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WRECKER FAVORITE. The wrecking steamer Favorite, of the Great Lakes Towing Co.'s fleet, was inspected at Cleveland last week by a number of vessel-owners while enroute to her station at St. Ignace, having made the run from Buffalo in about fifteen hours. Both builders and owners were well pleased with her per- formance on the run. Vessel owners who inspected the Favorite gave her unstinted praise. She is certainly the most complete wrecker that has ever TAE Marine REVIEW raising and lowering her power launch. She will carry a complete machine shop so as to make practically any repairs that strandings and collisions may en- tail on steamers. The Favorite will be commanded by Capt. Alex. Cun- ning, who will endeavor to equal in 1907 the record that he achieved in 1906 when he salved every steamer that the Great Lakes Towing Co. sent him after. we Among those who made the trip from Buffalo on- the Favorite were 33 sage from Balik Pappan, in Borneo, a distance of over 12,000 miles, without making a stop. The revolutions aver- aged 54.3 and the speed thnoughout the passage averaged over nine knots. This is the third non-stop run made by this vessel while burning liquid fuel, the first being from Singapore to Rotterdam, in May-June, 1906, and the second from Singapore to Thames- haven in September-October, 1906. Probably there is no other recorded instance of a single vessel having made been built on the lakes and a party of leading underwriters from New York who saw her were delighted with her. The wrecker was described in the Marine Review of Feb. 7, 1907, but briefly it may be stated-that she is 195 ft. over all, 180-ft, keel, 43 ft. beam and 1914 ft. deep. Her water ballast capacity is 600 tons and her fuel bunkers, which ane in the spar deck aft of the pilot- house, hold 240 tons of coal. She is of unusually powerful construction in order to act as an ice crusher if necessary. The hull is pierced by only two gangways on the side 3 ft. wide and 5 ft. high, and she has no windows - whatever except in the pilot-house, the hull and cabin being lighted by dead- lights. She is intended to work in any kind of weather. .She has a steel A frame. derrick forward with 60-ft. steel boom capable of handling a 3-ton grab bucket. She has a 5-ton boom derrick aft for handling plates and material in and out of after hatch and also for 'most WRECKER FAVORITE OF THE GREAT LAKES TOWING CO,'S Edward Smith, president of the Great Lakes Towing Co.; Edward 'N. Smith, superintendent of: the Buffalo Dry Dock Co.; Mr. W. I. Babcock, her de- signer; Mr. Henry Penton, who de- signed her machinery; Wm. Dempster and joseph &. Ball) of Buffalo: A. C. Harding, of Chicago; A. S. Blanchard, Capt. Thomas Johnson and Capt. Philip Broderick. While in Cleveland Charles Wright, of London, chairman of the London Salvage association, and F. Hermann, Walter Dasbad and C. E. Deane, ma- rine underwriters of New York, ac- companied by R. Parry Jones and E. P,. Lenihan, of Cleveland, inspected the Favorite and pronounced her the completely equipped salvage steamer in this country. LIQUID FUEL. The steamship Goldmouth, a vessel which burns petroleum fuel, recently arrived at Thameshaven after a pas- FLEET, three non-stop runs of such duration with liquid fuel. : The steamer Jim Sherrifs, purchased by the Nessen Transportation Co., has been rechristened the Peters. The Detroit Ship Building Co. will furnish new kits for workmen who lost their tools on the City of Cleve- land. -- \ Between the hours 5 a. m. and 3:30 p. m. on Monday, 111 boats passed through the Lime Kiln crossing, an average of a boat every 6%4 minutes. The government engineer at Duluth, Major Graham D. Fitch, has issued a list of timber requirements compris- ing a total of 3,718,675 feet of lumber for the improvement of the Duluth- Superior harbor and bids are asked. Sealed proposals will be received until June 12, 1907.