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some $10,000 value salved. A _ great proportion of the lost cargo consisted of food supplies, which, through: ex- posure, etc., had been rendered value- less.. The after part saved contained about 1,500 tons of cargo, which, to- gether with the value of the hull will represent a clear save for the underwriters of about half a 'million dollars. It is said that the salvage has cost $250,000, but this is but a rough esti- mate. The steamer is uninsured, but her value before going ashore is un- derstood to have been about $750,000. A new forward part to be_ subse- quently built into the Suevic is at present being constructed by Messrs. Harland & Wolff, and in due time the Suevic will doubtless be brought round: to Belfast. for this to be ac- complished. It is not, of coutse, the first time a vessel has been cut in two while. on. the rocks, and halt saved from total loss. This was done in the case of the Elder-Dempster liner Milwaukee which ran ashore on the coast of Aberdeen, and had a new forepart built into her, and this ship is still engaged in trade. An- other instance more récent still is that of the Nelson liner Highland Fling, 4,088 tons, which went ashore on the Cornish coast last January, was severed by explosives, and suc- cessfully floated. Both these cases were in the hands of the Liverpool Salvage Association 'and London Salvage Association respectively. FASTEST VESSEL IN THE BRITISH NAVY. The torpedo boat destroyer Afridi, which, together with her sister ship Shurka, will 'constitute the fastest class of vessel in the British navy, and is here _her mean draught, 7 ft. 1 in. "THE Marine REVIEW destroyer,:'and her length between per- pendiculars is 250 ft.; breadth, molded, 25 ft.; depth, molded, 15 ft. 6 in., and The ship will carry three 12-pounder quick-firing guns, two of which will be mounted on the forecastle deck, and one on the up- per deck aft. She will also be fitted with two 18-in. torpedo tubes, which will be mounted on the upper deck. The machin- ery will be supplied by the Parsons Ma- rine Steam Turbine Co., Ltd., of Wall- send-on-Tyne. It will consist of a set of compound turbines which will drive three propeller shafts, each fitted with one propeller. The boilers will be of the Zarrow type, and will develop approxi- mately 14,500 H. P. It is interesting to note that the Admiralty have decided to use oil instead of coal in these ships. Both the Afridi and Shurka have been designed for a speed of 33 knots. MARINE ENGINEERS ~BENEFI- CIAL ASSOCIATION NO. 33. : A banquet to commemorate the con- solidation of the New. York branches of the association to form M. E. B. A. No. 33, was held in the Everett House, Union Square, New York, on the even- ing of May 7. arranged to accommodate the splendid muster of members and__ guests, amongst the latter being several per- sons prominent in New York shipping circles. a Full justice was done to the excel- lent fare provided, Mr. Flannery, pro- prietor of the Everett House and a 'member, of No. 33, surpassed himself on this occasion. After the. banquet an exceedingly good program of enter- tainments was. discussed, President Givnan, of M. E. B. A., 33, being in the chair. During the evening a magnificent TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER AFRIDI, illustrated, was launched from the Els- wick ship yard of Sir W. S. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd., on May 8. The Afridi is an ocean-going torpedo boat loving cup, suitably engraved, was pre- sented to National President William F. Yates, who in a few fitting words thanked the members for the unex- The banquet hall was 31 pected token of their good will and es- teemi Dee koa NOTES FROM NEPTUNE. _ About 32,000 tons of trans-Atlantic freight leave the port of New York each day. a The first storm signal was issued in. 1861. In August of that year the pub- lication of weather forecasts was first begun. , There are at present 250,000 miles of cable in all at the bottom of the sea, representing $250,000,000. Each line cost about $1,000 per mile to make and lay. The weather is called calm if the air is not moving at more than three miles an hour; 34 miles is a strong breeze; 40 a gale; 75 a storm, and 90 a hurricane. Officials of the New York Custom House promise the highest annual rec- ord of receipts for the current fiscal year that has ever been known at this port. The figures will be little under $800,000 for each business day. In opposing the christening of a bat- tleship with wine, a splendid chance of drawing a temperance lesson from the incident is lost. After the first taste of wine the ship takes to the water--and --sticks to it ever afterwards, Speaking of the marvelous progress in ship building at the annual congress of the Iron and Steel Institute, Lon- don, Sir Hugh Bell, president, prophe- sied that a hundred years hence ships will be propelled by "wireless" power. The electric force is to be generated at Niagara and transmitted over the Atlantic. ~ Women at work in the United States is the subject of a report issued today by the Census' Bureau based on the returns in 1900. The returns showed, among other things, that five females were employed as pilots, six were ship carpenters, 185 blacksmiths, 508 ma- chinists, eight boilermakers, and two "motormen." A fall of. the barometer does not necessarily mean rain. The barometer falls for wind and warm weather as well as rain. If the barometer falls as much as one-tenth in an hour, or two- tenths in four hours, it is a sure sign of a storm coming. In the Northern Hemisphere the barometer falls with S. 5; S., and-S. W. winds... At Wo beings to rise. Glycerine can be used | instead of mercury in a barometer, but the column of glycerine must be 27 ft. long to do the same work as 30 in. of mercury.