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The turbine passenger stedmer Im- mingham, built by Swan, Hunter & Wig- ham Richardson, Ltd., . Wallsend-on- Tyne, for the Great-Central Railway Co., was recently given her six hours' of- ficial sea trial, which was highly satis- factory to her owners. The four steamers of the United Steamship Co., of Copenhagen, engaged in the service to America, are to be fitted with wireless telegraph apparatus, con- tract having been made with the Amal- gamated Radio-Telegraph Co., of Lon- don, for the installation, The: United States circuit court of appeals recently rendered a decision which gives to the Western Pacific terminal facilities at Oakland water- front, thus defeating the Southern Pa- cific which had previously gained a victory in the circuit court. The new steamer which the Do- minion line has ordered of Harland & Wolff, Belfast, will be named the Alberta. The vessel, which is for Ca- nadian service, will be of 14,000 tons gross and 9,000 tons net register and will have a speed of 16 knots. The steel passenger and freight steam- er building for the Savannah line by John B. Roach, Chester, Pa., will be of 5,600 gross tonnage, 400 ft. long, 49 ft. beam and 27 ft. depth. She will have triple expansion engine 28, 46 and 75 by 48 in. and four boilers 14.7 by 10.5 ft. Tacoma and Seattle are. turning to - the Crient to relieve the coal famine, the steamships. Lyra, Quito. and Pleiades 'having brought 7,000 instance of coat importation from the Orient to the Pacific. coast: for local use. The new Vion Phitapine Ship- _ ping Co. will ask tenders from British ship builders for the construction of seven large steamships. The tenders of American ship builders were re- garded as much too high. The money for the new. steamers has been sub- scribed in Tokio. The Atlantic & Birmingham Con- struction Co. has awarded contract to the Fore River Ship Buiiding Co. for a fifth steel freighter, to run between New York and Brunswick, Ga. The same builders have two vessels com- pleted and two nearing completion' for the same line. _ The Hughes Noniacuiane Cos, of Los Angeles, Cal., importing hard woods for the manufacture of banking fixtures, ete., will add 'to its equipment one or two steamers at a cost of from $90,000 to $125,000 each, one to be built on the ' Pacific coast and the other to. be pur- chased in the east. 'The new steel passenger steamship Havana of the Ward line sailed on tons. from Japan recently, This is the first ' Navigation- Co.'s "TRAE MarRINE. REVIEW her maiden voyage to Havana recent- ly.. The vessel is: 413 ft. long, 60. ft. beam and of 9,000 tons displacement. She has triple-expansion engines, twin screws and is capable of attaining a speed of 18.35 knots. The builders: of a railway: across Nova Scotia, Messrs. Mackenzie & Mann, plan to establish passenger steamer - service between -Victoria Beach and St. John and also between Victoria Beach and Boston and are in the market for cargo and passenger steamers for this service. The Brazilian government recently or- dered in England three battleships some- what similar to the Dreadnought. Two of the hulls are to be built by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co, and the ' remain.ng hull and the engines for the three ships will be built by Messrs. Vickers, Sons & Maxim. At the annual meeting ef the stock- holders of the Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co, held this week all the old directors were re-elected. 'Mr. T. F. Newman, general manager, announced that: plans for the new passenger steam- er wilf be ready to be submitted to the ship builders next month. At the beginning of this year the government of Canada was formerly given possession of 'the British~ dock yard at Halifax, N. S., the British ad- miralty reserving the right to use the yard and buildings for repairs or dock- ing of warships, and to use the naval hospital for sick British sailors. There was launched | recently at Cramp's, -- Philadelphia, the steamer Massachusetts of the New England fleet, designed for the company's new outside route from New York to Boston. (She is 395 ft. long, 52 ft. beam and 23 ft. deep. Two more vessels are bends Bie the same line. When the work now in progress on the Suez canal is completed, the depth throughout will be 31 ft. and the bot- tom width 128 ft. This will enable ves- sels to pass through the canal at a maxi- mum speed of nine miles per hour, in- stead of six miles as at present, thus re- ducing the time: ef pooae: toma 18 to 12 hours. Admiral Montecuccoli, of the Aus- tro- Hungarian navy, supports the pres- ent policy of enlangement on _ the grounds that. owing to the depth of their canals it is necessary they should build large ships of war as de- tenses from great hostile ships which might attempt to pass odes the waterways. _ 4 It is reported that Sis aaa Pacific railway's executive has under consideration steamers Empress. of Britain and Empress of Ireiand to the be ident of the Marine Engineers' 17 Pacific, in which event two new liners for the Atlantic service will be built which will be larger and faster than the Empress of Britain and ER enuecee of Ireland, It is reported that the finest of the 'channel and first cruiser squadron fleets of the British navy, in command of Rear Admiral George Neville, O. V. O., will be sent to the international demonstra- tion which will occur, on the opening of the Jamestown exhibition. The ships will visit Halifax and Quebec before recross-_ ing the Atlantic. ' The submarine torpedo boats Por- poise, Shark and Plunger will be sent by the navy department to Annapolis, so that the midshipmen may become familiar 'with their' operation, The submarine Holland was formerly sta- tioned at Annapolis. These vessels are all of the type constructed by the 'Electric Boat Co. The tug Tartar of Swansea, Eng- 'and, is now on a voyage of 16,300 miles through the Straits of Magellan to Vancouver, B. C.) having, been ac- quired by Mr. T. Milward for lumber towing purposes. The tug was built by Messrs. Scott & Sons, Bowlin, and engined by Mr. James Ritchie, eee yon Works, Partick. . London interests are reported 6 be financing a scheme to erect a-large floating dry dock at Vancouver, B. C.,, and ultimately to have a complete ship building plant. It is planned to con- solidate the B. C. Marine railway of © Victoria and Vancouver, the Vancou- vér Engineering Works and the new Westminster foundry. The reorganization of the Russian navy was begun recently by the ap- -pointment of "Admiral Dickoff, minis- ter of marine, he thus becoming vir- tually commander-in-chief, a complete change from the policy pursued when Grand Duke Alexis was at the head of the navy. The acting minister was then only a civil functionary. The new passenger and freight. steam- er City of Stamford, building for the. North & East River Navigation Co., was launched Jan. 15 at Kennebunk, Me. The. vessel will ply between New York and Stamford, Conn. She is 145 | ft. over all, 35 ft. beam and 9 ft. depth of hold, with engine 15 and 32, by 22 in. and a Scotch boiler 11 by ir ft. Mr. George P: Wilson, national pres- Bene- ficial Association, and i the past nine years general mam ger 'of, the? Asbestos & Magnesia Mfg. Philadelphia, Pa, has left that eae and is now with the Philip Carey Mfg. Co., with offices at the southwest corner of ath and But- | 'tonwood streets, Philadelphia. a Ketchikan Steamship Co. The has