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610 feet 6 inches, and the maximum draft for Buffalo, Conneaut, Ashtabula and Fairport is 20 feet 3 inches. hk koe The steamer Matton grounded in Lachine lake recently and sprung a leak. She was docked at Cornwall for repairs. ok * The steamer PerrcivAL Roserts Jr, grounded on Round island, Straits of ROBABLY the first shipment of ship steel ever carried from Puget sound recently was taken by the British steamer EurypAMAs, bound for Liverpool and Glasgow. The boat loaded 2000 tons for use in British ship- yards. This cargo was stock left over at the Skinner & Eddy yards and sold to foreign builders. Originally this steel was shipped from eastern centers by rail to Seattle and now it is on its long journey to Great Britain through the Panama canal. ho ok = & So serious is the situation facing the Puget Sound Navigation and _ allied companies, which operate local steamship service to Puget sound ports, that unless greatly increased rates are allowed, some of the routes are likely to be abandoned. Competition of the auto, increased costs of operation and other factors have cut heavily into the income of these lines. The greatest problem is that of fuel oil. Upon the expiration of present contracts, under which oil is being fur- nished at $1.87 per barrel, operators state they may not be able to get sup- plies at even $3 per barrel. The cost of remodeling the vessels into coal burners is said to be almost prohibitive, totaling - $40,000 each for some of the larger vessels. * * * The Robert Dollar Co. is again owner of the steel steamer originally known as Grace Do rar, built in 1913. In 1915 she was purchased by the Pacific Steam- ship Co. and renamed ApmirRAL WaAIN- WRIGHT. Now she has been sold to her original owners, who have renamed her AGNES DOLLAR. * * * _ Several thousand tons of apples and other perishable fruits have been booked for shipment through Seattle on the steamers of the Holland-American line, which has just inaugurated service be- tween Puget sound and north Europe. These vessels have refrigerator space, which is proving a boon to the growers of fruit in eastern Washington. "4 > % Under authority of the department of state, the shipping board steamer East- ERN Victor has sailed from Seattle for Sebastopol with a cargo of 8000 tons of railroad equipment. The ship loaded under assignment to the Thorndyke- ._Trenholme Co. This cargo was laid down at Seattle and Vancouver, B. C., three years ago and was intended for shipment to Vladivostok. Unsettled con- ditions in Russia caused a change in plans and the equipment has since been in storage. It is expected to be de- Activities Along delay. THE MARINE REVIEW Mackinac, recently. She was not dam- aged and was released. without lightering. * The steamer Francis WIDLAR was. placed in drydock at Ashtabula, O., re- cently for repairs to her crankshaft. The 600-foot steamer JAMES Davinson, named for James Davidson, shipbuilder and owner, Bay City, was launched on Oct. 9 at the Wyandotte yard of the livered to the anti-Bolshevik forces at the Black sea port. While the EasTERN Victor was at Seattle, extreme secrecy was observed owing to the uncertain attitude of local labor; but the carga was stowed without any disturbance or * * * A ventilator cowl cap and protector has been invented and _ perfected by Howell Parker, first officer of the steam-. ship Exprmcr, and associates. The cap is a close fitting device, which can be instantly clamped on the ventilator shaft, when the cowl is removed, eliminating the customary canvas covering, which requires time for lashing. The device has been successfully tried on the Exprince especially during the typhoon season in the Orient. cK ee With a bumper crop in the Hawaiian islands, receipts of pineapples at Seattle are breaking all previous records. Re- cently a special train of pineapples, im- ported from Hawaii, was started from seattle for Chicago. ~The train was composed of 26 cars, carrying 35,985 cases or. 1,000,000 cans of pineapples valued at $500,000. ee ake The port of Portland has created a liability insurance fund of its own to meet all accident claims of employes. This plan has been adopted in preference to taking liability insurance with private companies or through the state indus- trial accident commission. ek The first passenger vessel to leave Portland, Oreg., for the Orient in years has departed from the Columbia river. This is the Servo Maru of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, which recently inaugurated service to the Oregon port. Sixteen first class and 100 steerage passengers were booked from Portland, which hopes to now have a regular passenger service to China and Japan. For the first time in 16 years, the immigration officers at Portland were required to inspect a passenger vessel, when the Setyo Maru arrived, Ce Witt the intention of carrying out the proposed plan of harbor development, including the completion of the new floating drydock and the erection of a third unit to the terminal system, the Portland dock commission has authorized the issuance and sale of an additional $2,000,000 of improvement bonds. +o eg Advices from Japan state a law short- ly is to be passed providing a load line for all vessels. According to announce- the Do. Coast "Orient. November, 1920 American Shipbuilding Co. She is the last of the four freighters built by the American Shipbuilding Co. on the com- pany's account. The freighter, which will be. operated by G. A. Tomlinson, will be ready for business in November. The steamer HeMLocK parted steering gear recently and grounded in West Neebish channel, completely blocking the channel for a few hours. ment, this regulation will apply to foreign vessels loading in Japanese waters as well as to carriers flying the Nipponese flag. eo The 11,000-ton ammunition ship Pyro built at the Puget sound navy yard, has been completed and has put to sea bound for Hampton Roads. A sister ship is soon to. go into commission from the same yard. + + > Adopting American ideas, Japanese seamen are forming labor unions to com- bat the inroads of Chinese labor. Sey- éral Japanese lines have recently dis- missed Japanese seamen and replaced them with Chinese. This has precipitated a somewhat serious situation and now the Japanese threaten to organize. Japan- ese operators on their part assert that Japanese seamen are inclined to make trouble. Chinese seamen, they say, are more docile and willing. Also, condi- tions in the shipping world justify em- ployment of cheaper labor. x Ee Completing a noteworthy towing feat, the tugs Storm Kinc and HeErcutes have delivered safely at San. Francisco the nine sections of the two Seattle dry- docks purchased by San Francisco in- terests. The docks were the wooden units sold by the Skinner & Eddy Corp. and the Ames Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. The nine sections each were towed 824 miles to San Francisco, much of the time in stormy weather. The average voyage from Seattle to San Francisco occupied about 12 days. eek JoHN Wortnincton, W. H. Lispy and Livincston are the names selected for the three 12,000-ton tankers under con-: struction at the G. M. Standifer plant, Vancouver, Wash., for the Standard Oil Co, The first will be launched about Nov. 15. x * Because they will not travel on Japanese liners, hundreds of Chinese coolies are filling the steerage quarters of British steamers arriving from the : _The boycott against the Japan- ese is still in effect. The Chinese laborers are enroute to Havana to work in the sugar fields. kok Important terminal improvements are being carried out at Vancouver, B. C.,, by the Dominion government. Already $5,000,000 has been appropriated and an immensé pier now is under construction. Tt is announced the government is seek- ing in England suitable passenger liners for a new service to the Orient. All