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November, 1914 cutter Onondaga went out in search of her, cruised till she ran out of coal and returned to port without finding the cripple. Meanwhile the Kineo sailed into Delaware Breakwater in a badly damaged condition, and finished her voyage in tow. Some years ago the Kineo, one of the few big schooners to engage in such trade, took a cargo of coal from Norfolk to Manila, and thence a sim- ilar one from Sydney, Australia, to Honolulu. On the passage the crew came down with beri-beri, and for days the management of the vessel devolved almost wholly upon her skip- per, the late Capt. Frank W.. Patten, and his plucky wife, their feat be- coming a memorable one in marine annals. On her return trip the Kineo loaded sugar in Hawaii for Philadel- phia. When she arrived at the break- water, 213° days out, she had beén given up for lost. Many of the defunct Sewall ships met tragic ends. The Arthur Sewall, another fine steel four-master, was lost at sea with all hands seven years ago on a voyage from Philadelphia to Seattle. The Susquehanna, Rap- pahannock and Roanoke, wooden four- mast ships, were burned, and the Iro- quois, a wooden ship, was: lost in a typhoon in the China Sea in 1901. Several are still afloat under other ownership. The Benjamin F. Packard is in the Alaska salmon trade out of San Francisco. The Shenandoah and W. F. Babcock were sold and con- verted into barges for the Atlantic coast coal trade, and the Erskine M. Phelps, a steel four-mast ship and credited with some of the fastest deep water passages ever made by Amer- ican windjammers, is engaged in the somewhat anomalous business of be- ing towed from port to port on the Pacific in the oil trade, with her yards still aloft. Detained in American Ports A report issued recently by the Bureau of Navigation shows that there are fifty-nine German steamships and 'twelve Austrian vessels held up in ports of this country. Of the Ham- burg-American Line twenty-four vessels are lying idle in this port, in Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New © Orleans and Norfolk, Va. The total tonnage represented by the twenty-four steam- ships is 243,459 gross. The North German Lloyd has. twelve vessels at various American ports, the total tonnage being 147,787. "Of the Deutsch-Amerika Petroleum Co., really owned by the Standard Oil Co. of New York, there are fourteen tank steam- ships aggregating 73,232 tons, while the Hansa Line, with two steamships tied up, and other smaller companies with THE MARINE REVIEW one steamship each out of commission, add 30,032 tons to the list of idle ton- nage. In all, the war has resulted in the internment here of steamships ag- gregating a tonnage of 494,510. The twelve Austrian steamships in- volve a gross tonnage of 57,373, and the list comprises twelve steamships of the Unione Austrica. Co., three ves- sels of the D. Tripcovich Steamship Co. and two of the Atlantica Sea Naviga- tion Go, The idle fleet is as follows: AT NEW YORK. Geo. Washington. (Ger.) Pennsylvania Pisa (Ger.) Pres. Lincoln (Ger.) Vaterland (Ger.) M. Washington (Aust.) Barbarossa (Ger.) Fried. der Grosse (Ger.) Pres. Grant (Ger.) ° Prinzess Irene (Ger.) Himalaia (Aust.) Ida (Aust.) Kr. Wilhelm II (Ger.) Bohemia (Ger.) Konig Wilhelm IT (Ger.) (Ger. ) Adamsturm . (Ger.) Allemannia (Ger.) Armenia (Ger.) Clara Menning (Ger.) Hagen (Ger.) Harburg -- (Ger.) Hartland (Br.) Kiowa (Ger.) Magdeburg (Ger.) Meppen_ (Ger.) Nassovia (Ger.) Portonia (Ger.) Pr. Eit Friedrich Maia (Ger.) (Ger). Dora (Aust.) = Prinz Joachim (Ger.) Grosser K'fuerst (Ger.) Prometheus (Ger.) Sarnia (Ger.) AT BAR HARBOR, ME. Kronprinzessin Cecilie (Ger.) AT BOSTON. -- Erny (Aust.) Amerika (Ger.) Willehad (Ger.) Kolu (Ger.) Wittekind (Ger.) Ockenfels (Ger.) Cincinnati (Ger.) AT PHILADELPHIA. Rhaetia (Ger.) Ems (Ger.) Prinz Oskar (Ger.) Pennoil (Ger.) Franconia (Aust.) AT BALTIMORE. Bulgaria (Ger.) Neckar (Ger.) Rhein (Ger.) Z AT NEWPORT NEWS, VA. Arcadia (Ger.) AT NEW ORLEANS, LA. Breslau (Ger.) Georgia (Ger.) Clara (Aust.): Andromeda (Ger.) Teresa (Aust.) AT PORT ARTHUR, TEX. . Dacia (Ger.) AT GALVESTON. Campania (Aust.) Morawitz (Aust.) Shelter Decks The following instructions have been sent to the collectors of customs by the Commissioner of Navigation: Pending a revision of regulations concerning measurement of vessels (portions of Articles 82, 86, 87, Cus- toms Regulations, 1908), you. may re- ceive and forward with your report under Article 84 an application by the owner of any sea-going steam vessel of the United States for a review of measurement on the ground that addi- tions in the outstanding registers have been made to the gross tonnage for sheltered spaces above the upper deck (Act of March 2, 1895, Sec. 1 (h) ), which is under cover and open to the weather; that it is not enclosed. 2. Owners should be advised that where a vessel is treated as a shelter deck vessel, the freeboard, ascertained under foreign load line laws and reg- ulations and by the classification so- home in this country. 429 cieties, will doubtless be measured downward from the line of the deck. below the shelter deck. 3. Detailed instructions will follow, but, in general, poops, bridges, or any other permanent erections with one or more openings in the sides or ends not fitted with doors or other per- manently attached means of closing them, should not be measured and in- cluded in the tonnage. Obituary Thomas Congdon, former principal surveyor of =lbloyd's: -Resister of Shipping in the United States, died at Glen. 'Ridge, N. "J.,- on. Sept. 21, at the age of 85 years. Mr. Congdon was one of the oldest surviving veterans of Lloyd's Register's staff. He began his career at the age of 14 as an apprentice shipwright at the Royal Dockyard, Devonport, at a time when all warships of the British navy were built of wood and steam only spoken of as a possi- bility. He joined the staff of Lloyd's Register in 1856, serving at Greenock, Bristol and London. In 1882 he went to New York as principal surveyor in the United States and served in that - capacity until 1901 when he retired on Since his retirement Mr. continued to make his 'His friends in- cluded practically every one who has been associated with the shipping busi- ness at New York for the past 30 years. and his death is universally regretted. He is survived by two sons, Ernest W.. | Congdon, associated with the firm of Wilcox, Peck & Hughes. Lieut. Col. A. E. Congdon, an officer on the active list of the British army, and Ernest W. 'Congdon, associated with the well known insurance firm of Wilcox, Peck & Hughes, New York. A bill has been introduced in the house by Congressman Adamson author- izing the secretary of the treasury to a pension. Congdon has 'construct one steam revenue cutter for service in the waters of California at a cost not to exceed $350,000, and one steam revenue cutter for service as anchorage patrol boat in New York harbor, at a cost not to exceed $110,000, such vessel to be especially constructed for ice breaking. Several new steel barges, to operate between Savannah and Augusta, have been completed for the Augusta-Savan- nah Navigation Co. These barges, pro- pelled by gas producer engines, are the first of their kind to be used in South- ern waters and have a carrying capacity of 300 bales of cotton each on a draft of four feet. They will also have passen- ger accommodations. :