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December, 1919 Orleans late in October, establishing direct connection for coffee shippers be- tween the Louisiana. port, Rio and Sao. Paulo. Prior to the opening of this service, the only line operating steamers between New Orleans and_ Brazilian ports was the Mississippi Shipping Co. The addition of the new line was wel- comed by coffee importers and will also be of use to all exporters up and down the Mississippi valley. ok k K Information regarding Florentino Garcia, a Spanish seaman, living in Ybor City, Fla., is desired by his wife. Her address is P. O. box 184. Garcia is described as .5 feet 8 inches in height, sandy, age 30, with a scarred right jaw. ee te ae Two steel steam towboats and three large self-propelled barges, for use on the Warrior river barge line, will ar- rive in Mobile, Ala., Jan. 1, according to announcement by government barge line officials at the Alabama port. The UTIL Ell 0000 HU OME developments are expected in the steel shipyard situation -on Puget sound in the near fu- ture. Phe various 'yards are 'con pleting their government contracts and the operators are looking to the future. At the Skinner & Eddy plant, Seattle, four hulls are under construc- tion for owners' account. At all the yards, men are being laid off and the yards are preparing to get down to a peacetime basis of competition. As far as can be learned, no private con- tracts have.as yet been placed in Seattle, but Puget sound builders are looking for business, satisfied that they can successfully compete with any other section. Seattle steel yards recently sent three hulls into thé water aggregating 28,200 dead- weight tons and the remaining con- tracts are being completed and de- livered in fgst time. Skinner & Ed- dy have now launched 57 hulls. It - is reported that David Rodgers, for- merly general manager of the Skinner & Eddy plant, is figuring in a deal which will transfer the ownership of one ofthe Seattle yards. Mr. Rodgers. is -in Seattle. after.a tr east during which he was in consulta- tion with shipbuilding Montreal and elsewhere. He states that he is not yet ready: to announce his: plans. my ak ook a During the past month, the Todd yards, Tacoma, Wash. were idle due to the controversy ovér the '8 cents per hour increase which the shipping board originally pr6hibited and which almost precipitated a gen- eral shipyard strike. es The movement of freight between San Francisco and Puget sound has been greatly retarded during the last month due to the strike of longshore- interests. at THE MARINE REVIEW barges are 280 feet.long, 49 feet beam, 10 feet deep in the hold, and draw 7 feet, Work is progressing on terminals at the various towns along the Warrior and Tombigbee rivers. K * 2K The TorInto, a 6000-ton steel ship, built for the Italian governinent, was launched Oct. 29 from the yards of the International Shipbuilding Co., Pasca- goula, Miss., where eight sister steam- ships and four 12,000-ton steamers are being built for the same government. * 2k K The Mobile Shipbuilding Co., Mobile, Ala., launched CaAprraL oF NEBRASKA, a 5000-ton steel: steamer, late in October. Miss May Pershing, sister of General Pershing, was named sponsor. Two sister ships are on the ways of the same company and will be launched before the new year. dit ok) The American flag has been raised over one of the four 9600-ton steel steamships the Doullut & Williams Ship- 2 A Up and Down the Pacific Coast men at San Francisco. For several weeks, the Pacific Steamship Co. kept several of its liners idle in Seattle because of the labor troubles and only the company's fast express pas- senger steamers have been operat- ing;; no cargo being taken: for: San Francisco. The situation is. some- what improved now although the strike is not yet settled and the idle vessels are gradually returning to service. x Sk Representatives from the various commercial bodies of north Pacific ports were in San Francisco recently attending a conference which intends to request from the shipping board _ additional allocations of modern ves- sels for transpacific trade. It is par- ticularly désired that fast passenger vessels be assigned to the -Pacific coast' so that freight and passenger routes may be built up with Manila and Australia, in particular, asi well as China and Japan. There is some feeling that the shipping board has not given the interests of the Pa- - cific as much consideration as they deserve. It is expected to lay . the facts before the board in the hope that more ships will be placed on the Pacific routes. ae ae The Union Sulphur Co. has pur- chased one of the 8800-ton steel hulls built by the Northwest Steel Co., Port- land, Oreg. The vessel was launched recently and christened Jonn R. Gor- DON. * * * To replace the famous old whaler BrvepERE, which was. crushed in the ice of the Arctic ocean last month, the Hibbard-Swenson Co., Seattle, has pur- chased the barkentine THRASHER, which came to Seattle from San Francisco. The THRASHER is an old time whaler 603 building Co., Inc., is building for the shipping board at the yard onthe in- dustrial canal, New. Orleans. The hull has been completed as far as the fore- castle deck, and will be launched prob- -. ably before the end of November. -- It will be. outfitted: in the yards of the company. Mayor Martin Behrman of New Orleans has asked the shipping board to name the vessel New Or.EANS. ee The Chickasaw Shipbuilding Co., Mobile Ala, has changed its name to the Chickasaw Shipbuilding & Car Co., and has assumed control of the fabricat- ing plant of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. at Fairfield, Ala. Steel is fabricated at this plant for the yards of the Chickasaw company which is planning to launch its first ship in De- cember. He The Gulf Tropic Supply Co., a new firm, has been organized by R. L. Mc- Chesney and F. J. Picone, New Orleans, and has opened offices at 204 Camp street, to handle ship and mill supplies. E INVA ul and cargo carrier in the Pacific. She will be used by her new owners in trading expeditions to Siberia and the Arctic. When the BrEvepERE went down she took a cargo of $200,000 worth of furs and other products of the Far North. The members of the crew escaped. x x Advices from the Orient state that the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, one of the two big Japanese lines maintaining reg- ular service between Puget sound and the Orient, has placed orders for two modern passenger and freight carriers with yards at Nagasaki. This company has been doing an increasing business and now finds it necessary to add to its already extensive fleet. a Grays Harbor, Wash., is expecting the -- government to establish one of the larg- est and most powerful radio stations on the. Pacific-. coast- at that point: Ac- cording to estimates the cost will be $1,000,000. ; ee eGR oe When the Canadian Pacific liner Em- PRESS OF AsIA sailed from Vancouver, B. C., recently she had 4700 persons' aboard, said to be the largest number ever crossing the Pacific in one ship. The vessel carried 2000 Chinese coolies, 351 first cabin, 100 second and 700 steerage passengers besides the crew. The British steamer TyNpDAREUS, which left Victoria recently, had more than 3000 passengers, most of them Chinese coolies returning from France. eg ae Four Japanese fishing schooners ar- rived recently from the Okhotsh sea with cargoes of cod and other fish and discharged at Puget sound ports. This was an unusual departure, as here- tofore no cargoes of fish have come to Puget sound from the Orient. The -- vessels returned with cargoes of salt.