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PACIFIC. COAST NOTES. Office of the Marine Review, 302 Pioneer Bldg., Seattle, Wash., Jan. 23. The Northland Steamship Co. has purchased from :the American Board of Foreign Missions, Boston, the screw steamer Morning Star, which has been lying idle at San Francisco and Seattle for about two years. The sale was negotiated by James. A. Moore, Seattle. It has not yet been decided definitely what run the steam- er will be placed on but it is reported that the vessel will ply between Van- couver, Port Townsend, Seattle and ' Tacoma, carrying freight and _ pas- sengers and making three trips a week. The Northland Steamship Co., H. C. Bradford, general manager, has a contract with the Canadian Pacific Ry. to carry freight to Puget Sound ports. Extensive repairs and general over- hauling on the Morning Star are be- ang, executed by: Jolin 5B. "Mitchell, Seattle. The repairs include building a new pilot house and. texas, the installation of steam winches, new guards and general minor refitting. No work is being done on the ma- chinery. The Morning Star is 132 ft. long by 30 it. beam, was built in 1900 and was used for some time in the South Sea islands by the Amer- ican Board of Foreign Missions. Repairs approximating $15,000 will be made to the steamer A, G. Lind- say, owned by the Northern Steam- ship Co., and now lying at Seattle. Two Scotch marine boilers will re- place the single fire box boiler. The after cabin will be remodeled so as to accommodate from 12 to 15 pas- sengers. Other slight repairs will be made in order to put the steamer in first class condition. Bids are being received for the work now and the contract will be let in a short time. The A. G. Lindsay is a wooden steam schooner of 1,067 gross tons, 678 net tons, 197 ft, long by .37. ft, beam, built in 1889, The Commercial Boiler Works, Se- attle, is making repairs to the steam- er Whatcom, owned by the Puget Sound Navigation Co. A new smoke stack is being built, a new boiler foundation is being constructed and minor boiler repairs are being made. The United States revenue cutter Thetis will receive her annual over- 'hauling at the Heffernan dry dock at Quartermaster harbor. Damage sustained while cruising in Bering sea and fighting ice last summer will TAE MARINE REVIEW be repaired... Deck work on the job will be done by Hall Bros. Marine Ry. & Shipbuilding Co. It is reported from Bamfield that the Dominion government's motor lifeboat, which went ashore on Rob- bers' island, will be a total loss. Further - dttemipts to save the wrecked steamer Saratoga, which was beached near Ellamar island ° last March, will be made this spring. Little hope of saving the steamer, however, is held out. She is. said to be broken in three places and to be in bad shape. Steamer Bertha, owned by the Alaska Coast Co., is being repaired by the Heffernan' Dry ~Dock "Co, Quartermaster island. Only harbor repairs are being made. ~ Advices from Japan state that the British 'steamer Craigvar, which went ashore recently and damaged her No. 1 and 2 holds, has been floated and pronounced seaworthy. It is expect- ed that she will continue her: voyage to Manila. She grounded near Ha- kodate, Japan. ; The steamer Chehalis collided with. the steamer San Jacinto at - Grays harbor, Jan. 19, doing damagg to the extent of $1,000. It will be necessary for the' San "Jacinto "to: "discvarge cargo and make repairs. The Che- halis arrived in the harbor late and attempted to reach the 'Hoquiam Lumber & Shingle Co.'s mill a mile up the river. The night was dark and on her. way up the Chehalis ran into the Northern Pacific pier on which a steel bridge is to be built, collided with the marine ways a little further up river, tearing out . the piling and finally hit the San Jacinto squarely astern 'breaking her six mooring lines and causing her to go adrift. Warm southwest winds that have prevailed for the past week have re- moved the ice from the Columbia river and navigation is again On a normal basis. During the cold snap the small river steamers were put out of commission but at no time was navigation for the sea-going vessels badly hampered. Following the announcement that the International Steamship Co. has replaced the steamer Chippewa on the Victoria run, the Canadian Pacific lines have reduced the fare between 25 Seattle and Victoria and Seattle, 65 miles, to 25 Cents each Way. ~ Luis indicates that the rate war that has been waged between the American and Canadian companies for the past: year is still as bitter as ever with little prospect of a settlement of the difficulty. The German steamer Ella has ar- rived from Manzanillo, Mexico. She is the first vessel in the new German line which will establish regular steamship and rail service between the north Pacific coast and the City. of Mexico. The Ella is scheduled to leave here on her first voyage south about Feb. 4. The agents for the line are Jebson & Ostrander, Seattle. a) STEAM SCHOONER SIBYL MARSTON A TOTAL | - WRECK. The steam schooner Sibyl Marston, 'Capt. Charles Schillinsky, which left Grays. harbor' "Jan. / for Redondo, with 1,100,000 feet of lumber, went ashore about a mile south of Surt, -~ Cal, near midnight, Jan. 12, and a now a total wreck. Two firemen, John McCarty and Richard O'Neéil, were drowned. The wreck was caused by mistaking the lights in the railroad station at Surf for the © lighthouse at Point Argello. The ship struck a rock and stove a large hole amidships. It was dark and stormy when the vessel struck; the crew passed a night of trying hard- ship on the vessel and were finally rescued Jan. 13. se a The vessel is owned by Escher & Minor, of San Francisco, and is valued at $138,000. Part of the car- go of lumber may be saved. The Sibyl Marston was built by Boole's shipyard, Oakland, , Cal., in 1907, and was one of the finest lumber carriers on the coast. She is 214 ft. long, 42 ft. beam, 1614 ft. deep and_ has a gross tonnage of 1,073 and net tonnage of 647. The Moore & Scott Iron Works, San Francisco, Cal., has secured the contract for repairing the Norwegian steamer Henrik Ibsen, at their bid of $7,200, which was $1,150 lower than that of the Union Iron Works and $3,235 lower than that of the Risdon Iron & Locomotive Works; both of San Francisco. The. vessel requires dry docking in order to re- new several of :her shell plates. The contract calls for the completion of the work in 14 days. as