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18 W x S. True course WSW A W- Mean var. % pt. Ely. Corr. magnetic course Wx 5S % 5S. Dev. % pt. Wly. Compass course W x S. 15. Compass is $4 pt. out. Why. Required course, Nx E% E. 16. NW % W (nearly). Dev. ¥% pt. Wly. ay Bets Vi. WM pt... Wily: "18. The true coutse is the angle made with the true meridian by a straight line drawn on the chart be- tween the ship's position and the point aimed for. It is the course laid on the chart and measured from a true meridian. The correct magnetic course is the true course corrected for variation. The compass course is the correct magnetic course with the deviation for that heading applied. The compass course may be the course steered by compass affected by both variation and deviation. Get the true course from the chart. Applying var. as per chart gives the correct magnetic course. To the correct magnetic course apply the dev. for that heading and you have the compass course. o190 CORSE: ' ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. Major Graham D. Fitch, United States government engineer at Duluth, has asked. bids for removing the wreck of the steamer Sevona, sunk 114 miles northeast of Sand island in the Apostle group, Lake Superior. The stern of the wreck is in 18 ft. of water and the bow in 22 ft. Capt. Muller, government compass ad- juster, with headquarters at Toronto, has been appointed Canadian inspector of the British Marine Underwriters Association. The Reid Wrecking Co., of Sarnia, will raise the schooner George G. Hough- ton which sank near Bar Point last fall while being towed to Toledo with a cargo of salt. Contracts will be awarded by the government shortly for the building of 12, steel steamboats for artillery service for various parts of the Uni- ted States, two of which will be sta- +ioned on the Pacific coast. The boats Bie to be 90 H, long 22 ft. wide and 8 ft. draught, and will cost approxi- mately $60,000 each. Barclay, .Curle & Co., Glasgow, re- cently launched the Principe di Udine for the Lloyd Sabaudo, the fast. Ital- jan mail service between Italy and the United States. The latter-day steamer endeavors to cater to all pos- sible wants, a number of them hay- ing palm gardens, candy stores, Turk- ish bath and the like, but this steam-. er is the first to be equipped with a dentist's office. Owing to the shifting of the coal- TAE Marine REVIEW laden cars composing part of the cargo of a large float belonging to the Brooklyn and Eastern District Ter- minal Co., the float overbalanced and sank in the East river, New York, off the Williamsburg dock. There were 20 cars on the float, nine loaded with coal, 10 with barrel staves, and one * . off Gloucester and was driven ashore on the eastern side of the channel. The Norwegian steamship Harald, from Santiago de Cuba with 4,800 tons of iron ore, arrived at the Port Rich- mond piers, Philadelphia, on Friday. The work of discharging began at 2:30 p. m. the same day and completed The above view shows the wreck of the second-class cruiser Gladiator, of 5,700-tons dis- placement, attached to the Portsmouth division of the Home Fleet, which on Saturday afternoon, April 25, while returning from Portland, came into collision in the narrow waters of the Solent, unfortunately with the loss of between 30 and 40 lives, with the American liner St. Paul, out- ward bound through the Needles. contained 30 Texas steers. The cattle doors were opened, and about half of the steers got out and swam .ashore. The loss is believed to be about $35,000. e The .Dutch steamship Tromp, from New York in ballast to load for the West Indies, during. the gale of Sat- urday night went ashore in the Dela- ware river. The Tromp was at anchor The liner, as shown above, had her bows badly buckled. on Saturday, the vessel leaving imme- diately for Louisburg, Cape Breton. For quick loading and discharging Philadelphia can certainly hold her own along the coast. : The Niagara Navigation Co. of Tor- onto has just issued a bulletin an- nouncing the opening of their service connecting Buffalo, Niagara Falls. and Toronto.