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THE Marine REVIEW a Tey BOLE. 26:0% Lik * These frames are tied together with beams and heavy knees at the house tops and are also tied to the fore and aft deck: stringers mentioned above. This forms a support which prevents the deckload from shifting in heavy seas. Although smaller, the general design of the Shna-yak is very similar to the of. the Riverside. She has the same raised deck forward, the main deck free for cargo and the boiler, engines and cabins are all located compactly aft. Tier characteristics are: Sturdy lines, relatively large cargo space, moderate power, long steaming radius and excep- tionally stiff, strong, solid construction, designed to withstand heavy seas and, if necessary, severe pounding on the beach. She cost complete $125,000. The Shna-yak 'represents the most modern design of wooden steam schoon- DECK PLANS OF THE SHNA-YAK . er. Another type that is frequently seen in the coast lumber trade has the ma- chinery and cabins placed amidships and two cargo holds, one forward and one aft. This design has the advantage of being better balanced when light, but has not the cargo space possessed by the other type and is consequently los- ing favor. oe The Shna-yak carries a crew of 19 men distributed as follows: One mas- ter, two mates, three engineers, three firemen, and 10 seamen. This is two less crew than is required for the Riv- erside. MAURETANIA FASTER. The Cunard turbine liner Marre- . tania docked at New York Jan. 30, for the first time since the accident to her propeller last October. Since that STEAM SCHOONER SHNA-YAK UNDER CONSTRUCTION, time she has been fitted with two new propellers--on the port and starboard high pressure turbines--and _ these have proved a great success. Although the Mauretania encount- ered a succession of gales on the passage she consumed but 5. days, '2-hours and 2 minutes, an average speed of 23.71 knots. From Daunt's rock to the Fastnet she traveled at a speed of 27 knots and at one per.od of the voyage she averaged 26,55 knots for five hours. Capt. Pritchard, of the Mauretania, is confident that with fair weather she will be able to maintain an aver- age of 26 knots for the entire paw sage. OBITUARY. Capt. Norman Nicolson, for many years an officer and master on the ves- sels of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., died at Tucson, Ariz. Jan. 24. Cay Nicolson succumbed to tuberculosis af- ter fighting the dread malady for sev- eral years. He is survived by his wife and two children. Capt. Nicolson was about 38 years old and was one of the most widely known seafaring men on the Pacific coast. Although a young man he has had the command of some of the Pacific Coast Co.'s best steamers, including the excursion steamer Spo- kane and the City of Seattle. Walter Metcalf, of Cleveland, mas- ter diver, died at Detroit last week after an illness of many months. He was known from one end of the lakes to the other as one of the most suc- cessful divers on the lakes. He was employed in all important wrecking Operations in which skillful diving was required.