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"TARE Marine REVIEW FIG. 8--DAKE SINGLE-STAGE TURBINE. had her bow smashed, and it was necessary to lash the steamers togeth- er and transfer her passengers to the Chippewa. No lives were lost in the accident. A collision occurred Sept. 13 between the Head line steamship Malin Head and the Allan liner Corinthian 30 miles below Quebec. The Malin Head was so badly damaged that she FIG. 9--THE DAKE 100-HORSEPOWER, 3-STAGE STEAM TURBINE. had to be beached while the Corin- thian put back to Quebec. A dense smoke from the forest fires covered the river at the time. No loss of life is reported, Masters of some of the wind jam- mers which have been lying idle for several months in Puget Sound are reported to be disappointed over a clause of Lloyds that any vessel placed on the beach for cleaning may be con- Sidered as stranded. It was the in- tention of these masters to put their vessels on the beach for cleaning and representative was thus save dry dock charges, but Lloyds instructed to re- gard the vessels as stranded, with the consequent advantages to the under- writers, and none of them has tried the scheme, although it was common enough in the old days. The Bermuda Atlantic Steamship Co.,- according. to «a consular. report from the island, has been formed by an association of business men in Ber- muda and the United States, and will probably establish a new passenger service between New York and St. George, Bermuda, consisting of a steamer with a capacity for 150 first- class passengers, and carrying neither second-class passengers nor freight, to make the distance in 45 hours from dock to dock. The monitor Wyoming is to go into commission on Sept. 28 at the Mare Island navy yard. She has been out of commission ever since she was dis- abled by the breaking of a propeller shaft off the southern coast three years ago. In the mean- time she has been thoroughly over- hauled and equipped with oil-burning apparatus for experimental purposes. At the maneuvers which are being carried out by a submarine fleet in Buzzard's Bay, the Octopus, Viper, Cuttlefish, Tarantula and Plunger made a joint theoretical attack upon the cruiser Yankee, and technically speaking practically destroyed that vessel, The attacking force was in command of Lieut. Charles C. Court- ney, of the Octopus, and the maneu- vers were held in the waters of Buz- zard's Bay last week. - shall 'nel as proposed, will California. 59 NAVIGATION OF AMBROSE CHANNEL. Appeals have been made to the president and to the war department by Atlantic steamship lines for per- mission to the Ambrose channel in New York harbor at night, but as the channel is in an uncom- pleted state Chief of Engineers Mar- the war that any premature opening of it to night traffic would introduce the possibility of accidents. It is there- fore probable that the requested per- be deferred. Marshall says in 'his letter: navigate has. advised secretary of mission | will General "If the work is permitted to pro- ceed as at present, without interrup- tion to the operations of the dredges during the night, it is hoped and ex- pected that within the next four months one-half the channel, or a width of approximately 1,000 ft., will have been completed, and recommen- dations can then be made to con- gress for a modification of the law, with a view to throwing open this part of the channel to all deep draught vessels. This will make available for all such vessels, at all times, 'both day and night, a channel 1,000 ft. wide and 40 ft. deep, which can be used with perfect safety, since it then can be properly marked and the confusing dredging lights and buoys can be removed. "Any premature opening of the partially completed channel to night navigation will seriously interfere with the plans of the department, will de- lay the opening of the 1,000-ft. chan- increase the cost of the work and introduce pos- sibilities of accidents' that might en- tirely offset the excellent results in rapidity of execution and economy already secured. "Tt has always been the intention of the engineering department to open a deep draught channel to navigation at the earliest possible date, and to that end it has been pushing the work day and night to complete one-half the channel and make this available first, and if navigation interests will exercise a little patience--a few months longer--this long desired re- sult will be secured. "There has been no intention of delaying the use of the channel until entire completion, or in fact beyond the time absolutely essential for se- curing a practicable channel of full depth."