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196 THE MARINE REVIEW DEVOTED TO MARINE ENGINEERING, SHIP BUILDING AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES Published Monthly by The Penton Publishing Company Penton Building, Cleveland. CHICAGO - : - - 1328 Monadock Blk: CINCINNATI - - - - - 503 Mercantile Library Bldg: NEW YORK - - - - - - 1115 West Street Bldg. PITTSBURGH - : Ses - - 2148-49 Oliver Bldg. WASHINGTON, D.C. - - - - - : - Hibbs Bldg. BIRMIN GHAM, ENG. - - - - - - Prince Chambers Subscription, -$2 delivered free anywhere in the world. Single copies, 20 cents. Back numbers over three months, 50 cents. Change of advertising copy must reach this office on or before the first of each month. The Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with THE MARINE REVIEW through the regular channels of the American News Co. i European Agents, The International News Company, Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C., England. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second Class Matter. (Copyright 1912, by Penton Publishing Company) June, 1912 CONTENTS PNTERNADIONAL NAVIGATION "CONGRESS... o. Ooch eee TAZ. Reeipenm VANt S ADDRESS cc. vce iy oe es eso Ces oe a 181 DEGRION ON IytAND NAVIGATION: (o2% ook ok eee eee. 182 EMEROVEMENTS OF RIVERS AND, CANALS. 324200. 0 orc ee ee 182 CAN Ats OR: HEAVY, CERAPRIOW Soe oe 183 PNUER MEDIATE AND PERMINAL PORTO... ci check os ok pe Oe, 184 REINEORGED CONCRETE AND HYDRAULIC... 0. .05...60 62.0208, 186 PROTHCIION OF DANKO fortes 6 Ba OO es 186 MECTION ON OCEAN NAVIGATION voc) lo ec ce ee a eee 187 poem iNG AND REPAIRING VESSEUS. oo 556i vols ce cece he Cees 188 REUINHORCED, GONCKEIE IN) SEA WATER. 6735.0 2028 ee. ee bees 189 ADHD OF @NAVIGAGION Coy, 6 Aceh ee iis cd vee seek ck bes ees 191 Gi POWERED 7 DREDGES 0.60 «ee so ae aes see we on ae ues « 192 ENTERTAINING THE. DELEGATES AT PHILADELPHIA RON ee pecan Sec aye 194 NPS OPA oe ee is Giuily salah oinis eerie Gk S60 Sissel skis eae bike een 196 MerATIVE IMPORTANCE OF LAKE FLARBORS: = 300.0 ca ce ce eve class 198 eA POR PHP Et TUNG. 6, Gr. ck os oe ook eo Vie es 201 DH me CONSURUCTUON GREE yg ele ke sc a celled wee eve ws 202 CONvenpEn INtO Oi BURNERS... 522000 ee Oe eta ee 204 DIPAMER HOR OUrAwAa BRORWARDING CO; 2.5635 oer eee ees 206 MUPEING eIGtOOnG oe PLT ESBURGH . of ey hte cies we coe uae wa bb ers 206 Se GOING "fies TOR NAVY 6 re oe eels pb aces 207 DageVestie TexAs, IAM NOCHE. 65g cur is oeen odes ee ds Keowee a 208 TEND UM FOECROM EATER BOAT. ca vous ves ook cl oe k veoh e ean 209 AN ee. ook ey Di EW OtEO wer DIMBOOLA G76 ok eee ee ai vena eae 212 OwwersHip on Wore STAR PINE. 8.0000 2o ce cei oes oS aa. 212 DREDGE FOR CARDIFF Launching Risks Launching risks are always considerable from the physical standpoint and are quite enough for the ship- builder to worry about. However, the firm of Cam- mell, Laird & Co. have had to worry about a legal risk as well in launching the steamship Highland Loch from their Tranmere yard on the Mersey. The case is one which will interest all shipbuilders. On the day that the Highland Loch was to be launched, the ketch Francis was -anchored in the Mersey, opposite the ship yard. She was duly warned by the ship builders to move from the position taken up. The anchor, however, had got foul of some moor- ings in the river and her captain refused to slip his anchor and have his vessel towed to a safe position by a tug sent out for that purpose. The result was _THE MARINE REVIEW 'the Francis. june, 1912 that the launch took place and the Francis was struck and damaged. When the case was tried by the admiralty division, judgment was given in favor of It was held that the captain of the Francis was at fault in not slipping his anchor when. warned, but the court held that the launching was not justified while the Francis was in the danger zone and judgment was given based on the principles of com- mon law under which the owners of the Highland Loch were held to be solely liable on the ground that although there was negligence on the part of the Francis, the damage could have been avoided by post- poning the launch. Having regard to the unsatisfactory Seance of the decision to the whole 'shipbuilding industry, the case was taken to the court of appeals which reversed the decision of the admiralty court on the ground that the judge'had overlooked the fact that there was dan- ger involved in the postponement of the launch, and that the shipbuilding company in ordering the launch to proceed had only in making a choice between two evils chosen what in its opinion' was the lesser one and held the Francis entirely to blame. ; This decision certainly is in accordance with com- mon sense and in no way lays down any new dictum that a ship may be launched in common waters utterly regardless of the consequences to property owned by other users of the water.. An appeal, however, was taken to the House of Lords, which promptly dealt with the case as one of fact and not of law, and thus cleared away a great deal of matter which had been discussed in the lower courts on a legal basis only. The House of Lords expressed its entire satisfaction with the judgment of the court of appeal, holding that the Francis was wholly at fault and that the action of her captain was a typical illustration of unreason- ableness. The Titanic Disaster The Senate Commerce Committee, which, through its sub-committee, headed by Senator William Alden Smith, investigated the Titanic disaster, has made its report to the Senate. Whatever may be said of Sen- ator Smith's lack of experience in nautical affairs, there is no question whatever but that his committee secured a vast mass of useful information, and many facts, which might otherwise have escaped had there been any delay in the investigation, were put on rec- ord. The more the tragedy is surveyed and the cir- cumstances surrounding it understood, becomes the pity. There is reason to believe that had assistance been promptly rendered by ships within easy steaming dis- tance of the Titanic, every life on board would have been saved. The conduct of Capt. Lord, of the Ley- land liner Californian, owned by the same company that owned the Titanic, is condemned as most repre- hensible. The survivors of the Titanic insisted that the. greater