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48 A Sinking Schooner The photographs pub- lished herewith are among the most remarkable ever taken at sea. The North German Lloyd steamship Berlin, bound for New York, -passed the four- ~ masted schooner Marjory Brown about 200 miles outside of Sandy Hook foundering as the result of having sprung a leak in a heavy gale. She was loaded with coal at the time. The log of the Ber- lin shows that she ar- rived alongside at 10:09 a mi and: that ar: 10:11, or two minutes later the Marjory Brown had dis- appeared. The five pho- tographs were taken by C. W. Watd, Kissimmee, Fla., from the deck of _ the Berlin artd show with great clearness with what rapidity the Marjory Brown went down. The first three pictures show the disappearance of the hull. The fourth picture shows nothing but the foremast sticking out of the water, and there can also be dimly seen the lifeboat putting off from the wreck with the crew of the sinking schooner. The fifth picture shows the life: boat going to- wards the Berlin, but the Marjory Brown has _to- tally disappeared. Chief Surveyor Westcott S. Abell, pro- fessor of naval architect- ure at Liverpool univer- sity, has been appointed to succeed the late Dr. S: J.P. Thearle: in the office of chief ship sur- veyor to Lloyds Society. Charles Buchanan, who was Dr. Thearle's senior assistant, has at the same time been promoted to the position of principal of the chief ship surveyor's staff. Prof. Abell, who was born in 1877, has had 2 distinguished career, His professional education commenced in the Royal Naval Engineering Col- lege, Devonport, and was continued at the Royal THE MARINE REVIEW SHOWING SCHOONER SINKING February, 1914 Naval College, Green- wich. In 1900, he was appointed to the Royal corps of naval construct- ors; from 1904 to 1907 he was professional sec- retary to. the 'director Gf naval construction, and for the next three years (following in the steps of the late Sir William. H. White and Sir William E. Smith) he held the posi- tion of instructor 'in na- val architecture ::at the Royal Naval College. In 1910, he was selected to fill' the chait "of naval architecture at Liverpool 'university. The profes- sional reputation which he has won for himself, at a comparatively early age, is illustrated by the fact that he was appoint- ed last year by the board of trade to be a member of the load line commit- tee, which is now sitting to consider the existing freeboard tables, and was selected as chairman of a subcommittee to prepare draft rules for submission to the international con- ference to be held later on. Prof. Abell's duties in this capacity have in- volved the investigation of the relation of strength of structure to freeboard and also an_ exhaustive comparison of the varying rules and practice of the several classification so- cieties. Among the tech- nical papers which have been read. by 'Prof: Abell may be mentioned one on the general action of capsizing forces, before the Liverpool Engineer- ing Society, and one on methods of calculation for investigating the safety of ships in damaged con- dition, before the Institu- tion of Naval Architects. Charles Buchanan, for whom the office of prin- cipal of chief ship sur- veyors "staff. has: beet created, is one of the best known and most popular naval architects of the day. He has been asso- ciated with mercantile shipbuilding throughout his career. Prior to join- ing the service of Lloyds