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602 Corp., was recently launched, steam up and 99.9 per cent complete. She was christened by Mrs. Anne Gould, Quincy, and was immediately placed in com- 'mission. oe The Black Star line, the West Indian negro enterprise, is said to be contem- plating the purchase of another vessel about the same size as the YARMOUTH, recently acquired from Magill & Co. ek The four members of the crew of the British schooner OnaTo, who were taken off the waterlogged vessel and brought to Philadelphia by the steamship Z1rKEt and held under suspicion of having killed the captain and the mate of their vessel during a mutiny, had a hearing before Thomas P. Porter, British con- sul. After a thorough investigation, the men were exonerated and ordered to be treated as honorable shipwrecked seamen and sent back to their homes in Newfoundland. eek The 6-mast schooner Wvyominc, the Jargest vessel of her class afloat, is re- ported to have paid for herself twice over since she 'was put in commission three years ago. She is owned and operated by the France-Canada line. It will not take long for her to pay for herself again, according to the high freight rates she is receiving. She re- cently was chartered to load coal for Genoa at $23.50 a ton. Her capacity is approximately 6000 tons. yok Oe The Philadelphia harbor tug ARat, owned by Capt. P. F. Martin, recently became tangled in her own hawser, capsizing at the Walnut street wharf. HAUT = ONTRIBUTIONS of $2145 from New Orleans business men have been received toward the $10,000 being raised in that city for obtaining rights of way, abstracts of titles and other expenses for the promotion oi the - Intercoastal canal betwen the Louisiana port and Brownsville, Tex. The canal, it is believed, will eventually take the course of the Barataria and Lafourche canal, which comes into the Mississippi at We:twego, just' opposite New Orleans, and which connects all the 5000 miles of inland waterways of western and south- ern Louisiana with the Mississippi. * * * & Three steamships of Japanese lines made their first visits to New Orleans during November. They were KarsHo Maru, operated by the Trans-Oceanic Co. and the Panama Maru and Tomuro Maru, of the Mitsubishi Gobi Kaisha. All give direct connection with Hong Kong and Yokohama, via the Panama canal. The J. H. W. Steele Co. is agent for both lines in New Orleans. eX The Ecuador Steamship line was or- ganized and incorporated in New Orleans in October, with O. E. Hodge, New -landing at Canal street. THE MARINE REVIEW Acquires Fast Ships WENTY-FIVE of the 43 ex- German liners of over 10,000 tons are under American registry while six sail under the English flag. Of the 16 now operated by the shipping board, 14 have been given new names. The list includes the LeviaTHAN, formerly the VATER- LAND, a vessel capable of logging 24 knots; the AGAMEMNON, former- ly the Katser WitHeELtm II, 23 knots; the Von StTEvuBEN, formerly the KRONPRINZz WILHELM, 23 knots; the Mount VERNON, formerly the KRONPRINZESSIN CECILLE, 23 knots; the GrorcE WasHINGTON, 19 knots, and the America, formerly the AMERIKA, 171% knots. Ten of the 16 vessels formerly belonged to the Nord-Deutscher Lloyd Co. and six to the Hamburg-Amerika line. The Arar is known along the river as a Jonah, having come to grief several times. oe ae The United States consul general at Buenos Aires has advised the state de- partment that the Argentine law re- quires that slop chest and other ships' stores be manifested in detail, with accurate number, quantity or weight and that if this is not done,: vessel masters will be liable to heavy fines | HNN Activities Along the Gulf Coast NN Orleans and Moss Point, Miss., as presi- dent and Joseph D. Barksdale, secretary and general manager, with offices at 911 Commercial Bank building. Dr. Carlos A. Bermeo, consul general of Ecuador at New Orleans, will be South American representative, with headquarters in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The first steamer of the new line, Nixa, recently com- pleted by the Hodge Shipbuilding Co., Inc., at Moss Point, made her first sail- ing Noy. 15. She is of 3500 tons. * * * Fire which threatened the Pinto island plant of the Alabama Drydock & Ship- building Co., Mobile, Ala. Oct. 28, was extinguished with simall damage by 2000 employes of the plant. 'The fire started in the ways on which a barge for gov- ernment use at Panama is. being con- structed. * *« 2K The new steamboat wharf at the municipally owned cotton warehouse and 'compress, New Orleans, has been com- pleted. For the first time in the history of the port, river steamers are docking at a wharf other than the old steamboat Cant LL. 7 N. Cooley's packet, AMERICA, was the first to bring cotton to the warehouse landing. December, 1919 followed by confiscation. The consul urges that this notice be given wide publicity. ees The Pacific Mail Steamship Co. has inaugurated a service between Baltimore and San Francisco via the Panama canal with the recent sailing of the Pornt Bonita. The voyage is expected to consume approximately 30 days. The | vessel will touch at several Central American ports as well as San Pedro and Los Angeles. eee oe The steamer Mount Hoop was recent- ly destroyed by fire in the River Plate off Montevideo. Fire was started by the explosion of an oil tank. The Mount Hoop registered 2433 tons and left Mobile, Ala., on May 27 for Bahia Blanca, Argentina, and proceeded from that port to Montevideo. The crew was rescued. * * The oil tanker Brammet Pornt, the first motorship of its class to be con- structed in the United States, will be equipped with three diesel engines, re- placing the present engines. The work will be done by the Baltimore Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co., builder of the vessel. The Brammet Point is 4990 tons deadweight and is 293 feet long. ks The Baltimore Southern Navigation Co. will operate a service between Philadelphia and Baltimore carrying freight for Newport News, Norfolk and other southern cities, according to a recent announcement. The service «was started, with two vessels, the J. H. Steen and the HEeLen STEEL. IIL The Avwertca has been put into regular setvice between New Orleans and Green- ville, Miss., touching at about 12 towns enroute, [bis is the first, time in 10 years that New Orlearis has had steamer connection with Greenville. * * xk Direct water transportation between Memphis, Tenn, and Havana, Cuba, is announced by the Sugar Products Co., New York, which states that 15 ships have been assigned by the shipping board to carry blackstrap molasses from the Cuban port to Memphis and return with miscellaneous cargoes. Steamers of 6, 8 and 12 feet draft will be used, accord- ing to the rise and fall of the river. ** x 2K _New session of the United States ship- ping board's free marine engineer school, at Tulane university, New Orleans, opened Ney. 3, with James M. Robert in charge. [he October class, which just closed, was the largest in the his- tory of the school, but enrollment for the new session exceeds that of the last. eek The first ship of the new Lloyd- Brasileiro Steamship line, loaded with 60,000 bags of coffee, arrived in New