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LUAU OETETEETEEEEE EE _eAAANeAeeAeAMA eRe eeMRNMEMRUMMMRRNRNMRAReMNRNMRMMRRR g 2 r Bits F he Log of P; = Events of Interest to Those Engaged in Operating, Z Constructing and Outfitting Yards and Ships A Re HE AMERICAN Bureau OF SHIP- papers of Japan and have run as high over all, 57-foot beam, 27-foot draft. PING has determined upon a as $300 in gold, $0 scarce are passage 10 knots per hour loaded a policy of expansion abroad and facilities. Prospective travelers are 11,400 tons deadweight. Her 'malve within the next few months will estab- lish surveyors in all the principal Euro- pean ports, except those of the United Kingdom and Italy because of agree- ments with the British Corp. and the Italian Classification society. Commo- dore E. P. Berthoff, vice president of the American society, has sailed for Europe to make a personal inspection eof conditions in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, and the Baltic coun- tries with a view to locating foreign cfces in these countries. Steps already have been taken toward opening an exclusive office in Hamburg. AN ABUNDANCE of cargo space on vessels from Japan and the release oi many. ships from old charters in the near future is expected to produce an- cther slump in transpacific freight rates. Rates from Japan have already declined due to the number of shipping beard vessels built in Japan which have accepted cargo as low as $3 a ton for the initial run to America, to the fall- ing off in outward freight, and to the rumber of ships placed in the trans- facific service by the shipping board. 1k & THE SHIPPING BOARD has allocated 12 ' Fassenger liners to the Pacific coast: five to the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., two to the Matson Navigation Co., and five to the Pacific Steamship Co. % * *. A DIVIDEND of 200 per cent has been declared by the, Crowell & Thurlow Steamship Co, builder and operator of vessels for coastwise and foreign trade, Boston, and capitalization has been in- creased from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000. -_ & * -Recutar FREIGHT service will be es- tablished from Seattle down the North and South American coasts by the Pa- cific-Argentine-Brazil Steamship line. The homeward voyage will be made by Way of Punta Arenas and the east 'east of South America, through the Panama canal. ee : PREMIUMS FOR Passenger accommoda- on from Japan to America are ad- Ttised almost daily in the English glad to get transportation in any kind ci boat--cargo or passenger. All ac- commodations are booked full until late in the fall and some companies are Looked full until the first of the year. x 4 THE stTeEL freighter Bonpowoso, owned by the Java, China, Japan Steamship line, a subsidiary of the Gen- eral Steamship Corp., has established a route between Seattle and Java for vessels of thé company engaged in the Dutch East Indies trade. + + & INCREASED INTEREST in the problem of fuel economy is shown by a state- ment made by the Diamond Power Specialty Co., Detroit, that during the first three months of this year it received orders to equip a total of 635,200 horsepower of beilers and economizers with mechanical soot 'blowers. a ee: SERVICE BETWEEN the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States will te re-established soon by the Lucken- bach Steamship Co., Inc. When the F'anama canal was opened it was used extensively by the Luckenbach com- any but later its vessels were trans- ferred to the transatlantic trade. THe TRANSATLANTICA Italiana and Societa Nazionale di Navigazione, Genoa, are to inaugurate a passenger service over the route between Genoa and Valparaiso by way of the Panama canal. Six steamers will be uséd in this service. ce THE SHIPPING BOARD has decided to establish a new and separate district tc be known as the South Atlantic dis- trict with headquarters at Savannah, Ga. <_< se INTEREST ATTACHES to the construc- tion of the Cusore, the first motorship built at the - Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Ltd., Fore River plant, Quincy, Mass. The original CusorE was tor- pedoed while in army service as a trans- port. _ The new ship built for the Bethlehem Steel 'Co. is 468 feet 417 \ 'by 39 feet. power will be derived from a fuel oil diesel engine of 2500 horsepower. In addition to the usual ballast tanks, this ship will have side tanks which reach from the forward engine room to the collision bulkheads and from the base line to a height of 26 feet. To en- able the ship to load in five and one-half hours, six hatches take up most of the deck space. These hatches range in size from 26 feet by 33 feet to 37 feet Each hatch has a two-piece cover built up of plate and angle and opened and closed with steam winches. * * * AMERICAN SHIPPING at Constantinople made remarkable progress during the year 1919, a total of approximately 57 vessels, two of -them making return trips, having called there. The steamer SUSANA, which entered that port on May 9, 1919, bound for Batum, is the first American-owned merchant steamer, registered ip the United States and flying the American flag that ever called at Constantinople. Between 1878 and 1910 no ship of American registry except one steam yacht, entered the port of Constantinople. The records of the American consulate general lists four pleasure yachts, a few oil barges, aud the vessels of the American Archipelago Steamship Co., a Greek- American company, owned in Smyrna but flying the American flag, from 1910. to 1914. Five American Archipelago ships and one oil tanker called in 1915. No other American ship -- registered from 1915 until 1919. Ke S TYPE SUBMARINES built at the Fore River plant of the Bethlehem Ship- -tuilding Corp. are often built at some distance from the river and moving them to the launching ways is a diffi- cult operation. A runway with a grade of %-inch to each foot is built under the submarine, across the yard to the final location for the launching. The vessel is then lowered into the greased runways and wire cables from two donkey steam engines are attached to the boat. Care must be exercised that the boat is moved slowly, 15 minutes usually. being required to transfer it into position for launching.