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January, 1916 summer, is headed down the coast and if the congressional appropria- tion holds out, will likely carry out some work near here. te Ee The small coaster Srsxiyou is mak- ing what is considered a remarkable cruise for such a small boat. She left San Pedro in July for Balboa, thence to Bluefields, Gulfport and New Orleans, logging on the trip nearly 5,400 miles by the time New Orleans is reached. The steamer is owned, and operated by the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., and captained by J. H. Hansen. ee ee | The Mitre line made its entry to local shipping circles with the arrival of the steamer Purtry, bound from Vancouver to Avonmouth. el nae Lumber and grain carriers are con- tinuing in brisk demand at exceedingly high charter rates. Lumber rates to Australian and South African ports are well around the 100 shilling mark to the former and as high as 142 shillings to the latter. Every available vessel is being rushed into service. oe The Norwegian steamer TANCRED has been chartered by the Western Fuel Co. to carry coal between British Columbia and this port. She will go into service the coming spring. In New York Harbor By George Nicholson - HE Staten Island Ship Building Co. has just completed the installa- tion of a four-cylinder direct re- versible Bolinders fuel oil, 320-horse- power engine in Standard Oil barge No. 62. : x 2 The extreme shortage of tonnage se- riously restricts chartering as orders are numerous in several trades and rates are at the highest point reached in years. Quotations to Liverpool, London and Hull, 20d; Rotterdam, 3714 pfennings; cotton to Liverpool, per 100 pounds, $1.25. * * * The steamer ProsSPERPINE, which was wrecked at Sandy Hook about three years ago, having been run ashore while the vessel was afire, was recently raised by the Merritt & Chapman Co. and is now being entirely rebuilt at the Tietjen & Lang Dry Dock Co.’s yards at Hobo- ken, N. J * * * The work of converting the steamer Osweco, formerly operating on the Great Lakes into an Atlantic coast steam schooner is being done by the Staten Island Ship Building Co. Delaware Note Wuite Wincs, a schooner formerly owned by David Baird, spar _ builder, Camden, N. J., is to be placed under the Portuguese flag. She was orig- inally a barkentine and was built by William E. Woodall & Co. She was one of the famous copper clipper-ships in the trade between United States and Brazil. When this trade declined, she was taken over by Mr. Baird. Her new owner, Morean Limtoda. a merchant of Lisbon. paid $17,000. She is 168 feet over all and has a tonnage of 648. THE MARINE REVIEW 37 Gulf By Harry H. Dunn EVENTEEN miles of levees and revetments, destroyed by the storm and high water of Sept. 29, along the “lower coast” of the Mississippi river, with a loss of $1,200,000, will be re- placed, according to the decision of the Mississippi river commission, which held hearings in New Orleans and in Buras, a town in the damaged section, recently. * * * Winter sailings of the steamer Syp- NEY between New Orleans and _ St. Louis will be resumed Jan. 3, accord- ing to announcement by Captain Roy Streckfus. * * * Constant work by one of the big ‘dipper dredges of the Jahncke Naviga- tion Co. for nearly a month, has prac- tically resulted in the rescue of the big steel passenger steamer HANovEeR from a point 3,000 feet inland from Lake Ponchartrain, where she was blown high and dry by the storm of Sept. 29. Hanover landed right side up on dry land, about seven miles west of West End, on the lake. The Navigation company has dug a channel, nearly 4000 feet long, 60 feet wide and 15 feet deep, from deep water in Lake Pontchartrain, to the bow of HANovER. Then a basin, 60 feet wide and 15 to 20 feet deep, was dredged all around the steamer, leaving her perched on an island smaller than the bottom of her hull. The dipper dredge was re- moved and now a suction machine has been put at work at the vessel’s stern, pumping the island from under her. The work, when completed, will cost about $10,000. Hanover is an_all-steel craft, used for excursions on the river and on the lake. * * * The recent eleventh annual- conven- tion of the Inland Waterways League of Louisiana and Texas, at Houston, put itself on record as favoring a Q9-foot channel, with a width of 100 feet, instead of the 5-foot channel, previously advocated. * * * The big excursion steamer MaAJEsTIC, of the Lee Line, arrived in New Or- ‘ leans, ready to open the season, Dec. 1. She is 240 feet long, with an 8-foot hold, and carries five decks for passen- gers. * * * Contract for the raising of the Por- tuguese bark, Santos ALMIRAL, sunk in front of the government dock at New Orleans during the September hurricane, has been awarded to B. D. Wood & Bro., New Orleans, for $7,985. When salvaged, the bark will be turned over to Nathan & Stern, of the Stern Foundry & Machine Co., for a _ con- sideration of $8,000. Mr. Stern will enter her under the American flag. He had previously chartered her for $20,000 for one voyage. * * * Alexandria and Shreveport, La., busi- ness interests have organized the Red River Transportation Co. to revive steamer lines on the stream of that name, and to oppose discontinuance by the war department of appropriations - company, for navigation on the river. Dr. W. D. Haas, president; A. T. Felt, secretary, and J. L.... Pitts, ‘director, of the Alexandria chamber of commerce, have gone to Shreveport to confer with United States engineers as to whether the government will continue to aid navigation on Red river. * * * St. Louis business men and_ shippers have pledged 150,000 tons of freight for the new line of self-propelled barges soon to be in operation be- tween the Missouri port and New Or- leans. * * * _ Steamer men on the river are fight- ing the proposed reduction to a barge line basis of freight rates on sugar and molasses, which has been asked of the Louisiana state railroad commission by, Capt. J.: EB... Comeéaux,: Capt.o Hi: Ma Carter, of the Carter Packet Co., and Capt. Charles W. Brown, traffic man- ager of the Steamboat Traffic Associa- tion, went to Baton Rouge late in October to protest the reduction. Pres- ent river rates are 65 cents per barrel on molasses and 10 cents a hundred- weight, about 35 cents per barrel, on sugar, the routes covered being between Bayou Sara and intermediate points and New Orleans. The new rates sought by the barge men are 40 cents per bar- rel on molasses and 25 cents per bar-" rel on sugar. * OK The United Fruit Co. and other lines sailing from New Orleans have replaced their Chinese firemen with English-speaking stokers. In only a few instances have ships been unable to secure the required 75 per cent of English-speaking créws. ee Miami, Fla., is having plans pre- pared for a ship channel for which the city has voted $360,000 bonds. x ok x The Hamburg-American line has sold the steamer Housatonic, interned in New Orleans since the beginning of the war, to the Housatonic Steam- ship. Co.,: New York. dhe: ‘steamer formerly was GeorGIA, but will now fly the American flag. Edward F. Geers, president. of the Housatonic conducted the negotiations which resulted in the sale. The price paid is reported in New Orleans ship- ping circles to have been $85,000. Immediately after the sale, Mr. Geers came to New Orleans, changed the name of the ship and entered her under American registry. Housatonic was built in 1891. She is 329.8 feet long, with a beam of 41.6 feet. Dur- ing the recent hurricane she was slightly damaged and is being repaired as rapidly as_ possible. ck es The steam packet AMERICA, operat- ing in the upper coast trade to Vicks- burg, Lake Providence, the Bends, Carriola and intermediate landings, broke the records for rice shipments Nov. 3 when she brought 6,779 sacks of rice to New Orleans.