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February, 1914 Wastage of Steel Vessels During the past 12 years 46 iron and steel vessels have become total losses on the great lakes. These ves- sels include the iron steamers Clarion and Russia, the British-built steamers Theano, Bannockburn, Wexford, Re- gina, Leafield, and the Canadian-built steamers James Carruthers and Otta- wa. The figures also include _ the steamers E. M. Peck, I. W. Nicholas, L. C.. Walde 'and: the "Brittsh-built steamer Turret Chief, which have been abandoned as constructive total losses, though there is a_ possibility that they may yet be recovered. Of this wastage of 46 steel vessels 'during the past 12 years, 16 of them are to be credited to 1913, and of the 16 14 were wrecked in the great No- vember storm. A table is herewith published showing the total losses of steel tonnage for the past 12 years. Looking back it is singular how many of them have the element of mystery in their destruction. No one knows what happened to the Bannock- burn, in 1902, theCyprus, in 1907, the Clemson, in 1908, the car ferry Mar- 'quette & Bessemer No. 2, in 1909, and the Pere Marquette No. 18, in 1910, and no one came ashore from the Bannockburn, Clemson or car ferry Marquette & Bessemer No. 2. One man came ashore from the Cyprus, but he had no coherent. message. Thirty-two members of the crew were saved when the car ferry Pere Mar- quette No. 18 foundered, but not one of them knew what had _ occurred aboard ship to make her founder. Eight ships totally disappeared on Lake Huron in the great November storm and two on Lake Superior, and as not a single life was saved on any of them, what occurred is mere conjecture. Following is the table: Carrying capacity, Year.--Name of vessel. gross tons. 1913--Str, Charles. -S; Prices. 3.5. 9,000 1913--Str. Isaac M. Scott .......... 9,000 1913--Str. 3H. "Be Smith ses os. 10,000 1913--Str. John A. McGean........- 7,500 1913--Str.: Areus: 3.02 poia ee s ee - 7,000 1913--Str. Hydrus: >.) 22.215. sea ees 7,000 1913----*Str: LC? Waldo. 2.2. 7,000 1913--*Str. H. M! Hanna Jr.:....-: 8,500 1913--*Str. Matoa ....-0eeee-e eee? 3,104 1913--Str. James Carruthers ..--.--- 9,500 1913--Str. Wexford ...-.es+2ss<23¢ 2,800 1913--Str. Regina ......-ee+s-eser's 3,000 1913--Str, Leafield ., 2654-22323 *s: 3,500 1913----*Str, 'Turret Chief... -.-5---s 3,100 1913--*Str. I. W. Nicholas......---- 3,859 1913--*Str. E. M.. Peck.....-.--++-» 3,000 1912--Str. James Gayley ..-------:- 7,500 1911--Str. Joliet .......---.0e2 +++ +> 2977 1911---Str. John 'Mitchell ....-.----- 7,500 1911--Str. Turret Cape ...-+.-:---:: 3,100 1910--Str. Frank H. Goodyear...-.. 6,900 1910--Str. W. C. Moreland ......-- 12,000 1910--Str. John Sharples ...-----:-: 2,800 1910--Carf'y Pere Marquette No. 18. 5,000 1909--Str, Aurania © ...05:-s03 +405" 4,500 1909--Str. Clarion 2... 22s 5-5-6-+- +52 3,000 1909--Str. John B. Cowle..-------:- 6,500 1909--Str. Ottawa ...-2-+--2sseeee> 3,500 1909--Str. Russia |. 2. eects seen eos 2,800 THE MARINE REVIEW 1909--Carferry Marquette & Besse- metiONowd 26) ee se ae 1908----Str; Ds MM. Clemson... 7,800 1908--Pkg. Frtr. North Star. ......" 3,000 1907--Sti Cyprus 0. 7,000 1906--Str. (Grecian <2 a 3,255 1906---Str. Theano™ 3... 2,600 1905--Str. Sevona oa 4.500 19058-"Str, Etritias (i 6,250 1905----Str. Thos. W. Palmer:.,..0° 3,100 1905---Stt,) latavette. 7 4) 6,588 1905---Sch). Madeira, 465.0 3 7,000 1205---Stry Vieraeie 3,272 1305=-Str. dra E - Owen 2,900 1904--None. 1903--Str. Queen of the West....... 1,500 1902--Whaleback Barge 129......... 2,500 1902--Str. Bannockburn ............. 3,000 *Constructive total loss. Commerce of Lake Superior The report of the superintendents of canals at Sault Ste. Marie shows that 23,795 ships of 57,989,715 net tons register passed through the canals during 1913. Of this number 15,599 of 32,062,619 net tons used the United States canal and 8,196 of 25,927,096 net tons used the Canadian canal. The total freight movement was 79,718,344 net tons, of which 37,022,201 tons were carried through the United States: .canal, and» 42,696,143 -tons through «the. Canadian. canal:... The movement of freight is 7,245,668 tons greater than that of 1912. It will be seen that, while the number of ves- sels using the Canadian canal is only about half the number using the American canal, yet the Canadian ca- nal carries the greater portion of freight, proving conclusively that the larger class of vessels use the Canad- ian canals. The United States canal opened April 18> and closed. Dec, 18, a. sea- son of 245 days. The Canadian ca- nal opened April 14 and closed Dec. 15, a season of 246 days. 79 tion indicators are: The Chesapeake Steamship Co.'s new passenger steam- ers City of Annapolis and City of Richmond, built at Sparrow's Point. These valuable instruments have also been installed on the eight new ves- sels of The American-Hawaiian Steam- ship Co., built at the same yards. McNab direction indicators were also installed on the new steamship Congress, of the Pacific Coast Steam- ship Co., recently completed at Cam- den, N. J. The -above instruments were supplied by The McNab Co., Bridgeport, Conn. The McNab Marine Appliances; Ltd., London, E. C., has recently re- ceived an order to equip the trans- Atlantic fleet of the Anchor Line, Glasgow, including the Cameronia, Co- lumbia, California, and Caledonia; also the new P. & O. liner Kaiser-I-Hind, now completing at Greenock, Scot- land, and the six destroyers now building at Cowes, England, for the Chilian navy. : British Tank for Mexican Oiler Trade 2 The oil tank steamer San Hilaris, one of ten large tank steamers which are being constructed to the order of the Eagle Oil Transport Co. ied. for the transport of oil from Mexican oil fields, was launched at Jarrow for the Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Prod- ucts. Co., Ltd., which is the sales or- ganization engaged in the export of Mexican petroleum products. The San Hilaris carries 15,000 tons dead- weight and is constructed in accord- ance with Lloyds highest classand un- der their special survey, for the car- riage of oil in bulk. The vessel is also Items. Vessels: Steamers, number Sailing, number Unregistered, number Total, number Lockages, number Tonnage: Registered, net Freight, short Passengers, number Coal: Hard, short tons Soft, short tons Flour, barrrels Wheat, bushels Grain, bushels Mfd. and pig iron, short tons.......--++++-+- Salt, barrels Copper, short tons Iron ore, short tons Lumber, M. ft. B. M.....-----eeeeeercccees Building stone, short tons General mdse, short tons.....-.-.++-+++++es- POT ERAN iat Oo te a gE oe LL er wisp Aaie a LS. Siagiherjon esi Baa meeg min eh RAR anaes pak 8 Pre we eke Wie ease, a6 e 6 meena ee. 66a 8 Ae be 08 @ 0 we 685850 8 eee RT® Ba rar eee tye ee at ee Se eB PRP ee ie ar it ee ee wo on I Oe ed CRP RE BY UTR he tee Tn he CIR LS Te ee NY gee eRe te BS 6 Re RYO ie Hee, ORLO WERE CLOT SS: GES OR Storer ae ar wr AN ee ue SK Ign Ba ORG IN Sec ne iS DE aD Kok aie ble bo Re eee om Bienes eee) Same Ss Sg p Bi ew e6NG C60 6. BRO OR Be SEO N ES Oe Re Ca Ow WOO, OR Re 0 O46 AONE SE OOO Uae PO ar ee a GE a ee eS Total traffic for Increase or decrease. Season Season Per cent. 1912. 1913. Amount. Inc. Dec. 19,076 19,789 718 4 ee 1,805 1,992 187 10, aes 1,897 2,014 UZ. 6 ae 22,778 23,795 1,017 4 16,088 16,867 779 5 56,736,807 57,989,715 1,252,908 2 72,472,676 79,718,344 7,245,668 10 66,877 77,194 10,317 15 2,142,485 2,744,574 602,089 28 12,789,109 15,878,364 3,089,255 24 85652;153-- 10;212,667- 1,560,514 18 174,086,456 204,821,507 30,735,051 18 69,024,546 112,230,369 43,205,823 63 fe 654,892 402,912 251,980 + 38 660,991 730,431 69,440 11 a 116,954 85,378 31,576 a 27 46,303,423 48,109,353 1,805,930 4 ia 667,542 599,586 67,956 ey 10 2,282 6,181 3,899 171 " 1,664,783 1,770,860 106,077 6 McNab Direction Indicators Among the latest prominent steam- ers in this country that have recently been equipped with the McNab direc- built in accordance with the latest re- quirements for the Suez canal and the Board of Trade regulations. Her length is 550 ft. and she is fitted with wireless.