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420 thence to Straits Settlements, Mediter- ranean, New York and is now back on the Pacific. It is stated that although she has steamed about 31,000 miles on this course her repair bill has been less than $2500 which is an unusual record. * * * Six Chinese-built steamers, cach of 10,000 tons, are to come to Seattle for delivery to the shipping board. These vessels were ordered during the war. They will come manned by oriental Alterations to be made on these crews. carriers at Seattle are estimated to cost $1,500,000. j : With five vessels in service and an- other about ready, the Los Angeles- Pacific Navigation Co., organized two years ago by Los Angeles business men, is developing a notable trade in southern California products with the Orient. On recent trips, gross revenue outward bound of each of the freighters was in excess of $100,000, officials re- port. The West Monrop, which sailed from Wilmington in January for Japan, China, Singapore and the Philippines, earned $108,703 on the outward voy- age. The West Hixa in February earned $110,500 on the voyage to oriental ports. The Vinita sailed April 15 and-earned $119,084 on her maiden voyage. The company's fourth vessel. the West Hixton, sailed the first of May and earned $122,000 on the out- ward trip. All of her cargo originated in Los' Angeles. Disbursements for each vessel approximate $50,000, it is reported. The West HEsSELTINE sailed at the end of May and a sixth vessel -ter and increases THE MARINE REVIEW will be assigned to the company in july, it is anticipated. Fouricen-day sailings are planned as vessels are made available. Rubber cargoes are expected to provide heavy return loads. s.0n. <2 ks Construction of two steamers to cost approximately $4,000,000 each is planned by the. Admiral line for operation be- tween Los Angeles, San Francisco and Puget sound, following a futile at- tempt to secure, first, the steamers Great NortHEeRN and NortTHERN Pa- ciFIc and second, the steamers, YALE and Harvarp, formerly owned by the company. pelo 'With the development of southern California as a tire manufacturing cen- in raw rubber. ship- ments from the Far Fast, some divcr- ston of automobile shipments from At- lantic to Pacific. ports = 1s. anticipated. John J. Palmer of the foreign saies department of Dodge Bros. is now making a survey of the western ports with this end in view, he states. eo eee Completion of the $6,000,000 construc-. tion and improvement project of -the Standard Oil Co. at- El Segundo will have an important effect on the oil tanker trade of the Pacific. The plant will have a capacity of 77,400 barrels daily. In addition to 36 stills now in operation, 50 more are to be erected, besides a "cracking" plant and an acid plant. ' ee Oe The only vessel captured as a prize on the Pacific coast by the navy dur- July, 1929 ing the late war was sold in May under libel to Joseph Mesmer for $4209. The vessel is the power schooner ALEXANDER AGassiz-which, early in the war, was purchased by Miss Maid \ Lochrane, who for a time acted. as captain and endeavored to operate the vessel between Mexican west coast ports. United States warships captured the boat off Mazatlan when naval ay- thorities alleged that German plotters jn Mexico had secured possession of the ship, planned to throw Miss Lochrane overboard at sea and succor a raider with food and supplies. * * * Direct monthly service from Los Angeles to Australia will be inaugurated in August, it is announced by the Gen- eral Steamship Corp. The first vessel will leave that port Aug. 15. ee The Southwestern Shipbuilding Co, launched its sixteenth steamer since the yard was created in March, 1918 on May 25, when the 8800-ton freighter West Norus slipped into the channel at Los Angeles harbor. K * 2K Working the pumps night and day, 11 persons facing death on the water- logged schooner _OcEANIA VANCE were saved May "26 when the Standard Oil tanker AsuNcIOoN took the vessel in tow while two United States torpedo boat destroyers raced north from San Diego to rescue the imperiled crew and_ the wife and two children of the schooner's captain, Charles Saxon. The vessel was loaded with lumber for Sydney, and sailed from San Francisco May 10. Oo TTTCCO©" oe TATA RMR = : = = Late News F Atlanti _ Late iNews From Atlantic Seaboard < = | ; : SACU FINITE LL HAT is said to be the world's record for the quick loading of a steamship was_ established, when the steamer Maven of Boston was loaded by the Baltimore & Ohio rail- toad at the Curtis Bay, Md., piers, May 10, with 6967 tons of bituminous coal, in 2 hours and 44 minutes, an average of 2548 tons per hour. The best previous tecord was made April 6, 1917, when the same ship, the Ma.pen, received 7263 tons of coal in 3 hours and 30 minutes, an average of 2075 tons per hour. * * * The Laxe Etva, recently completed for the shipping board, at Ashtabula, O., hhas been secured by the Boston firm of Rogers & Webb. She is bringing a cargo of flour, secured at Buffalo. The shortage of freight cars and the switchmen's strike have caused large quantities of freight to pile up at Buf- ffalo, destined for coast points and this was what prompted the Boston firm to secure the steamer for the flour cargo. 'kK & The Brooxs, 1307 tons, largest de- stroyer in the navy, in standardization trials over the Rockland, Me., course, developed a maximum horsepower of 31,551 as compared with a contract re- quirement of 27,030, but fell a fraction short of the 35-knot speed expected from the type. The maximum speed developed = Soe 34.85 knots and the average 34.57. Contract requirements are based on horsepower and officials, therefore, de- clared the trial successful. * * * The 4-mast schooner Maurice G. THURLOW was launched on May 20 from the Stockton Yards, Inc. Stockton Springs, Me. The schooner was built by private parties and will be managed by Crowell & Thurlow, Boston. She registers 1171 tons net and is built for general 'cargo carrying. . * xe Built by the Electric Boat Co., Quincy, Mass., the AA-3, the largest and finest of United States submarines, is at the Provincetown, Mass., harbor, where she is undergoing efficiency tests and trial trips. She is 268 feet long, with im- proved armament and safety devices and of superior speed. Hs ok The steamer Jutrette has been bought by the newly formed Block Island, Newport & Providence Transportation Co. for about $10,000 and it is planned to have her make regular trips between Block Island and Providence. * 2k * Ane Lake-built submarine S-2, launched in Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 15, 1919, and christened by Mrs. P. B. Brill, wife hi of the general manager of the Lake Torpedo Boat Co., recently entered active service. She is commanded by Lieuten- ant Commander Quigley and manned by a enavy crew of 23° men. The S-2 4s approximately 245 feet long and has a displacement of about 800 tons. * ** * The Mepric was recently launched from the yards of the Portland Ship- building Co., Portland, Me., to engage in the fishing industry off the north Atlantic coast and make trips with fish to Rockland and Boston. The new craft is 161 feet in length and is of the same type as the trawlers Kinc FISHER, PeLicAN, Fish Hawk and others built at the Portland plant for the East Coast Fisheries Co. ok Oe The United States. government has be- come the owner of the Commonwealth drydock at South Boston, a draft for $4,158,385.58 having been drawn at Wash- ington in favor of the state of Massa- chusetts. The drydock will be under the supervision of the commandant of the Charlestown navy yard. + se Announcement has been made that the Housatonic Shipyard, Stratford, Conn. has been sold by the United States shipping board to Albert T. Stuart, vice ¢