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September, 1916 New Company Buys Pacific Yard The Hall Brothers Marine Railway & Ship Building Co., Winslow, Wash., has been purchased by the newly organized Winslow Marine Railway & Ship Build- ing Co. “The sale is of particular in- terest at this time as the new company has plans for extensions that will make it a larger factor in new construction work on the western coast. The Hall Brothers yard is one of the oldest on the Pacific coast and has a world-wide reputation, particularly for the construction of wooden vessels. Lately it has been carrying on a very large repair business. The new Winslow company is headed by James Griffiths, president. Mr. Grif- provided for the vessels concerned. These incidents took place in Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, De- troit, Indianapolis, Duluth, Louisville, Rochester and Providence. Wire Drag Discloses Dangers Wire-drag work in the approaches to Salem Harbor, Mass., which was begun by a party sent out by the State coast and geodetic survey in May of this year, has resulted in discovering a number of uncharted and previously unknown pinnacle rocks and shoal spots with depths less than charted, some of which constitute serious dangers to navigation. The most important of these are a 20-foot rock in the main United . THE MARINE REVIEW 321 Few Life Buoys Required The: United States steamboat inspec- tion service has issued a circular letter, quoting an act of congress approved June 12, which reduces the number of life buoys required to be carried on cer- tain vessels ‘under the provisions of sec- tion 14 of the seamen’s act. The act of June 12 fixes the minimum number of life buoys with which vessels are to be provided, as follows: Vessels under 100 feet in, length, minimum number of buoys, two; vessels 100 feet and less than 200 feet in length, minimum number of buoys, four, of which: two shall be luminous; vessels 200 feet and less than 300 feet in length, minimum number of buoys, six, of which two shall be lumi- nous; vessels 300 feet and less than 400 SHIP BUILDING AND REPAIR YARD OF THE WINSLOW MARINE RAILWAY & SHIP BUILDING CO. fiths for many years has been a prom- inent factor in developing the marine trade along the western coast. Stanley A. Griffiths is secretary and treasurer. John L. Hubbard, formerly general manager of the Hall yard, will continue as general manager of the new com- pany. ©. C.. Lacey, formerly marine superintendent of the Great Northern Railway Co. has been made assistant general manager. It is expected that construction work on two large schooners will be started shortly at Winslow. The new com- pany plans to give particular attention to the development of diesel-engined auxiliary lumber schooners. The bureau of navigation, department of commerce, reports that during the first week in July in the case of 65 ves- sels involving 66,900 passengers the navi- gation inspectors stopped the embarca- tion of an excessive number of pas- sengers over and above the lawful limit ship channel, where 7 fathoms were charted southward from Johns Ledge, and a 24-foot shoal east of Newcombs Ledge, where 7% fathoms were charted. As it was announced that the navy department intended sending the battle- ship VERMONT to Salem on July 4, the results of the wire-drag were furnished by the survey to the navy department, the dangers discovered were buoyed and a safe anchorage marked. The dan- gers discovered decrease the available width of the main ship channel consid- erably. The examination is not re- ported as completed, and additional in- formation will be furnished as soon as received. The importance of the complete de- velopment of the channel was shown on July 1, when the steamer GULF StreAM of the Gulf Refining Co. went through the channel, drawing 24 feet, very close to a 23-foot shoal north of Bowditch Ledge, barely escaping what might have been a serious accident. feet in length, minimum number of bnoys, 12, of which four shall be lumi- nous; vessels 400 feet and less than 600 feet ir length, minimum number of buoys, 18, of which nine shall be lumi- nous; vessels 600 feet and less than 800 feet in lei.gth, minimum number of buoys, 24, of which 12 shall be lumi- nous; vessels 800 feet and over in length, minimum number of buoys, 30, of which 15 shall be luminous. All the buoys shall be fitted with beckets securely seized. Where two buoys only are carried, one shall be fitted with a life line at least 15 fath- oms in length, and where more than two buoys are carried, at least one buoy on each side shall be fitted with a life line of at least 15 fathoms in length. The lights shall be efficient self-igniting lights which can not be extinguished in water, and they shall be kept near the buoys to which they belong, with the necessary means of attachment.