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PACIFIC COAST NOTES. Office of the Marine Review, 302 Pioneer Bldg., Seattle, Wash., Jan. 30. The old always come by threes seems to be veri- sailor's theory that wrecks fied in the wreck of the American four- masted wooden schooner Soquel Jan. 22 the Island, close to where the steamer Va- on southern shore of Vancouver lencia was lost with 140 lives Jan. 22, 1906. The Soquel is the third vessel wrecked on the north Pacific coast with- in a few weeks, the other two, as pre- viously reported in the Marine Review, being the steam schooner Sibyl Marston and the French ship Alice. The schoon- er was wrecked on a sunken ledge, which is a part of Seabird rocks at the mouth of Pachena bay. She was endeavoring to make her way up the straits from Callao, which port she left on Dec. 9 in ballast' for Port Townsend. Wire- less reports of the wreck were received soon after its occurrence and the British coasting steamers Tees and Lebro and the U. S. revenue cutter Manning went to the wreck and rescued the crew. The Soquel was in command of Capt. Charles Hennengsen. 'The only fatalities of the wreck were the death of Capt. Hen- nengsen's wife and child who were struck and instantly killed by falling spars at the time the schooner went aground. The Soquel is a four masted schooner built in 1901; she was 195 ft. long, 41 ft. beam, 765 gross tons and 693 net tons register and was owned by J. R. Hanify & Co.,, San Francisco. The following vessels of the Pacific fleet of the U.°S: navy: have been 3s- signed to the navy yard, Puget Sound, at Bremerton, Wash., for repairs: Crui- sers Albany, Boston, Colorado, New Orleans, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Wash- ington, Concord, Princeton, Rainbow, Wheeling, battleship Oregon, collier Sat- urn, supply ship Supply and torpedo boats Goldsmith and Rowan. The crui- sers California, Maryland, South Da- kota and West Virginia will be docked at Puget Sound and afterwards go to Mare Island for repairs. The majority -of these ships will come to this yard after the spring target practice at Mag- dalena bay, which will bring their arrival on Puget Sound some time im March. There is about a year's work in exten- sive repairs to be done on the Oregon. The Wheeling, Boston and Princeton will not need extensive repairs this season. The Bamfield creek motor lifeboat be- longing to the Canadian government which wds recently wrecked on Rob- "TAE. MarRINE. REVIEW bers island and at first thought to be a total wreck has been rescued by the steamer Leebro and will be repaired. The repairs will be made at Victoria and it .is expected that they will cost several thousand dollars. John Hendry, a wealthy lumberman of British Columbia, will have the Van- couver Shipyards,. Vancouver, Bb. ©, build' a $15,000, 70-ft.) gasoline motor yacht. The new boat will be one of the finest pleasure craft on the north coast. Alfred J. .C. Robertson:: of Norm Vancouver is the designer of the new boat. About $5,000 is being spent in re- pairs to the U. S. revenue cutter Thetis. The work is being done by Hall Bros. Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Co.,, Winslow, Wash., and includes new decks, a new figure-head, cleaning, painting, repairs to the propeller, etc. The work will be completed within a month. The Willamette Iron & Steel Works, Portland, Ore. reports that good prog- ress is being made on the new steel steamer H. B. Kennedy, which is being built for the Port Orchard route, Se- attle. The installation of the machinery is nearing.completion. (The lower cabin is nearly finished and the framing for the upper cabin is all in place. It is ex- pected to have steam in one of the boil- ers by the middle of February. The four-masted schooner' Ensign, bound from San Pedro, Cal., north in ballast went ashore Jan. 20 sixteen miles north of Santa Barbara and is being pounded to pieces by the sea. A line has been run ashore and the crew are in safety. It is feared the vessel will be a total loss.' The schooner is 180 ft. long, 35. ft: beam and' 13 ft, deep. She has. a gross tonnage of 818 and a net of 522. She was built at Everett, Wash., in 1904 and is owned by Charles R. Mc- Cormick of San Francisco. The British steamer Agapanthus, which has been lying disengaged since April 17 at Esquimalt, B. C, has been sold by John Bruce Murray & Co. of Glas- gow to the Parke Steamship Co. of Glasgow. It is thought she will be used in the Mediterranean. When the Aga- panthus was launched in 1892 she was the largest general cargo ship afloat. The Boscowitz Steamship Co.'s steam- er Venture burned to the water's edge at Inverness, B: C.; Jan: 25. She had on board a cargo of 5,000 cases of docking, salmon. The steamer will be a total loss with her cargo. The value of the Ven- ture was about $100,000 and of the car- go $30,000, fully insured. oe After braving many storms on_ its perilous voyage around Cape Horn, the lightship flotilla has arrived at San Francisco, 125 days out from New York. The little fleet made its voyage without a mishap. After minor repairs the ships will proceed to their various stations. The contract for the repair of the steamer Senator has been let to Fer- guson & Houston, Astoria, Ore. for $2,300. \ The Port Orchard route is consider- ing the construction of a new steamer for service out of Seattle on Puget Sound. The new boat is being de- signed by F. A. Ballin, Portland, archi- tect for the steel steamer H. B. Ken- nedy, now under construction for the same route by the Willamette Iron & Steel' Works, Portland. The new boat is to have a passenger capacity of 150 and a speed of 18 miles an hour. 'The Port Orchard route has also. made arrangements to _ ferry freight cars from Seattle to the navy yard at Bremerton. Congress will be asked at this ses- sion to provide more lights for the coast of Alaska. Insufficient aids to navigation along this coast are de- clared to be a menace to shipping. It is also noted that the Canadian waters are much better lighted than those belonging to the United Sates. The following additional lights are recommended: Tongass Narrows--Hog rocks, Ida- ho rock, Spire island, near ast Clump and Channel island, acetylene beacons; Lewis point, concrete bea- con. Port Chester--Gull rock, Ship island, acetylene beacons. 7 Wrangell Narrows--Point Alexan- der, Point Lockwood rock, Burnt Island ledge, Bush Top island, Bould- er flat, South Green rock, North flat, Blunt point, Turn point, Mitkof island, acetylene beacons; South ledge, Danger point, concrete beacons; Midday islands, Portland island, Battery point, Rocky island, Tendkee inlet, acetylene beacons. Peril Straits--Otstoi island, Rose Island rock, Middle Point rock, Ser- islets, Wyville Whitestone gius point, Channel reef, acetylene 'beacons; narrows, acetylene buoy. Point Gardner--Murder cove, acety- lene beacons.