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June, 1921 has reported from Galveston, after a battle of nearly one month with storms, adverse winds and tides on the Gulf of Mexico, during which it lost two steel barges it was towing to Tampico. The crew and tug are safe in the Texas port. ee Approximately 2000 sailors are idle in New Orleans, waiting for a _ revival of shipping. x * W. O. Hudson, president of the New Orleans dock board, announced late in April, that a loan of $50,000 had been arranged, whereby the publicly owned coal tipple can be completed. ee, The dock board is seeking funds for construction ot another marine leg on the publicly owned grain elevator at New Orleans, to accommodate more ships for simultaneous loading. * * * The interstate commerce commission has ordered a thorough investigation of all charges made by railroads for wharf- age, handling, storage and other similar services at South Atlantic and Gulf ports, at and south of Hampton Roads, Va. The commission also will inquire into the propriety of making terminal charges a part of a whole service rate to be established by these carriers. The investigation is the result of numerous complaints of rates at southern ports. Those ports to be investigated include Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Pensacola, New Orleans and Galveston. * * ** Plague conditions still exist in Mexi- can ports, according to the New Orleans office of the United States public health service, and the 6-day quarantine period required of all ves- sels leaving those ports will remain in force unless the surgeon-general at Washington takes unexpected ac- tion to lift it, according to Dr. M. S. Lombard, assistant surgeon in charge of the work at New Orleans. mT ee Charging that the force of em- ployes at the United States naval station at Algiers, across the river from New Orleans, is being so re- duced as to invite the closing of the station; and asserting that, while esti: mates of the naval station for repairs to government ships have been the lowest, the work has been given to Private yards, the mechanical employes of the station, in April, adopted reso- lutions demand a full investigation of the situation. About 800 men at- tended the -neeting at which the reso- lutions were adopted. * * * The Memphis, Helena & Rosedale Packet Co., West Point, Miss., better known as the Adams line has purchased a new steel-hulled river steamer, from James Rees & Sons, Pittsburgh, and will put her into service between Memphis and St. Louis. The new steamer is 180 feet long, 33 feet wide and draws 5 feet 6 inches. She has stateroom ca- Pacity for 100 passengers and carries freight only on her main deck. Ok & The Cxouteca, second of the 3000- ton special-order steamships. built for the Cuyamel Fruit & Steamship Co. by MARINE REVIEW the Newburgh Shipyards, Inc., New- burgh, N. Y., arrived at' New Orleans April 12, for the first time, coming from Puerto Cortez, Honduras, with a full cargo of bananas. The CHoLuTeca is commanded by Capt. A. Clark, who also brought out the first of the trio, OLANCHO, now in charge of Captain Abujuta. Comayacua, the third of the the Cuyamel ships, was launched at the Newburgh yards about the end of April. eee The Pacific-Caribbean-Gulf line has begun routing its steamers from New Orleans to Los Angeles direct, without stops at Colombian ports, as formerly, according to announcement by the J. H. W. Steele Co, New Orleans represen- tative of the line. The elimination of the Colombian ports affords much quick- 291 er time between New Orleans and Pa- cific coast ports, and reduces marine insurance considerably. 'oe Ss The Mallory line, operating between New York and Mobile, has announced the opening of an all-water service be- tween the former port and Birmingham, as well as points between Mobile and Birmingham, via Warrior river barge service. The temptation to shippers to use the new routing is a freight rate about 20 per cent under existing rail or joint rail-and-water rates. Two 800- ton barges are in commission and more are nearly ready. Freight is trans-ship- ped direct from the Mallory line steam- efs into these barges at Mobile and carried to destination. There is no handling oven the wharves and costs are reduced. From the Adeaue Coast WNHE Thames Tow Boat Co., New London, Conn., owner of the Thames Shipyard at Riverside, has commenced the construction of a third marine railway of 1500-ton deadweight capacity, to be completed by October. The other railways of the company are of 1000 and 2500 tons, respectively. 2 * * The New London Ship & Engine Co., New London, Conn., has recently resumed operations on a full time sched- ule. The company has also made re- ductions in. salaries, and in some _in- stances this is 20 per cent. , * * * The steamer, now building at Bath, Me., for the Boston firm of Crowell & Thurlow will be ready for launching about June 1, it is reported. The new craft will be an oil burner equip- ped with turbine engines, and will be named Tuomas P. BEAL, after the presi- dent of the Second National Bank, Boston. k * * Work of reconditioning the former Ger- man liner BERLIN, recently acquired by the White Star line, and renamed the Arasic, is being delayed owing to the strike of ship workers at Southampton, England. oo The Perry, Buxton & Doane Co., Bos- ton, was highest bidder for the British steamship Wanpy, which stranded off Kennebunkport, Me., recently. _-- es The McNab Boat Corp., Bridgeport, Conn., has been incorporated for $150,- 000 by W. E. Burnham, and others, all of Bridgeport. p : F. Merrill, chairman of the Loe of Maine, has announced that actual construction will start soon on a new 1000-foot pier which is to be built at Portland for which a state appropriation of $1,500,000 has | been made. Construction of the pier is ex- ted to take about a year. It will be 1000 feet long, 360 feet wide, with 35 feet of water alongside. The pier will be equipped' with the latest handling devices, and the rates will be made reas- onable in order to attract business. * * * A proposed new service between Bos- ton, Halifax, Charlottetown and Mon- treal will not be operated this spring as announced, owing to difficulty in securing ships with suitable accommoda- tions for passengers and freight. ok * Announcement was made recently that the names of two of the United States Mail Steamship Co.'s steamers are to be changed. The steamer ANTIGONE, when she makes her next sailing will bear the name Potomac and the steam- er New RocHe.te will hereafter be known as the Hupson. * * * An interesting booklet has been issued by the International Mercantile Mar- ine Co., entitled '"Four-Footed Passen- gers", dealing with the steamers and the facilities of each, which this concern operates in the transatlantic service for the transportation of livestock. * * * The slump in the values of. sailing vessel tonnage since the close of the war is illustrated in the sale recently to Capt. O. A. Gilbert of the Boston Ship Brokerage Co. of the 4-mast wooden schooner CoMMACK, which was built in 1918 at a cost of approximately $276,- 000. It is understood the price paid by Mr. Gilbert was less than $60,000. The CoMMACK registers 1330 tons net and 1446 tons gross. ' & 6 Recent statistics show Boston to be the greatest fishing port in the world, outranking Grimsby, England, which previously held the record. In the 12 months ended Dec. 31, a total of 118,- 559,000 pounds of all varieties of fish was received in South Boston. This © large amount was delivered by a fleet of vessels which has been constantly increasing during the last few years. The mackerel fishery alone engage about 125 vessels. In the ground fishing busi- ness, the operating fleet numbered 383, including 41 power trawlers.