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28 TAE MarRINE REVIEW ATLANTIC COAST GOSSIP -- Office of the MARINE REVIEW, 1005 West Street Bldg., New York City. By covering the distance from Sandy Hook to Daunts Rock in! 4 days, 22 hours and 46 minutes, the Lusitania has broken the best eastern record, made by the steamer on her maiden voyage, by six hours. During the voyage the Lusitania experienced southerly and northwesterly winds, with heavy seas, and was compelled to slow down. Her average speed for the entire distance was 23.61 knots per- hour, and her daily runs were 405, 570, 540,532 and 570 knots. The Italian twin-screw steamer Eu- ropa arrived on Sunday from Geneva and Naples with the first cons:gnment of Italian mail by the direct route. The Italian government will, in the future, ship all mail for America by fast Italian steamers in place of the French and German liners formerly used. Within a decade we may have a choice between the day and the night lines between 'New York and Liver- pool--Louisville Courier-Journal. John F. Fisher, of No. 839 North Sixtieth street, Philadelphia, has been appointed a dock master in the De- partment of Wharfs, Docks and Fer- ries. Mr.'Fisher is a master mariner and has practical ideas of shipping and river-front matters. At a public demonstration given at: the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Sta- tion at Glace bay last week, a message was sent from there to Clifden, Ire- land, and reply received in five min- utes. Independent persons were sta- tioned at both ends, and the accuracy of the test was confirmed by cable. Mr. Marconi states that the local sta- tion is transmitting about 3,000 words a day to Ireland. ne Cablegrams from London state that the British steamship Tampico, from Baltimore for Rotterdam, was aban- doned in latitude 47 north, longitude 32 west. The Tampico was owned. by the. Neptune Steamship Navigation Co,, and left Baltimore -on Oct. 7. She was a regular trader between Bal- timore and Dutch ports, and her cargo was a large and valuable one. The navy department made the first test of briquettes as fuel aboard the torpedo boat Biddle last Saturday. It is said that better steaming conditions - some were obtained.- The briquettes were used in one of the boilers, the other burning coal, and, though much smoke accompanied the test of the new fuel, it is considered due to lack of experi- -ence in handling it on the part of the --_ firemen. The: tug Katherine Moran, bought by the Isthmian Canal Commission from the Moran Towing Co. of New York, Jeff the city last Priday 'tor Panama via the Straits of Magellan. The Katherine Moran is 96 ft. long, freadth, 23 ft.; depth of hold, 13 ft.; $58,000 was paid by the canal commis- sion, Tor het. Brunswick Lightship No. 84 has ar- rived at. Charleston, S. C., and will be located at the entrance to Brunswick harbor, St: Simon and St. "Andrew's Sounds, Ga. She was built by the New York Ship Building: Co. The Horace M., Bickford, a 500-ton schooner, building at the yard of Frank S. Bowker, of Phippsburg, Me., for Captain. John Trainor, of West Bath, -is scheduled to be launched Nay, 5: A The American and Australian lines have made an addition to their fleet in the shape of the British steamer Lord Sefton, which has been chartered for the outward voyage on Nov. 16, and is now on her way to New York from Buenos Ayres. This addition is to accommodate the demand for freight room to New Zealand, due to the increased customs tariff which goes into effect there April 1, 1908. The 'Lord Sefton is of 2,792 tons 'net register, and will load for Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington and other ports. The Red Star liner Finland, from New Nore Oct, 19, for Dover and Antwerp, struck the end of the south- ern breakwater at Dover on Monday night while entering the harbor. She sustained extensive damage to her bows, and will remain at Dover till the necessary repairs are made. The tremendous force of the impact did considerable damage to the stonework of the breakwater. s Unable to proceed through the race on her way from New York to Fall River, the steamer Connecticut was obliged to put into New London, Conn., on -account of the heavy weather Monday morning. The Neptune liner Rhode Island put into Newport on account of the rough sea outside of Narragansett bay. She left Fall River Sunday night for New York, but did not attempt to round Point Judith on account of the storm. The landing of William Penn on American soil was commemorated at New Castle, Del., on Monday, by the unveiling of an appropriate tablet that was placed in position on the old New Castle county court house by the Delaware Society of Colonial Dames. Governor Lea and staff were present. The portion of the old court house where the tablet was erected was standing when Penn landed--225 years ago, The NorthGerman Lloyd steamship Wilhelm der Grosse, which sailed from New York on Tuésday, Oct. 22, broke her rudder while just east of the Grand Banks and approaching mid- ocean. She proceeded on her. voyage, steering with her screws, and, though due in Plymouth Monday, arrived at that port Tuesday. Using the starboard screw for pro- pelling alone, and the port screw for propelling and _ steering, the vessel averaged a steady 15 knots. The British steamer Corfe Castle arrived at Pier 41, South Wharves, Philadelphia, on Saturday, with a large cargo of jute, skin and burlap from Calcutta via Colombo. She left New York last June for South Africa and the east, and on her, arrival in the United States had covered 40,000 miles. After discharging part of her cargo in Philadelphia, she will proceed to New York to finish, after which she will load again for South Africa. -- According to the report of the bureau of statistics of the department of agriculture, the causes of reductions in ocean freight rates are largely con- nected with the increase in size of ocean vessels and with economies in the handling of ships and their cargoes. Both liners and tramp steamers are built now much larger than in former years. The cargo of a tramp ship not infrequently "includes the product of 15,000 acres of average wheat land or the cotton yielded by twice that area, and it would take two such cargoes to fill the hold of one of the larger freight liners, In the competition of passenger lines with tramps, the large ships of the former class are able to secure