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and her oil fuel capacity 3200 tons. The ship was laid down in February 1927 and due to be completed in the financial year which begins in April. HE motor’ vessel AUSTRALIND which has been built for the Australind Shipping Co. Ltd. of London by William Denny & Bros. Ltd., was launched Feb. 8 from the Leven ship- yard, Dumbarton. The AUSTRALIND is a single screw motor cargo vessel of the open shelter deck type with three cargo holds forward and two aft, No. 8 hold immediately forward of the machinery space being also ar- ranged to serve as a deep tank. The vessel is 425 feet long and 8800 tons deadweight. The main propell- ing machinery consists of one Denny- Sulzer, two-cycle diesel engine of the marine type having six cylinders, one double acting scavenge pump, three stage air compressor and pumps. CCORDING to Mr. Bridgeman, first lord of the admiralty, six British warships are provided for in the estimates of February and March this year. They are allocated as follows:—one cruiser at the Ports- mouth dockyard, one cruiser and two sloops at Devenport, one submarine and one submarine depot ship at Chatham. The remaining ships will be built by contract in private ship- yards accustomed to naval work. Ocean Freight Rates ba Per 100 Pounds Unless Otherwise Stated Quotations Corrected to Jan. 18, 1928 on Future Loadings NOTE: FREIGHT RATES STEADY WITH SLIGHT CHANGE New York Cotton General cargo ttFinished REMARKS _ From North Pacific Lumber to Grain Provisions (H. D.) Flour cu. ft. 180 lbs. steel Freight Offered Ports to Per m, t: Liverpool...... 3s 6d $0.65 $0.45 0.20 $0.50 $0.90 $8 .OOT *** Fair San- Francisco. :;....;.. $4.25 te. 4.50 London. ...... 2s 6d 0.65 0.45 0.20 0.50 0.90 8.00T *** Fair South California........ 4.50 to 5.00 Oslo cess. $0.14 0.45 0.50 0.30 0.421% 0.85 8.00T Fair Hawaiian Islands....... 9.00 to 10.00 Copenhagen... 0.14 0.45 0.50 0.30 0.45 0.90 8.00T Fair New Zealand’: <4. 3. 15.00 to 18.00 Hamburg...... 0.10 235 0.45 0.20 0.50 0.90 10.00T Fair DV ANEV ae ec pee ay 11.00 to 13.50 Bremen... st. 0.10 0.45 0.45 0.20 0.50 0.90 10.00T Fair Melbourne-Adelaide..... 12.50 to 14.06 Rotterdam and : RerusChilenc 2c eee ee 11.75 to 14.00 Amsterdam.... 0.14 0.421% 0.45 0.22 0.45 0.80 9.50T Fair South Africa... 2576352, 17.00 to 20.00 Antwerp...... 0.14 0.42% 0.45 0.22 0.45 0.80 9.50T Fair Cuba 5 14.00 to 15.00 PRU OG cect: 0.15 0.55 0.31 0.30 0.45 0.80 9.00T Very good United Kingdom........ Gls ta 65s Bordeaux...... 0.15 0.55 0.31 0.30 0.45 0.80 9.00T Nery-£00d> Bist mare Bostec range. .$12.00 to 14.00 Barcelona..... 0.50 0.30 10.00 bags —12.00T— 10.00T Fair Florida Rangé.......... 17.00 LisbOR<4a:. ic: - 0.65 0.45 ; 8.00T bags —23.00T— 8.00T Fair Buenos Aires 3 14.00 Marseilles. .... a8 0.65 0.40 7.00 bags —23 .00T— 8.00T Fair South America — Eaet Genoa iss oes: 0.15 14.25T 0.50 9.00 —23.00T— 11.50T Fair Coaster 14.00 to 20.00 Naples 2.2... 3. 0.15 14.25T 0.50 9.00 —23 .00T— 11.50T Fair South America — West Constantinople. 0.27 20.00T 0.75 0.40% —24.00T— 11.50T Fair Coast Stee e ete eee eee 12.00 to 14.00 Wikvandtias = 20.00T 0.75 0.40% 94-007 = 11.50T Rain Chingy ns ee eee ee 10.00 to 11.00 Algiers...... Ae 0.75 0.60 8.0T bags —23 .00T— 11.50T Fair VADOM econ e ave wees oe 10.00 to 10.50 **kDakar..... 20.40 18.60T —27.60T— 13.80T Fair Japan (logs)........4... 12.00 to 14.00 Capetown..... 18.00 13.00 per 2240 lbs. 20.00 20.00 Good Fl Buenos Aires... 22.00T cS 20.00 to 22.00T¢ 8.00to8.80T Fair Ou and: Wiest **Rio de Janeiro 22.00T : ee 20.00 to 22.00Tt 7.00 to 7.70Tt Fair U. K. and Continent Pernambuco... _.... 22.00T 9.00T —22.00T—t 9.70Tt Pai S,, (gross tons).......... 34s to 35s Mavesac.. 0.30% 0.50 — 0.30* 6k 148 10.00 Fair riental Ports (net tons). $5.00 to 5.50 Vera Cruz..... 0.35 0.40 0.50 Qera Sra eee ie as! x 0.25 to 0.35 Fair Valparaiso..... sae 1.07 Silas 0.70 10.00T Fair é San Francisco.. 0.45 to 0.90 ea 0.40 to 1.10 Beate eiavete 0.25 to 0.30 Very good NOTE: Lighterage races of fuel ta’ New *Sydney....... 22501. 1235 2250. 17.50to27.50T 9.00 and 12.00 Fair York reduced from 6% to 5 Me Calcutta...... 0.70 12.00T —18.00T— 10.00T Fair er barrel. The coal strike In **Plus $0.50 surcharge on all rates to Rio de Janeiro on account of congestion. xNo general cargo rates to Vera Cruz. out a contract will be about 20 percent higher. line to use it exclusively. Principal Rates To and From United Kingdom 8 d Grain, River Plate to United Kingdom.. 24 9 Pig iron, United Kingdom to New York or Coal, South Wales to Near East........ 12 0 Philadelphians ctcre, soe ee, Coal, United Kingdom to Buenos Aires.. 13 3 Iron ore, Bilbao to Cardiff... .3...... 6 Manganese Ore, Poti to Philadelphia.... $3.85 Iron ore, Huelva to Phila. or Balto...... 11 Bunker Prices y products limited in length. *Extra charge for wharfage. ***Plus 15 per cent. *Flour to Sydney—22.50. General cargo—$17.50 to $27.50 Finished steel—$9.50 and 12.50. ***R ates, effective at once, to DAKAR, will be based on whether the company makes a contract. a With»a contract the same rates as last month apply. figures are the rates which the company will have to pay which does not make acontract with the Daniel Bacon Rates with- ritain is now settled and freight rates or bunker prices for coal or Pig iron are again quoted. General cargo rates to Havana change daily and are omitted for The the time being. Rates to Calcutta are subject to change without notice. Cotton goes only to Bombay. Landing charge of $2.00 per freight ton at Valparaiso. Ono & Other Ports At New York At Philadelphia Coal Fuel oil Diesel engine Coal Fuel oil Diesel . OF ‘alongside alongside oil alongside trim. in bunk alongside ae per ton per barrel per gallon per ton per barrel per gallon April 19, 1928. 5.00@5.60 1.40 4.92 April 19, 1928. 5.00@5.60 1.21@1.25 64 May 19...... 5.00@5.60 1.30 4.92 ay 8 5.00@5.60 Te ie . ri + pine 192s 54: 5.00@5.60 Spee 4.92 June 198. <2 5.00@5.60 hes Se July 18. 5.00@5. 1.10 4.92 uly 18.2.2, 5.00@5. 60 1.10 4.88 Aug. 1855.03 5.00@5.60 1.10 4.92 UB eco: 5.00@5.60 1.10 4.88 Sept. 18 5.65 1.10 4.92 Sept. 18 .65 1.00 4.88 Oct 18 es. 5.65 1.10 4.92 Oct-13), \; 5.65 95 @1.00 4.88 Mov.20-32:.: 5.00@5.65 1.10 4.92 Nov. 20....... 65 95 4.88 Dec 18...... 5.00@5.65 1.10 4.92 Bec 18.5... 5.00@5.65 1.05 4.88 daa 18 os 00 @5 .65 1.10 4.92 Jan. 48 rey 5.00@5.65 1.05 4.88 Feb. 18, 1929. 5.00@5.65 1.10 4.92 eb. 18, 1929... 5.00@5.65 1.05 4.76 58 MARINE REVIEW—March, 1929 Boston, coal, per ton... $7.37 Boston, oil, f. a. s., per barrel seeks 1,09 Hampton Roads, coal, per ton, f.o.b., piers $4.40 to 4.50 Oct. 7 Cardiff, coal, per LONG i eae ions 13s 9d 87s 6d British ports, Fuel oil. .67s 6d British ports, Diesel oil.82s 6d