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October, 1919 ' when she was rolled over, has been sus- pended for four months. Captain Lajoy has appealed his case to the supervising inspector of the district. K * * The underwriters have sold _ the wrecked steamer LANpBo, together with her coal cargo, to the Great Lakes Towing Co. The Lanpgo, which was abandoned by her owners as a con- structive loss, foundered off Point Au Sable, Lake Huron, a few weeks ago. I 1 IULOUUUAALATLN TUQUUUUNIUUN ll 2) a UNDREDS of steamers, schooners and power craft made idle by the strike of fishermen fer a fixed minimum price on their product, have been restored to the industry out of Boston and Gloucester and receipts of staple groundfish now run as high as 2,000,000 pounds daily. Thousands of dollars were lost to owners of' ves- sels and the outfitters on account of the strike which tied up the industry of New England more than a month. - ae x * oe At Green's shipyard, Boston, the American steamship LoNOKE is being re- paired at cost of about $30,000. The plant has been rushed with work a long time and just now it is engaged in restoring several vessels to a condition where they may be turned back to the owners following war service. * ok * The Maine Coast Steamship Co., oper- ating the steamers MoHawk and Mas- SASOIT 'between Boston and ports in Maine, soon will occupy the north side of Long wharf recently vacated by the United States army quartermaster's de- partment. For a number of years, ine company has had its terminal at Lewis wharf and was crowded for pier and shed space. eee The new 4-mast schooner Lucia P. Dow has been chartered to load coal at Norfolk, Va. for' Lisbon at a big tate by Crowell & Thurlow, Boston. The vessel was built for this concern at the Cobb shipyard, Rockland, Mc., and is Named for the wife of F. H. Dow, treasi:rer of the F. H. Dow Co., Boston. * * * Last month the clerical force at the Oston immigration station was reduced because an appropriation was not avail- able. The curtailment also affected a number of laborers. Business at the station, however, has materially in- creased recently and a way may be found to restore the employes to their former status. eo Re Important improvements at the port of awtucket, R. I., have been under way Or some years. The work was held up uring 1918 on account of the waf,. ut is now rapidly progressing toward Completion. The ae is 8 bat of fepening and widening the channel of ¢ Pawtucket river, from the city to atragansett bay, a distance of three oe eee oN . the . pebbles. THE MARINE REVIEW The wrecking steamer Favorite, Capt. Alex Cunning, js working on the craft. * * * The barge Quepec which was wrecked at the elevator explosion at Port Col- borne a few weeks ago was raised by the Le Beau Wrecking Co., recently. eke The labor trouble on the docks at the head of Lake Superior has made a big cut in coal receipts which greatly re- duced the gain made during the early miles. The work entails over 200,000 cubic yards of dredging. * * A new sailing service has just been opened between Montreal, ue.,. and Glasgow, by the Canadian Pacific Ocean service. Two vessels, the Corsican and Scotian, will make regular fortnightly trips carrying freight and passengers. * 2K * Secretary Daniels of the navy re- cently announced that a contract for battleship No. "54 to be named the MASSACHUSETTS, has been awarded to Bethlehém® Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, Mass. This vessel, which is the last of the authorized battleships to be contracted for, will be of 43,200 tons displacement. re _Boston now enjoys direct service with Rotterdam through resumption of the Holland-American line after three years discontinuance. Fortnightly service was restored with sailing of the ZuIpERDYK last month. eX Fire, for which a lighted cigaret is blamed, caused damage amounting to about $50,000 to the hull and cargo of the American steamship WESTERN Scout, loading at Boston. About 10,000 bags of refined sugar were affected in ad- 'dition to consignments of autoaiobile parts and machinery. x ok Ox The Portugese steamer Donpo re- cently cleared at Philadelphia for Lisbon with a full cargo of flour. She loaded in fast time, taking on 88,458 sacks of flour weighing 4883 tons in 28% hours. The vessel's agent is the Earn Line Steamship Co. oy 4 The OveErBrooK, a deck scow which recently was being towed up the Dela- ware river by the tug HArrorp, sprung a leak off Kinkora and went to the bottom at once. She dragged the tug down with her. Both vessels are en- tirely submerged at high water. Capt. John Reeves, master of the tug, was drowned but the rest of the crew of both vessels escaped by swimming ashore. The scow was loaded to her deadweight capacity with a cargo of eo ee Oe The arrival in Boston of the White Star line steamship ner which sailed from Naples, restores the service 487° Part of the season. According to a re-. port received by the Tomlinson Co,,* Cleveland, its docks at Duluth and Su-' perior handled but 62,100 tons of hard coal in August compared with 219,600 tons for a like period of last season. The fleet only delivered 520,500 tons of soft coal last month and in August, 1918, ' the two ports received 1,442,000 tons. Roe The steamer PHELAN, which went ashore near Cardinal, was released after lightering part of her cargo. OO nN = Late News From Atlantic Seaboard : TT ; between Italy and Boston which was interrupted by the war. In addition to . 900 passengers taken aboard at Naples, and Palmermo many more were taken on at Punta del Gada, Azores islands. - xe 2 he The Newburgh Shipyards, Inc., re- cently launched the 9000-ton freighter PEEKSKILL, which is under construction for the Emergency Fleet corporation. © This vessel is of the poop, bridge and ' forecastle type and has two continuous steel decks. Her general dimensions are: Length, 401 feet; beam, 54 feet; depth, 32 feet 10 inches; loaded draft, 25 feet 6 inches. She will be propelled © by a Westinghouse turbine and reduc- | tion gear of 2800 shaft horsepower. Steam will be supplied by three. water- tube boilers of the Forrester type. oe * 2K The steamer Crry oF MELBOURNE, | operated by Norton, Lilly & Co. New . York, struck an unknown vessel south . of Sandy Hook, recently. She was. enroute to Yokohama and from wireless , dispatches it 'is understood that she . suffered buf slight damage. She "pros ». ceeded on her voyage. hey Ok Thirty steel tugboats are reported to © be in process of construction for the United States shipping board. Two have been launched from the Bethle- hem yards at Elizabethport, N. J. They . measure 150 feet in length, are equipped with engines of 1200. horsepower and are guaranteed a speed of 12 knots. * * * The United States Steel Corp. re- ' cently let contracts for the construc- tion of 20 steel cargo carriers of 10,000 ° tons. These vessels are designed for long deep-water voyages. The vessels will be built at the Federal shipbuilding yards at Kearney, N. J., and the Chicka- saw yards at Mobile, Ala. +e Oe ' The Chester Shipbuilding Co., Ches- ter, Pa., is investigating its waterfron on the Delaware river with a view t constructing a large drydock at an ap- proximate cost of $2,000,000. ee ee The concrete ship ATLANTUs, first of © the type to be delivered from an At- lantic coast shipyard,, and the second concrete ship to be operated in Atlantic waters, has been turned over by the. shipping board to the Raporel Steam--- ship line, New York, for operation in