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ATLANTIC COAST NOTES. Office of the Martne Review, Room 1005, No. 90 West Sit, . : : New York City. By passing Daunt's Rock lightship at 5:10 P. M.,. Monday, the Cunard liner Mauretania established a record for the long route. The entire distance of 2,934 miles was covered in 4 days, 20: hours and 27 minutes, thus making an average speed of 25.20 knots. The day's runs for the trip» were 491, 605, 594, 567, 582, and 95 miles to Daunt's Rock. The best previous record from Sandy Hook to Daunt's Rock over the Jong course was 5 days and 5 minutes, made by the Mauretania in March, 1908. The Norwegian steamship Munin, which was for a time believed to be the unknown vessel sunk off the Dia- mond Shoals Lightship, is reported safe at: Darien; Ga.' Owine tothe fact. that the vessel encountered a haze on ap- proaching the coast, and the vicinity was 'strange to the vessel's captain, the Munin cruised in the waters for several days and .at last got a pilot at Tybee. The Hamburg-American liner Deutsch- land grounded on a North River shoal while outward bound for Mediterranean ports on Saturday, floating again, unin- jured, in about two hours. She lay at anchor all night in Gravesend Bay, pro- ceeding to sea at daybreak by the Am- brose channel. The new regulations of the Depart- ment of Commerce and Labor, limiting the length of hawsers between . towing vessels and seagoing barges in tow, and the length of such tows within inland waters, went into effect on Feb. 1. It is said that the result may be an increase in freight rates to points 'along Long Island Sound and New England. The house committee on merchant marine and fisheries has acted adversely on the bill to compel sailing vessels of 300 tons and over to carry licensed pilots. It is argued that hundreds of vessels trading on the coast are con- trolled by masters who have learned their business well enough by practical experience and who are as competent in their own particular line of duty as any men that could be had. The 'torpedo boats Porter, Shubrick and Stockton, with the torpedo-boat destroyer Worden left Hampton Roads Friday morning for Charleston. A ter- rific gale encountered forced the Porter to put back, the Stockton making Beau- fort, N. C., and the Shubrick making Morehead City. The Worden succeeded in making Charleston after what Lieut. "TAE Marine REVIEW Richardson, her commander, declared was the roughest trip he had ever taken. 'The overdue German steamship Maria Rickmers, which sailed from Greenock for Philadelphia, on Jan. 2, arrived at Philadelphia on Feb. 5. The Rickmers left the. Clyde in -ballast to load 'pe- troleum for Japan, her long run being due to continuous storms encountered while flying light. The Atlantic Transport liner Minne- haha will sail from London for New York on Feb: 15. She will Stop at Southampton for passengers and cargo in place of the steamship St. Louis, now at New York undergoing repairs. The British steamship Mort, Huebra for Philadelphia, was compelled to put into the Bermuda Islands last week to renew her supply of bunker coal. The Mort reported having en- countered continuous heavy weather on the Atlantic passage as the cause of her supply of coal giving out. The failure of the four-masted bark Fort George to arrive at Honolulu, for which port she sailed from New York on July 26 last, or to have been spoken anywhere since last August, has given rise to fears for her safety. - She was last spoken on Aug. 27, in latitude 11 north, longitude 25 west. The Fort George has a cargo of 2,500 tons of general merchandise, and, besides the captain and his wife, carries a crew of 18 men. She is owned by Welch & Co., of New York, and is of 1,705 tons net register. The Cunard liner Lusitania, from Liv- erpool for New York, put into Queens- town on Sunday night, 12 hours late through meeting with adverse weather. During Sunday night, while at anchor, she lost one of her anchors and many fathoms of chain. While at Queens- town 600 tons of coal were put into the big vessel, to replace the extra amount consumed while coming down the chan- nel. The United Fruit Company has de- cided to install the wireless telegraph system on all of its steamers. These include the Admiral Dewey, Admiral Farragut and Admiral Schley, trading between Philadelphia, New York and the West Indies. e The three-masted schooner Horace. A. Stone arrived at Norfolk this week with the greater part of her sails, topmast and rudder-head gone. She was en route from Tampa, Fla, to Norfolk from when severe gales were encountered coming up the coast. She was blown 275 miles to sea, and under improvised sails and jury rudder got back to Nor- folk. The Baltimore Wrecking Company has contracted to save the cargo and float the schooner Helena, already mentioned in this column as ashore near Scituate, Mass. Tugs and lighters have left Bos- ton to begin work at once. The crews of the three wrecked British steamships Alnmere, Hesleyside and Dahomey arrived at New York from the Bahama Islands last week. The Alnmeré was wrecked on the Abaco - Island on Jan. 24, and the Hesleyside "last October. The Dahomey was wrecked a at Nassau on Dec. 29. The-three vessels were total losses. The trans-Atlantic rate war, it 4s "an- nounced, is ended, the various shipping companies attending the conference at Paris having reached an agreement on all the points relating to the traffic from the Mediterranean ports to the United States. The terms have not been an- nounced, but the basis of agreement for steerage and second class passengers be- | tween Italy and the United States, which has been one of the chief points at issue, is the same as that set forth in the international agreement regarding transportation between* other European ports and North America. The Haverford and Merion, the American liners withdrawn from the Philadelphia and Liverpool service in December, owing to the cattle plague, : and placed in the Liverpool and Port- a land service, have been ordered back to their old route. Silas M. Harding, superintendent of the Maine and New Hampshire - life saving service, has recommended to the officials of the service at Wash- ington, that the new Isle of Shoals life saving station be equipped with wireless telegraph apparatus. The station is 13 miles from the mainland and is. now under construction. The storm of Saturday night com- pleted the destruction of the schooner ~-- Golden Ball, which went ashore on Egg Rock, off Jonesport, Me., on Thursday. The Golden Ball, a three- masted craft, was driven ashore while bound for St. John's, N. B. Two rev- enue cutters were dispatched to her assistance, but the blizzard of Satur- day prevented salvage work.