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24 PACIFIC COAST NOTES. Office of the Marine ReviEw, 302 Pioneer Bldg., Seattle, Wash., Dec. 26. Messrs. Arthur, Fred and 'Gerald Seaton, formerly of Vancouver, B. C., will open a new shipyard in New Westminster, B. C., soon after, Jan. 1. The new firm has acquired the interests of Joseph Crane; the properties trans- ferred include a large floating dry dock at the foot of Fourth avenue, -and the marine ways on Lulu Island known as Crane's ways. Important improvement to the plant will be made at once, including the addition of a machine shop and an up-to-date wood working plant. The brothers will engage in all kinds of boat building and repairing and will specialize on fine yachts. Work on the six old clipper ships recently bought by the Coastwise Steamship & Barge Co. and which are to be 'transformed into barges for freighting rock has. already The work to be done includes taking down the yards, top and topgallant masts and upper gear and enlarging the hatches. About $3,000 will be ex- pended' on each ship. The James Drummond is being dismantled at Eagle 'harbor by Hall Bros. Marine Ry. & Shipbuilding Co. and the Car- iondelet.is being transformed by Philip D. Sloan. It has not been decided who will do the work on the re- maining four ships. The hospital ship Relief, which came around Cape Horn with the Atlantic fleet and is now in the Philippines has been declared unseaworthy and_ will probably be stationed as _ hospital station ship at Olongapo, P. I, here- after. A Several foreign vessels well known on the Pacific have recently changed hands, The former German steamer Marcellus is listed now as Johanna, flies the Swedish flag and hails from Stockholm. The British bark Sussex has been sold to the Italians and an- other British bark, Clan. Buchanan, has been purchased iby Norwegians and renamed Valerie. These vessels are all engaged in tthe Puget Sound deep sea lumber trade. The contract for building the gov- ernment boarding boat for the local government quarantine 'service has been awarded to the International Contract Co., Seattle, for $16,500. Advices teceived from Chefoo by the British steamer Suveric state that Seaton begun. THE Marine REVIEW the Japanese steamers Nagata Maru and Ginsei Maru both foundered re- cently near Chefoo. In a strong gale the engines of the Negata Maru broke down and the helpless vessel was hurled on the shore. But one Chinaman survived of all the passen- gers and crew. No one on the Gen- sei Maru was saved and it is not known how she met her fate. | The burning oil steamer Kaloma, 3,209 tons net, which 'had become un- manageable and dangerous in the harbor of Singapore was sunk by sol- id shot from the harbor fort, Dec. 18. The United States steamer Supply is expected to arrive at the navy yard, Puget Sound, shortly for extensive repairs which will require lan expendi- ture of $100,000 in labor alone. The new steamship lines between the Pacific coast and the Hawaiian islands are being organized in south- ern California. One is to be incor- porated by capitalists of Los Angeles and the other is planned as a subsi- diary of Senator Clark's new railroad, the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Wake. The "projected lines are to make Los Angeles their principal Pacific port, and 'both are designed to care for the rapidly growing canned pineapple and sugar freight and tourist passenger traffic between the Pacific coast and' Hawaii. The freight hauls both ways are consid- ered to be sufficiently. heavy to make both lines pay. Passing through exceptionally heavy weather which swept away every- thing from her decks that was not securely bolted down, the © Nippon Yusen Kaisha steamship Iyo Maru ar- rived in Seattle Dec. ahead of her schedule. The Iyo Maru brings the last oriental importations into Puget Sound 'this year. Included in her cargo is 500 bales of raw silk. . The new Puget Sound steamer Va- shonian, built by Philip D, Sloan, Seattle, underwent an informal trial trip Wednesday, Dec, 23, With a small party of invited guests the smart new steamer left Galbraith Dock, Seattle; -2t.11.07> A.) M. and steamed to Vashon and return.: No attempt at speeding was made; the trip being made merely to test the ma-.. 'chinery and seagoing qualities»of the-; No unpleasant accidents: The Viashonian is,; new. craft; marred the trip. not quite finished::and.-will- not be 23, 24 'hours. I placed on her regular run for several days. Among those on board during the trial were L. H. Coolidge, the de- signer of the hull; Philip D. Sloan, the builder, George Sloan, A. D. Cowan, president of the Vashon Steamboat Co., C. J.. Buckley, H. H. Harrington, Fred Beal, 'Louis Brews- ter, H. Cole Estep. - ATLANTIC COAST NOTES. Office of the Marine Review, Room 1005, No. 90° West St., New York City. The Vasari, the new passenger and freight steamer of the Lamport & Holt service between New York, Brazil and the Argentine Republic, was launched last week at the Dixon shipyard, Middlesborough, England. The general dimensions of the Va- sari are: Length, 502 ft.; breadth, 59 i, and depth, do ft; 3 -1n, Her. en- gines, built by the Richardsons, Westgarth & Co., will gve the steam- er a speed of 14 knots pér_ hour. There will be accommodation for 200 first-class and a large number of steerage passengers, the new ves- sel being luxuriously fitted through- out. Beckett Hill, the Liverpool manager of the Allan Steamship line, died in, that: cty on Dec: 27. The steamship Pretoria, of the Ham- burg-American line, arrived at New York this week considerably overdue through stress of weather. On Dec. 13 she logged just 41 miles, and only 52 on the 16th. The steamers. Adtrsral 'Schley and Seguranca, "from Port Antonio, Ja- maica, and "Cuba; 'arrived': at' -New York on Monday and reported pass- ing the derelict schooner Warner Moore off the Virginia' coast. The Warner Moore was abandoned in a waterlogged' condition on Christmas day. The United States derelict de- stroyer Seneca was standing by the derelict, awaiting smoother seas. be- fore beginning the work of destruc- tion. ( There was a total of over 4,000 passengers passed into the harbor of New York last week above the num- ber? passime" ont: Since: 'the year opened steemge departures have been 657,931, arrivals 400,807, excess de- partures: 257,124.. Excess arrivals for 1907, in the same period, were 814,643. 'On .atcount. of the lack of dry docking' facilites at Philadelphia, the 'Norwegian 'steamer. Wacousta left