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258 one of the first steamers on the lakes, in 1840. * * * Cleveland shipmasters went on record recently in favor of having the en- trance to the new Welland canal at Port Maitland. This decision was reached after hearing the delegates from Dunnville, Ont. * * The Kelley Island Lime & Transport Co.'s 'barges NorMAN KeELLey and JAMES H. Perret were recently taken from their winter quarters at Sandusky and towed to Kelleys island by the com- pany's tug Linn B.. * _ Extensive repairs are being made to the steamers Witt1am NotrincHamM and Harry Cosy by the Buffalo Marine Construction Corp., Buffalo. New bows will be fitted to. both wvessels. * 2 The officials, captains and engineers THE MARINE REVIEW of the Hanna fleet held their annual meeting at the Hollenden hotel, Cleve- land, on April 8. The annual dinner was given in the evening. - ek Ss - The United States Supreme Court has affirmed the decree of the circuit court of eastern Michigan in the suit of the Capitol Transit. Co., Detroit, against the Cambria Steel Co. The Supreme Court apparently leaves the verdict as rendered originally. The suit was the outgrowth of the founder- ing of the freighter Benjamin NosLe in Lake Superior on April 28, 1914. The vessel carried a carload of steel rails and was bound for Duluth. None of "her crew was saved but a small amount of wreckage was discovered which seemed to indicate that the ship sank near Duluth. The petitioner sought to limit its liability for loss of cargo but the right was denied. 00H = il HE Cunard line has enlarged its Boston quarters by adding a third floor to the Cunard building, 126 State street, in anticipation of a volume of business to set in at once. The saloon and cabin booking offices are located on the first floor and, together with the freight department, have been refitted and newly decorated. The steerage office occupies a lower floor which also accommodates the foreign remittance department. Charles Stew- art, local manager of the Cunard line, anticipates a volume of traffic hardly approached before the war as soon as conditions become normal. Mr. Stew- art promises that Boston is to. have a class of ships fully as -- nN UNLUUUUULLUUT liz engers and freight between the ports. The: Ontario, Captain Bond, has been placed, on' the route, with call at Newport News: Kk Oe The Nantasket Beach Sisamnboat @o,, F. L.. Lane, manager, will operate its > fleet between Boston, Hull and Nan- 'tasket with as. full schedule as obtained prior to the war. Service last: summer was cut to one or two boats of the smaller type. * The Ferris-type steamer BasAan, fol- lowing repairs at Boston, will load coal for a port in Brazil, a trade. that will large and luxurious as in the past and that sailings will be frequent. Nee ye) Boston and_ Baltimore are served by the Mer- chants & Miners Transpor- tation Co. with a weekly sailing after a year of no water connection for pass- CUSHNOC TAKING THE WATER SIDEWISE AT PENSACOLA,: FLA. May, 1919 take others of the wooden fleet, at goy- ernment rates. The steamers are being fitted with 9-ton steel rudders in place of the wooden rudders. that caused trouble. ee All vessels now owned and operated under requisition of the shipping board and the Emergency Fleet corporation should be returned to private ownership as soon as possible, demands the Bos- 'ton chamber of commerce, which has voted overwhelmingly against govern- ment control; The referendum, in addi- tion to the question of public or pri- vate control, also contained eight other vitally important questions of maritime policy. The chamber demanded that the navigation laws be amended so as to permit United States vessels operat- ing under the American flag to com- pete. profitably in foreign trade with vessels of foreign countries. The fed- eral government, as speedily as may be, taking into consideration the mili- tary needs of the country, should turn back to the original owners the ves- sels now owned or operated under requisition, the chamber points out; and all vessels hereafter built or now build- ing on account of the United States through the shipping board and_ the Emergency Fleet corporation should be sold and transferred to such private owners, ship concerns or corporations of the United: States as may be de- sirous of purchasing them for use in the domestic or foreign trade, at a fig- ure representing as nearly as possible the cost of the vessels to the United: States government. The ballot favor- ing amended navigation laws stood: Yes, 800; no, 44. The result of the chamber's ballot was telegraphed to the meeting of the National Marine league in New York before which Chair- man E. N. Hurley of the shipping board was speaking. ee ee John M. Sweeney, president, the Pensacola Shipbuilding Co., Pensacola, Fla., in a recent letter to THe MARINE REVIEW, points launched on March 15 the CusHNoC, a 9000-ton steel cargo vessel. was launched' sidewise: and is said to be the largest ship to be launched by this method on the Atlantic or Gulf coasts- The launching data were carefully ar- ranged beforehand and the:launch took place without a hitch of any kind. The launching was under the direct supervision of David Hunter, in charge of the ship- vard at Violet, La., assisted by William Michel of the Emergency Fleet corpora- tion. The accompanying shows the craft taking the water. © An- other keel was laid as soon as the vessel cleared-the ways. The company operates five building ways and has four vessels approaching the launching period at the present time. ek & National Shipbuilding Corp., which recently bought out the steel yard of the Alabama-New Orleans Transporta- tion Co., at Violet, La., launched, March 29, the steel tanker Crupom, for order ofthe Pan-American Petroleum & Trans- port Co. This is the fourth of these tankers to be launched from this yard, the first three: having been built before the Alabama-New Orleans company sold out to the National. The ships are of 2475 deadweight tons, 16,000 barrels capacity, 259 feet long, 37 feet beam and 20 feet molded depth, built on the out that the company The ship illustration'