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May, 1914 Suez Canal Statistics The thirteen tables sent over by the Suez Canal direction are interesting reading and bear upon almost every point of the canal trafic, "The fol- lowing percentages show how the tonnage using the canal was distrib- uted under.the different flags: 1913. 1912, 1911. eUGCL Prey Fy ct Iinglish tonnage... 60.2 63.4 64 German tonnage... 16.7... 149 .152 Dutch tonnage.;.. 6,4 6.1 D0 French tonnage... 4.7 3.9 4.5 Austro-Hungarian fPONNALe:. a. 66 cs 4.2 4.0 3.4 Compared with 1912 the English tonnage in 1913 has decreased a lit- tle more than 3 per cent, while that of the other nationalities shows an in- crease. It is interesting to note that out of 297 ships in ballast no fewer than 206 were English. The number 'of ships having effected the total num- ber of passages through the canal was 1,750 ships for 5,085 passages, while 316 ships went through the canal for the first time, which is about the usual proportion. The subjoined are the num- : ber of ships with special features: 1913. 1912. a5 with 3 Screws' .s550 3 14 2 With,4 screws. ..5.. ec -- 7 With tocbines 2. 4 7. 12 S). using oil: ine!" 7.4.50. 52. 64 75. with oil imOtors 4 cscs 7 The following is a list of owners according to importance of tonnage: 19132:. 1012. (In thousands of tons.) Ellerman Lines.... 1,328. 1,242. 1,158 $285. 1212.7 1.205 1911. THE MARINE REVIEW Alfred Holt: &. Co:,162 1.015 1,003 Hansa, Linte 2.2.55 1,037... 880; .< 848 Hamburg-Amerika Weigel oe 790 = 695 594 Messageries Mari- times, (30.0 a ace 678 583 603 Norddeutscher Lele says eed 630, --.608.....,595 Rotterdamsche Lloyd (ince ea 564 468 391 Nederland Stoomvy. Maat ink ae Sodus OOD caee It will be noticed that the first three companies are English and -that the following six are foreign. The largest increases in tonnage have been recorded by the Hansa Linie, 157,000 tons; Messrs. Alfred Holt & Co., 147,- 000 tons; and the British India, 147,- 000 tons. Last year 282,235 passengers went through the canal, as compared with 266,403: in 1912 and: 275,651. in. 1911. The number of ships using the canal having a draught of water exceeding 26 ft. is increasing. Last year vessels of the full draught of 28 ft. made 55 passages, against 32 passages in 1912. The vessel with the greatest length was the Cleveland, of 588 ft. 9 in, while the vessel having the. greatest breadth was the English cruiser Tri- umph, of 71 ft. 1 in., which compares with the Japanese cruiser Kurama, of 7 tt. 501s in width, in: 1911. The duration of transit was exactly the same as in 1912, namely, 16 hours 19 minutes. The number of ground- ings in the canal exceeding three hours totaled 23 in 1913, against 13 in 1912 and 16 in 1911. The total num- ber of groundings was 65, causing de- lay to 120 vessels. The Indrabarah, 201 on Dec. 11, owing to bad weather in the Large Bitter Lake, remained fast for 117 hours 20 minutes. The following figures show the var- iations in the trade of Port Said dur- ing the past three years: Coal Entered. Out. 1913 Se 1,928,000 1,638,000 12 1,902,000 . 1,615,000 IStP es 1,996,000 1,757,000 Oil Fuel OLS A245 17,000 6,000 ROIZ eS oat 11,000 16,000 19T Bese 22,000 12,000 The figures for February show that the tonnage using the canal is in- creasing, 434 vessels, of 1,736,111 tons, traversing the canal in that month, an increase of 149,480 tons on the total for February last year, and of 44,396 tons on the figures for February, 1912. The average daily receipts of the Ca- nal company for February appear to be the highest on record. Only 28 ships, aggregating 96,681 tons, went through the canal in February in ballast, which compares with 38 ships of 104,830 tons, in ebruary last year and 74 ships, of 219,476 tons, in February, 1912.. Up to the end of February the average' time occupied in traversing the canal was 16 hours 59 minutes, or 40 minutes longer than in the corresponding periods of the two preceding years. The wooden motor tug building at Harrisburg, Tex., for Herman H. Par- sons, was designed by Wm. J. Deed Jri; "naval". architect,"' Boston.~- This craft will be 50 by 15 by 4% ft. and will be equipped with a 50-H. P. auto- matic engine. THE NEW FERRY BOAT MAYOR GAYNOR, BUILT BY THE NEW YORK SHIP BUILDING CO.