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444, large general cargo, a crew of 10 men and left New York on March 24. eee Suits have been brought in the United States courts by the government against the steamship Witt1aAm P. PALMER to recover fines for violation of navigation laws in operating the ship in Buzzard's bay without being prope-ly licensed. ye ee Fire broke out recently on the British steamer MaravaL while loading at Brookiyn, IN: Y. The fire was ex- tinguished by pumping the vessel full of water, after which she capsized at the dock: : ok ok The back range light at St. Peter harbor on the north coast of Prince Edward island has been changed. Its new position is 1450 feet 154 degrees (S. 2 degrees mag.) from the front light. The change was recently made owing to the shifting of the channel. x £ & The steamship BrookLanp, from Ta- coma, Wash., and Seattle, for New York . with machinery deranged; the British Ai Activities Along the Gulf Coast EHNA EGULAR passenger and freight service between Chicago and New Orleans by steamer will be inaugurated Sept. 20 by the Great Lakes & Gulf Transportation Co., according to announcement by W. A. Bertram, yen- eral manager of that corporation, Two steel steamers, each 300 feet long aud of 2500 tons capacity, will be put into service, Mr. Bertram says. *- O* ok Gulfport, Miss., shipping is showing considerable increase since the end of the war. An average of six steamers are calling and loading with lumber for European ports every weck. The Texas Oil Co. has taken a lease on a large pier at Gulfport and is erecting tanks and loading pipes to supply oil-burning ships with fuel. * ok ok The Houston, Tex., ship channel is attracting large industries to that city, 22 having located along the channel -since it was constructed. The fedcral government has offered to give $1,000,- 000 to increase the depth of the channel from 25 to 30 feet all the way to the Gulf, provided Houston will devote a similar sum to the project. A bond issue for this purpose is to be voted on soon. Houston already has spent about $4,000,000 in harbor and channel improvements. : + -& The Cuyamel Fruit Co., New Orleans, has ordered. two steel oil-burning freight and passenger steamers to be built by the Newburgh Shipyards Co., for deliv- ery next May. Their capacity will be 2500 tons each and they will be added to the fleet of four steamers now oper- ated by this company between New Or- leans and ports of Honduras, giving sailings to Puerto Cortez four times a THE MARINE REVIEW auxiliary schooner Cape FINISTERRE, from Port Blakely to Queenstown, with the same trouble, and the auxiliary schooner Sostrnp, bound from Puget sound for Portsmouth, N. H., with ma- chinery trouble, all put into Panama in distress recently. * * * Two buoys recently were placed near Chimney corner on the west coast of Cape Breton island. One is at the southwest of rock near the entrance to Chimney corner in Lat. N. 46 degrees 23 minutes 47 seconds, Long. W. 61 degrees 10 minutes. This buoy is a wooden spar, black, and is moored in 20 feet of water. The other buoy is located off the extremity of Chimney corner point about 600 feet south of the black spar buoy. It is a wooden spar, red, and is moored in 19 feet of water. 2k %K * A green spar buoy has been placed to mark the wreck of the schooner EnrerprisE which sunk on May 14, 1919, about two miles south of Entry island, Magdalen islands, Gulf of St. week, with daily service planned for the near future. Maintained speed, ac- cording to the contract, must be 15 knots' this is faster than anv of 'the steamers now operated out of New Orleans. Each ship will be equipped to carry passengers. Contract price was not given out. ow oe -The ErizapetH RoutH, a 2500-ton auxiliary schooner, built by the Biloxi Shipbuilding Co., Biloxi, Miss., has re- turned to Mobile, Ala., after a series of disasters which kept her at sea 11 months, vainly attempting to reach her destination at Sydney, Australia. She carried a cargo of caustic soda, which she was compelled to discharge at Balboa, after five accidents in her en- gine. room compelled her to abandon her voyage. a ee The Aniwa, a_ 10,000-ton steamship, largest vessel of her class belonging to the Emergency Fleet corporation, which was allocated late in June to Mobile, Ala., has cleared for Liverpool, loaded with 14,000 bales of cotton, and a large consignment of resin and lumber. She was assigned to Page & Jones, Mobile shipping agents. eR The Fred T. Ley. Shipbuilding Co Mobile, Ala, launched the 7500-ton con. crete steamer SreLMA, said to be the largest ship of this kind in the world. More than 10,000 persons saw the launching. The Setma was built for the United States shipping board. eek The Gulf Shipbuilding Co., which operates a plant for the construction of wooden ships at Madisonville, across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans has been declared bankrupt by Judge September, 1919 Lawrence. The buoy will be discon- tinued as soon as the wreck is re- moved. KE TO The tug Covincton, bound from Bos- ton to Norfolk, Va, returned to Boston recently in tow of the tug Boxer, with her tail shaft broken. She left the barges she had in tow at anchor off Cape Cod. The Boxer afterward picked up the barges and towed them to their destination. eo F. S. Bowker & Son, Phippsburg, Mc., recently launched the 4-mast schooner Mary Stuart. The craft is owned by David Cohen & Co., New York, and registers 726 gross tons. She loaded superphosphates at New York for Bel- fast, Irciand. Oe ae. The Cheasapeake Steamship Co. operators of the Bay line between Bal- timore, Norfolk and Richmond, under the terms of its contract with the gov- ernment will receive as compensation for the use of its property $1(2,048. This company is under the control of the Southern railroad. ILIV TU Rufus Foster in United States district court at New Orleans, and the case has been referred to William A. Bell, referee in bankruptcy, for the usual investiga- tion. Total indebtedness alleged aggre- gates $22,000. It is charged that money: in bank belonging to. this company was illegally transferred by its officials. eo kOO * The Mississippi Shipping Co., the $1,000,000 corporation recently organized by St. Louis and New Orleans capital, has sent out its first ship with general cargo to ports on the East coast of South America. The ship is the. Bounp Brook, oil-burning freighter of 5100 tons, completed lated in June by the Submarine Boat Corp., Newark, N. J., and allocated to the Mississippi Ship- ping Co. by the United States ship- ping board. This ship is to be followed shortly by two others, to be put into. the same service. N. O. Pedrick is gen- eral manager of the company, with head- quarters in New Orleans. *K K *K Special committee of the association of commerce. New Orleans, with Col. William C. Dufour, chairman, is mak- ing a detailed study of methods and means of loading and unloading ships at New Orleans, with a view to im- proving these facilities. Investigation was undertaken on complaint of coffee importers that greater speed and _ effi- ciency should be maintained in the handling of coffee cargoes. Me rote ol The GLEeNApPP, a 11,000-ton, British- owned. motorship, the largest vessel of this kind ever built, is in successful operation between New Orleans, Liver- pool and other British ports, handling cotton and pig iron from this side, and returning in ballast. She maintains 14 knots and her engine-room force con-