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QUESTIONS FOR MASTERS AND MATES.--NO. 62. 803.: Course N 34° miles; much difference and departure, and which way? 804... How much difference of lon- gitude will 85 miles of departure make on the parallel of 45°? 805. the length: of a de gree of longitude on the parallel of 45°? - 806. On which parallel of. latitude will 60: nautical miles. measure: 2°? 807. "A: ships makes 83 miles of de- parture between the parallels of 42° and 46°; how much has she changed her longitude? how latitude hat 36 808. A ship changes her longitude 1° 30' on. the: parallel. of: 42?;-. how many miles of departure has she made? 809. A ship sails from Lat. oe 18. N on a course between N and W, a distance of 344 miles and a: departu-e of 103 miles. Jatitude reached? and the 810. "The diff lat.as /8.4 dep. is 32.5; what is the course: and d'stance? Sli: Fhe diff lat. 997325 -andithe dep. is 78.5; what is course. and dis- tance? ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS FOR WHEELSMEN AND WATCHMEN. A40l.: Becausé N and -S are: zero: on the compass card. These points form the meridian of the compass. All di- rection is measured from the true meridian on the earth, and the meridi- an of the compass. is supposed to co- incide with this meridian. - 402. East and West. 403. Two. 404. Four. 405. Four. 406. 2,240 Ibs. 407. 2,000 Ibs. 408. Multiply gross tons by 1.12. 409. Multiply net tons by 0.89. 410. 56° 15'. 411. 42,560 ft. 412. 10 points. ; QUESTIONS FOR WHEELSMEN AND WATCHMEN. 424. True bearing is NYE, Var. %- pt. Ely, and compass bearing is NYE how much and which way is the Dev.? 425. The correct. magnetic bearing is NNE and the compass bearing is NE by N; how much-and which way is the Dey.? _ 426. The true bearing of a range is NWSW, Var. 4° -Wly, and with the ship on this. range compass reads NWN; how much and which way is the Dey.? E, distanee 75 bds the compass course? + ott es WNW, Find the course and the - "TAE. MarRINE REVIEW 427, Thestrue course is SEYS, Var. $4-pt. Ely, and Dev. %4-pt. ay; what 428. The» ceutse steered iby. com- pass is SSE, Dey. .14-pt.-Ely, Var. Dev. 114-pts..Wly; what is the true course the ship is steering? 429. What is the difference between a true course and a correct magnetic course? 430. The true course is SW4AW and the correct magnetic course is SW; how much and which way is the Var.? 431. The correct magnetic course is andthe compass course is WNW'Y%W; how much and which way is, the Dey. ? 432... The. compass beating . of a lighthouse is NW! N, Dev. 34-pt. Ely, and the Var. %-pt. Ely; true bearing of the lighthouse? 433.. What is the difference between a correct magnetic bearing and.a com- pass bearing? AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. Capt. Charles' B. Crawford, for many years in the car ferry service of the Michigan Central. railroad: at. Detroit, died recently. - Capt. W. He Ellery and kr. Kun- zie, of Detroit, Have purchased the steamer Betton arom oH, N. jex,. of Toledo, and will convert her into a sand steamer. : The new steamer Alexis W. Thomp- son, building for WW. 2. Becker, of Cleveland, will be launched at the Bay City yard of the American Ship Building Co. on Saturday. The schooner D. P. Rhodes, now at Detroit, has been seized by the Uni- ted States marshal on.a libel of $27 filed by the Port Huron & Sarnia Ferry Co. The boat is owned by Capt. Thomas McGowan, of Detroit. Navigation was opened at Conneaut this week when the car ferry No. 2 and collier No.- 1 left-on their first trip of the season to Canada. The ves- sels are owned and operated by the Marquette & Bessemer Dock & Navi- gation Co. The Canadian government has given 'notice that a hand fog horn has been established at Providence Bay. light station, southern shore of Manitoulin Island, Lake Huron; approximate po- sition, latitude 45° 39' 5" N; longitude 89% 16 22% Mr. Frank h Smith, formerly super- intendent of the Open River Transporta- tion Co., Portland, Ore., is compiling a list of every steamboat that has ever served on the Willamette, Columbia and Snake rivers. When completed this will make-an excellent work of reference. ~her owners. what is the ward '21 SHIP. YARD NOTES. . The°steamer Nann Smith, 'built a the 'Néwport® "News Ship Puildiae & Dry Déck Co., Newport News, Va., for the C. A. Smith Lumber Co., Marshfield, Ore., is now en route from Baltimore to This steamer will be the largest lumber carrier on the Pacific, and is 295 ft. 6 in. long, 43 ft. beam molded, 21 ft. depth molded. She will carry 2,225,000 ft. of lumber and will be used exclusively by the Smith company in transporting lumber from Coos Bay. The first of the two suction dredges building for government work in New York harbor was launched at the yard of the Maryland Steel Co., Sparrow's Point, Md., and was christened by Hope C. Peters, daughter of Richard Peters, sales agent of the Pennsylvania Steel Co. She was named -the Raritan. This dredge is constructed of steel through- out and was designed by Major J. C. Sanford. The Raritan is 290 ft. over all, 274 ft. between perpendiculars, 47 ft. 6 in. beam and 28 ft. deep. The dredg- ing machinery consists of two 20-in. suc- tion pumps, the bins having a capacity of 2,000 cu. yds. Major Wm. Harts, government en- gineer, Nashville, Tenn., opened bids © for the construction of two wooden ~ hull steam tenders. The "Charles Barnes Co., Cincinnati, O., bid $13,640 for each, and Ed. J. Howard, Jefferson- ville, Ind., $11,835 for each. Howard later reduced his bid to $10,000 each by omitting electric light plant and steam capstan .and substituting therefore a B'B Providence power plant and oil headlights. This modified bid was accepted. These tenders are to be 100 ft. long, 20 ft. beam and 3 ft. deep, of the stern-wheel type with model baw, easy rake at stern, with three bal- anced rudders having iron rudder stocks © carried on ball bearings. The tenders are to have one pair of stern wheel engines with cylinders' 9 inches in diameter and 36 inches stroke, supplied with steam from boilers 14 ft. long and 36 in. diameter. : Bids were opened at Milwaukee re- cently for the construction of the foun- dation of the lighthouse to be erected © on White Shoal Rock, Lake Michigan. The bidders were the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., Chicago, $109,900; Adolph Green, Green Bay, Wis., $119,- 636; General Construction Co., Mil- waukee, $232,518; W. H. Gillen, Mil- waukee, Wis., $129,800, and the Ed- Gillen Dock, Dredge & Con- struction Co., Racine, Wis., $93,785.60. Contract will be awarded to the Gillen Construction Co.' :