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thoroughly tested and during this time most of the steerage passengers wore life preservers continually, so were their quarters flooded by the heavy seas. The British ship Kynance, Capt. Auld, has arrived in Seattle where she will be placed on the ways for repairs made necessary by collision with the Danish ship Jupiter, Christmas day. While some of the plates are loosened below the water line it is not thought it will be -necessary to unload her cargo of lumber in order to repair. The two-masted schooner Gotoma lost her deckload of lumber in a recent gale off the Washington coast, sprung a leak and foundered. Her crew consisting of Capt. Gruggel, his wife, a mate, cook and four seamen were rescued just in the nick of time by the steamer Santa Monica. She belonged to the Simpson Lumber Co. and was insured. She is a wooden schooner built in 1872 at Coos. Bay, Ore., by the Miami Lumber Co. Her tonnage is 199 gross, 189 net and she is 119 ft. long. The British steamer Advance and the British bark Iverna collided off Newcas- tle, New South Wales, Dec. 28. The Advance went down and with the ex- ception of her first officer, all the mem- bers of the crew lost their lives. Iverna put into Newcastle leaking badly. The steamer Senator while coming down the Columbia river the night of Dec. 25 collided with the warehouse of the Kelvenhusen Cold Storage Co. at Altoona about 11 p.m. The mishap was due to a failure of the Senator's steer- ing gear to work properly. The wharf and front of the warehouse were car- ried away; the steamer was not badly in- jured. The damage is estimated at $8,000. United States Steamboat Inspectors Whitney and Turner at Seattle, an- nounced recently that they have sus- pended for 90 days, commencing Dec. 23, the license of Mate William C. Ansell, who is held responsible for the grounding of the steamer Northland on Enterprise Reef, Nov, 27. Ansell is adjudged guilty of careless navigating. has been repaired by the Moran Co. at a cost of $8,300 and has again resumed her run, & The two-masted schooner San Buena- ventura was picked up by the tug Co- lumbia and towed into port at Marsh- field, Ore, Dec. 24, with her rigging and masts carried away as a result of constantly | The - 'San' - Francisco - ships. The Northland TAE MarINE REVIEW the storm, of -Deéc.%24 and =25, which wrought havoc with shipping all along the Pacific coast. The schooner was en- route from San Francisco to Port North and was light. The San Buenaventura was a wooden schooner built in 1876, 180 tons gross, 171 net, 107 ft. long by 30 ft. beam, owned by W. J. Woodside, San Francisco. Capt. Worth G. Ross, chief of the revenue cutter service, has informed Senator Piles that the life saving tug Snohomish now enroute to Puget Sound around Cape Horn, will spend the first few weeks after its arrival visiting such Snohomish county ports as may express a desire to see the vessel, 'These. ports will include Everett and possibly Snohom- ish, if the depth of water in the Sno- homish river will permit. The American ship Benj. F. Packard which was recently sold to the North- western Fisheries Co., to carry salmon cases from Alaska was bought for $25,- 000, which is considered a good price for wooden vessels as they are selling these days. But the Packard was in ex- ceptionally good condition. Naval officials are visiting Puget Sound looking for a suitable site for a torpedo station for the navy department. John Mitchell, Seattle, was the low- est bidder for the extensive repairs contemplated for the Pacific Coast Steamship -Co.'s. steamer Alki. - The next lowest tender was made by Hall Bros. Marine Ry. & Shipbuilding Co. The awards have not been madeand the matter is being held in suspense by the steamship company. Griffiths, president of the Steamship & Barge Co., recently purchased in six wooden sailing These will be dismantled and transformed into barges. For the next two years they will engage in freight- James Coastwise of Seattle, 'ing rock from Port Orchard, Puget Sound, to Grays Harbor, there to be used in the constructivn of the north jetty being built by the government. This purchase is the largest deal in - in the Pacific coast for several years. The vessels sold to Mr. Griffiths are: Ship St. David, bark St. David and ship James Drum- mond, by the California Shipping Co.; bark Big Bonanza by the Golden Gate Shipping Co.; barks Carondelet and sailing vessels 'Palmyra, by the Puget Sound Com- mercial Co. The first four vessels are registered at San Francisco and their sale was negotiated by Rinder & Mathews, $50,000 to $75,000. 23 ship brokers. The two latter barks are'registered at Port Townsend. The deal amounts to from © The vessels wiil be brought to Puget Sound and thoroughly overhauled; the topmasts will be taken down and the hatches willbe enlarged. The sale of these six ships for freighting purposes marks only another step toward the banish- ment of the American flag from the high seas for the vessels were all American built and once part of our - fine fleet of merchantmen. Hall Bros. Marine Railway & Ship- building Co. is overhauling the steam- er Monticello, at the Eagle ,Harbor works. The Monticello is having a new tail shaft fitted and is also be- ing painted throughout. The same -- company is re-rigging the three-mast- ed barkentine John Smith, of San Francisco. The tug Tacoma has been hauled out at these yards and will undergo repairs in the future. John L. Hubbard, manager of the works, says that, financial conditions consid- ered, the year now closing has been very successful for his company. The Moran Co. has been awarded damages against the Chesley Towboat Co. for $3,616.23 on account of dam- _age to the plaintiff company's dry- dock by the steamer Olympia in tow of one of the Chesley Co.'s tugs. ae The steamship Dora is enroute to Seattle from Seward, Alaska, to un- -dergo annual repairs and overhauling. The Dora is expected to arrive on Puget Sound Dec. 21, and unless she reguires more extensive repairs than are expected will only miss one trip -- on her run westward from Seward as far as Unalaska. "The Northwestern Fisheries Co., of Seattle, has purchased the American three-masted wooden ship Benjamine F. Packard from A. Sewall & Co, of Bath} e. The Packard 1s: now lying at Eagle Harbor. She will be -- used by the fish company to run to the Alaska canneries during the summer. D. J. Dolson, of Omak, Wash., is assembling a light draught boat at Wenatchee, Wash. which will be ready for service on the river. by Jan. 1. The boat is to run on the Okonagon river between Omak and Brewster, carrying passengers, express a freight, giving daily service between these points. ' and 34.