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a4 ATLANTIC COAST GO SsIP. Office of the MARINE REvIEW, ' Room 1005, No. 90 West St., New York 'City. Amid the cheering' of about 4,000 spectators and the salutes of the num- erous pleasure and business craft that ply the East river, the Roosevelt, Peary's arctic exploration ship, backed out of her berth at the foot of Twen- ty-fourth street on Monday, on her -second dash for the North pole. The Roosevelt carries a crew of 19 into the frozen north, five of whom were on the vessel when the last trip was made. Commander Peary. goes north for the ninth time, Capt. Bartlett for the third and Engineer Wardwell for the second. The expedition carries three years' provisions. The M: 2; -Seully, tug, of, Perth Amboy, has been purchased by the Isthmian Canal commission for use in connection witu the work on the canal. The tug will be-sent to Colon about. the middle of this month, tak- ing in tow two barges now being con- Structed at... Newport. News...,. The Scully cost $64,500. Hor Isthmian .canal work, also, a shallow draft steamer has been built by the Pusey & Jones Co., of Wil- mington, Del, the steamer to be taken apart and shipped in sections to Panama. The Philadelphia coasting schooner T. Touner has been sold to Capt. James T. Avery, of New Bedford, and will be fitted out for whaling. The Parismina, Heredia and Cart- ago, three large steamers built for the United Fruit Co., at Belfast, will soon go into commission. The Cartago has left the builders' yards for Port Limon, and some time this month the second vessel will leave the yards. Next, month will see the third in com- mission. After the delivery of these three boats, it is. said, the United Fruit Co. will place an order for the construction of two other large re- frigerating steamers. The new Italian steamer Verona ar- rived at New York this week from Philadelphia. She carried 10 cabin and 874 steerage. passengers and on her arrival at New York embarked 1,400 others. The Verona is a sister ship to the new Ancona, and is the latest addition to the Italian Mediter- ranean pervice, "he new British tank steamship Servian sailed from Philadelphia, in command of Capt. Brown, one of the department, TRE MarRINE REVIEW pioneer masters "in ne bulk, oil . car- rying trade, 'this week, with 2,188, 864 gallons of refined petroleum in bulk, for Germany. a master mariner 40 years and a mas- ter of tank steamers 23 years. The British steamer Dulcie, before reported ashore at Zuderruk, has been floated by salvors and pro- ceeded. The Italian cruiser Ettore Fiera- moica arrived at Philadelphia from Rio Janeiro on Sunday, after a long in southern waters. cruise remain in the port for about two weeks. The Isthmian, a new American- built steamer of the American-Hawaii- an Line, arrived at New York this week on her maiden voyage from Se- attle, Tacoma and San Francisco, via the Straits of Magellan. The Isthmian is a freight steamer of 3,463 tons reg- ister, built by the Union Iron Works, wan Francisco, "and brought" a tull cargo of salmon and general merchan- dise. The four-masted schooner Charles H. Sprague, from Mayaguez, Porto Rito, for Philadelphia, with a cargo of cocoanuts, was towed into Hamp- 'ton Roads on Sunday by the Ward Line steamer Yumuri. The Sprague had encountered very severe weather, her foremast and bowsprit being car- ried away and canvas blown to shreds. The bureau of navigation, treasury has announced that the fiscal year ended June 30 was the rec- ord year of American shipbuilding. The tonnage, however, is entirely for domestic transportation. Of the 170,232 passengers of Brit- ish nationality who sailed for the United States during the year 1907 England accounted for 91,552, Ireland for 54,314 and Scotland for 24,366. The dynamite-laden bark Good News, which left Philadelphia and Wilmington on January 10 for Ta- coma, and which has not since been reported, was sighted on July 1 off Cape Flattery, inward. bound toward Puget Sound. The vessel is in com- mand of Capt, Eriksson, and left Dela- ware Breakwater on the eve of one of the greatest storms that has ever swept the Atlantic coast, QUESTIONS FOR MASTERS A Capt. Brown has been ~ pass card turned with Ely. dév.? She will -- 'pass when an object on shore bears {> -. ogi ALe: MATES-NO. 56. What is a. relative "beari Explain its use. 57. Which way do you allows e erly var. in converting a.c¢orrect. ma netic to a true course? 57. True course N 38° E, var. "3y Wly., and the. dey. 11° fee whee the compass course? 58. What is the difference betwee a compass bearing and a correct ma netic bearing? 59. In which direction has thes com- 60. State a rule for naming the dev. after finding its amount by the difference between the compass bear- ing and the correct magnetic bearing, 61. If you were' to trace Om @ magnetic chart the. line of. var. hay ing beside it, say 5° W, at what angle would you be from the true meridi- an all along this line? 62. What is the magnetic meridian -- of any. place? How would you de- termine it? . 63. You are steering NE by com- E by S by the same compass; is its relative bearing? ~ 64. A compass having natural dev., that is, a compass that is not adjust- ed, has one point of Ely. dev. with her head correct magnetic N. What would 'be the reading of this compass with the boat heading correct mag- netic NP On S correct magnetic the dev. is of Uthe same amount; but which way will the dev. be and what course by compass would you have to steer in order to make good the ~ course of correct magnetic S? 65. If you took the 'bearing of a lighthouse by compass and you de- 2 sired to lay it off from the same lighthouse on the chart, what conver- sion would you have to make to this compass bearing before it would agree with the chart;. and which way would you allow the var. and dev. if you had any? a 66. What is the latitude and longi- tude of Poe's Reef lightship as shown on the chart? 67. Two boats start from the same point, one steers N by E 100 statute miles, and the other N by E 100 nau- tical miles. At the end of each course how far will each boat be (in its own miles) from the meridian - on which they started? : 68.. What should a log indicating nautical miles register on the course between Chicago and Pt. Betsey? "ee 69. Why is it that a compass bear- ing of an object 'will not agree when you lay this same bearing on the chart from the same object? what ~