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302 THE about ready to depart for Mexican waters. ‘ ok Oe By arrangement with the war depart- ment, the bureau of fisheries will trans- mit fish quotations at Seattle by cable to important Alaskan centers. The Alaskan fish industry is developing with such rapid strides that this plan will meet with general approval and will aid ‘in. making Seattle a still greater fish market. ee eae More than ordinary interest attached to the recent performance of the auxiliary power schooner. SANTINO, News from the which logged the distance between San Francisco and Balboa in 28 days. This vessel is equipped with surface combus- tion oil engines, invented by H. W. Sumner, Seattle. The SANTINO was built at Grays. Harbor, Wash., and pur- chased by Gaston, Williams & Wig- more, New York. Her power consists of two engines of 350 horsepower each and her initial performance is regarded as eminently satisfactory, this vessel being the first in which Sumner engines have been installed. The company is building 12 engines of the same type and at its Seattle factory is employing 300 men. By H. H. Dunn NNOUNCEMENT has been made A through the Southern Pine Emergency bureau, at New Or- leans, that the federal shipping board’s emergency fleet corporation has awarded contracts for several wooden ships to be built at southern yards. The Jahncke Navigation Co., Madisonville, La., is to build two of these; the Union Bridge & Construction Co., Kansas City, six, to be constructed at Morgan City, La.; and the Newcomb Lifeboat Co., Hamp- ton, Va., four, to be built at Hampton. The emergency bureau, whose proposal to furnish complete schedules for 100 wooden ships was accepted by General Goethals recently, has forwarded sched- ules for the 12 of these ships which are to be built in the south. * %* ok Contracts for 20 composite type ships —steel and wood—have been taken by Messrs. Terry and Brittian of New York, ‘but it has not been decided whether the boats will be built at Moss Point, Miss:, ot at Savannah, Ga. The company took options on a_ shipyard site at Moss Point, but later, permission was granted by the government that the construction work be done at Savannah. The company, however, has asked an extension on its Moss Point option, and a yard may be established there. We ek Henry Piaggio, who is building a number of wooden vessels, mostly large auxiliary schooners,’ at Orange, Tex., announces that he will build five large wooden ships at Pascagoula, Miss. The Piaggio company will construct a yard at the Mississippi port, where a large umber mill has begun to cut the wood for the vessels. Approximately 500 men will be employed in the yard, which, according to announcement, will be a permanent establishment. The Piaggio ' company has contracts for more than 30 ships. x ok Ok F. F. Bingham, Pensacola, Fla., an- nounces that he will build six 1000-ton auxiliary schooners immediately. Each schooner is to have an oil engine of 250 horsepower, and must make 10 knots. * * ** Twenty-three men have entered the merchant marine engineering branch just opened by Tulane university, at New Orleans. James M. Robert, assistant professor of the department of me- chanical engineering, is in charge of the mew school, which was authorized by the navy department. It is intended to provide chief and assistant engineers, and is one of five schools in the United States so authorized. The course is to be of two months. The shipping board pays the tuition of the men who remain until they graduate. ee ee Work has been begun by an authorized committee to raise $750,000 as New Or- leans’ share in the $2'500,000 corporation formed to restore Mississippi river trafic by the use of steel barges and tugs. The money will be obtained by sales of stock, the first subscription be- ing for $25,000 by the New Orleans board of trade. It is planned to put 50 barges and 7 towboats on the river as the firste fleet, to be increased as ston MARINE REVIEW business demands. The line is to run between New Orleans and Minneapolis, calling at all way ports on the river. Practically every commercial organiza- tion in the Mississippi valley is inter- ested in the new corporation. eS ok The Alabama Drydock & Shipbuilding €o., Mobile, Ala., has closed a contract to build two 3500-ton full-rigged wood- en ships, and four mine sweepers, ac- cording to an announcement by De: Harry T. Inge, one of the directors of the Alabama corporation. The contract comes from a Philadelphia firm, the name of which has not been made public. * >K * More than $600,000 worth of ship- building is under way at Mobile, Ala. The Henderson Iron Works is building four submarine chasers; the oil tanker, San CristoBpaL, is being rebuilt at a cost of $285,000 at the Ollinger-Bruce dry docks, and will not be ready before . next spring; the seagoing oil barge B. L. WINcHELL, which has been building for more than a year, is nearly com- pleted, and will cost $129,000, while four auxiliary schooners are well under way. * *K * Unable to find cars to handle 25,000,000 feet of lumber to Cairo and St. Louis, the Great Southern Lumber Co. has appealed to the joint traffic bureau of the New Orleans \Association of Com- merce to provide water transportation for it. The appeal has been turned over to steamer and barge lines now on the river. By George S. Hudson TEAMER Tiewater, five months S old, has been sold by Castner, Cur- ran & Bullitt to Italian interests for $2,600,000. The ship cost about $600,000, the profit thus being about $2,000,000. The TipeEwatTer has capacity for. 8500 tons of coal with bunkers large enough > for 6000 miles steaming. She will be placed in foreign trade for which she was designed although engaged since going in commission as a coal carrier between Chesapeake bay ports and New England. ok ok * The first trip of the new Boston fishing schooner AcusHLa, Capt. Eben Parsons, stocked $5000, crew sharing $100 each. Better than that was a $7800 stock made by the mackerel seiner Bessie DucaNn in 48 hours, this vessel’s crew sharing $350, 2K * ok A ‘suit against the Coastwise Trans- portation Co. brought by the N. E. Coal & Coke Co., Boston, for alleged breach of contract has been settled. The case grew out of the withdrawal of steamer CoASTWISE on account of a strike among officers and crew, the company claiming loss in operation if wages demanded should be granted as the long-time char- ter was at a very low rate, about 60 cents per ton between Chesapeake bay and Boston. en ee Capt. F. P. Whittier, South Berwick, Me., is in command of new 4-mast schooner Nancy Hanxs built at Thomaston for Frank McQuesten, Bos- ton, for $110,000 and sold before leaving the stocks to A. D. Carver, New York, for $125,000. Schooner has been char- tered to carry general cargo to South Africa and voyage is expected to net $225,000. * ok Six-mast schooner WyoMING made the passage from an American port. to France in 15 days in command of Cap- tain Goodwin. Vessel was recently pur- chased from J. S. Winslow Co., Port- land, Me., by France & Canada Steam- ship Co. to help replace tonnage de- stroyed by submarines. 3k ES * Capt. Isiah Kelley, Harwich, Mass., died recently at age of 70. His last command. was the Joy line steamer GrorciA. For years, he was employed by Boston Tow Boat Co. * *K * The Boston chamber of commerce has presented Boston light a 60-foot steel staff and flag. This light is the oldest beacon in the United States and is lo- cated on Little Brewster island 10 miles below the Boston wharves. The presen- tation was made by H. I. Harriman, president of the chamber, with a _his- torical address by W. C. Brewer, marine underwriter. ar The Ross Tow Boat Co. has sold tug SapiE’ Ross, built in East Boston 13 years ago, to the government. The com- pany has bought tug DorpHin from Lubec, Me., owners and it is an- nounced that Capt. Smith Ross has been placed in command. August, 1917 : |