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September, 1912 skips of one cubic: yard" capacity to be provided for each hold in addi- tion to the clamshell buckets. The . Jupiter. is to. be. arranged with quarters and accommodations of the character usual in a high grade cargo steamer for a crew consisting of the following: One commander, one executive navigating officer, one senior engineer, three watch officers, one medical officer, one pay officer, one boatswain, one carpenter, three warrant machinists, one pay clerk and 150 enlisted men. The Jupiter is provided with com- 'plete system of piping for pumping the ballast in connecticn with the engineer's pumps, with piping for filling and discharging oil, with san- itary flushing system, baths and hand drainage pumps. <A_ suitable system of fire protection is also to be in- stalled im the hold. Remarkable Case of Grounding One of the most remarkable cases of grounding recorded in Pacific maritime annals in years was the exper- ience of the steamship City of Seattle, owred by the Pacifie Coast Steamship Co., which, after being high and dry for 15 hours, was found entirely un- damaged. The steamer was able to proceed on her next voyage without docking, which seems remarkable when it is considered that she hung on a rocky bottom and was entirely out of. water for hours. The City of Seattle is a freight and passenger steamship plying reg- ularly between Seattle and Skagway, Alaska, via ports. She is an iron. steamer, of 767 tons, built at Phila- delohia in 1890. On the morning of Aug. 15, while returning from Skag- way with 120 passengers aboard, many of them excursionists, she went ashore at Charcoal Point, 2 miles south of Ketchikan, near the British Columbia border. The mishap was due to a dense fog. Capt. Johnson had meanwhile stopped his engines. Suddenly the vessel took the ground with scarcely a jar and when the passengers come out to breakfast four hours later they found them- selves surrounded by dry land. The receding tide had left the vessel en- tirely out of water. So easily had the Cicy of Seattle taken the ground that a majority of the passengers were not aware of the accident. During the day the tourists enjoyed the novel experience of walking about the Seat- tle and examining her hull. With the flood tide they went aboard and 15 hours after the steamer went aground she was floated on the high tide with the assistance of the steamship THE MARINE REVIEW 303 REMARKABLE PREDICAMENT OF A STEAMER Northland. The accompany -- photo- graph shows the City of Seattle rest- ing on a rocky shore waiting for the flood tide. Many Oil Tankers Building Of. the fifty to now building in British shipyards-- chiefly on the northeast coast--at least twenty-five are for the Pearson syndicate, otherwise the Eagle Trans- portation Co., which is allied to the Mexican Eagle Co. This syndicate owns a large oil installation at the Manchester docks consisting of five tanks with a capacity of 12,700 tons, equivalent to 3,448,232 gallons. Many of the remaining number are for big oil corporations of the Anglo-Amer- ican. and British petroleum compan- ies,/who control the premier installa- tions at the Manchester docks, viz.: Anglo-American Oil Co., 19 tanks of 20,687 tons (5,617,000 gallons) capa- city, thirteen tanks of 46,259 tons (12,560,- 520 gallons) capacity. The others are chiefly for shipowners who have been identified with the oil-carrying trade for some time, and have at least in the last two years found it an extremely profitable business. This extraordinary activity in the building of oil-tankers points to wide dispersal of oil in the near future-- its distribution, in short, from the oil field to the consuming centers, and particularly 'to oil , depots at. .the world's leading ports, where the fuel can. -be stocked ready tor 'calling steamers. sixty oil-tankers The Eastern Steamship Corporation, of which Calvin Austin is president, has taken possession of the Dominion Atlantic Railway steamship line between Boston and Yarmouth, and will build two steamers for the service. and" British. Petroleum Co," zones of known danger. Some Suggestions to the Board of Trade The British Board of Trade caused to be printed during the Titanic dis- acter a list of suggestions made by various correspondents on the sub- ject of saving life at sea, and there were certainly. some suggestions made. For instance one correspondent sug- gests that icebergs be destroyed by "radium shots." Sounds good, but expensive. Another correspondent, evidently of an ecclesiastical turn of mind, thought that all vessels here- after should be launched in the pres- ence of a bishop. A third suggested that the funnels be used as lifeboats-- very helpful indeed, and it is curious that no architect ever thought of it before. A fourth suggested that the rudder be fitted in the engine room-- and why not? It couldn't get injured by ice there. Another suggested "a device for stopping vessels by re- versal of engines,' which is good, but not original. Another gentleman thought that steamers should be fitted with buffers and icebergs with electric bells. Altogether 424 suggestions were submitted and some of them, of course. were good ones, as for instance that a better lookout should be kept in An efficient lookout would have averted the Ti- tanic's accident, though it is' now clear that some of the wireless warn- ings of the proximity of icebergs never reached the bridge at all. Capt. Ruser, executive officer of the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, is to bring out the new Hamburg-American steamship Imperator, and has been de- tached from sea service in order that he may daily inspect the construction of the Imperator and be familiar with the great ship in all its details,