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MARINE REVIEW. | it A Bark in a Hurricane. Winds of sixty miles velocity are seldom experienced on the lakes, and the following description of the behavior of the bark Ieaac L. Skolfield, of Brunswick, Me., in a 120-mile wind ina harbor of Mauritius island, will therefore be interesting: : "On Thursday the weather looked dirty and squally, and the barometer was on 29.92 degrees. There was a heavy sea heaving in on the outer reef and it kept increasing during the night. At 3:30 A. m. the glass started down to 290.85. I called all hands and put heavy luff-tackles on after chains, a new six- inch line to receive the bitts, and a new nine-inch hawser out amidships on our after chains, outside of all, and took in all awnings. Royal and topgallant yards were sent down and fore and lower top-sail yards. At 7 A. M. we were all snug and thought we could stand anything. 'The glass dropped to 29.60 degrees and the wind began to increase very fast with a heavy rain. Our starboard chock and rail gave away and we began to drag over to the reef, about 100 yards. One schooner had fouled us but we held on well. All the other ships were coming in collision and cutting each other up. The glass was still going down and the wind blowing a hurricane. Four vessels had ta- ken ground and a French bark parted. Everything came past us like a bird, and drove high and dry up. The barometer was then down to 27.92. "T thought I had seen it blow before but I never had. It came out like a shot from a gun. Wecould only lay flat on deck and hold on. I have heard the wind whistle but this fairly shrieked like a steam whistle. My bitts, tackles, hawsers and sails went like carrots. 'The spanker boom came round and hit the topmast backstays, breaking the boom and twisting the mizzenmast head. On the first burst we were heading toward a steamer, and J thought we would cut her in two, but we took a sheer and struck her forward and stove her up there. She carried away our bobstays, figure-head, cut water and jibboom. 'Then down came the fore topgallant mast and topmast head, breaking the upper topsail.in falling. We were fast to government mush- room anchors forward and had our anchors aft on 45 fatoms of chain. After everything went aft, one of my bow chains parted and the other is under us now. 'The wind kept up at that fearful rate for about two hours. At the observatory it registered 121 miles per hour and then be- gan to moderate. Wedid not know where we were as you could not see 30 feet. At 8 o'clock it cleared up and I found we were in the northeast part of the harbor, our quarter over a stone road that leads from the fort to the town. We were draw- ing 14 feet 5 inches and are now in 3 feet 3 inches sand and coral bottom. A stone wall of masonry 6 feet high and 2 feet thick could not stand the pressure of this hurricane." --Indus- trial Journal. In General. Davidson's three big wooden steamers now nearing comple- tion at West Bay City will each have but a single pole spar. _ Captain John McCarthy will sail the Anchor Line steamer Codorus, now being fitted out at the yard of the Union Dry Dock Company, Buffalo. Capt. Thomas Maytham of Buffalo has sold the tug Medina to Barker of Superior. 'The Medina came out in 1890 and is valued in the Lloyds at $10,000. The double-turreted sea-going monitor Miantonomoh was steered by electricity during her voyage to Norfolk, making the first run by an American ship so steered. William D. is the name of a harbor tug 83 feet long, launched at Ashtabula. on Saturday last and owned by Capt. William Downs of the Ashtabula Tug Association. Augustus Ames, for three seasons mate on the steamer Geo. I. Hope, has succeeded Capt. Ryan as master of the De- troit steamer Byron' Whitaker. Capt. Ryan retires on account of poor health. The progress of ship building from earliest times up to the present will be shown by an extensive exhibit which will be made at the World's Columbian Exposition by Laird Bros., the English ship builders, of Birkenhead. Trade Notes. The Sheriffs Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee has received orders for wheels for the Vandalia Line steamers Minnie M., Soo City, Ossifrage and Lora. The HE. P. Allis Company of Milwaukee, several leading lake engine builders, and machinery concerns as far west as Montana are using the special grade of facing made by the Cleveland Facing Mills. There is no limit to the extent of trade in a good article of this kind for foundry use. Within a few months past the Manistee Iron Works Com- pany has compounded and built new engines for the steamers Philetus Sawyer, Hattie B. Pereue, Francis Hinton, John Lea- them and Roanoke. 'The engine for the latter has not been placed in position, but will be inside of a couple of weeks. Samuel Woodhouse, Newburgh, O., makes most» of the chain used by the McMyler Manufacturing Company on their derricks, and the Marion Steam Shovel Company for their wrecking cars. He has sufficient orders to last for some time, most of them being from companies to which he has furnished chain for a number of years. In the building of the steam yacht Comanche the Globe Iron Works Company of Cleveland will take pride in presenting her as a lake built yacht in every particular. The stationary -furniture, made in the department of the works devoted to that line, will be a most elegant feature of the boat. J. W. Grover & Son of Cleveland will furnish sails, rigging and all parts of the boat's fit-out coming within their line. The Continental Iron Works, Brooklyn, N. Y., has issued a neatly printed book full of information of corrugated furnaces. A supplement included contains the rule adopted by the United States supervising inspectors Oct. 10, 1891 for calculating pres- sures allowable on corrugated furnaces. For 160 pounds pres- sure the furnace must be 3 feet 3 inches inside diameter and 15-32 inch thick. Send address on a postal, mentioning the REVIEW, for a copy of it. The Roberts Safety Water Tube Boiler Company of No. 18 Cortlandt street, New York, and Red Bank, N. J., are rapidly approaching their five hundredth boiler. Sales during the past season number about 150 boilers. The company is now build- ing boilers of about 40 square feet of grate for the Titusville Electric Light Company, for Ross & Sanford's tug Margaret J. Sanford, and a large boiler for a Pacific coast steamer owned at Portland, Ore. Among the yachts recently furnished with large boilers is the Fra Diavolo, owned by Mr. Ed Stokes. A boiler with about 24 square feet of grate for a new fast steam yacht on Lake Champlain, owned by Kellogg & Averill, has also been turned out recently. Great Britain's Shipping in I89I. Statistics of Great Britain's shipping for 1891 are just being published. The vessels entered at ports of the United Kingdom during the year numbered 372,150, with an aggregate tonnage of 85,692,637 tons, aS compared with 370,075 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 84,574,324 tons in 1890. 'The vessels cleared in 1891 numbered 340,802, with an aggregate tonnage of 81,142,105, as compared with 339,446 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 79,766,033 tons, in the preceding year. 'The foreign trade tonnage shows a slight, but only a slight, increase as com- pared with the preceding year, the entrances being 36,859,015 tons in 1891,as compared with 36,835,712 in the preceding year, and the clearances were 37,953,605 tons, as compared with 37,- 443,157 tons in 1890. A greater proportionate advance is noted in the coasting trade, which shows a total of 310,770 vessels, of 48,833,622 tons, entered in 1891, as against 307,240 vessels, of 47,738,612 tons, in 1890, and 278,600 vessels, of 43,188,500 tons, cleared in 1891, as compared with 276,270 vessels, of 42,317,876 tons, in 1890. London continues to hold the first place as regards the amount of tonnage entered and cleared, Liverpool coming second and Cardiff coming third. Ome feature disclosed by the shipping returns and upon which there has been consider-. able comment is the tendency to an inctease of the foreign ele- ment among the crews of the British ships. A British side-wheel steamer 310 feet long, launched re- cently by the Fairfield Ship Building & Engineering Company, has two rudders, one at the bow in addition to the ordinary one at the stern. It is claimed that this will add to the maneuvring efficiency of the vessel.