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"May, 1918 Puget sound awaiting a decision as to her status. She has just been chartered by the United States shipping board 'and her previous engagements can- celled. goo Oe The government having fixed the price of wheat for the coming season, placing Pacific coast terminals on a parity with Chicago and New York. The shipping of wheat and flour by water, it is be- lieved, will be resumed on a large scale from Puget sound and Portland during the coming fall and winter. In normal times, the grain export business em- ployed a large fleet of vessels, but dur- ing- the last two seasons, the scarcity of tonnage and _ unsettled conditions diverted this trade largely overland. xk k k z The Skinner & Eddy plant, Seattle, delivered the 8800-ton steamship West- take to the shipping board 23 working days after she was launched and 95. days from the time the keel was laid. According to foreign and American ex- perts who were in Seattle at the time, the company's achievement is a world record for quick time in shipbuilding. ok * * North Pacific yards have turned out about 30 auxiliary-powered schooners within the last 18 months. * 2k *K Ten thousand seafaring men, mem- -bers of crews: of American steamships operated out of Pacific coast ports, were recently granted increases in wages rang- a Alo HE Warren line has taken over the Glasgow-Boston service of the Allan line, recently discon- tinued, and will inaugurate a new serv- ice. The office of the Allan line, State street, Boston, has been leased by the France & Canada Steamship Co., with R. B. Teakle as general manager. * *K * __R.L. Bean, Camden, Me., has launched the 4-mast schooner Laura A. BEAN for Cast. C.: A; Bean, Marblehead, Mass., the new vessel's. hailing port. The schooner is of 629 net tons and 530 _ gross tons and she cost $85,000. ok * * The steam trawler Swett, Capt.. Thomas McComisky, recently found a --5000-pound anchor and chain while dredging on Georges banks. The big mudhook is believed to belong to a S-masted schooner that foundered sev- eral years ago. : : The 2-mast British schooner Scotia QurEen has been sold to Mexicans who will use the vessel to transport cattle etween Mexican ports.. The vessel has been rebuilt at Boston. ee eee Crews of fishing vessels are now sub- ected to rules that apply to sailors on merchant vessels and must carry identi- neation cards and submit to examina- 10n by immigration officials. oe ee Oe e-built steamer Racrne, epa ton a distanced several tramp steamers. - ship's captain says he would have cov- THE MARINE REVIEW. ing from 25 to 35.5 per cent, according to announcements made by the com- panies involved. The increases in wages are for. all classes of sea service. Ke oR The Pacific Steamship Co.'s liner, ApMIRAL Evans, was beached on _ the sandy shore of Hawk inlet, southeast- ern Alaska, recently. The vessel was not stranded on the reef but the rocks ripped her side for considerable distance just forward of amidships. The. oil tanks were penetrated and they soon filled with water. Oe The Seattle fishing schooner, Purt- - TAN, one of the finest vessels of her type and rig on the. Pacific "coast, is: reported a total loss near Cape. Cleare, Montague island, Alaska. The Puriran is valued at $50,000. He or ek Seattle now has specially uniformed 'waterfront police who although paid by dock operators, and other business men in the district, serve under orders of the chief of police. XK *k * The 5-mast auxiliary power schooner, GENERAL PERSHING, which was launched by the Olympia Shipbuilding Co. sev- eral weeks ago, has been faken over by the government. x eS The states of Oregon and Washing- ton are in a position to furnish between 400 and 500 wooden ships a year, accord- ing to a statement made by witnesses eit so the Atlantic OOOOOOHHHMH&HUMNMUMtMtC--UtI tTtHtHtDbtht--tTtGiZiIZTtTMrZENTNITTTT.T.cA.AnKnKKI,. purchased by the French government and will be rechristened Rene. The RAcINE put in to Boston while bound from the St. Lawrence for New York with machinery crippled. She has. been repaired. - #e OR The Metropolitan park commission announces that the Charles river in Boston will be closed for the week of July 8 when the lock in the dam will undergo necessary repairs. eR The steamship SupBury, built in Chester, Pa. for the Shawmut Steam- ship Co., Boston, has been taken over by the government and will be com- manded by Capt. C. F. Smith. 4 Ree The 70-year-old schooner Gerorce E. Prescott, for some time used as a house- boat, will be rerigged at Boston and placed in coastwise trade under name of ELE: Ae oy E. P. Carver, Boston, has sold the wooden sailing ship Aryan to L. A. Pederson, San Francisco, for about $100,000. The AryANn was built at Phipps- burg, Me., in 1893, and for some years has been employed on the Pacific.» ke A passage of 53 days from South Africa to Boston is recorded of a full- rigged Russian ship which logged 260 miles for 10 consecutive days and out- The from the Pacific coast to the senate commerce committee. The witnesses -- also said that it would be necessary for the Emergency Fleet corporation to furnish the lumbermen with a standard- ized program. Fears of the shipping | board that the lumber supply of the northwest is inadequate were declared -- unfounded. : * ok Ok Capt. John F. Blain of the United . States shipping board recently appointed -- Capt. Arthur M. Sewall, member of a famous state of Maine family of ship-. Owners and mariners, as master of the new commandeered 8800-ton steel steam- er Westwoop. 'This vessel was recently -- launched by the Ames Shipbuilding & -- Drydock Co., Seattle. The 8800-ton Seattle-built steamer -- Stott Nemisen has been sunk in Euro- pean waters, according to a cable re- cently received from B. Stolt Neilsen, Norway, owner of the boat. The vessel was commandeered by the British gov- ernment last November, She launched at Seattle, May 22, 1917. eg ke The Curpurra, the second big motor- was: ship to be constructed by the Sloan shipyards, Olympia, Wash., slipped into the water recently after several days of sticking on the ways. Hydraulic jacks finally pushed the vessel down the ways until she gained enough momentum to carry her to the water. Superintendent Peterson said that the trouble was caused by not enough incline having been given to the ways. oast ered the distance in 45 days had not adverse conditions been encountered while nearing the coast. £ ok Ok The historic city of Portsmouth, N. -H., "isi one of "the many places that has been revived by the ship- building boom. This is especially the case since the Atlantic Corp. received a contract for 10 vessels. This con- cern was recently organized in Bos- ton and is financed by both Boston and New York capital. In 1917 the population of Portsmouth increased 20 per cent. x ok Ok The 1700-ton ferry steamer CAsTLE- TON, the coal barge EpirH and a gov- ernment lightship were destroyed by fire recently at Norfolk, Va. Two fire- men aboard the CastLeETON were burned to death and Capt. L. A. Oleson of the EpitH_ severely injured. An _ explosion of a lamp aboard the CastLeton caused the fire. The vessels were moored to a dock and no passengers were aboard. The CasTLETON had a passenger ca- pacity of 5000. Kk * With the arrest recently of Herman Lammers, a Hollander, customs authori- -- ties declared they had uncovered one of the cleverest smuggling devices they had ever seen. As a result of their investigations they seized 2000 tubes of © a drug whose public sale is forbidden. -- The drug was concealed in tubes in- serted in 2000 holes bored in the edges of the smugg