%)
Norwegian (10.5%)
Chinese (8.4%)
Pananianian (6.4%)
Dutch (5.8%)
U.S.A. (5.6%)
Digitized by
APPENDIX 1 (G)
COMPARISON BETWEEN THE YEARS 1960-61 AND 1961-62
VESSELS ENTERING AND CLEARING THE PORT OF HONG KONG
CLASS OF VESSELS AND CARGOES
YEAR 1960-61 1.4.60 - 31.3.61
YEAR 1961-62 1.4.61 - 31.3.62
INCREASE
DECREASE
Number
Net
Tonnage
Net
Number
Num- Tonnage ber
%
Net
Tonnage
%
Num-
ber
%
Net
Tonnage
%
1. Ocean Going Vessels
River Steamers
10,796 32,845,047
1,943 2,285,370
11,261 35,329,522 465 4.31 1,971 2,314,737 28 1.44
2,484,475 7.56
29,367 1.28
Total
12,739| 35,130,417
13,232| 37,644,259
493
3.87
2,513,842 7.16
I
2. Cargo (Import) Ocean Cargo (Import) River
4,729,630
13,035
5,377,828
11,726
648,198 13.71
Total
4,742,665
5,389,554
646,889 13.64
1
1
1,309) 10.04
3. Cargo (Export) Ocean
Cargo (Export) River
Total
1,920,932
1,887,461
18,188
17,662
W
33,471 1.74
526 2.89
1,939,120
1,905,123
-
I
4. River Passengers
1,087,569)
5. Cargo (Import) Junks and Launches
1,000,371
Cargo (Export) Junks and Launches
133,526
1
1,053,864)
1,052,408
203,282
T
1
1
T
33,705) 3.10
33,997
1.75
I
1
52,037 5.20
69,756 52.24
I
1
I
}
T
56
Digitized by
ཟབསབག་མ་ཅ་ཉས
1. Signals made
(a) From Govt. Depts.
*(b) From Public
APPENDIX 1 (H)
PORT COMMUNICATIONS
1ST APRIL, 1961 тo 31st March, 1962
Waglan
Control
Black
Green
Signal
Tower
Total
Head
Island
Station
(M.D.)
61
388
6
467
140
46
35
221
590
12
20
2. Signals received
(a) To Govt. Depts.
386
29
821
2,287
3,523
*(b) To Public
0
49
42
23
114
3. Ships signalled on arrival
(a) Eastern Entrance
0
5,146
(b) Western Entrance...
4. Ships signalled on departure
(a) Eastern Entrance
5,146
1,295
1,295
5,004
00
5,004
1,519
1,519
(b) Western Entrance.
5. Emergency Signals
(a) Fire Brigade
(b) Marine Police
(c) Medical
(d) Revenue
6. Typhoon Signals
10
7
3
0
ONOO
0
10
2
13
3
0
(a) Non Local Storm Signals (b) Local Storm Signals
7. Shipping Information Service
to Public
•
19
125
59
0
0
12
19
19
6599
9,741
3,221
1,315
171
14,448
* $0.50 per message.
SUMMARY OF SIGNALS TRAFFIC
Waglan
Control
Black
Green
Signal
Tower
Fees
Head
Island
Station
(M.D.)
1961-62 ...
10,158
13,725
2,651
5,357
$7,391.50
1960-61 ...
9,931
14,277
3,440
5,865
$8,140.50
+
227
552
789
508
-$ 749.00
57
Digitized by Google
APPENDIX 2 (A)
JUNKS AND POWER-DRIVEN VESSELS OF 60 TONS NET AND UNDER ENTERED AND CLEARED IST APRIL, 1961-31ST MARCH, 1962
VESSELS ENTERED
IN BALLAST
TOTAL
Cargo
JUNKS
No. of
Vessels
Tons Passengers Dead- Net Carried weight Tons
No. of
Vessels
Tons
Net
Passengers Carried
No. of
Vessels
Tons
Passengers
Net
Cargo
Dead- Carried weight
Toas
Canton
2,162 423,066
492,657
2
331
2,164 423,397
492,657
West River and Canton
River Delta
4,504
413,998
418,620
127
4,790
4,631
418,788
418,620
Macao
1,238
139,082
27,736
395
44,429
1,633
183,511
27,736
East Coast
125
7,388
7,826
4
215
129
7,603
7,826
West Coast
144 24,993
14,062
144
24,993
14,062
1961-62
8,173 1,008,527
960,901
528
Total
1960-61
8,214
950,995
896,840
892
49,765
62,599
8,701 | 1,058,292
960,901
Comparison (Foreign)
411+ 57,532
+ 64,061
364
-12,834
9,106 1,013,594 405|-+- 44,698
896,840
+ 64,061
POWER-DRIVEN
VESSELS OF 60 TONS
NET AND UNDER
Canton
312
26,732
26.394
883
19,377
1,195 46,109
1
West River and Canton
River Delta
154
10,081
17.433
935
20,945
1,089
31,023
Macao
10
667
20
109
8,302
119
8,969
26,394
17,433
20
East Coast West Coast
Total
1961-62
535
50,845
41,430
535
50,845
41.430
169
7.188
6,230
169
7.188
6,230
1,180
95,513
91,507
1,927
1960-61
1.285
95,171
103,531
1,978
48.624
45,589
3,107
144,137
91,507
3,263
140,760
103,531
Comparisou (Foreign)
105 + 342
12,024
51 + 3,035
156 + 3,377
12,024
TOTAL ENTERED
Junks
8,173 1,008,527
960,901
528
49,765
8,701 | 1,058,292
960,901
Power-driven vessels of 60 tons net and under
1,180
95,513
91,507
1,927
48,624
3,107
144,137
91,507
1961-62
9,353 1,104,040
1,052,408
2,455
98,389
Total
1960-61
9,499 | 1,046,166
1,000,371
2,870
108,188
11,808 1,202,429 12,369 1,154,354
1,052,408
1,000,371
Comparison (Foreign)
146+ 57,874
+ 52,037
-
415
9,799
561
48,075
+ 52,037
58
Digitized by
APPENDIX 2 (B)
VESSELS CLEARED
IN BALLAST
[No. of]
JUNKS
Cargo Bunker |Passengers Dead- Tona
TOTAL
Vessels
Net
Carried
weight
Tons
Coal
Fuel
No. of Tons Vesseln Net
Passen-
gers Carried Coal
Bunker
No. of
Passen-
Tons
Cargo
Dead-
Bunker
Vessels
Net
gers
Fuel
Carried weight
Coal
Fuel
Tons
Canton
572
74,221
66,175
1,615 345,005|
2,187 419,226)
66.175
West River and Canton
River Delta
443
40.3941
12,877
4,370)
380,795
4,813)
421,189
12.877
Macao
1,632
183,411
90,428
1,163
1,642
184,574]
90,428
East Coast
14
1,059
1,256;
119
7,894
133
8,953
1,256)
West Coast
19 3,106
285
124
20,751
143] 23,857]
285
1961-62
Total
2,680 302,191
171,021)
6,238
755,608
www.
8,918 1,057,799|
171,021)
1960-61
2,694 263,124)
125,908|
6,414 754.962
9,108 | 1,018,086]
125,908.
Comparison (Foreign)
14+39,067
+45,113)
176 +
646
190+ 39,713
+ 45,113
POWER-DRIVEN
VESSELS OF 60
TONS NET AND
UNDER
Canton
369
36,905
249
980
882
19,390
7,168|
437
1,251
56,295
2491
7,168)
1,417
West River and Canton
River Delta
151
9,789
2631
9341
20,956
4,455
650
1,085
30,745)
4,455
913
Macao
11
788
78
871
109
8,301
2621
120
9,089
78
349
East Coast
479
40,908
31,934)
1,475
479
40,908
31,934
1,475
Other Places
Total
1961-62
1960-61
169
7,236)
8761
169
7,236
876
1,179 95,626
32,261
3,681
1,290 96,151
7,618
3,066)
Comparison (Foreign) TOTAL CLEARED
Junks
111
525
+ 24,643
+
615
1,925 48,647 1,979 45,466
541+ 3,181
11,623 1,349 10,040 1,450|
+1,583 101
3,104 144,273| 3,269 141,617
32,261
11,623
5,030
7,618 10,040
4,516
165+
2,656
+24,643 + 1,583+
514
2,680| 302,191|
171,021
6,238] 755,608
8,918 1,057,799|
171,021)
Power-driven vessels of 60 tons net and under
1.179
95,626
32,261
3,681
1,925
Total
1961-62
1960-61
3,859
397,817
203,282
3,681
8,163
3,984
359,275
133,526
3.066
8,393
48,647|
804,255|
800,428
Comparison (Foreign)
125+ 38,542
69,756
615
230+ 3,827
11,623 1,349| 11,623 1,349| 12,022ị 1,202,072 12,377 1,159,703 10,040 1,450 +1,583 101 355+ 42,369
3,104! 144,273Į
32,261| 11,623]
5,030
203,282 11,623] 133,526 10,040)
5,030
4,316
+ 69,756 +1,583)+
514
59
Digitized by
APPENDIX 2 (C)
LICENCES AND PERMITS ISSUED AND FEES COLLECTED
BY THE MARINE LICENSING OFFICE, VICTORIA
DURING 1961 - 1962
DESCRIPTION
Total Issued
Fees Collected
Increase
Decrease
Anchorage Permits-Launches & Motor Boats Special Anchorage Permit for Unlicensed Vessels Day Clearance--Launches and Motor Boats Engagement Fees-Masters and Engineers Examination Fees Local Certificate of Competency
Master
1,932
1,932.00
1,330
13,300.00
1,934
1,934.00
17.00 4,320.00 24.00
4,677
4,677.00
971.00
1,865
18,650.00
4,670.00
Examination Fees Local Certificate of Competency
Engineer...
Endorsement Fees
Classes I to VI
1,629
Licences, Class I (Ist Class) Passenger Boats
301 3,010.00 4,887.00 72 1,420.00
2,120.00
195.00
85.00
(Valid Lic. 71, Non-Valid Lic. 2)
Licences, Class I (2nd Class) Passenger Boats......
2,814
27,510.00
3,597.00
(Valid Lic. 2746, Non-Valid Lic. 918)
Licences, Class II, Lighters, etc.
1,930
173,367.50
7,272.50
(Valid Lic. 1852, Non-Valid Lic. 188)
Licences, Class III, Hulks, etc. ...
458
30,180.00
Licences, Class VI, Fishing Junks
Licence Books, Classes I to VI (Duplicate)
Licences, Class IV, Miscellaneous Boats
(Valid Lic. 10174, Non-Valid Lic. 4390) Licences, Class V, Trading Junks
(Valid Lic. 287, Non-Valid Lic. 198)
(Valid Lic. 3883, Non-Valid Lic, 3001)
Licence Books, Launches, Ferry Vessels & Motor
Boats
Licences, Launches, Ferry Vessels & Motor Boats
(Valid Lic. 502, Non-Valid Lic. 65)
Licences, Inshore Stake Nets
10,735
57,915.75
41,920.00 1,897.00
359
16,761.50
733.00
4,728
109,430.00 14,533.00
135
1,381.00
I
602.00
***
122
938
486.00 23,342.50
21.00
2,732.50
124
Licences, Offshore Stake Nets
2
620.00 16.00
115.00
8.00
Licences, Line of Stake & Nets
Licences, Seine Nets
Licences, Marine Hawker's (Steamships)
Licences, Marine Hawker ́s (Native Craft)
1,003 121
60,213.00
4,241.00
1,730.00 229.00
Licences, Tally Clerks
1,598
8,006.00
49.00
Light Dues, Launches, Motor Boats & Junks
15,795
86,783.45
17,173.10
Monthly Clearance, Launches & Motor Boats (Table E) Monthly Ferry Clearance...
939
939.00
79.00
152
7,600.00
200.00
Monthly Clearance (Classes II & V. Junks &
Lighters)
870
8,700.00
620.00
Motor Boat Plying Permits
1,628
16,280.00
470.00
Night Clearance (Table E)
Miscellaneous Permits
496 4,755
992.00 23,775.00
246.00
385.00
Repainting Numbers (Classes I to IV)
15
Repainting Numbers (Classes V to VI).
23
7.50 23.00
1.00
Survey Fees (Motor Junks)
296
11,142.18
5,076.56
Voyage Permits (Classes II to V)
1,983
1,983.00
Water Tickets
Water Tickets Special Permit
@ 15 cents
126,510
18,976.50
2.00
305.00 3,171.00
@ $3.00
36,191
108,591.00
8,799.00
142
142.00
142.00
TOTAL
60
228.602 849,214.88 60,603.66 63,907.00
Net Decrease: $3,303.34
Digitized by
11000
10000
9000
8000
APPENDIX 2(D)
LICENCES ISSUED TO VESSELS
BY MARINE LICENSING OFFICE
1961 - 1962
2292
7000
7454-
6000
5000
4000
3000
179
-2642-
2000
1000
123
-1729-
22
408
47
-289-
0
Class I Passenger
Sampans
Class II Lighters Cargo Boats
Class III
Class IV
Hulks and Other Stationary Vessels
Miscellaneous
Mechanised Trading Vessels
Class V Trading Junks
1100
New Licence
Renewal
|-3529-
42
886-
Class VI Fishing Junks
Launches Ferry Vessels Motor Boats
Digitized by
1,000
900
800
700
600
500
400
423
300
274
200
100
APPENDIX 2(E)
LOCAL MASTERS CERTIFICATE EXAMINATIONS
1961. 1962
612
339
50
83
Passed
Failed
141
0
Ferries and
Vessels
Fishing Vessels
Government
Vessels
Pleasure
Craft
Under
60 tons
Digitized by
76
APPENDIX 2(F)
MARINE LICENSING OFFICE TOTAL REVENUE COLLECTED
$849,214.88 1961 - 1962
LICENCES FOR TABLE 14 CRAFT
44.016
ENDORSEMENTS, LICENCE BOOK FEES, FISHING STAKE LICENCES, REPAINTING NUMBERS, MISCELLANEOUS PERMITS, ENGAGEMENT FEES, MOTOR BOAT PLYING PERMITS, AND
SURVEY PEES. 1.45%
EXAMINATION FEES, LOCAL MASTERS
AND ENGINEERS
2.55"
CLEARANCE AND ANCHORAGES
PERMITS
4.420
LICENCES
FOR
LICENCE FOR 'E' CRAFT 2.75"
WATER
TICKETS 15.020
LICHT
MARINE
DUES
RAWKERS
10,220/
AND TALLYCLERKS
8.33%
Digitized by
APPENDIX 2 (G)
COMPARISON OF REVENUE COLLECTED AT MARINE LICENSING
STATIONS DURING 1960-61 AND 1961-62
Station
Aberdeen
Cheung Chau
Shau Kei Wan
Tai Po
Tai O
Yau Ma Tei
Victoria...
TOTAL...
1960-61
1961-62
Increase
Decrease
59,212.85
47,978.55
11,234.30
12,033.90
13,645.60
1,611.70
64,325.25
48,206.40
15,118.85
21,768.92
31,699.33
9,930.41
31,709.25
26,845.95
209,812.05
188.122.95
4.863.30 21,689.10
453,656.00
492,716.10
39,060.10
J
852,518.22
849,214.88
50,602.21
53.905.55
N.B. Special licensing party duties were undertaken by officers in charge of outstations during the year from which $27,262.35 of revenue was collected. This revenue has been included in the above tabulation of revenue.
APPENDIX 3(A)
Net Decrease: $3,303.34
TOTAL NET TONNAGE OF ALL CLASSES OF VESSELS ANNUALLY Entered and Cleared since 1946-47
OCEAN GOING
River
Junks &
YEAR
Steamers
TOTAL
British
Foreign
Total
Launches
1946-47
5,398,611 5,107,467 10,506,078
1,212,284
2,151,128
13,869,490
1947-48
6,050,383
8,714,464 14,764,847
2,075,340
3,129,365
19,969,552
1948-49
5,828,496 10,507,477
16,335,973
3,105,453
3,598,700
23,040,126
1949-50
7,179,280 12,767,597
19,946,877
4,454,664
2,948,979
27,350,520
1950-51
7,159,910
10,613,452
17,773,362
4,655,428
4,415,556
26,844,346
1951-52
7,394,700
8,269,578 15,665,278
3,354,075
4,941,854
23,960,207
1952-53
8,328,109
9,869,654 | 18,197,763
2,593,268
2,834,280
23,625,311
1953-54
8,727,614
12,385,691 21,113,305
2,258,283
2,474,422
25,846,010
1954-55
8,799,212 13,080,530
21,879,742
2,418,006
3,047,311
27,345,059
1955-56
8,259,203 13,548,387
21,807,590
2,585,760
4,108,235
28,501,585
1956-57
8,098,367 13,883,481 21,981,848 2,291,376
4,440,554
28,713,778
1957-58
8,536,751 16.225,448 24,762,199 2,574,326
5,305,317
32,641,842
1958-59
9,184,578 19,015,548 28,220,126
2,721,021
6,095,626
37,016,773
1959-60
9,598,805 20,604,313
30,203,118
2,287,287
5,975,000
38,465,405
1960-61
10,004,858 22,840,189 32,845,047
2,285,370
6,066,471
41,196,888
1961-62
10,594,878 24,734,644 | 35,329,522
2,314,737
2,404,501
40,048,760
Note: All the above tonnages are net register tons.
APPENDIX 3 (B)
CARGO
Trade (DeadwEIGHT TONS)
EXTERNAL
IMPORT
EXPORT
YEAR Ocean Going
Total
River Launches
Ocean River Launches Steamers & Junks
Going Steamers & Junks 1949-50 3,649,758 95,656 221,1091 3,966,5231| 1,729,475 168,248 169,997} 1950-51 3,578,031 84,036 435,382 4.097,449 2,298,137 89,410 167,461 1951-52 2,979,874|| 34,841 510,100 3,524,8151| 1,481,900 75,870 123,341 1952-53| 3,043,990 25,663 379,568 3,449,221 1,372,669 34,519 115,610 1953-54 2,799,945 21,559 354,885 3,176,389 1,324,073 34,840 96,551 1,455,464 4,631,853 1954-55| 3,408,963 24,045 411,977 3,844,985 1,367,208 14,056 132,398 | 1,513,662 | 5,358,647 1955-56 3,426,583 12,379 782,675 4,221,637 1,628.181 18,291 74,403 | 1,720,875 | 5,942,512 1956-57 3,571,332 14,383 1,103,679 | 4,689,394 1,751,092| 19,942) 118,283 1,889,317 6,578,711 1957-58 3,575,876 16,917 1,426,382 | 5,019,175 1958-59 3,794,281 12,553 1,387,273 | 5,194,107 1959-60 4,577,276 14,095 1,057,280 | 5,648,651 1960-61 4,729,630 13,035 1,000,371 | 5,743,036 1961-62 5,377,828 11,726 1,052,408 | 6,441,962
Total
TOTAL Import & Export
2,067,720|| 6,034,243₫ 2,555,008 6,652,457
1,681,111 5,205,9261 1,522,798
4,972,019
1,504,721
22,858 108,029
1,635,608 6,654,783
1,814,109
16,416 155,443
1,985,968 7,180,075
1,932,635
16,329 127,591
2,076,555 7,725,206
1,920,932
18,188 133,526
2,072,646 7,815,682
1,887,461
17,662 203,282 2,108,405 8,550,367
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APPENDIX 3 (C)
MARINE CASUALTIES AND DEPARTMENTAL INQUIRIES
(1.4.61 - 31.3.62)
1. The total number of marine casualties reported in the year was as follows:
Collision
Fire
Stranding
Miscellaneous
Total
Ocean Going Vessels ...
27
13
18
62
Govt. Craft
41
Nil
7
10
58
Non-Govt. Small Local Craft...
79
Nil
Nil
48
127
Total
147
13
11
76
247
N.B. The above statement does not include the typhoon casualties affecting
200 local craft,
2. Details of some of these marine casualties are appended below:
(a) On 18th April, 1961, the Hong Kong registered s.s. 'China Fir' fully loaded with iron ore, stranded on Ngai Ying Pai in the eastern approaches to the harbour whilst out- ward bound for Japan. The vessel was later abandoned as a constructive total loss. Sub- sequently, the ship was sold to a local ship breaking firm who successfully re-floated a major part of the hull and towed it away for breaking. Work was still proceeding on the remaining portion of the wreck at the end of the year.
(b) On 20th April, 1961 the British m.v. "Tong Poh' and the Norwegian s.s. 'Mui Hock' collied in fog approximately 11⁄2 miles south-east of Tathong Point, the m.v. "Tong Poh' being undamaged, whilst the s.s. 'Mui Hock' sustained fairly heavy damage in way of No. 1 hold on the starboard side above the waterline. Both vessels were subsequently repaired at this Port and returned to service.
(c) On 10th May, 1961, the Norwegian steamer m.v. 'Hero' arrived from Penang with a cargo of charcoal on fire in holds No. 1 and No. 2. The vessel was beached in Gin Drinkers Bay and the affected holds flooded. Fortunately only superficial damage was sustained and this was repaired without any unnecessary delay.
(d) On 19th May, 1961, typhoon 'Alice' passed directly over Hong Kong. A number of vessels at typhoon buoys broke their cables or buoy shackles and several collisions of a minor nature occurred in the various anchorage. The Indonesian Government transport 8.8. 'Adri XI', after dragging out of Yau Ma Tei anchorage and colliding with the American vessel s.s. 'M.M. Dant' at buoy A. 19 stranded on the western end of Stonecutters Island following a change of direction of the wind from the northeast to the southwest.
(e) On 9th September, 1961, severe tropical storm 'Olga' affected the Colony and several ships at anchor in Yau Ma Tei suffered minor damage. The Korean trawler 'Han Su', anchored in Wan Chai, dragged and grounded on Kellet Island causeway and subsequently capsized.
(ƒ) An accident involving the U.S. Naval transport 'Piedmont' and Hong Kong licensed motor boat 'Lo Kee' occurred within harbour limits, off North Point, on the morning of the 1st November, 1961. The U.S. 'Piedmont', with a harbour pilot in attendance, struck the starboard bow of the motor boat 'Lo Kee', which subsequently sunk a few minutes after the collision. Four passengers on the 'Lo Kee' lost their lives as the result of this incident including two dead and two missing, presumed drowned.
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(g) On 17th November, 1961, whilst proceeding outwards, the Panamanian ship s.s. 'Dennis I' grounded midway between Ngai Ying Pai and Tung Lung Island. The vessel sustained fairly severe damage to her hull and was not refloated until the 5th December, 1961. The vessel was later disposed of to a shipbreaking firm and is now in the process of demolition.
(h) On 5th December, 1961, the Hong Kong registered ship 'Hopsang' stranded on the Pasig Shoal Sulu Sea, but was later refloated by the efforts of her master and crew. A pre- liminary inquiry under section 49A of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance No. 14 of 1953 was conducted by Captain J. MAYO of this Department after a thorough investigation re- ported that there was no evidence of negligence. No Formal Marine Court of Inquiry was therefore recommended.
(i) On 19th December, 1961, the P. & O. Liner m.v. "Chitral' collied with a junk in thick fog just outside Colony waters. The junk subsequently sank, but fortunately no lives were lost.
(j) On 19th December, 1961, whilst approaching Lei Yue Mun in thick fog, the Pana- manian ship s.s. 'Victory No. 1' collied with the wreck of the 8.8. 'China Fír'. Slight damage was sustained by s.s. "Victory No. 1' but she later entered harbour under her own steam. (k) At 0930 hours on the 25th December, 1961, an international distress message was received indicating that the Panamanian m.t. 'Inglis' was in distress some 200 miles south of the Colony. An extensive search was carried out by merchant ships in the area and by Royal Naval and Royal Air Force units based on Hong Kong and Singapore. As no trace of the vessel had been found by 1545 hours on 26th December, 1961, all units were recalled and the search abandoned. M.T. 'Inglis' returned to Hong Kong that same evening and it was subsequently found that the distress signal was a false one, and that the vessel had not been anywhere near the position indicated in her distress message.
(1) During the early hours of the morning of 26th December 1961, a distress call was received from the Hong Kong licensed vessel m.v. "Hai Tai'. After a search lasting some 13 hours the vessel was eventually located by the Swedish ship m.v. 'Milos' about 180 miles east of the Colony. All 14 crew members were taken on board safely and the junk later sank. (m) On the morning of the 31st December, 1961, a fire broke out in the after accom- modation of the Panamanian ship s.s. 'Eastern Pearl'. Initially fierce, the fire was brought under control within one and half hours by the crew of a Marine Department tug and officers of the Fire Services Department. Álthough the accommodation was completely gutted there were no lives lost.
(n) On 31st December, 1961, the Panamanian ship s.s. "Sunning' in the Balabak Strait, reported that she was sinking and required urgent assistance. Ships in the vicinity were advised and after a search of some nine hours the crew were picked up by the Japanese ship m.v. "Toko Maru'. The s.s. 'Sunning' subsequently sank without loss of life.
(0) At about 2100 hours on 17th January, 1962, a small fire broke out on board the Chinese vessel 8.8. 'Kwang Ho' at Yau Ma Tei anchorage. The fire, confined to the funnel, was extinguished by the crew prior to the arrival of the personnel of the Fire Services Department.
(p) On 27th January, 1962, the Panamanian tanker s.s. 'Stanvac Sumatra' broke in half about 800 miles south of Hong Kong. After a long and difficult search, all but one of the crew were picked up. Tugs were dispatched from Hong Kong and, in spite of adverse weather, the two sections were successfully towed into Singapore about two weeks later.
(q) On 5th February, 1962, when at sea the Greek ship "Yanix' sprang a leak in her No. 1 hold and called for assistance. Although the ship subsequently sank there were no lives lost. It is of interest to note that exactly thirty-one days later the Norwegian ship
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m.v. 'Fernhill' picked up a life boat marked 'Yanix' some 500 miles west of the position given in the distress message.
(r) During the early hours of the morning of 6th February, 1962 a fire broke out on board the Dutch liner m.v. "Tjiwangi' at Taikoo Dockyard, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. The main passenger lounge and officers quarters suffered extensive damage, but there were no lives lost. This vessel was subsequently repaired and has now resumed service on the Australia/Japan route.
(8) On 9th March, 1962, a fire broke out in a small consignment of charcoal situated in No. 1 lower hold of the German ship m.v. 'Dresden'. Easily contained, the fire was quickly brought under control by the Fire Services Department.
(t) Whilst en route to Hong Kong on 10th March, 1962, the British ship m.v. "Szechuen' collied with the fishing junk 'Cha Tze' some 100 miles south east of the Colony. Badly holded, the junk subsequently sank, but there was no loss of life.
(u) on 20th March, 1962, a collision occurred between the British ship m.v. 'Chupra' and the Norwegian vessel m.v. 'Prominent'. The accident took place in thick fog in close proximity to Tathong Point. Although both ships suffered damage above the waterline there were no lives lost.
(v) At about 0715 hours on 24th March, 1962, an emergency signal was received from the Panamanian ship m.v. "Victory No. 1' indicating that she was making water and requesting vessels in the vicinity to stand by her. The U.S. passenger ship s.8. 'President Garfield', the first to reach the endangered vessel, stood by for some four hours before being relieved by United States Naval units from Hong Kong. The m.v. 'Victory No. 1', listing 20° to starboard, anchored in Junk Bay at 1930 hours the same day. After an under- water inspection by divers the vessel was permitted to enter harbour.
3. The following formal, preliminary and local marine inquiries, under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, No. 14 of 1953, were conducted during the period under review:
(a) Preliminary Inquiry resulting in a Formal Marine Court of Inquiry under Section 50
of the Ordinance :
s.s. 'China Fir'
(6) Preliminary Inquiry only, under Section 49A of the Ordinance:
s.s. 'Hopsang'
(c) Local Marine Inquiries under Section 97(3) of the Ordinance :
(i) U.S. Naval transport 'Piedmont' and launch 'Lo Kee' (ii) Government launch 'C. & I. No. 7"
stranding
44
stranding
collision
stranding
(iii) Government launch 'C. & I. No. 8'
stranding
(iv) Government launch 'D.C.A. No. 1'
stranding
(v) H.M.S. 'Caprice' and tug 'Hongkongdocks'
collision
(vi) Government launches 'Marine No. 18' and 'Marine No. 19'
collision
(vii) Government launch 'Police No. 11' and seawall (Yau Ma Tei shelter)
collision
(viii) Government launch 'Marine No. 35' and motor cargo boat *AC/B4'
(ix) Hong Kong Yaumati Co.'s ferry 'Man Cheong' and seawall
(adjacent to Wilmer Street pier)
collision
collision
(x) Hong Kong Yaumati Co.'s ferry 'Man Hing' and motor boat
'Chee Wai'
collision
(d) Departmental Inquiry and General Orders of the Hong Kong Government:
Government launch 'C. & I. No. 7'
stranding
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APPENDIX 3 (D)
LIGHT DUES COLLECTED DURING THE YEAR 1961-62
Class of vessels
Fees collected H. K. dollars
Ocean Going Vessels
Motor Junks and Launches
River Steamers
Add Collection in respect of 1960-61
accounts
No. of Trips
Net tons
Rate per net ton
5,643
17,735,806
5 cts.
885,785.15
15,795
1,735,669 5 cts.
86,783.45
988
1,159,737 2 cts.
23,194.74
22,430
20,631,236
995,763.34
24,544.59
Less Accounts outstanding as at 31.3.62. Actual total collection during 1961-62 ...
1,020,307.93
The following vessels were exempted from the payment of light dues
Name of vessel
No. of trips are shown in brackets
32,249.19
988,058.74
Under the Merchant Ship- ping (Control of Ports) Regulation, 1953
Type
Net tons
'Greenford'
S.S.
1,588
(1)
'Gum Ryong'
M.V.
382
(1)
*Delbros Y - 59'
Tug
361
'Southern Glory'
Trawler
42
'Southern Grace'
40
19
'Southern Capital'
37
'Hai Foo'
M.V.
153
*Hai Seng'
219
..
'Chung Fu'
147
*Hai An'
251
*Hsing Chung'
329
'Sunning'
705
'Pakura'
S.S.
364
'Shui Seng'
256
'Ferncastle'
Tanker
9,576
(1)
'East Wales'
Total net tons: 20,103
S.S.
4,571
(1)
'Silverside' 'Urat Mata' 'Encore'
Tug
Oil Barge
Tug
4
18
0.93
Gee
(1)
(1)
Total net tons: 23.86
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31 (1) (6) - sheltering owing to stress of weather.
31 (1) (c) - returned to port owing to mechanical defect.
Under section 78(1) of the Merchant Shipping Ordin- ance 1953 - ocean going ves- sels of less than 20 tons register.
Digitized by
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APPENDIX 4
MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICE
PERIOD 1ST APRIL, 1961 to 31st March, 1962
Particulars
1960-61
1961-62
Comparison
32,867
36,786
+ 3,919
30,380
31,993
+ 1,613
910
1,071
+ 161
608
667
--
59
1,765
$ 4,412.50
$103,710.75
3,551
$ 8,877.50
$109,767.00
+$ 4,465.00
+$ 6,056.25
+ 1,786
1. Seamen engaged
2. Seamen discharged
3. Total number of articles of agreement opened
4. Total number of articles of agreement closed
5. Number of discharge book issued
& amount realized
6. Shipping fees
:
...
7. Number of distressed seamen taken in charge 8. Number of deceased seamen's estates dealt with
9. Money received on behalf of Ministry of Transport, London
***
...
***
10. Money disbursed on behalf of Ministry of Transport, London
11. National Insurance Contributions received on behalf of Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance, Newcastle
71
78
85
+
14
56
22
$107,115.43
$ 79,363.93
- $27,751.50
$ 77,507.44
80,772.89
+$ 3,265.45
$111,446.75
$ 51,834.73
-$59,612.02
APPENDIX 5 (A)
SHIPS REGISTERED AT HONG KONG
1st April, 1961 - 31st March, 1962
Port
Official
Name of Vessel
No.
Number
Net
Register
Tonnage
Horse Power
Rig
Where and When Built
Remarks
21/1961
'Fortune Wind'
156014
1930
N.H.P. 449
Not
Sunderland
(ex 'Silver Gulf*
ex 'Corinda')
22/1961 Ardpatrick'
169053
4270
N.H.P. 360
Not
South Shields
23/1961
'Fortune Canary'
157810
4387
N.H.P. 229
Not
24/1961 Cheoy Yue No. 1'
315094
44
N.H.P. 29.05
Not
Japan
25/1961 "Cheoy Yue No. 2'
315095
44
N.H.P. 59.05
Not
Japan
1937 Registry transferred from Port Adelaide.
1943 Registry transferred from the Port of Glasgow.
Vancouver, B.C. 1946 | Registry transferred from the
Port of London.
1954 Purchased from foreigners
(Japanese).
1954 Purchased from foreigners
(Japanese).
26/1961 'Pesco 29'
315096
164
Not
Hong Kong
1961
First Registry (New Vessel),
27/1961
'Pesco 30'
315097
164
Not
Hong Kong
1961
First Registry (New Vessel).
28/1961
'Ardbrae'
169181
4213
N.H.P. 510
Not
Newcastle-on-
(ex 'Stanthorpe')
(Lloyds)
Tyne
1944
29/1961 'Daiei'
315098
2254
N.IL.P. 192
Not
U.S.A.
1919
30/1961 *Ardfinnan'
,
180349
4329
N.H.P. 301
Not
Burntisland
(ex Valldemosa")
31/1961 |'Ardgem"
168522
6164
N.H.P. 255
Not
Belfast
32/1961 Ardgroom'
180071
4498
N.H.P. 510
Not
(ex 'Clan Mackellar"}
33/1961 'Shaukiwan'
169729
4229
N.H.P.
229
Not
Sorel, Que., Canada.
1943
34/1961
'Ardross'
180086
4611
N.H.P.
541
Not
(ex 'Clan Mackinnon')
Registry transferred from the Port of London.
Purchased from foreigners (Liberian).
1944 Registry transferred from the Port of Glasgow.
1943 Registry transferred from the Port of London.
West Hartlepool 1944 Registry transferred from the
Re-registered. Formerly under the Greek flag as "Cassiopeia", and British flag as 'Wembley Hill-Port No. 24/1957 Montreal, Que.
West Hartlepool 1945 Registry transferred from the
Port of Glasgow,
Port of Glasgow.
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APPENDIX 5 (A)~~Contd.
Port
No.
Name of Vessel
Official
Number
Net
Register
Tonnage
Horse Power
Rig
Where and When Built
Remarks
35/1961
*Pesco 31'
315099
164
Not
Hong Kong
1961
36/1961
'EL 156'
315100
164
Not
Hong Kong
1961
37/1961
*Adelaide Breeze"
177226
2043
N.H.P.
493
Not
Whyalla, South
(ex 'Baroota')
Australia
1951
38/1961 *Man Tim'
315093
58
N.H.P. 59.55
Not
Hong Kong
1961
39/1961
'EL 157'
315102
164
Not
Hong Kong
1961
40/1961
'EL 158'
315103
164
Not
Hong Kong
1961
41/1961 'EL 159'
315104
164
Not
Hong Kong
1961
42/1961
'Man Yip'
315105
173
N.H.P.
50
Not
Hong Kong
1961
(each engine)
43/1961
'Antar'
315101
N.H.P. 104.4
Not
Japan
44/1961 "EL 160'
315107
164
Not
Hong Kong
1961
1961
45/1961
'NN 255'
315108
164
Not
Hong Kong
1961
46/1961
Coryphaena'
315106
13
47/1961 "Kulangsu' (ex Nadir')
180006
3215
N.H.P. 517
Bermudan
Cutter
Not
Hong Kong
1960
Port Glasgow
48/1961 "Seladang'
169140
164
N.H.P.
27
Not
Haverton Hill
49/1961
Nam Feng
182692
1367
N.H.P. 214
Not
Dundee
(ex 'Kaponga')
50/1961 'Cycle'
171248
2152
N.H.P. 409
Not
Hebburn-on-
Tyne
1939
|First Registry (New Vessel). First Registry (New Vessel). Registry transferred from the Port of Melbourne.
First Registry (New Vessel). First Registry (New Vessel). First Registry (New Vessel). First Registry (New Vessel). First Registry (New Vessel).
First Registry (New Vessel). First Registry (New Vessel). First Registry (New Vessel). First Registry (New Vessel).
1944 Registry transferred from the Port of London.
1944 |Registry transferred from the Port of Singapore.
1949 |Registry transferred from the Port of Auckland.
Registry transferred from the
Port of Melbourne.
51/1961
'Ardsirod'
168653
4261
N.H.P. 342
Not
South Shields
1942
{ex "Clan Allan')
Registry transferred from the Port of London.
52/1961
'Ying Hong'
315109
10
N. H.P. 2.11
Junk
Hong Kong
1961
First Registry (New Vessel).
53/1961
*BR 205'
315111
164
Not
Hong Kong
1961
54/1961
BR 206'
315112
164
Not
Hong Kong
1961
55/1961
56/1961
'Pesco 28*
315110
331
Not
Hong Kong
1961
*Caltex 134'
315113
8
N.H.P. 29.52
Not
Hong Kong
1961
First Registry (New Vessel). First Registry (New Vessel). First Registry (New Vessel). First Registry (New Vessel).
57/1961 *NN 256*
315114
164
Not
Hong Kong
1961
First Registry (New Vesaci),
58/1961 'NN 257'
315115
164
Not
Hong Kong
1961
First Registry (New Vessel).
59/1961
'World Pink'
168749
4264
N.H.P.
510
Not
Port Glasgow
1943
Registry transferred from the Port of Glasgow.
60/1961 Harold Sleigh'
196192
4926
N.H.P.
643
Not
Glasgow
1952 |Registry transfered from the
Port of Nassau.
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Port
Official
Name of Vessel
No.
Number
Net
Register
Tonnage
Horse Power
Rig
Where and When Built
Remarks
61/1961 Gervase Sleigh'
187392
6306
B.H.P. 5500
Not
Amsterdam
1951
Registry transferred from the Port of Nassau.
62/1961 North Point'
156018
2705
N.H.P. 500
Not
Whyalla S.A.
1944
(ex 'Echunga')
63/1961 'Nan An'
180970
3184
N.H.P. 351
Not
Port Glasgow
(ex 'Shahjehan')
64/1961
'Karalta'
177247
154
N.H.P. 47.09
Not
Montfalcone,
Italy
1947
65/1961 *Clovelly'
180082
1927
N.H.P. 299
Not
West Hartlepool
(ex 'Pattawilya')
66/1961 *Tientsin'
315117
3004
N.H.P. 645
Not
Port De Bouc, France
1955
67/1961 Hupeh'
154087
1561
N.H.P. 196
Not
Hong Kong
1933
Registry transferred from the Port of Sydney, N.S.W.
1946 Registry transferred from the Port of London.
Registry transferred from the Port of Melbourne.
1945 Registry transferred from the Port of Newcastle, N.S.W. Purchased from foreigners (French).
Registry transferred from the Port of London.
1/1962 *Kweilin'
315119
3110
N.H.P. 250
Not
Hong Kong
1961
First Registry (New Vessel).
2/1962
Eastern Rover*
315120
2134
B.H.P. 4600
Not
Sunderland
1961
First Registry (New Vessel).
3/1962 Sea Express'
315121
430
N.H.P.
82
Not
The Netherlands
1955
Purchased from foreigners (Norwegian).
4/1962 'Dairen' (ex 'Obra')
180820
3161
N.H.P. 725
Not
South Shields
5/1962 Taiwabshan'
315122
1471
N.H.P. 314
Not
Sweden
6/1962 *Neptune Fir'
181604
3010
N.H.P. 385.2
Not
Dumbarton
7/1962 *Winwar'
168816
3417
N.H.P. 548
Not
Newcastle-on-
(ex 'Opobo Palm')
Tyne
1942
8/1962 *Ardrowan'
169448
4338
N.H.P. 301
Not
Sunderland
1945
(ex *Moraybank')
9/1962 "Tsingtao'
315123
3004
N.H.P. 645
Not
La Seyne, France
1954
1946 Registry transferred from the Port of London.
1944 Purchased from foreigners (German).
1947 Registry transferred from the Port of London.
Registry transferred from the
Port of Liverpool.
Registry transferred from the Port of Glasgow.
Purchased from foreigners (French).
10/1962 *South Breeze'
315118
6327
N.H.P. 509
Not
Hakodate, Japan 1961
First Registry (New Vessel).
11/1962 "Man Wang'
315116
173
N.H.P. 100
Not
Hong Kong
1961
First Registry (New Vessel).
12/1962
"Senai'
180437
309
N.H.P.
35
Not
Hessle
1945
Registry transferred from the Port of Singapore.
13/1962 *Pacific Breeze'
180963
2773
B.H.P. 3300
Not
Dumbarton
(ex 'Ashburton')
14/1962 *Serudom'
180450
308
N.H.P. 35
Not
Hessle
1946 Registry transferred from the Port of London,
1945 Registry transferred from the Port of Labuan.
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APPENDIX 5 (B)
REGISTERS CLOSED AT HONG KONG
1ST APRIL, 1961-31ST MARCH, 1962
No.
Name of Vessel
Official
Number
Net Register
Year of
Tonnage
Registry
Rig
Where and When Built
Reason for Cancellation
1.
'H.K.T. L-251'
172838
906
1948
Not
United States of 1939 America
Vessel sold to foreigners
(a Philippine Incorporated company).
2.
'H.K.T. L-252*
172839
906
1948
Not
United States of 1939 America
do
3.
*H.K.T. L-253'
172840
906
1948
Not
United States of 1939
do
America
4.
'H.K.T. L-255'
172841
906
1948
Not
United States of 1939
do
America
5.
'H.K.T. L-256'
172842
906
1948
Not
United States of 1939
do
America
6.
*H.K.T. L-258'
191424
906
1949
Not
United States of 1939
do
America
7.
'H.K.T. L-259'
172843
906
1948
Not
United States of 1939 America
do
8.
'Adawind'
168396
4271
1960
Not
Vancouver, B.C. 1942
9.
'H-1'
196066
115
1952
Not
Hong Kong
1952
10.
"Theta Star'
161105
1961
1955
Not
Birkenhead
1929
11.
'Ellaroo
145491
2799
1960
Schooner
Sunderland
1921
12.
'China Fir
165573
3207
1956
Not
Sunderland
1937
13.
'Maui Pomare'
151514
632
1961
Schooner
Dublin
1927
14.
'Shun Fat'
196816
3572
1956
Not
Sunderland
1920
15.
'Port Waikato'
160675
368
1959
Not
Leith
1929
16.
'Indo III'
172804
12
1947
Not
Hong Kong
1919
Vessel sold to foreigners (a Panamanian company). Vessel sold to a Malayan company at Kuala Lumpur, Federation of Malaya.
Vessel sold to a Hongkong company (British company) for breaking up.
Vessel sold to foreigners
(Japanese) for breaking up. Vessel a total constructive loss. Vessel sold to foreigners
(a Panamanian company).
Vessel broken up.
Vessel sold to a Hongkong company (British company) for breaking up.
Vessel sold to foreigners
(a Chinese company in Hong Kong).
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APPENDIX 5 (B)-Contd.
Official
No.
Name of Vessel
Net Register
Year of
Number
Tonnage
Registry
Digitized by
Rig
Where and When Built
Reason for Cancellation
Vessel sold to a Hongkong
company (British company) for breaking up.
Vessel sold to foreigners
(a Panamanian company). Vessel sold to foreigners
(a Japanese company) for breaking up.
Vessel sold to foreigners
(a Panamanian company). Vessel sold to a Hongkong company (British company) for breaking up.
17.
'Changte'
153594
2579
1925
Schooner
Hong Kong
1925
18.
"Tian Ann'
155922
358
1953
Not
Shanghai
1931
19.
*lexia'
167069
3112
1954
Not
West Hartlepool 1939
74
20.
'Seladang'
169140
164
1961
Not
Haverton Hill
1944
21.
"Taiping'
153599
2582
1926
Schooner
Hong Kong
1926
22.
'Monowai'
147816
4751
1960
Not
Greenock
1925
Vessel broken up.
23.
'H-902'
191426
201
1949
Not
Manila
1948
Vessel sold to foreigners
(a French company).
24.
"H-1851'
196062
510
1951
Not
Hong Kong
1951
do
25.
"H-1852'
196063
510
1951
Not
Hong Kong
1951
do
26.
'Pesco 103'
172829
206
1948
Not
Manila
1948
Vessel broken up.
27.
'Pesco 105'
172844
206
1948
Not
Manila
1948
Vessel broken up.
28.
'Daisei'
315086
2310
1961
Not
U.S.A.
1945
Vessel sold to foreigners (Japanese).
29.
'Cycle'
171248
2152
1961
Not
Hebburn-on-
1939
Tyne
Vessel sold to foreigners (Panamanian).
30.
'Daiko'
315087
2310
1961
Not
Wisconsin,
1945
U.S.A.
Vessel sold to foreigners (Japanese).
31.
'Kowloon'
153554
38
1924
None
Hong Kong
1924
Vessel sold to foreigners
32.
"Tientsin'
315117
3004
1961
Not
Port De Bouc,
1955
France
33.
'Kerapu'
172807
3
1948
Not
Hong Kong
1947
34.
'Sri Pahang'
172812
9
1948
Not
Australia Not Known
(a Chinese firm in Hongkong).
Registry of vessel transferred
to the Port of London.
Vessel sold to a Malayan company at Kuala Lumpur.
do
APPENDIX 5 (B)-Contd.
Official
No.
Name of Vessel
Net Register
Year of
Number
Tonnage
Registry
Rig
Where and When Built
Reason for Cancellation
35.
*Pari'
191463
14
1949
Not
Australia Not Known
Vessel sold to a Malayan company at Kuala Lumpur.
36.
"Tengeri"
191492
14
1950
Not
Australia Not Known
do
37.
'Blackfish'
191459
1953
Not
Unknown Unknown
do
38.
'Belida'
196107
1954
Not
Dungun,
1953
do
Trengganu
39.
'Jumpul❜
199505
1955
Not
Dungun,
1954
do
Trengganu
40.
"Terubok'
196840
1957
Not
Singapore
1957
41.
'Besar'
196839
5
1957
Not
Dungun
1951
do
42.
'Glama'
196837
4
1957
Not
U.S.A.
Not KnownL
do
43.
'Sembilang'
315137
1959
Not
Hong Kong
1957
do
44.
'Kechil'
315144
1960
Not
Dungun
1957
do
45.
*Sri Kuantan'
315070
2
1960
Not
Australia
1945
do
46.
'Pesco 106'
172845
206
1948
Not
Manila
1948
do
47.
'Pesco 104'
191425
206
1949
Not
Manila
1948
do
48.
'Pesco 101'
191442
206
1949
Not
Manila
1948
do
49.
'Pesco 13'
196085
140
1953
Not
Hong Kong
1953
do
50.
'Pesco 14'
196086
140
1953
Not
Hong Kong
1953
do
51.
'Pesco 15'
196087
140
1953
Not
Hong Kong
1953
do
52.
'Pesco 16'
196088
140
1953
Not
Hong Kong
1953
www.d
do
53.
'Pesco 17'
196089
140
1953
Not
Hong Kong
1953
do
54.
'Pesco 20'
196823
152
1957
Not
Hong Kong
1957
do
55.
'Pesco 21'
196824
152
1957
Not
Hong Kong
1957
do
56.
'Pesco 10'
196835
115
1957
Not
Unknown Unknown
do
57.
'Pesco 11'
196836
115
1957
Not
Unknown Unknown
do
58.
'Pesco 2'
196827
115
1957
Not
Unknown Unknown
do
59.
'Pesco 3'
196828
115
1957
Not
Unknown Unknown
do
60.
'Peaco 9'
196834
115
1957
Not
Unknown Unknown
do
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No.
Name of Vessel
Net Register
Year of
Number
Tonnage
Registry
Rig
APPENDIX 5 (B)-Contd.
Where and When Built
61.
'Pesco 1'
196826
115
1957
Not
Unknown Unknown
Reason for Cancellation
Vessel sold to a Malayan company at Kuala Lumpur.
62.
'Pesco 4'
196829
115
1957
Not
Unknown Unknown
do
63.
'Pesco 7'
196832
115
1957
Not
Unknown
Unknown
do
64.
'Pesco 8'
196833
115
1957
Not
Unknown
Unknown
do
65.
'Pesco 5'
196830
115
1957
Not
Unknown
Unknown
do
66.
*Pesco 6*
196831
115
1957
Not
Unknown
Unknown
do
67.
'Pesco 29'
315096
164
1961
Not
Hong Kong
1961
do
68.
*Pesco 30'
315097
164
1961
Not
Hong Kong
1961
do
69.
*Pesco 31'
315099
164
1961
Not
Hong Kong
1961
do
70.
'EL 156'
315100
164
1961
Not
Hong Kong
1961
do
71.
'EL 157'
315102
164
1961
Not
Hong Kong
1961
do
72.
*EL 158'
315103
164
1961
Not
Hong Kong
1961
do
73.
'EL 159'
315104
164
1961
Not
Hong Kong
1961
do
74.
*EL 160'
315107
164
1961
Not
Hong Kong
1961
do
75.
'NN 255'
315108
164
1961
Not
Hong Kong
1961
do
__
76.
'BR 205'
315111
164
1961
Not
Hong Kong
1961
P
do
77.
'BR 206'
315112
164
1961
Not
Hong Kong
1961
do
78.
*NN 256'
315114
164
1961
Not
Hong Kong
1961
do
79.
'NN 257'
315115
164
1961
Not
Hong Kong
1961
do
80.
'Kweilin'
315119
3110
1962
Not
Hong Kong
1961
81.
*H-755'
172821
280
1948
Not
St. Mesna Slip-
1948
way, Manila.
82.
'H.K.T. L-763'
172823
280
1948
Not
St. Mesna Slip-
1948
way, Manila.
83.
*H.K.T. L-769'
191418
280
1948
Not
St. Mesna Shp-
1948
way, Manila.
84.
'Tsingtao'
319123
3004
1962
Not
La Seyne,
1954
France.
85.
'Neptune Fir'
181604
3010
1962
Not
Dumbarton
1947
86.
'Pioneer Merchant'
181804
4724
1955
Not
Bremen
1927
87.
'Dairen' ex 'Obra'
180820
3161
1962
Not
South Shields
1946
Registry of vessel transferred to
the Port of London.
Registry of vessel transferred to the Port of Kuching.
Registry of vessel transferred to the Port of Kuching.
Registry of vessel transferred to the Port of Kuching.
Registry of vessel transferred to the Port of London. Vessel sold to foreigners (Indonesian Government). Vessel sold to foreigners (■ Panamanian company). Vessel sold to foreigners (Indonesian Government).
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APPENDIX 6
GOVERNMENT EXPLOSIVES DEPOT
ANNUAL RETURN OF EXPLOSIVES, ACCESSORIES AND REVENUE FOR 1961-62
Stored for
Government
Stored for General Public
Total
No. of
Cases
Weight
in lbs.
No. of
Cases
Weight
in lbs.
No. of
Cases
Weight
in lbs.
1,118
63,014
8,658
575,343
9,776 638,357
257
13,673
35,288 2,303,450|
35,545 2,317.123
Quantity in Depot on 1.4.61
...
Quantity received into
Depot
***
Quantity exported,
re-exported and
transhipped
...
3,653 323,069
3,653 323,069
Quantity withdrawn
for local consumption
914
50,211
|**30,947 1,967,436|
31,861 2,017,647|
Balance in Depot on 31.3.62
461
26,476
9,346 588,288
9,807 614,764
Revenue from Storage Dues
Accounts rendered during 1961-62 Accounts outstanding from 1960-61
Total
$91,036.50
504.50
$91,541.00
Accounts collected during 1961-62 Accounts outstanding on 31.3.62 Total
$89,622.50
$ 1,918.50
$91,541.00
N.B.
** Includes 512 × 50 lb. cases destroyed as unstable.
APPENDIX 7
COMPOSITION OF GOVERNMENT'S FLEET
SHOWING SIZE AND ALLOCATION OF VESSELS
Vessel
Type
Length
Allocation
Marine No.
I
Harbour Launch
57'
Port Control Office
Marine No. 2
T. B.
45'
Marine No.
Marine No. 3 4
T. B.
45'
Harbour Launch
62'
Marine No. 5
Twin Screw Lighter
71.55'
Marine No. 6 Marine No. 7
T. B.
45'
Tanac Tug
64' 3*
Marine No. 8
T. B.
45'
Marine No. 9
T. B.
45'
Marine No. 10
T. B.
45'
Marine No. 11
Tanac Tug
64' 3"
Marine Licensing Office Government Slipway
Lighthouse Section Prisons Department Ship Surveys Office
Urban Services Department |Port Control Office Government Stores
Department
Government Slipway Government Slipway
Marine No. 12
T. B.
45'
Government Slipway
Marine No. 13 Marine No. 14 Marine No. 15 Marine No. 16 Marine No. 17
Twin Screw Lighter
71′ 6′′
General Post Office
Twin Screw Lighter
71' 6"
General Post Office
T. B.
45'
T. B.
45'
T. B.
45'
Marine No. 18
Twin Screw Lighter
71' 6"
Marine No. 19
Twin Screw Lighter
71' 6"
Marine No. 20
Barge
35'
Marine No. 21
Harbour Launch
53'
Marine No. 22
Harbour Launch
27'
Marine No. 23
Harbour Launch
27'
Marine No. 24
Twin Screw Lighter
71′ 6′′
Marine No. 25
Powered Dory
15' 6"
Marine No. 26
Dispatch Launch
35'
Marine No. 27
Dispatch Launch
35'
Marine No. 28
Rescue and Salvage Tug
75'
Marine No. 29
Harbour Launch
67'
Marine Licensing Office Ship Surveys Office Ship Surveys Office Government Stores
Department Government Stores
Department Director of Marine Marine Licensing Office Government Slipway Marine Licensing Office General Post Office Marine Licensing Office General Post Office
General Post Office
Government Slipway
Agriculture & Forestry
Department
Marine No. 30
Tanac Tug
64' 3"
Marine No. 31
Tanac Tug
64' 3"
Urban Services Department Urban Services Department
Marine No. 32
Tanac Tug
64' 3*
Urban Services Department
Marine No. 33
T. B.
45'
Marine No. 35
Launch
82′ 9′′
Marine No. 36
Harbour Launch
45'
Marine No. 37
Open Launch
32'
Marine No. 38 Marine No. 39 Marine No. 40
Harbour Launch
21'
T. B.
45'
Twin Screw Lighter
71' 6"
Marine Licensing Office/New Territories Administration Public Works Department
(Waterworks Office) Ship Surveys Office Government Slipway Marine Licensing Office Government Slipway Government Stores
Department
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Vessel
Type
Marine No. 41 Marine No. 42
Twin Screw Lighter Fibreglass Jet Boat
71' 6"
18'
Marine No. 43
Fibreglass Jet Boat
18'
Police No. 1 Police No. 2 Police No. 3
Police Tug
105'
Length
Allocation
General Post Office New Territories
New Territories
Administration
Marine Police
Administration
Police Tug
105'
Marine Police
Patrol Launch
58.15'
Marine Police
Police No. 4
Patrol Launch
78'
Marine Police
Police No. 5
T. B.
45'
Marine Police
Police No.
8
T. B.
45'
Marine Police
Police No. 9
T. B.
45'
Marine Police
Police No. 10
T. B.
45'
Marine Police
Police No. 11
T. B.
45'
Marine Police
Police No. 12
T. B.
45'
Marine Police
Police No. 13
T. B.
45'
Marine Police
Police No. 14
T. B.
45'
Marine Police
Police No. 15
T. B.
45'
Marine Police
Police No. 16
T. B.
45'
Marine Police
Police No. 17
Harbour Launch
43'
Marine Police
Police No. 18
Harbour Launch
47' 6"
Marine Police
Police No. 19
Fibreglass Jet Boat
18'
Marine Police
Police No. 20
Powered Dory
17
(Police No. 2)
Police No. 21 Police No. 22 Police No. 23 Police No. 24 Police No. 25 Police No. 26
Powered Dory
17'
(Police No. 1)
Powered Dory
17'
Marine Police
Fibreglass Jet Boat
18'
Marine Police
Patrol Launch
42'
Marine Police
Harbour Launch
20.15'
Marine Police
Patrol Launch
70′
Marine Police
Police No. 27
Patrol Launch
70"
Marine Police
Police No. 28
Patrol Launch
70'
Marine Police
Police No. 29
Patrol Launch
70'
Marine Police
Police No. 30
Patrol Launch
70'
Marine Police
Police No. 31 Police No. 35 C. & I. No. 1
Patrol Launch
70'
Marine Police
Fibreglass Jet Boat
18'
Marine Police
Patrol Launch
78'
Commerce & Industry
C. & I. No. 2
Patrol Launch
78'
C. & I. No. 3
Patrol Launch
33'
C. & I. No. 4
Harbour Launch
42'
C. & I. No. 5
Patrol Launch
58'
C. & I. No. 6
Patrol Launch
70'
Department
Department
Department
Department
Department
Department
Commerce & Industry
Commerce & Industry
Commerce & Industry
Commerce & Industry
Commerce & Industry
C. & I. No. 7
Patrol Launch
70'
Commerce & Industry
Department
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APPENDIX 7-Contd.
Vessel
Type
Length
Allocation
C. & I. No. 8
Patrol Launch
70'
Commerce & Industry
C. & I. No. 9
Fibreglass Jet Boat
18'
Civil Aviation No. 1
Civil Aviation No. 2
Crash Tender Crash Tender
60'
45'
Alexander Grantham Fire Float
127' 8"
No. 1 Fireboat
Fire Float
45'
No. 2 Fireboat
Fire Float
82'
No. 3 Fireboat Alister Hardy
Fire Float
40'
Fisheries Research Vessel
66'
Cape St. Mary
Trawler
[105.4'
Sir Cecil Clementi
Launch
77′ 8′′
Chee Hong Chee Wan
Launch (Floating Clinic)
77′ 51′′
Department
Commerce & Industry
Department
Civil Aviation Department Civil Aviation Department Fire Services Department Fire Services Department Fire Services Department Fire Services Department Co-operative Development
& Fisheries Department Co-operative Development & Fisheries Department New Territories
Administration
Medical Department
Launch (Floating Clinic)
77′ 51′′
Medical Department
Port Health No. 1 Port Health No. 2 Port Health No. 3 Port Health No. 4 Port Health No. 5 Port Works No. 1 Port Works No. 2 Port Works No. 3 Port Works No. 4 Port Works No. 5 Port Works No. 6
Boring No. 1 Sanitary No. 1 Sanitary No. 2
Sanitary No. 3
Immigration No. 1
Immigration No. 2
H.E.'s Barge
Harbour Tug Diving Barge Survey Launch Harbour Launch Boring Barge
Harbour Launch
62'
Port Health Office
T. B.
45*
Port Health Office
Harbour Launch
70' 8"
Port Health Office
Harbour Launch
62′ 41′′
Port Health Office
Fumigation Powered Lighter 48'
Port Health Office
Harbour Tug
75'
Port Works Office
Harbour Launch
26'
Port Works Office
75'
Port Works Office
52'
Port Works Office
47' 6"
Port Works Office
67'
Port Works Office
70' 11"
Port Works Office
Tanac Tug
64' 3"
Tanac Tug
64' 3*
Tanac Tug
64' 3"
T. B.
45'
T. B.
45'
Launch
48' 6"
Urban Services Department Urban Services Department Urban Services Department Immigration Department Immigration Department Government House
Lady Maurine
Tender
91'
Government House
Boring No. 2
Dumb Boring Barge
71'
Port Works Office
Dredging No. 1
Grab Dredger
70'
Port Works Office
Dredging No. 2
Grab Dredger
70'
Port Works Office
Dredging No. 3
Hopper Barge
97'
Port Works Office
Dredging No. 4
Hopper Barge
97'
Port Works Office
Dredging No. 5
Hopper Barge
97'
Port Works Office
Dredging No. 6
Hopper Barge
97'
Port Works Office
Dredging No. 8
Hopper Barge
110'
Port Works Office
Dredging No. 9
Hopper Barge
110'
Port Works Office
Lighter No. 1
Refuse Barge
95' 3"
Urban Services Department
Lighter No. 2
Refuse Barge
Lighter No. 3
Refuse Barge
95' 3" 95' 3"
Urban Services Department
Urban Services Department
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APPENDIX 7-Contd.
Vessel
Type
Length
Lighter No. 4
Refuse Barge
95′ 3′′
Lighter No. 11
Landing Pontoon
70' 4"
Lighter No. 55
Pressure type conservancy
lighter
71'
Lighter No. 56
Pressure type conservancy
lighter
71'
Allocation
Urban Services Department Fenwick Street Pier Lighter Urban Services Department
Urban Services Department
Lighter No. 58
Pontoon
95' 1"
Government Slipway
Lighter No. 59
Refuse Lighter
95' 1"
(awaiting disposal)
Lighter No. 60
Refuse Lighter
95' 1"
Lighter No. 68
Pressure type conservancy
71'
lighter
Lighter No. 69
Refuse Lighter
95'
Lighter No. 70
Refuse Lighter
95′ 1′′
Lighter No. 71
Refuse Lighter
95' 1"
Lighter No. 72
Refuse Lighter
95' 1"
Lighter No. 73
Refuse Lighter
95′ 11′′
Lighter No. 74
Refuse Lighter
95' 11"
Lighter No. 75
Refuse Lighter
Lighter No. 76
Refuse Lighter
Lighter No. 77
Refuse Lighter
Lighter No. 78
Refuse Lighter
95' 1"
Lighter No. 79
Refuse Lighter
95' 1"
Lighter No. 80
Refuse Lighter
95' 1"
Lighter No. 81
Refuse Lighter
95' 1"
Lighter No. 82
Refuse Lighter
95' 1"
Lighter No. 83
Refuse Lighter
95' 1"
95'11" 95' 1 95'11"
(awaiting disposal)
(awaiting disposal)
Urban Services Department Urban Services Department Urban Services Department Urban Services Department Urban Services Department Urban Services Department Urban Services Department Urban Services Department Urban Services Department Urban Services Department Urban Services Department Urban Services Department Urban Services Department Urban Services Department
Urban Services Department
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APPENDIX 8 (A)
SUMMARY OF WORK OF SHIP SURVEYS DIVISION 1961-62
I. Ships surveyed and Certificates issued under the Merchant Shipping Safety Convention
(H.K.) No. 1 Order 1953, etc. :
Safety Equipment Certificates-British cargo ships
Safety Equipment Certificates-Other nationalities
:
Safety Radio Certificates-British cargo ships
Safety Radio Certificates-Other nationalities
Direction Finder Calibration Tests, total
British Tonnage, Measurement only
British Registry, Tonnage Measurement and examination of Crew
Accommodation
Carving Note Inspections-Change of ship's name, etc. ..... International Loadline Certificate
Passenger and Safety Certificates:
Number of vessels surveyed for Passenger and Safety Certificates P. & S. 1-International Voyage Certificates
A
P. & S. 2-Short International Voyage (Eastern Trades) P. & S. 3-Short International Voyage (Eastern Trades) P. & S. 4-Short International Voyage (Casting)
P. & S. 5-River Trade Certificates
Safety Certificate-Pilgrim Trade
Dry Docking-Bottom Certificate
Emigration Certificates
Carriage of Dangerous Goods-Survey of Compartments
...
Plans Examined for hulls, machinery, and equipment of passenger and
cargo ships...
Suez Canal, Tonnage Measurement...
Panama Canal, Tonnage Measurement
Supervision of Construction for other Administrations
Supervision of Construction for Hong Kong Government
Navigation Lanterns (oil and/or elec.) new, certified
Wooden Life-boats, new certified
Buoyant Apparatus, new certified
Inflatable Life Rafts with Log Sheets, re-survey
Life-buoys, new, inspected and stamped
Life-jackets, new, inspected and stamped
Certificates of Inspection issued, miscellaneous surveys
Applications for Survey, Forms S-6, received
Individual surveys made by Surveyors on Convention Ships
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Cases
98
13
149
120
94
14
47
26
5
30
20
18
11
2
5
3
5
42
મન
7
510
2
1
5
9
598
20
93
61
1,364
7,515
92
708
2,160
APPENDIX 8 (A)-Contd.
II. Small Craft surveyed and Certificates issued under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance,
1953, Parts XIII and XIV:
Cases
Passenger Launches, M.S.O. Part 13
913
Marine Restaurants, M.S.O. Part 14
Motorized Cargo Junks, M.S.O. Part 14
993
Mechanised Fishing Junks, M.S.O. Part 14
3,545
Carriage of Dangerous Goods-Fitness Certificates
175
Plans examined for hull, machinery, and equipment of small craft
603
Two-gallon Foam Fire Extinguishers, new, certified
:
200
British Tonnage, Measurement only
44
6
44
British Registry, Tonnage Measurement, etc. Vessels inclined and stability investigated Carving and Marking Notes-British Registry Crane Lighter Boilers-Certificates of Inspection Newly constructed launches, number surveyed Applications for surveys Forms S-6A, received
Individual surveys made by Surveyors on small craft
***
III. Investigations of Tonnage, Stability, new Ship Plans, Government Craft, etc.:
45' Port Control Launch, Govt. Dept. G.P. Launches, General Arrangement Catamaran for U.S.D.
Proposed Hopper Barges for Port Works
M.T. 'Cape St. Mary'-Investigation of suitable position installation of
Radar and Stability condition
Hydrostatic Calculation and Plotted Curves for shrimp boat
'Police No. 18 and 19' Proposed General Arrangement, and Derrick
Arrangement
30" dia. Can Buoy for Marine Department
33′ Monohedron type Motor Boat, body plan and displacement calculation Post Office Craft, Freeboard Comparisons...
E.C.A.F.E. Conference-Proposed Coasting vessels
'Port Works No. 6' (ex 'Revenue No. 3′) General Re-arrangement and
stability estimation
:
::
:
:
:
45
5,410
7,763
2
2
1
7
1
Night Soil Barges L-55, L-56 & L. 68-Estimation of internal surface area of
tanks for painting ....
1
British Tonnage Measurement:
Ships over 1,000 tons nett
Ships over 100 and up to 1,000 tons nett
Ships up to 100 tons nett
Sub-division Loadline Calculation, by 'Shirokaver' Method
:
16
5
5
:
38
2
83
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Sub-division Loadline Calculation, by B.O.T. Method
International Loadline Calculation
International Loadline Assignments
Stability Experiments and Calculations-ships and small crafts Section Modulus Calculation
IV. Miscellaneous :
Departmental prints taken and developed
Non-departmental prints
Examination scripts-Photostatic (107 candidates)
Sundry estimates and revenues~ ~graphs, etc.
Ship and engine plans registered and amendments entered Surveyor outside Hong Kong, Surveyor-days
Total applications for surveys received
Office consultation with members of the public
Total outside surveys and inspections made
:
V. Examinations for Certificates of Competency as Masters and Mates :
:
Cases
N
1
2 36
2
Number
2,281
11 1,893
213 1,113
136
6,118
2,175
9,923
Statutory Examinations
Examined
Passed
Master (F.G.)
34
16
First Mate (F.G.)
53
24
Second Mate (F.G.)
18
7
Trawling Master (Full) ..
6
Trawling Master (Limited)
12
11
Total
123
༄།
62
Other Examinations
M.N. Radar Observers Certificate
28
14
Radar Maintenance Certificate
11
8
T
Marine Police Pilotage Certificate
19
9
Marine Police Navigation Certificate
16
13
Amphibious endorsement of Pilots Licence (Air) Certificated Lifeboatmen
1
1
355
251
Total
430
296
Exemption Candidates under Section 115(1) of Merchant Shipping Ordinance No. 14
of 1953
Acting First Mate
Acting Trawling Master
Total
84
:
Examined
Passed
16
62
10
2
18
12
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APPENDIX 8 (A)~Contd.
VI. Examination for Certificates of Competency as Engineers:
Statutory Examinations
First Class Engineer, Part 'A' only
First Class Engineer, Certificate
First Class Engineer, Endorsement
Second Class Engineer, Part 'A' only
Second Class Engineer, Certificate
Second Class Engineer, Endorsement
Total
:
Examined
Passed
9
1
17
7
3
2
53
26
23
5
1
1
106
42
:
Local Certificates
Launch Engine-driver, Up to 150 BHP
Lannch Engine-driver, Over 150
201
165
21
20
Launch Engine-driver, Fishing Vessels
74
58
Launch Engine-driver, Pleasure Craft
58
56
Launch Engine-driver, Steam (oil and/or Coal Fired Boilers) Launch Engine-driver, Endorsements, etc.
14
14
20
17
Total
388
330
Other Examinations
Extra First Class Engineer, Certificate
1
1
Aux. Marine Police, Launch Engine-drivers (Diesel Motor)..... Aux. Marine Police, Launch Engine-drivers (Steam Engine)
5
5
5
5
Total
11
11
Exemption Candidates under Section 115(1) of Merchant Shipping Ordinance No. 14
of 1953
Acting First Class Engineer
Acting Second Class Engineer
Total
58
56
182
163
240
219
Note: Of the above exemptions, 75 were re-validations upon renewal of
Crew Articles of Agreement.
85
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APPENDIX 8 (B)
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF WORK PERFORMED BY THE
SHIP SURVEYS DIVISION OF THE MARINE DEPARTMENT
1959-60, 1960-61 AND 1961-62
ITEM
YEARS
1959-60
1960-61 1961-62
Safety Equipment Certificates-British cargo ships
99
86
98
Safety Equipment Certificates-Other nationalities
20
13
13
Safety Radio Certificates-British cargo ships
123
135
149
Safety Radio Certificates-Other nationalities
94
85
120
Direction Finder Calibration Tests, total
91
71
94
British Tonnage, Measurement only
33
40
58
British Registry, Tonnage Measurement, etc.
42
40
53
Carving Note Inspections
31
29
31
International Loadline Certificates
22
6
5
Number of vessels surveyed for Passenger & Safety Certificates
31
27
30
Number of Passenger & Safety Certificates issued
68
50
59
Dry Docking-Bottom Certificates
5
1
5
Emigration Certificates
40
47
42
Carriage of Dangerous Goods-Surveyed
205
184
182
Machinery and Boiler Plans examined
Ships' Plans examined
Suez Canal, Tonnage Measurement
Panama Canal, Tonnage Measurement .......
176
383
372
425
753
741
5
1
2
2
0
1
Supervision of Construction for other Administrations
12
5
Supervision of Construction for H.K. Government
7
5
Navigation lanterns (oil and/or electric) new certified
150
322
598
Wooden Life-boats, new certified
6
5
20
Buoyant Apparatus, new certified
26
92
93
Inflatable Life Rafts with Log Sheets, re-survey
29
34
61
Life-buoys, new inspected and stamped
1,685
1,888
1,364
Life-jackets, new inspected and stamped
3,941
11,276
7,515
Table '13' Plying Licences (Passenger Launches)
829
871
913
Table '14' Plying Licences (Motorized Fishing Junks/Cargo-boats & etc.)
2,500
3,012
4,538
Inclining Experiments
27
43
44
Engineers examined for Colonial Certificates of Competency
74
79
106
Engineers examined for Temporary Permits
157
176
240
Masters & Mates examined for Colonial Certificates of Competency
86
105
105
Trawler Masters Certificates
5
18
Masters & Mates examined for Temporary Permits
4
19
18
Marine Police Certificates of Navigation
Marine Police Pilotage Certificates
8
15
16
16
20
19
Lifeboatmen examined for Certificates of Efficiency
298
305
355
Radar Maintenance Certificates ...
12
11
11
Radar Observers Certificates
9
25
28
Engineers examined for Local Certificates of Competency
350
404
388
Total number of Applications for Surveys received
4,196
4,969
6,118
Total number of visits and inspections in connexion with surveys Total number of office consultation with members of the public
7,954
8,512
9,923
2,096
2,222
2,175
86
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MARINE DEPARTMENT
ESTABLISHMENT ON 31.3.62
PENSIONABLE
Director of Marine
Assistant Directors of Marine
Treasury Accountant
***
Senior Executive Officer Class II
Stores Officer
144
Senior Surveyors of Ships
***
:
:
:
:
::
:
:
:
⠀
:
:
1
2
1
1
:
:
:
Surveyors of Ships
Senior Marine Officers
Marine Officers
...
Assistant Marine Officers
Mechanical Engineer (Marine).. Mechanical Inspector Class I Mechanical Inspector Class II ...
Superintendent of Lights
Principal Lighthouse-keepers
Lighthouse-keepers
**
***
***
Officer-in-Charge Explosive Depot
Assistant Shipping Master
Assistant Registrar of Shipping
Draughtmen Class II
Draughtsman Class III...
Foremen Class I.....
Foremen Class II
Launch Engineers Class I
Telegraphist Signalmen Class II Telegraphist Signalmen Class III
Dredger Masters
Secretary/Stenographers
Interpreter/Translators
Clerks
Storekeepers Typists
:
1
3
12
:
:
12
1
1
1
1
2
6
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
...
:
:
:
***
1
1
1
:
:
:
1
3
2
15
2
10
2
:
:
87
Total
...
:
2
58
:
:
:
172
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NON-PENSIONABLE
...
***
***
...
•
...
:
Coxswains Class I Coxswains Class II Surveyor Attendants Lighthouse Mechanics Electricians
...
***
Assistant Dredger Masters Sailmaker Riggers Class I Sailmaker Riggers Class II
Oil Attendant
Signalmen
Light Attendants
...
Head Depot Attendants Depot Attendants
Painters Class I ...
Painters Class II
Boatswains
Head Watchman
Watchmen
Leading Seamen
Seamen Class I
...
Seamen Class II...
Station Attendants
...
Launch Engineers Class II Launch Engineers Class III Launch Engineers Class IV Foremen Class III
Artisan Class I
Fitters
...
Carpenters Class I Carpenters Class II
Motor Driver Stokers Class I
Stokers Class II ... Clerical Assistants
Ganger
***
Store Attendant Labourers Messengers
:
***
...
...
***
...
...
***
•
...
**
...
43
59
2
...
•
2
9
...
*
**
I
3
6
2
6
10
...
8
1
8
50
123
...
***
...
***
209
200
Total
Pensionable Non-pensionable
Grand Total
88
18
46
:
50
40
4
1
19
11
11
1
43
36
4
1
1
:
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868
172
868
1,040
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