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October, 1910 loss, human life was sacrificed in only one case. A list of the more recent casualties will suffice to give some idea of what the Pacific shipping has suffered. After having groped about for several days in dense fogs around St. Paul Island, Bering Sea, the United States revenue cutter Perry struck a reef. off Point Tonki. The crew worked earnestly to free the ship, but within a few hours were forced to transfer to the Tahoma, which had been summoned by wireless. In. spite of all that could be done for her, the Perry pounded about on the rocks until completely demolished. The gasoline schooner Helen Johns- ton left Seattle in April to trade with Eskimos in north Alaskan waters. Many narrow escapes dotted her log through the spring and early summer, but she continued her work until recently a heavy storm drove her on the rocks off Point Hope and ship and cargo were total losses. The shore at the point of the wreck is barren and the crew were fortunate in getting away with their lives. Schooner James Rolph, owned by Hind, Rolph & Co., stranded during a heavy fog Aug. 2, near Point San Pedro. She was bound for the Hawaiian Islands. All efforts to release her have been abandoned. Helga, a British wooden barkentine of 1,254 tons, built in Norway in 1892, grounded on the Island of Kauai, Hawaii, Aug. 11, was abandoned by her crew and is reported fast going to pieces. Schooner Annie E. Smale, from Aus- tralia, with coal- for San Francisco, went ashore in a dense fog and is a complete loss. The coal was insured but not the ship. The crew were Picked up by the steamer M. F. Plant. Near Port Townsend, Wash., with the weather bright and clear, but prob- ably thrown from her 'course by a Strong tide, steamer Dode struck a reef in such a way as to make it impossible to save her. She has been abandoned. Besides these total losses, there have been a great many other casualties more or less serious. On Aug. 5, Princess May, a passenger steamer, owned by the Canadian Pacific railroad, struck a reef at north Sentinel Island. Her eighty passengers and crew of sixty- eight were all uninjured. It was at first supposed that it would be an easy Matter to release her, but her floating Proved' a matter of considerable diffi- culty. Aug. 2, steamer Chippewa collided with the steamer Albion off West Point, near Seattle. Though the Albion was badly damaged, her passengers were un- imjured and were taken off by the Chippewa, which then beached the THE Marine REVIEW MINE-LAYING STEAMER FOR THE PorTUGUESE Navy. Albion. An Aug. 10, the Chippewa, while running in a thick fog, struck Davidson's reef and was so_ severely. damaged that she will be off her route for some little time. U. S. Cruiser Chattanooga was towed into Bremerton from the Hawaiian Islands by the fleet collier Prometheus. She was disabled in Hawaiian waters by the breaking of her propeller. Japanese steamer Awa Maru, shortly after her departure for the Orient, broke her main steam pipe and found it neces- sary to stop at Victoria, B.C, tor re- pairs. Reporting herself only slightly dam- aged, the excursion steamer Sechelt, which went ashore in the Narrows, near Vancouver, B. C., was floated Aug. 10. The passengers were badly shaken, but none of them injured. Steamer Newport, while bound up the Columbia river, struck the beach on July 29 and was floated only with con- siderable difficulty. The. Potter, the Columbia river, collided with the steamer Oklahoma, which was towing a barge. A 40-ft. hole was torn in the side of the Potter. The British steamer Riverdale, bound for China, struck in Madison Bridge Passage at Portland, July 28. She was not seriously damaged. Of those aboard the vessels, above mentioned, none were killed or in- jured. The crew of the steam schooner Phoenix, whose boilers blew up at sea, Aug. 10, about ten miles north of Point Arena lighthouse off the Mendacino coast, were not so fortunate. The chief engineer, second mate, and two firemen were either killed outright or died soon after the accident from injuries sus- tained. carrying passengers on Mine Laying and Torpedo Regulation Vessel Messrs. J. 1° Thornycroft & Co., Southampton, have built an interest-. ing vessel for the Portuguese navy, a twin-screw steamer specially de- signed for laying submarine mines and testing and regulating Whitehead tor- pedoes. Her principal dimensions are: Length over: all; 117 {t.; 'breadth, molded, 19 ft. 6 in.; depth, molded, ll it.; draught, 6.{t, 9 in and her speed is 1214 knots. For mining purposes the vessel is equipped with shearlegs at the stern .worked by a combined electric and hand winch. For torpedo-testing and regulating, the vessel is provided with a revolving 18-in. torpedo-tube amid- ships, and at the break of the fore- castle with two _ torpedo-cages -- (or skeleton tubes made of angle bars, etc.) which can be lowered into the water by means of special davits, so that the torpedoes can be started un- der water by means of their own pow- er on pulling a starting lever. ° There is a steam steering gear con- trolled from the bridge and a hand gear aft. Electric lighting is fitted throughout, and a search-light on a portable stand on the bridge. The bridge is placed at the break of the forecastle, and the front part of it forms a breakwater. The vessel is equipped with three small 'boats, viz., one Thornycroft 20- ft. motor launch, one 20-ft. life boat, and one 12-ft. dinghy. The machinery consists of two sets of tri-compound surface-condensing engines, and one Thornycroft water- tube boiler working under natural draft.