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16 MARINE REVIEW. [May 8 SAN FRANCISCO AS A SHIPPING PORT. A table showing the growth of shipping from San Francisco during the past decade is very interesting. Ten. years ago San Francisco had only three regular foreign-going steam lines--the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., operating fifteen steamers, ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 tons, plying between San, Francisco, 'China, Japan and Central 'American ports; the Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co. operating three 5,000-ton steamships between China and Japan, and the Oceanic Steamship Co. operating five 3,000-ton steamships between San Francisco, Honolulu and Australia. The coasting lines were the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., with sixteen steamers, ranging from 350 to 3,300 tons; the Oregon Railway & Naviga- tion Co., with two steamers of 2,300 and 2,800 tons, respectively; the Alaska Commercial. Co., with four steamers of 350 to 1,000 tons, and various other owners, operating about forty steamers on the coast, ranging from 300 to 600 tons. They, together with fifteen cannery tenders and ten whalers, completed the ocean fleet. The total added tonnage for the last three years is 368,000 tons. The following is a list of vessels added to the San Francisco fleet within three years. All are not yet in commission, but will be before the close of the present year. It makes a showing unparalleled in the shipping history of the world. The'tables follow: OCEANIC STEAMSHIP CO. ~ ro 9 it Ain Lg'th Br'th Depth _Ton- Lg'th Br'th.Depth Ton- i th, te Ay eee: Name. nage. Name. © t. ft. ft. nage. Bieta 65). 4) 50 26. ..0,000. - Sonoma... ..4400,..50.126. .6,000 Wenttta 23 c..; 400 50 26 6,000 ia de sth eed PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP! CO. +35 3.0 > TOC ve: 572 63 40 11,500 Siberia ......'.572 68° 40 11,500 AMERICAN HAWAIIAN STEAMSHIP Co." Alaskan... 2.' 488 57 35 . 8,700 Oregonian ..:.435- 51° 33 ° 6,000 Dexa. age 57. 30: 8,700 Hawaiian... ....435 51 ° 338 6000 Arizionian ...,.488. 57 35 8,700 Nebraskan .::..871. 46: 34. -:5,800 American ...... 485 51 83. 6,000 . Nevadan «...... 371. 46 34° 5,300 Californian ....485: 51 33 6,000 ; BOSTON STEAMSHIP CO. Shawint 2... .: 505 58 40 11,200 Pleiades .. 2 O40 AT OR BTS Tremont ¢...:. 505-58: 40 11,200". Hyades 202. 2. 340° 47 28. 3,753 dy cdl Af 25 4 ATT be i INTERNATIONAL LINE. a One: -....843 48 25 8,488 Pennsylvania ..343 43 25 3,343 laaidia 6s 343 43 25 3,335 Conemaugh ...300 387 24 2,328 - PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP CO. MenatOr si. 2b... wen BS 19... 2,409. Ramona <i: PhO 7 BA coh 500 Spokatie. . io: 284 38 18 2,036 og _ | | UNITED STATES TRANSPORT. SERVICE. eral. A ans: 445.49 30 :5,658 g Warren ties oe) 44.26. 4048 Sherman:.:...... 445 AS -B0 .5,(80:. tlancock. .. 324) 450 45 36 5,305 Sheridan. .......445 49 30: «5,673: JE ebert (203.52... 320 40°, 20.. 2,903 Poems. ...;...-445 49.30 . 5,672 + Sumner. ...... ool 438: 26.3458 Thomas. .....:.445 50. 30 . 5,718.-BRosecrans .....:: 326. 38. 21. 2.976 Bulord 3.25... : B10 A4 26 3,732 SLawton:...,... poo: 43.22 . 3.407 Poe. 8) 44. 26, . 8,722... Dix... ee. 445 52 24 6,839 COG es ao 4) 26... 4,126. . Slocum -... «...,.:148 29.18 581 Meade ......::.488 44.35 . 5,641 a on : TOYO KISEN KAISHA. ; American Maru.423 51 29 5,000 Tokio Maru....423 51 29 5,000 Honkong Maru.423 51 29 5,000. ae PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION CO. | Gagtemala .<-¢ 00" 43° 19" 3227 Chile' vier: 350 43 19 3295 Paleha. 2 eos. eo) 240 192.500 © Santiago i.u7. 350 45 22 2.9538 Colombia 6... 259 43 19 3,385 Panama. ...... 418 52 37 6,000 Tucapel «001; B80, 44 19 «2,700 Mexico.?...',9, 418:552 387 ~ 6,000 Arequipa .......200 40.19 . 2,958 . Victoria. «..,. ..»418 .52 .87... 6,000 Rimari: 605: 201 42 19 2,696 California ;....418 52 37 6.000 Weg Boe 48. 19 3,225 ... fh Ce . | KOSMOS LINE. . Meiociiec «gen 46 26 «644,750 Neko .....:... 345 44 26 3.648 Octavia. -....-. pio 48.20 «64,718. Hathor ........ 340 44 25 3,647 Piotr |.......000| 44 2) 3,048 Pentaur'.......828 40 24 3.047 Hermonthis'...382) 48 26 4,782 Abydos .......323 40 24 3047 Serapis ..:.- ae. 40238 2,546 Minantia' ...\... 340 44 25 3,640 'amis ....: uae So, 42° 23 . 2,870 ae Kae COLLIERS. Ce peeves -7. 015 af 26. «2,675 §=Edith .......... 276 37 OF. 2.869 POV. dive ae -pe0, 41 .24 2,953 , Asuncion ......242 42 96 2196 WIEECOT) |: ain 203 43 24 2,301 , es. STEAM SCHOONERS. one ee er 15-294 --Avichak'= ~~, . .200 35 16-~ 1,063 ree (0 iia oe 11> - 392): Luella sic. 187 (82 10- 412 ~Aberdest }.4'5::5 169 343011: 499: Mandalay \). 2... :142°°33 12 © "488 Chilcat- ....:...115 24.10 . 172 'Robert 'Dollar. :199 '38 13° 798 Seronece, ..-1ee 96:7 12:- 578..--Rainier 280657: 205-88 - 18 800 Despatch .....:175 36 14 +: 698 . Santa Ana: :;::182° 36 24 1,250 funeka |... Tee 26 «12 484 San Pedro .,..168 34 19 456 Jno. S. Kimball.223 388 24 1,588 _. NOTE.--All exce i -Kai , - Paci i (Great Britain), and ee orcice line fecaneee ae bo ge au Gea eas a __- In addition are the Brooklyn, Olympic, Prentiss, Santa Monica, W. H. Kruger, Argo, Guallala, Inqua, South Bay, G. C. Lindauer, King Fisher, Defiance, Nahualate, Columbia, Sea Prince, George F. Haller, Shelikoff, Redwood: City, Chehalis, ranging from: 200 to 1,100°tons.. The following, inland steamers have. been added: | Farialpais;'OSan | Pablo, Elaine, Newtown, Valette, General Frisbie, Onisho; Richrisitd, -Unisn, StisHelena, J. R. McDonald, Alitak, Chignik, 'Dorotty?Tstant and others, Tanging from 50 to 1,750 tons, as AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. The Wells elevator, which burned at Buffalo a few days ago, Was one of the last of the wooden elevators erected at that port. The loss in ele- vator and grain was something in the neighborhood of $400,000. It was thought some time ago that the large steamer building at the Craig works, Toledo, for Thomas Adams of Detroit would be named William McKinley, but it is now announced that her name will be Thomas Adams and that a change to Langham will be made in the wooden steamer that now bears the name Thomas Adams. Grain receipts at Buffalo for the month of April aggregated 13,081,274 bushels, distributed as follows: Wheat, 8,013,442 corn, 1,396,988; oats, 1,714,840; barley, 707,680; rye, 528,100; flaxseed, 720,224. Flour receipts were 763,709 barrels, or an equivalent of 3,818,545 bushels of grain. Total lumber receipts were 8,940,000 ft. and iron ore 62,489 tons. Soundings made since the accident to the steamer 'Choctaw in Mar- quette harbor show that. there is a little less than 18 ft. of water over the spot.where the steamer struck. The shoal place is abreast of the end of the breakwater and in line with the ore dock. It had been supposed the water was much deeper there. Next week systematic soundings will be taken in the upper harbor and at its entrance by the tug Schenck. Several changes have been made in captains of vessels of the Pitts- burgh Steamship 'Co. (Steel Corporation) as a result of the resignation of Capt. A. J. Greenley, who has taken command of the new Hanna steamer Fitch. Capt. H. J. Regan, who was mate of the steamer Van Hise, was promoted to master of the steamer John B. Trevor. Capt. Jolin Dunn, who was in the Trevor, takes the steamer Maritana, and Capt. W. E. Chil- son succeeds Capt. Greenley as master of the Rensselaer. Another of the several large steel. freight steamers that have been under construction at the Chicago works of the American Ship Building Co. during the past winter was launched Saturday. This latest vessel is the Milwaukee, a fine package freight steamer for the Western Transit Co., Buffalo, which is costing about $280,000 and is to have capacity for about 4,100 gross tons of freight. She is 345 ft. over all, 325 ft. keel, 44 ft. beam and 28 ft. depth, and will have triple-expansion engines. of 23, 38 and 64 in, cylinder diameters by 40 in. stroke. Steam will be supplied from three Scotch boilers of 12 by 11% ft., fitted with the Howden system of hot draft. The boiler pressure is to be 180 lbs. oe PROGRESS OF WORK AT MORAN BROS. PLANT, SEATTLE. This week Moran Bros. Co., Seattle, Wash., are putting down keel of the United States lighthouse tender Heather, which will be a com- panion boat to the 'Columbine, though of later design and more modern construction. The Heather has already been thoroughly described and illustrated in the Review. The Heather will be 175 ft. in length and will cost $125,000. The vessel will be made 'staunch and strong to withstand the racing waters off the coast of Oregon. The finishing work on the big shed under which the battleship Nebraska is to be constructed will be begun in a few days. As it stands now the shed covers only that part of the grounds where will be kept the tools and machinery used in the construction of the 'war. vessel. The shed will be extended toward the water front for a distance of 400 ft. The ship will be 450 ft. in length. The piling on which the keel will rest has been set. The finishing touches on the steamer Oregon, which has been at Moran Bros.' wharf the greater part of the winter, are now about completed, and the ship will leave the yard in a week or ten days. A general overhauling was given the hull, the upper works and the machinery. Repairs on the 'Conemaugh also are about completed. The Manauense arrived at the wharf this week and a new thrust shaft will be placed in position, which will require a week or . more. The four-masted schooner Erie will leave the dry dock at Moran's this week and the dredger San Diego will take its place. The San Diego was partly burned: not long ago and will require extensive repairs. The coast survey steamer Patterson will follow it upon the dry dock. TRIAL OF TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER DALE. The torpedo boat destroyer Dale, built by the William R. Trigg Co., Richmond, Va., successfully completed her official trials last week on the Barren island course, off the mouth of Patuxent river, Chesapeake' bay. The Dale is the second of the sixteen destroyers. contracted for by the government in November, 1898, to complete her trials, her sister ship, the Decatur, built by the same company, having the distinction of being first, and is now in actual service.. Both ships are identical in every respect, their principal dimensions being as follows: Length, 250 ft.; beam, 23: ft.; depth, 14 ft.; displacement, 450 tons. They have four Thornycroft boilers and two sets of four-cylinder triple-expansion engines, driving twin screws. The machinery develops 8,000 I.H.P. at full speed. Their armament con- - sists of two 3-in. semiautomatic rapid-fire guns, five 6-pounders and two 8-in. Whitehead torpedo tubes. fe TWO ST. CLAIR RIVER CHANNELS. Since visiting Detroit recently, where he met the engineers in charge of dredging operations on the St. 'Clair and Detroit rivers, Capt.. Geo: P. McKay is inclined to undertake measures that will induce the vessel masters to soon make use of the double channel system in the St. Clair river. The engineers say that after three or four years of dredging, the channel between St. Clair middle ground and St. Clair, as well as the stretch between Stag island and 'the mainland, now contains a depth of water suited'to the largest ships of the lakes. These stretches will be swept shortly, and following this work it is expected that down-bound vessels will keep to the American shore from the head of Stag island down to and below St. Clair. = a oy The Dutch merchant navy consisted on Dec. 31 last. of 652. vessels, -- measuring altogether 382,102 registered tons, against 638 vessels and 34 783. tons atthe end of the year 1900. There is, therefore, an increa fourteen ships and 35,319 register tons. Of the whole number of ve 235 are steamers measuring in the aggregate 306,694 registered tons; _ ake eae cg. a sen full signed sailing ships (11,926 tons) th ar es) D, 7 toh 8 if t' ri 9 7 t ns pieie ' nai : ae Se ities, ing craft! Wm with A gs (¢ tons), and a DUDS OF small