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36 THe in the year 1874, for the New Orleans service of the Cromwell line. These three ships, built as KNICKERBOCKER, New Or_LEANS and Hupson, ran for a number of years on this line. The last two were sold some years ago to the Merchants & Miners Co., who changed Hupson’s name to FREDERICK. The Baltimore Dry Docks & Ship Building Co. is converting FREDERICK from a passenger steamer to a freight- er. The long cabin on the main deck has been entirely cut away except for enclosures in way of boiler and engine hatches, and under the pilot house. A new stack and two new 5-ton cargo booms have been fitted. The long tapering topmasts have been. removed and the mastheads tapered up to take signal halyard trucks. When the ship was drydocked, her iron hull, after 41 years of service, was found in ex- cellent condition. FREDERICK is 287 feet long, 34-foot beam, 23-foot molded depth and of 1,872 tons gross register. Captain Herman Kiehne, of Baltimore, who was in command of the American sailing ship Wuttt1AmM P. Frye, she was sunk by the German raider ErreL FriepricH, will command her. * * * The Baltimore Dry Docks & Ship Building Co, has finished its new ship- ways and also its overhead crane in- stallation. These ways will accommo- date two 300-foot ships. The Amer- ican Bridge Co. built the overhead crane way and the Brown Hoist Co. furnished the crane. The ways were built from the Baltimore company’s designs. Puget Sound Notes By F. K. Haskell HE steel freighters RUTLAND and OGDENSBURG, recently purchased from Great Lakes interests by the Pacific Alaska Navigation Co., will be renamed ADMIRAL CLARK and ADMIRAL SEBREE, and will be operated between Puget sound and Alaska. The vessels are sister ships of 2.300 tons gross. HOSS de Carrying nearly 20,000 tons of cargo, the greatest fleet ever sent from Puget sound to the west coast of South America in one month by W. R. Grace & Co., departed from Seattle, Tacoma and Port Angeles, during November. The fleet consisted of six steam freight- ers and three sailing vessels. Flour, wheat, canned salmon and _ lumber formed the major shipments. The fleet took 5,600 tons of wheat; 7,000 tons of flour and 4,000,000 feet of lumber, be- sides explosives, merchandise and gen- eral freight. The November record is due entirely to the success of Grace & Co. in providing carriers for the route. A great demand exists for Puget sound and northwest products in the Pacific coast republics of South America. The nine vessels included the steamship Cuzco, the steam schooners’ FaAtcon, Nan SmitH, St. HELENS, ALVARADO and Grorce W. Fenwick, the Peruvian schooner STELLA and American schooner CAMANO, x * x The famous power schooner Rusy is now at Port Angeles, Wash.. for re- pairs. Rusy added to her fame last summer when she carried the news from Herschel islandto Nome that Vilhjalmar Stefansson, the lost Arctic explorer, was alive. Rusy is commanded by Capt. S. F. Cottle, famous Arctic whaling master. when . MARINE REVIEW January, 1915 G Ui VY AY AV <Q a By A. A. Willoughby RMGARD, which left San Francisco for the far east recently, is the first sailing vessel to clear for Manila in many years. She carried a full cargo below decks and a deckload of lumber. There is a great deal of congestion of freight destined to and from the Phil- ‘ippines since the withdrawal of the Pa- cific Mail and it is likely that a number of windjammers will be pressed into service shortly. * ok Ok According to announcement by Hind, Rolph & Co., agents for the Union Line, a new fortnightly freight service to Australia will be inaugurated early in 1916. The company has_ previously operated four freighters to this port at irregular intervals and these with the two additions, Wairomo and WarKAwa, will make up the fleet. The former boat has. been in the Sydney-India run and the latter in the New Zealand-London service. A new Central American service has been inaugurated by W. R. Grace & Co., beginning with the sailing of MeELvILLE DotLar for Champerico, San Salvador. CotumBiA, St._HELENs and ALVARADO will follow in January. The service will be fortnightly and will be in com- petition with the present Pacific Mail service, Announcement of the new Java-Pa- cific line which is to open a_ freight service between San Francisco. and Oriental ports after the first of the year, has previously been made in these columns. J. D. Spreckels & Bros. have been appointed the Pacific coast agents and Fred F. Connor, traffic manager. ARAKAN is due to arrive in February, TJIKEMBANG in March, KarIMOEN in April and Tyisonpart in May. Each of the boats has a carrying capacity of 8,000 tons. * OK OK The first Japanese steamer to be chartered for the South American trade from San Francisco, is NicHryo Maru, under charter to W. R. Grace & Co. * OK OK There are being constructed in east- ern shipyards for service out of this port, three freighters for the Lucken- bach Steamship Co., two freighters for the American-Hawaiian Co., three tank- ers tor the Shell Oil Co. and four freighters and one passenger and freight boat for .W..R:: Grace & Co. * OKO The Union Iron Works has at the present time more contracts and work under way than at any time during the past 15 years. In addition to the eight boats mentioned in the last issue, two oil tankers were since contracted for by the Atlantic Gulf Refining Co., one of the Standard Oil subsidiaries. The cost will be $950,000 each. More than $1,000,000 is to be spent in enlarging the plant to accommodate the increase of business. Five new sets of ways are to be constructed as well as a new floating dry. dock at Hunter’s Point, and the drydock. mentioned previously. The present dock at Hunter’s Point, which , off is 450 feet long, will figure in the con- struction of the new dock. <A new record was hung up in the construction of the Union oil: tanker LA Bree Three months elapsed between the lay- ing of the plates to the launching. The time heretofore has been four to five months. * ok x The steamship SiERRA of the Oceanic line was given her trial trip Nov. 30, following extensive alterations and re- pairs. The boilers were rearranged, en- gines overhauled and the fuel oil tank capacity largely increased. The repair costs totaled $180,000. She is now in the same condition as her sister boats Sonoma and VeEnTuRA and will go into service between this port and Australia. The steamer GREAT NorTHERN which has been plying between this port and Flavel in conjunction with NorTHERN PacAric, from now on will make the triangle trip between San Francisco, Honolulu and San Pedro. NorTHERN PactiFic will handle the north coast business alone. This schedule will be maintained throughout the winter. eae se A new departure has been inau- gurated in the use of. ships of the Alaskan fishing fleet as carriers during the idle season. Star or Ho.ranp left last month for Portland to load lum- ber for Australia and it is likely that others of the fleet will follow suit, due to the high charter rates prevail- ing. Previously, these boats laid up in. Oakland creek for six months of the year. By the new method, they can leave here after the pack is brought in, make the trip to Aus- tralia or the south seas, and return in time: for the following fishing season. eek ie The chartering of CHEHALIS to raise the sunken Watxure in the harbor of Papeete, brings to light an interest- ing and remunerative venture launched. less than a year ago. A*company in which Sudden & Christensen and John A. Hooper are the largest sharehold- ers, was formed to buy the old Pa- cific Mailer Arcoa for $200,000. The boat, renamed CaALiForNIA, was char- tered to the Du Pont Powder Co. at a rate which has netted the company in excess of $1,000 a day since and has repaid the purchase price. The steamer MazatLan, which recently ran afoul of the government, has been pur- chased by this company and WALKURE will be put in service as soon as raised and repaired. The expedi- tion on CHEHALIS is in charge of Capt. Ee Curtis, of the board of ma- rine underwriters, accompanied by nu- merous engineers, salvage experts, divers and mechanics. kK Ok Ok Wire dragging in locating pinnacle rocks which are a menace to naviga- tion will donbtless be used to some extent on the Pacific coast in the near future. Krnc anp Wrnce, which has been charting submerged rocks southwestern Alaska the past