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358 river, N, S., and is a total loss. She was built in 1866 and registered 212 tons net. * * * The G. G. Deering yard, Bath, Me., recently launched the 5-mast schooner Carrott A. Drrrtnc. She is a 3-deck vessel registering 2114 tons. The ves- sel loaded coal at a Virginia port for Rio Janeiro at $19.50 a toni. ee ee oe The steamer Betrast which | collided with the -Sagamore highway _ bridge, Cape Cod canal, while on her first trip of the season from New York to Bos- ton, was repaired at Bath, Me. ' + oe Russian steamer Gorop recently arrived iri Portland, Oreg., [Ws = == = as = SMUT. Al HE 'Tampa-: Dock'. Co, \Tampa, Fla., recently launched - the Hoosac, a 3500-ton Ferris type wooden cargo vessel for the shipping board. Other vessels previously built by the company are the NAMECKI, AGRIA and CouLTer, which are sister ships of the Hoosac. The company also recently completed and has in full operation a -2500-ton marine railway. oe x The Oyaxka, a 3500-ton composite ship built by the Mobile Shipbuilding Co.) Mobile, .Ala., for the shipping board, successfully passed her trials and has been accepted by the govern- ment. Her keel was laid Jan. 8, 1918, and she was launched April 5, 1919. On her trial trip she logged an average of 11.11 knots, while her contract speed is 10 knots. full speed ahead to sternway in 2 min- utes 434 seconds. Ge ae The schooner N. E. Turner, Mobile, Ala., owned by Robert L. Padgett .& Co., was Jost: June 1 while on 'her way loaded with cotton from New Or- leans to Bordeaux. She left the Louisi- ana port May 24. ; ora ae The steamship Narwa, allocated to Mobile, Ala., by the United States ship- ping board, will load cotton late in June for Liverpool. The cargo has been assembled since May 30. ee The New Orleans association of com- merce, San Francisco chamber of com- merce and New York Merchants' asso- ciation have issued a call for a national conference in favor of the Sanders free port zone bill, to be held in St. Louis late in June or early in July. Twenty- six Mississippi valley states, all in the - Mississippi Valley association, have gone on record as favoring the immediate passage of the bill. The movement is being led by New York, San Francisco and New Orleans, because they are' the ports which undoubtedly would be given the free zones immediately on passage of the bill. These free port zones are districts set apart on the waterfront of each port, to which raw products of ctivities She was brought from' | THE MARINE REVIEW from New York on her way to Vlad- ivostok by way of the Panama canal. She took a full cargo from New York and is scheduled to stop at Portland only long enough to be bunkered. ee Oe Several barges built for the govern- ment in Maine yards during the past year are offered for sale as the gov- erhment has no use for them. It is said that the highest bid received was less than 50 per cent of the buildin cost. cee The France-American Steamship Co., with A. Frankel as president, has been formed to operate vessels between New York, South Norwalk, Conn.. and Bos- ton. The company has rebuilt the pro- Southern Shipyards : are Busy IXTY-SIX cargo vessels, oil- tankers, coal barges and _har- bor tugs were under construc- tion on June 1 in. shipyards at New Orleans, Mobile, Ala., Pensa- cola, Fla., and other gulf ports, under the direction of the United States shipping board. The ships under construction follow: Doullut & Williams Shipbuilding Co., New Orleans, eight 9600-ton deadweight steel cargo ships, 411 feet long, 55 feet beam. . Jahncke Shipbuilding Corp., Mad- isonville, La., two 3500-ton Ferris- type wooden ships. Johnson Iron Works, New Or- leans, six 100-ton harbor tugs. National Shipbuilding Co., Violet, La., several seagoing steel oil barges. Fred 7, Ley Co., Mobile, .Ala., three 7500-ton concrete and steel oil tankers, 420 feet long, 54 feet beam. . Mobile Shipbuilding Co., Mobile, Ala., twelve 5000-ton steel freight- ers, 335 feet long, 46 feet beam. Pensacola Shipbuilding Co., Pen- sacola, Fla., ten 9000-ton steel car- go vessels, 417 feet. long, 54 feet beam. Alabama Dry Dock: Co., Mobile, Ala., one 7500-ton' 'coal' barge for the Panama canal, 352 feet long, 52 feet beam. 'Louisiana Shipbuilding Co., Sli- dell, La., ten 9600-ton steel hulls for the shipping board. International Shipbuilding Co., Pascagoula, Miss., twelve 9600-ton steel hulls for the shipping board. \long the Gulf Coast ee en cnn nc July, 1919 peller. steamer Marion for use on this line and | it is understood that other vessels will be added later" Oe 8 The Louis B. Harrison Shipyards, -Inc., Athens, N. Y., recently launched a 385-foot concrete railroad car float. This is the first craft of this type to-be launched on the Hudson river. The craft took the water sidewise. oo RS The steamer' BERTHA was recently 'purchased by the Great Northern Re- fining Co. for use on the Kentucky river where she 'will transport oil from Beattyville to' Carrollton. -The com- pany soon will have 10 more barges itl; this -service. * iz TUULULUCNULUOUUEUUUOEUELUHHUL foreign countries may be brought, duty- free, manufactured and the finished preduct shipped out, without the pay- ment of import or export taxes of any kind. Coe * First experiments in wireless telephony from a merchant ship on the Gulf of Mexico were successfully conducted by wireless operators on board the United Fruit Co.'s steamer PartsIMINa recent- ly. The ship's officers spoke with Swan island, Colon and Panama, while in the. middle of the Gulf. a The $15,000 lifesaving station with accommodations for 3000 persons in time of storm has been completed by the federal government at Grand isle, La., and has been accepted by the gov- ernment. It is built of steel and con- crete and will be placed in commission at once to be manned by a crew of 15 men. A wireless station is being built. * 2K * Survey of the new canal to Grand isle has been completed and the cost fixed at $10,000, which sum has been contributed by the police jury of Jerre- son parish and residents of the island. The. canal will enable 'boats to load without the aid of lighters or mule carts and will greatly facilitate com- merce, which is entirely by boats, be- tween Grand isle and New Orleans. *K * ES The Ley Shipbuilding Co. Mobile, Ala., launched its first concrete hull SELMA, early in June. "The vessel is of 7500 tons and\ is a tanker for the Standard Oil Co. ae ee The steamer Atta, a composite ship, built by the Alabama Dry Dock & Ship- building Co., made her trial trip June 18. The last obstacle in the completion of the Louisiana link of the intercoastal canal has been removed by the appro- priation in the rivers and harbors bill of $100.000 for deepening and widening Bayou Black, between Houma and Mor- gan City. When this work. is com- pleted, which should be by the spring of 1920, it will be possible for large