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Sry EN IREE, ak ede ENCE of, ATLANTIC COAST NOTES. Office of the Marine Review, Room 1005, No. 90 West St., : : New York City. Little assurance is given by the wrecking companies that the steamer John H. Starin, ashore on Steeple- chase island breakwater, at the en- trance to the. Bridgeport harbor, can be saved. The Starin left New Haven on Friday evening at 9 o'clock, but owing to encountering heavy weather and springing a leak was headed for Bridgeport harbor, where the master intended beaching the the shoals. steamer on Owing to the high wind prevailing and the difficulty in steering the vessel the ship becam2 unmanage- able and went on the rocks. She lies in 6 it. of water at low tide and has a list of about 45 degrees. Her bot- tom is badly damaged, as is also the whole of her starboard side and port wheel. It took the Cunard liner Mauretania just 4 days, 17 hours and 6 minutes to cover the long course between Daunt's, Rock and Ambrose Channel lightship, off Sandy.-Hook, ont, her last run to this port, the best previous record being that of the Lusitania, 4 days, 19 hours and 36 minutes. The Mauretania's average speed for the voyage was 25.55 knots, and her best day's run 671 miles, The French liner Savoie arrived at New York last week and _ reported having passed through a field of brok- en ice after passing the Banks. The liner was for over two hours among the ice, which was broken up into small cakes, the field extending over a length of 60 miles and as far north as the eye could see. The dredging steamer George Brush, owned by the Beebe Brothers, oyster shippers, sank in New York harbor last week. She was partly loaded with oysters and is supposed to have been ran down by one of the heavy dredges. The American-Hawaiian steamship Oregonian arrived at Spreckel's sugar refinery, Philadelphia, on Monday, with 7,000 tons of sugar from Puerto de Mexico. Her sister ship Isthmian sailed from the berth at the refinery just previous to the arrival of the Ore- gonian, having discharged 7,200 tons of Hawaiian sugar-in three working days. The sea-going tug Urbanus Dart -caught fire off Romer Shoal beacon, ~ New York lower bay, on Sunday, and was beached on Sandy Hook. She longitude "THE Marine. REVIEW was ocean-bound, seeking a tow, when fire was discovered forward of. the boilers. The flames spread so rapidly that it was considered advisable to head the vessel for the shore, where she has since turned turtle, the crew escaping not a moment too soon. The Dart was owned by Capt. John Gully, of Brooklyn, was not insured, and will probably be a total loss. The 'Elvira Ball; an' abandoned schooner. which salvage steamers have been searching for without suc- cess, has again been sighted. This time she was passed by the Austrian steamship Georgia in latitude 38.44, 68.45; on. Keb, 18) "dhe Georeia arrived "at Saturday from Trieste. Chief Officer F. McKoige Jr., of the steamship Wilhelmina, makes the following interesting report on the submarine bell to the hydrographic office: "While entering Chesapeake bay on Feb. 5, 1909, atmosphere smoky and range of vision about three miles," 1 was im. the. cabin, which is aft and below the main deck, and the floor of which is level with the water line or a few inches below, when I heard the sound of the submarine fog bell on tail of the Horseshoe lightship. Going on deck I heard the fog whistle of the lightship. Descending to the foot of the companionway I heard the bell, apparently in my room near the fi6or, which. is on > the.«port « Side, and at the same time the sound of the whistle. At 5:50 p. m., we passed the lightship, 1% to ™ mile, at an 8-knot speed, and heard the bell until 2 amiles Off. Ee also, went into the captain's room on 'the starboard side and heard the faint sound of the bell, which -sound apparently came into the cabin from the port side," The Norwegian steamship Clotide Cuneo, which arrived at New York on Monday from Jamaica, reports that on Feb. 17, when two miles south of Cape Maysi, she sighted the Norwegian steamship Freke, from Baracoa, ashore at that point. The Freke asked to be reported and has also been spoken by the steamship Admiral Farragut. About March 15 important changes will be made in the lights on the Delaware river. Range lights, to be known as Bellvue range lights, will "be established to guide shipping in the channel from the Cherry island New York on flats range line to the Schooner Ledge range lights. The lights in- side of the mouth of the Christiana river and the Edgemoor light will be permanently discontinued. Fire was discovered in the hold 'of the: steamship Crostatels, of: the Hansen line, lying at Pier 3, foot of Forty-eighth street, Bush doeks, South Brooklyn, on the morning of Feb. 19. The fireboat Seth Low and -- the engines of the Brooklyn fire department flooded the vessel with 'water for over two hours before the 'fire was under control. The cargo consisted of burlap and jute, from 'Calcutta,.-Dec. 29° The > Crectazels arrived at New York on the 18th from Philadelphia, where part of her cargo was discharged. BRITISH ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE STUDY OF NAVAL | ARCHITECTURE. An offer has been received from Alex- ander Elder, of Southport, England, a former. partner in the firm of 7 Elder, Dempster & Co., Liverpool, to contribute $62,500 for the establishment of a chair of naval architecture in 'the University of Liverpool. This offer has been en- thusiasticaly received as indicating that Britain is waking up to the great danger of falling behind other nations in the educational facilities for the study of naval construction. There are at pres- ent in the United Kingdom only two such schools of naval architecture, name- ly, at Glasgow and Durham University, and this offer is the outcome of the attention drawn to the need of more such facilities at the ship building centers by Sir William H. White, K. C. B., late constructor to the Brit- ish admiralty. What is more this offer will no doubt influence some _ other wealthy ship owner to provide an experi- mental tank for research work, since there are only two such tanks in the United Kingdom, apart from the ad- miralty one at Gosport, and these two aré privately owned by Denny Bros., of Dumbarton, and by John Brown & Co., Glasgow. This will entail a further ex- penditure of $75,000, and a great effort will now be made to make this a neces- sary equipment to the school of naval architecture. This provision would en- able experiments to be made with a view to reduce the current waste of steam power which amounts to as much as 50_ per cent, besides providing further facil- ities for research work in regard to the efficiency of propellers.