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November, 1920 are also navigable, thus giving water transportation to a vast area in west- ern "Germany and eastern France. A canal links Strassburg. with the - Marne river of France and is navi- gable for vessels of about 290° tons Mivden. The. length of it. is. 104 kilometers to the old French border. 'The Neckar river flows into the Rhine at Mannheim. It has a navi- gable depth of 1% meters ior about 188 kilometers above Mannheim. At Mainz, the River Main joins the Rhine; it is navigable for 392 kilo- meters above Mainz, and barges of 1600 tons capacity. can be operated. The Lahn river runs into the Rhine just above Coblenz, and it is navi- gable for 140 kilometers for vessels of 190 tons. The Moselle river, which joins the Rhine at Coblenz, is navi- gable to Metz, 300 kilometers from its. mouth, for vessels of 160 tons burden, and for 196 kilometers for vessels of 800 tons burden. The Ruhr river, which flows into - the Rhine at Duisburg-Ruhr, is navi- gable for about seven months of the year for vessels of about 160 tons for a distance of 75 kilometers. The Meuse river joins the Rhine at Gorinchen. Brest Wants U. S. Trade Brest aspires to become the leading French Atlantic port in Franco-American communications because of its geographi- cal location and its natural facilities. The Comité d'Action pour la Mise en Valeur du Port de Brest presents a series of facts and. statisties..m tie Review of the American chamber of commerce in France tending to show that Brest as the transatlantic terminal possesses the advantage of the shortest distance and at the same time the best natural deep water harbor. The harbor of Brest can receive the biggest ships, and in the matter of speed big ships incur a running expense relatively lower than that of small ships. In the port of Brest, which is acces- sible in all kinds of weather, the low- tide depth-in the roads is 18 meters. This can be. compared with the depths in other cities as follows: New York (Ambrose channel) 12 m., Lisbon 11 m., Liverpool (Queen's Channel) 10 m.,, Cherbourg 10 m., Southampton (Empress Channel) 9 m., Fishguard 9 m., Antwerp (Chenal de l'Escaut) 8 m., Bordeaux (Chenal de la Gironde) 7 m. 50, Saint Nazaire (Barre des Charpentiers) 7 m., Le Havre (chenal) 6 m. The roads at Brest constitute a vast natural port protected against the winds, with a water surface of 15,000 hectares, of which 5000 hectares have 12 meters of depth and 1500 hectares more than 20 THE MARINE REVIEW meters. As regards distances, following are some of the comparisons: New York to Antwerp, 3325 miles; to Havre, 3130; to Cherbourg, 3066; to Saint-Nazaire, 3063; to Brest, 2954. Colon to Antwerp, 4820; to Havre, 4607; to Liverpool, 4555; to Brest, 4412. Rio de Janeiro to Antwerp, 5272; to Havre, 5077; to Brest, 4837, Thus it is argued that, from the speed point of view, the fastest boats could cover the Brest-Sandy Hook course in: about 24 hours less time than the Havre- Sandy Hook course. During the war, Brest received more than a million American soldiers. From March to November, 1918, a dozen of the big vessels, of 15,000 to 25,000 tons, and among them the LEVIATHAN, of 54,000 tons, arrived each month with 150,000 to 200,000 troops,.as well as enormous cargoes of war materiak and 595 New Liner in Service Out of England The large, twin-screw passenger 'steam- er .YORKSHIRE, built for the Bibby line by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Ire- land, has sailed after running successful _ trials in Belfast Lough. Her principal dimensions are: Length, 504 feet ; breadth, 58 feet, and depth, 35 feet, with a gross tonnage of 10,500. The YorKsHire has a double bottom extending fore and aft with eight wa- tertight bulkheads to the awning deck, dividing the ship into nine watertight compartments. She will carry over 300 first class passengers. Staterooms are ar- ranged on the tandem principle giving daylight and fresh air to all rooms. The new steamer is equipped with a complete electrical installation. The main YORKSHIRE, NEW BbIBEY LINHR BUILT BY HARLAND & WOLFF supplies, and without a maritime accident of any kind. The port of Brest' was improved greatly during the war, and its mer- chandise tonnage increased in large pro- portions. Some of the figures showing merchandise unloaded are: 1913, 356,000 tons; 1916, 540,000 tons; 1917, 649,000 tons; 1918, 929,000 tons. A new contrivance for unloading bananas has been invented by William Steckler, an employe of the New Or- leans dock board. It is said to save 214 cents a bunch on the cost of un- loading bananas, a saving of about $500,000 a year on the average total imports of 20,000,000 bunches, with another saving in the greater rapidity with which the fruit boats can be un- loaded. The invention is an over- head monorail system which carries the bunches direct from the Harris- Edleson unloader at shipside to the freight cars. Under the present sys- tem with men carrying bananas from the unloadefs to the cars, the unload- ers are idle 20 minutes in every hour. generators are situated in the engine room and consist of enclosed forced lubri- cation engines driving dynamos of the multipolar type. Each dynamo has an output of 55 kilowatts. An additional dynamo driven by an oil engine is in- stalled aft well above the water line, from which the lighting, wireless telegraphy, signal lanterns, pumping appliances, steer- ing gear and watertight doors can be operated if necessary. Harland & Wolff's latest type of elec- trically operated watertight doors are in- stalled and can be closed from the cap- tain's bridge, indicators being provided to enable the captain to see at any time the exact position of the doors. The YorKSHIRE is propelled by twin screws driven by two sets of geared tur- bines, each set having a high and low pressure turbine, the power being trans- mitted to the propeller shafting through double helical teeth gearing. The con- densers are of the latest design, having independent air and circulating pumps. Steam is supplied by four cylindrical boilers which can be fired with coal or oil fuel as may be desired.