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232 some in the water. When the captain reached the bow and looked over he saw in the darkness a great shapeless black mass hanging from his bow- sprit. - Wrathful men were being dragged out of the water onto a low wharf upon which the fore part of the F. X. was firmly planted.. Having a scow bow she had slid up onto the wharf. . 5 Tom had got off the course and out of the channel and had picked up a fishing shanty planted on a platform built on piles driven in about four feet of water, half a mile from shore, in shoals where the fishermen owning the outfit lived. The first touch of the collision drove the end of the schooner's long bowsprit through the shanty and as she slid up onto the wharf the shanty rose in the air and Ae es shores of Alaska are. ex- ceedingly rocky, with but few stretches of sandy beach. Prac- tically the whole Alaskan coast is marked by elevated islands and penin- sulas carved by glacial action and separated by narrow and deep fiords. In passing through the waters of Alaska the traveler sees on every hand rugged mountain ranges whose profiles present a confusion of sharp, jagged peaks of various heights. But of more immediate interest to him is the fact that these same features are Alaskan THE MARINE REVIEW. hung suspended over the water be- yond. Men shouted and dogs barked, and a house stove pipe, dishes and chairs were tumbled overboard. Anyone with a live imagination can picture for himself the astounding and overwhelming surprise of the schooner's sudden unannounced rush upon the shanty with its sleeping oc- cupants, like the tail of a "twister" dropped out of a clear sky. Half dazed men, spilled at midnight from their bunks into. the black water and dragged out of it to find their door yard occupied by the bow of a schooner and their house dangling overhead from her bowsprit. The shanty was thoroughly wrecked but the schooner was released next day, practically uninjured.. They hauled her off by planting an anchor astern Rocks duplicated in the waters underneath. The tops of the highest peaks emerge <oS from the sea on all sides and add to' dangers of navigating -- these These rocks are called pin- Greater danger is found the waters. nacle rocks. 'in those rocks which just fall short of coming to the surface, and which have been effectually designed by na- ture to tear holes in ships' bottoms. The seriousness of this danger is shown by the pinnacle rock recently found in a main steamer southeastern Alaska by a government 650 Feet SUBMERGED WASHINGTON MONUMENT s MoNUMENT 555 Feet WASHINGTON'S MONUMENT HAS A SUCCESSFUL RIVAL IN PINNACLE ye i ROCK IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKAN WATERS enace. Navigation route in. 1906. and carrying a line to her Windlass I had known the scow when a small boy, and then never heard of her again until this tale came to me 59 years afterward. | If there is any moral attached to the story it is that a man shouldnt be supposed to understand naviga- tion just because he has flipped griq- dle cakes in a schooner's galley. The Canadian Car & Foundry Co, js to build a shipbuilding plant and marine railway at Fort William; Ont. The shipbuilding plant is to be 200 x 229 feet and the marine railway 2000 feet long. The foundation work for the building has been let to E. G Penni- man & Co., Fort William. The Dominion Bridge Co., Ltd., Montreal, Que., will take charge of the structural work. survey party.: This rock has been named the submerged 'Washington monument, owing to its immense size. This rock is shown in the accompany- ing illustration in comparison with the real Washington monument. The rock is 650 feet high and only 17 feet of water covers it. The Washington monument is 555 feet high.. Britain Issues Rules For Concrete Ships The following notice to shipbuilders and shipowners regarding ferroconcrete ships has just been issued by the. ma- rine department of the board of trade of England: "The following preliminary instruc- tions are issued for the information of the builders and owners: of seagoing ferroconcrete ships and for the guid- ance of the board's surveyors. "These vessels will be required to comply with the requirements of the merchant shipping acts. All vessels which proceed to sea, except sailing ves- sels and dumb barges under 80 tons register solely employed in the coast- ing trade, must be marked with a loadline as required by section 438 of the marine shipping acts, 1894, and section 7 of the marine shipping act, regulated by the requirements of the tables of freeboard (1909), and depends on the strength of the hull. : "Tn order that the authority to whom application. will be made for the: assign- ment of a loadline may be fully im formed of the structural arrangements upon which the strength of the hull of a ferroconcrete ship depends, full in- formation as to the intended arrange- ments must be supplied by the builder 7 une, 1918 | The position of the loadline is, a . 3 ' ' : ' : "4 ' d