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May, 1921 sel will be a steamer with tubular mast surmounted by lantern with gallery; red hull, with middle section white ; stack mast and lantern black; relief in black on each side. She will show light and will have sound fog signals MARINE REVIEW having the same characteristic as that of the station vessel. * ok Ox The tug F. J. Totton, Jr., owned by © the American Boiler Works, Erie, Pa, was recently gutted by fire while docked = 241 at Lorain, O. The damage is estimated at $5,000. . x 8 oe The steamer W. S.. CALVERT was re- cently placed in drydock at Toledo, to be given a general overhauling. HE Imperator, which was pur- ' chased by the Cunard Steamship ship Co. from the British gov- ernment, will be renamed the BEREN- GaRIA. In the selection of the name, the company has made a departure from its usual custom of calling its vessels after the classical names of the Roman empire. ee A new tariff from Boston and New York to Havana and Santiago has been put into effect recently by the United Fruit Co. The new rates from Boston are lower than formerly on most of the regular shipments. ko ee Four ships at the Charlestown, Mass., navy yard, the Lonc BEACH and the ASTORIA, Navy cargo vessels, and: the cruisers CHESTER and GALVESTON, are to be tak.n out of commission, according to recent report. . Po * * * The pilot vessel INDEPENDENCE, an oil burner, built for the Block Island pilot service and owned by Capt. W. T. Dodge, William E. Dodge and Joshua T. Dodge was liunched recently at Newburyport, Mass. 'Foe The 122-foot schooner L. A. DuN- TON, designed as a defender of the in- ternational fishermen's race cup which was won by the Gloucester schooner Es- PERANTO off the Canadian coast last year, was recently launched at the Be DD: Storey shipyard, Essex, Mass. ee & The King Philip Steamship Co. has been incorporated at Boston for $309,- 000. The directors are John J. Dixon, 729. Boylston street, Boston, and treasurer, William F. McDonnough and James F.. Casey. : x * os Announcement is made by the United Fruit Co. that the steamship -- service between Boston and Cristobal, Panama, discontinued in December, was resumed recently with the sailing of the new steamer SAN Git. The San Gi and the San Bras will maintain the sailings. ck eS The Canada Steamship Lines, Inc. Montreal, is contemplating establishing a regular passenger and freight serv- ice between Boston, Halifax, Port Hawkesbury and Charlottetown. It is Proposed to maintain a weeklv schedule of sailing with the steamers MANoA and KAMARIMA. * * * The Passenger steamer NASSAU of the Highlands Navigation Co., 17 State Street, New York, recently left the dock of the New York Engineering Co.. Yonk- ers, N. Y.. where a new water tube boil- president' Along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts er of 2500 square feet heating surface, was installed. The passenger steamer SEAGATE, Frank V. Drake, captain, is alongside the company's dock at present, to receive a new boiler of the same size as that of the Nassau. Se Establishment of a passenger steam- ship and freight service between Halifax and Boston within the near future was announced recently by the Furness Withy Steamship Co., Halifax, N.S. The serv- ice will be opened with the steamship SACHEM,. now undergoing repairs at Liverpool. ok oe The New Orleans dock board, hav- ing received a strong protest from ship repair firms, other than the Jahncke Dry Dock & Ship Repair Co., and the Johnson Iron Works, Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co., that they are unable to get locations on the river front for their plants and that the Jahncke and Johnson companies have such sites, has offered to allocate space, and to con- struct a wharf 600 feet long for the use of these repair plants, provided the plant owners will put up the funds necessary for the construction of this improvement, approximately $70,000. oe ee . The Doullut & Williams Shipbuild- ing Co., Inc., launched the OLpHam, eighth and last of the 9600-ton steel steamships built for the United States shipping board, from the company's yard on the inner harbor and navigation ca- nal at New Orleans, March 19. The company is now devoting its attention to constructing seagoing tugs, steel sea- going barges and small steamers. xe ® Ocean freight rates between south At- lantic and gulf ports and Cuba have been reduced 20 to 25 per cent to restore the former differentials which existed be- tween these ports and Key West. The reductions were ordered m March as a result of the conference of steamship interests at St. Augustine, Fla., late in February. C. S. Fay, manager of the Southern Pacific Co. at New Orleans, said his company would meet the reduc- tions agreed upon by the other lines. ck. * 'Action suspending for. 60 days from March 1 the present ruling of the New Orleans dock board allowing only seven days' free time for the acceol tion of cargo on the public docks, aud the substitution of a temporary ru in allowing 10 days' free time, was ae nounced by the board March 2. is i llection and -dav permit for the co ak of cargo, therefore, : sti he in effect until Mav 1, and, if the shipping interests of New Orleans can accomplish it, will be extended there- after. ee ey The ruling of the dock board that a vessel calling at New Orleans for Cargo must pay wharf charges of four cents a ton on her total tonnage from the date the ship is officially scheduled to dock, whether she arrives or not, is being Stoutly contested by all the lines using the publicly owned wharves of the port. The dock board admits more than $150,000 is due under this ruling from ships which have sailed without paying the rate which all the shipping interests consider exorbitant. About $60,000 was collected under. this ruling before the shipping interests de- cided to refuse to pay it. Now the dock board announces it will libel all ships owing such charges immediately on their return to port. xX ik oe The New Orleans public coal tipple, which cost approximately $1,000,000, has been insured for $360,000 by the dock board. The statement is made that on- ly one-half the tipple possibly could be destroyed by fire, which is why the small amount of insurance was taken out. Ko ey Two submarine chasers have been pur- - chased by the port of New Orleans from the United States navy for fire and police patrol duty. wes +s > Statistics compiled late in March by the New Orleans Association of Com- merce show that 4173 vessels, with net tonnage of 9,454,802, entered and cleared New Orleans in 1920, com- pared with 3308, with total net ton- nage of 6,611,078, during 1919. In 1920, the American tonnage formed 53.8 per sent; in 1919, it formed 50.8 per -cent. * ss & H. W: Steele Co. announces Osaka Shosen Kaisha, the The J. that the _Japanese steamship line for which this company is agent in New Orleans, has named one of its steamers the NEw OrLEANS Maru. She will be operated between New Orleans and Yokohama, via the Panama canal. kk oe The Jahncke Dry Dock & Ship Repair Co. has installed a steel 150-foot fire tug, the Baysipe, in New Orleans har- bor. This tug was built by the Emer- gency Fleet corporation and came to New Orleans from New York under her own power. She is equipped with engines of 1200 horsepower and is an oil burner. ae a The Johnson Tron Works, Dry Dock