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December, 1909 TAE MaRINE. REVIEW S: S. SALVADOR. certificate. Accommodation is pro- vided for 20 first-class passengers in deck houses. amidships; the upper deck houses are for the use of the captain and for a chart room, and the side houses are set apart for the officers and engineers. With teak decks, electric lights, electric ventilating fans in each state room, etc., everything about the ship is very suitable for the special trade and climate for which she is intended. The cargo to be usually carried will consist of coffee. The propelling machinery con- sists of triple-expansion engines, sup- plied. with steam by two nautical draft boilers, and on the trial trip which took place on Sept. 29 the vessel attained a speed of 1214 knots. The engines were also built by Messrs. Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd. The owners were represented on the trial trip by M. J. Kelly, chairman of the Salvador Railway Co. and consul general for the republic of Salvador, and by C. T. Spencer, director of the Salvador Railway Co. It may also be men- tioned that when the launch took place, the vessel was christened by Fraulein Curtius, daughter of the lay president of the Consistory Court in Alsace. DESTRUCTION OF STEAMSHIP ST. CROIX. Fire originating in the after cab- ins totally destroyed the Pacific coast passenger liner St. Croix while at sea Saturday, Nov. 20. The steamer was proceeding at the time from Los Angeles to San Francisco with 100 passengers, The fire was discovered about midday when the steamer was six miles off Point Dume, Cal. Its origin is unknown. The flames made rapid headway and the passengers and crew were forced to abandon the vessel. No one was lost. The wire- less apparatus was paralized and un- able to render any assistance. ~The St. Croix was a wooden steam- er built on the Atlantic coast in 1895. She was 240 ft. long, 40 it. beam, 1,993 gross tons and 1,064 net tons. Last year she was purchased by Schubach & Hamilton Steamship Co., Seattle, and arrived on the Pa- cific coast in May, 1909. Since that time she has been engaged in the coastwise trade between Seattle and Los. Angeles, Cal., via San. Francisco. At the time of the accident she was in. command. of Capt... Frederick Warner. The other officers of the St. Croix' are: F.. Mills, first officer; J. S. Ford, purser, and' W. E. Towne; chief engineer. 525 CUTTING OFF A STEAMER'S STEM. Although demonstrations of cutting metal by means of oxygen have been given in Glasgow by the Scotch & Irish Oxygen Co., Ltd., of Polmardie, the first demonstration of carrying out practical work by this method in the Glasgow district has recently been given, and was attended with marked success. The. British Oxygen: Co., Ltd., has taken over, and is now de- veloping the business formerly in the hands of the company first named. The success of the British company in work of this kind has been re- peatedly shown of late years in Lon- don and other districts where it has branches of its ibusiness--Birming- ham, Manchester and Newcastle. The work just completed in Glasgow was nothing less than the removal of the bow of the steamer Tenasserim, of the fleet of Indian traders, owned and managed by Messrs. P. Henderson & Co., Glasgow. The vessel had been damaged by being in collision, and was put in the hands of Messrs. D. & W. Henderson; of Partick, for 're- pair. The vessel was found to have sustained such serious damage that a large number of plates connected with the stem would have to be re-. moved, and the whole stem rebuilt. Many of the plates, however, were so 'badly buckled that great difficulty was experienced in driving out the rivets. Messrs. Henderson finally re- solved to have the stem and the at- tached shell-plating bodily cut away by the oxy-acetylene process of metal cutting. The British Oxygen Co. were entrusted with the work. After the erection of proper staging, etc. one operator was put on to the job, and he completed the work in about a day and a half's time. The illustrations are reproduced from photographs of the stem of the Tenasserim in dock. One shows the cutting effected from near the top of STEAMER ST. Crox, 4