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364 THE MARINE REVIEW struction & Dry Dock Co. and it_has acquired a site on Harbor island, Seat- tle, where its docks and repair plant will be located. Preliminary work is well under way and the plant will be in full operation within two months. The incorporators are H. W. Kent, Judge W. H. Bogle and F. T. Merritt. Mr. Kent was vice president and treas- urer of the old company. The Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co. has just turned over to the China Mail Steam- | &, . of a 4-mast schooner hailing from Boston, is 72 years old and has been a seafarer nearly 60 years. Re- cently the veteran was believed to have fallen , victim to a submarine as_ the vessel, bound from Moss Point, Miss., for Boston, with cargo of railroad ties, was considerably overdue. Captain Veazie declares he feels as young as ever and will continue at sea at least another 10 years. Kk OO Five-mast schooner JEROME JONES, built at Bath, Me. in 1916, has been renamed FRANK DEERING. * * Two-mast schooner Nevis, built at Noel, N. S., in 1903, has been sold by C. H. Hines, Maitland, to W. H. Green- land, St. John, N. F., and will be used to transport fish between Newfoundland and Cadiz. Cc. SAMUEL VEAZIE, master ge New steamer Liperty has been towed to Boston from South Portland, Me, and will have machinery installed by - Bertlesen & Petersen at the former port. ke Two Argentine transports, chartered to transport freight at $50 per ton from Buenos Aires to Boston, recently ar- rived. The transports, between them, earned $513,000 on the charter. They loaded coal at a Virginia port for home. aK * K Capt. John Sjolund of Norwegian steamship FE LisaBetH has resigned to accept position of manager of a Boston ship chandlery. The ship has been laid up several months. Recently, a cargo of coal was loaded at Boston for Buenos Aires, the first time in history. A Norwegian bark was allowed the shipment by special per- mission of the United States shipping board. Boke ke _ American steamship Lake Houcuton, _ built at Detroit this year, is a total loss on Cranberry isle, N. S., having stranded while bound. from Sydney, C. B., for Boston. Several lake craft recently brought to the coast have had trouble and are at repair yards. * * > Spanish steamship Mar Rojo, Huelva for New York, picked up with loss of propeller and tail shaft by Capt. H. L. McKay of a United Fruit Co.'s ship and towed to Baston, is worth while as cmc ship Co. the rebuilt steamship CoNGRESS, hereafter to be known as the NANKING. This was the largest repair job ever done on the Pacific. The CoNnGREss was damaged by fire at sea, in September, 1916, and the repair work has taken a year. It is understood that the NaAn- KING represents an investment of more than $2,000,000. She will operate be- tween San Francisco and Oriental ports. x ee The concrete steamship FairH has salvage, being valued at about $1,000,000 although in ballast trim at the time. Mar Rojo must wait about two montis for a new shaft and wheel. She is laid up at Boston. Ki ko Capt. C. H. Swimm of tug NELLIE has been given command of new tug PrIscitLA built at Thomaston, Me., for Doane Towboat Co., Boston. Tae ee Capt. W. H. Davis of 5-mast schooner Jacop M. HasxkeLt, recently torpedoed off the New Jersey: coast and landed at Vineyard Haven by steamer GRECIAN, voyaged from that port to Boston in his power yawl via the Cape Cod canal, making the trip because he believed important harbors would be closed te large vessels on account of submarine menace. hk oe Statistics for the port of Boston show that more vessels from foreign ports. arrived in June compared with the corresponding period last year. ioe Southern ports will get six of the 10 new dry docks to be built by the shipping board with the $25,000,000 added to the sundry civil appropriation bill by the senate appropriations committee. The ports to get these dry docks, ac- cording to dispatches from Washing- ton to shipping men on the Gulf coast, are Savannah, Ga., Beaumont and Galveston, Tex., and New Orleans. ke A service flag with 46 stars now floats over the Sunset docks of the Southern Pacific Co., New Orleans, having been raised with semi-military ceremonies. He oe Oo Increase of 25 per cent 'in the fees of Mississippi river bar pilots is al- lowed in a bill passed at a recent ses- sion of the state legislature. 2K * * A light ship for the south pass, at the mouth of the Mississippi river and a lighthouse depot at New Orleans are authorized in the aids to naviga- oe a passed iy the house of repre- sentatives recently. The lightship will cost $160,000 and the depot $88,500. The depot is to be established on the grounds of the marine hospital. eo eee Plantation owners and farmers be- tween Baton Rouge, La., and New Or- leans have formed a company to pur- chase a river steamer and operate it between the two cities for their own eee ee sulf Coasts ----------K--K--<--=-- C--O : Jacksonville, Fla., August, 1918 been chartered to load lumber at Puget sound ports for Chile and will leave shortly with about 1,600,000 feet. x ok Ox The Eastern Sun is the new name of the first new steel steamship purchased by the United States from Japan. The EASTERN SUN, a modern carrier of 9000 tons, arrived at Seattle as Datruxu No, 20, but was renamed when the Stars and Stripes were raised over her taff- tat, . Ni benefit: Capt.. C.' J. Blanchard, New Orleans, has been put in charge of the project, from the purchase of the boat to its operation. An option has been obtained on a small steamer, at a price - of $25,000, and $25,000 more has been subscribed for cost of operation until the steamboat pays for its own running costs. The plan is the result of the withdrawal of all the river steamers from the Baton Rouge-New. Orleans trade, owing to increasing costs of operation. : ee Alleged failure of the schooner GrorcGE Kitkey to deliver cargoes of rice and lubricating oil in France has resulted in a $65,000 libel suit being filed against the schooner's owner, the G. M. Conrad Co., in United States district court in New Orleans. A. and P. Crespel and Edmond Levy, of Paris, and the Scofield Oil Co., New York, are the plaintiffs. eo ek Schooner RosEway, with 200,000 feet of lumber 'on board from Port Arthur, Tex., for West Indian ports, sprung a bad leak 150 miles off Sabine jetties and was forced to return to her home port in tow for repairs. *x *K 2k Work is under way on the large tim- ber-assembling 'plant being built for the Emergency Fleet corporation at Beau- mont, Tex. Nearly 50 acres of land has been given by the city for the free use of the government. Sheds for the storing of millions of feet of lum- ber are being erected, and, instead of being shipped direct to the shipyards, timber and lumber for all the govern- ment-built vessels in the sixth district will be sent to Beaumont and _ thence distributed 'according to the needs of each yard. This will eliminate accumu- lation of surplus stock in shipyards and will enable shipbuilders to obtain, with- out delay, all materials they may need. Machinery to equip vessels for the sea also will be assembled there. ke The steamer CotoneL Bowte started on her maiden voyage as a deep-sea freighter recently, date and destination held secret. The vessel was built by the Clooney Construction Co. West Lake, La. for the Gulf "Export & Transportation Co. ke The shallow pass between Lake Pontchartrain and the Gulf of Mexico has been dredged by the government, affording an open outlet to the sea to ships now being built at Slidell, Madisonville and other points along the lake shore.