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July, 1921 apples to Europe by water has proved successful and it is understood that the Holland-American line has already con- tracted for all its cooled space during the next apple season. ee Direct and regular service between Galveston, Tex., and the north 'Pacific is now assured according to announce- ment by the Pacific Caribbean Gulf line. Heretofore vessels of this fleet have sailed from New Orleans but ad- ditional offerings warranted the extra call. Kore AM ee The former naval vessel VicksBurc, until recently used as a training ship by the state nautical school, is to be a training ship for the coast guard acad- emy forces. Eventually she will be stationed on the Atlantic, ok * * One of the fastest sailing passages in years was recently scored by the 4-mast schooner IRENE which arrived 'at Aber- deen, Wash., from Honolulu in 16 days. xk K * On the return trip of her maiden voyage to the Orient, the Pacific Mail liner GOLDEN STATE established a new steaming record between Yokohama and the Golden Gate. The run from Yoko- hama to Honolulu was done in 8 days, 9 hours, 37 minutes and from Honolulu to San Francisco in 4 days, 22 hours 11 minutes, a total of 13 days, 7 hours, 48 minutes. eee Tea shippers are complaining that the recently established transparific rate of $8 per ton on green tea is too high while the steamship lines assert that they cannot handle this class of cargo for less than $10. The season's export from the Orient to North America is esti- mated at 20,000,000 pounds and involves a large amount in freights. MARINE REVIEW 339 EMPIRE ARROW, BUILT FOR THE STANDARD TRANSPORTATION CO., WAS LAUNCHED IN THE SOUTH YARD OF THE NEW YORK SHIPBUILDING CORP., CAMDEN, .N. J.. MAY 24 Overall dimensions are 485 feet in length, beam 62 feet 6 inches and depth 39 feet 6 inches. She is equipped with three single end Scotch main boilers and one 3200 indicated horsepower engine of 4-cylinder, quadruple expansion, 4-crank, direct acting, surface condensing type. engine is capable of propelling the vessel, loaded to the specified draft, at a speed of Thé vessel will have 10 double main cargo tanks with a combined She has a displacement of 18,277 carries a crew of 62 men 11 knots. capacity of 3,500,000 gallons. This tons and Along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts UBMARINES stationed at the Unit- ed States submarine base, New London, Conn., have _ established new' records in target practice, it was learned recently, surpassing all records made during 1920. Three-inch naval guns are being used on the "R" type boats, said to be the first American sub- marines to be mounted with deck guns. ee Resumption of passenger service be- tween Boston and Philadelphia is an- nounced by the Merchants & Miners Transportation Co, * * *K Furness, Withy & Co. increased their Services to and from Boston recently, when they established a Liverpool service Via the ports of Halifax, N. S., and St. Johns, N. F, Sak OR oe With the sailing of the RocKAWAY Park from Montreal for Scandinavian und Baltic ports, C. H. Sprague & Son, Soston, expect to inaugurate a regular with American steamers in this The. Rockaway. ParK~ has_ been in the Boston-Scandinavian trade, and her place in this service will be taken by another shipping board vessel. service trade. ek OF In an action growing out of the sinking of the schooner Jo%4N M. Woop by the steamer LAKE Esau, off the Nova Sco- tian coast some time ago, Judge Morton, of the United States district court, in his decision rendered May 20, finds that both vessels were at fault, both proceed- ing in fog at full speed, and carelessness was shown on the part of lookouts of both vessels. He finds divided liability and divided damages. < + .& of 31,500 tons of.. grain to Greece, has been s«ndertaken by Trosdal, Plant & La- fonta, New Orleans. Shipping board bottoms will be used .for the delivery. The steamers JEFF Davis, DANiEL Wep- sTER, and BELLEPLINE, at New Orleans, Movement from gulf ports and WricHita at Mobile, Ala. wilt be- used in handling the large shipment. CasrEy, another shipping board steamer, will be brought to New Orleans from Philadelphia, to handle grain cargoes to {talian ports. Wages of seamen on all Italian mer- chant vessels have been increased 15 per cent, according to notification received by crews of Italian vessels in port at New Orleans. LAKE SLAvi, a shipping board vessel of 4278 tons has been withdrawn from the fleet of idle vessels at New Orleins and assigned to Lykes Bros. Inc, New Orleans. ck ok oe Water from the Mississippi river will be turned into the new $25,900,000 inner harbor and navigation canal, recently dedicated at New Orleans, early in September, as soon as the present perio of high water in the Mississippi river has passed. The canal will then be open to traffic from Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne into the Mississippi river, and thus westward through all the 5000 or more miles navigable inland waterways in Louisiana, as far west as the Sabine river in Texas.