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368 THE MARINE REVIEW with geared turbines. Their boilers will be built in the northwest. * * * For the first time in the history of north Pacific shipping, Puget sound and Portland exporters are approaching a . grain season without a single wheat carrier chartered for the United King- dom. Lack of tonnage due to the Euro- pean war is given as the cause for this unusual condition. The British bark BirKDALE, chartered some time ago by Hind, Rolph & Co., San Francisco, for the United Kingdom, will get a rate of 150 shillings, the highest ever known for this trade. “It looks as if there would be very little grain shipped through Pacific coast ports this season,” said Robert C. Hill, of the Seattle merchants’ exchange. , “Exporters at the present time are making arrangements to ship overland by rail and then by water across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom or the continent. They are opening branch offices at Atlantic and Gulf ports with this in view.” Reh ey The Canadian Pacific railroad liner Empress or Russia recently discharged at Vancouver the most valuable con- signment of raw silk goods ever shipped from the orient. The cargo was valued at $3,500,000. eee, Repairs to the Japanese KENKoN Maru No. 3, which was wrecked on Belle Chain reef, Mayne island, British Columbia, Jan. 12, will _ represent the biggest contract of its kind ever awarded on the north Pacific. KenxKon Maru sustained extensive dam- ages. The keel aft was pushed up about 18 inches and the steel plates buckled and pierced. A large portion of the keel will have to be replaced and many new plates will be required. Owing to the fact that the vessel has been sub- merged a long time, all running gear on board is rusted and in bad condition. * ** * Making the run up from Talara bay, Peru, to Puget sound in 54 days, the American schooner WiLL1AmM ALson has arrived in Port Townsend and will re- turn to the west coast with lumber. At Talara bay, the Standard Oil Co. is making extensive enlargements to its . plant and is constructing an enormous concrete pier for handling cargo. * * 7% The McCormick steamship line, Port- land, Ore., announces a reduction of $1 in the first-class fare between Port- land and San Francisco. The company operates KLAMATH, CELILO, WILLAMETTE, MuLTNOMAH, WaApAMA and SAn RAmon. On the Chesapeake By Hollis F. Bennett The Coastwise Ship Building Co., Baltimore, has been awarded a con- tract to build six wooden, three- masted seagoing coal barges, for ‘ the Philadelphia & Reading railroad. The new barges are to be 207 feet long, 30 feet beam and will carry approxi- mately 2,000 tons of coal each. The contract price for the barges is reported at $500,000. The ship building company is negotiating for the building of a steamer - four-masted schooner of about 2,500 tons capacity. Oe The Huasteca Petroleum Co.’s_ tug MeExPET set a new record for coastwise towing this month in delivering at Bal- timore the Norwegian three-masted ship Vik and the Norwegian bark ALExAN- pRA from New York in the remarkable time of 72 hours. MExPET is a new oil-burning tug and was built by the Staten Island Ship Building Co., Port Richmond, N. Y. She has a compound engine with cylinders 20 x 42 x 28 inches at 175 pounds steam pressure. *K K be The United States dredge, SAN Pasto has arrived at San Francisco after a voyage of 40 days from her builders’ yards at Baltimore. SAN PasLo was commanded by Capt. John Moreno and was built for dredging operations in San Pablo bay, California. Xk * * The new machine shop of the Mary- land Steel Co., Sparrows Point, is nearly completed and will probably be in full operation during the latter part of September. The new ship shed, building way and new offices for the e j g UY G Yj V October, 1916 ship yard will be finished by the first of the coming year. It is reported since the control of the company has been taken over by the Bethlehem Steel Co. that two new dry docks will be built capable of docking the largest vessels afloat. k * * The lighthouse department has the new lighthouse and wireless station on the island of Mavassa well under way. Mavassa is a bird island owned by Bal- timore fertilizer interests and has not been worked for several years. * * 2k The British steamship BAytTrontTo will leave the latter part of the month for France with the American barge Wa- VERLY in tow. Both boats will be loaded with grain. This is the second grain tow to leave this port for France, the first being CuarLtes F. Mayer with the barge Polts. * ok x The steamer Ericcson, of the Balti- more and Philadelphia line, hit a sub- merged obstruction last month in the Chesapeake and Delaware canal, and sank. The passengers were landed safely and were sent to Philadelphia by train. By Joseph Fenerty URTHER evidence of the expan- sion of ship building on the Dela- ware is afforded by the announce- ment from New Castle Del., of the for- mation of the Delaware Ship Building & Engineering Co., with a capital of $1,- 000,000. The new concern has _ pur- chased 11 acres on the Delaware for a yard. x ok Ok The steel barge, Dr. Brooks, launched Aug. 10, at the plant of the Clinton Ship Building Co., has been sold by the owner, James J. McNally, to the Cia-de- Maderg Co., of Antilla, Cuba. She will be used in the lumber trade between ’ Abaco and Cuba. i ee A conference was held recently in the ‘chamber of commerce, Philadelphia, be- tween officials and owners of steam- ships in an effort to place in operation a line between Philadelphia and the east coast of South America. The transpor- tation bureau of the chamber will guarantee 1,500 tons of freight each month. Philadelphia has 600 firms en- gaged in export trade and they will be solicited. Efforts will likewise be di- rected to nearby cities to induce South American shipments via Philadelphia. * * 2k Furness, Withy & Co., Ltd., Philadel- phia, have announced that they have secured a controlling interest in the Prince Line steamers, owned by the Prince Line, Ltd., of New Castle-on- Tyne, comprising upwards of 40 ves- sels ranging from 2,000 to 6,000 tons each. Cs ar The United States ship FRANKLIN, a steam screw frigate, built more than half a century ago at a cost of over $900,000, has been bought by Henry Hitner Sons & Co., Philadelphia, for ‘$17,000 and will be destroyed for the copper, iron and other metal in the hull. FRANKLIN was built in 1864 and was a sister ship to WaAsasH, MINNESOTA, MERRIMAC, ROANOKE and Cotorapo. She was constructed of live oak throughout. Her length is 265 feet 9 inches; beam, 54 feet 3 inches and draft, 21 feet. She carried 39 guns and was rated at one time as the most powerful craft of her type in the world. She was receiv- ing ship at Norfolk since 1874. She wit'l be towed to Eastport, Me., and broken up there. x Ok The strike of the riveters and other iron workers at the ship yard of the Harlan and Hollingsworth Co., Wil- mington, Del., has been settled and the men have returned to work. * * * The barge Detroit, the remodeled light United States cruiser of tiie same name, was rammed and sunk in the Delaware, off Kaighn’s point by the Clyde Line steamer DeELAwAre, Captain French in command. Capt. Mathison, of Detroit, and eight members of the crew jumped overboard and were picked up by boats from DELAWARE. The liner was uninjured and proceeded to New York. Witnesses of the collision state that the barge was lying in the river with proper lights. The barge was loaded with a cargo of molasses. She will be raised and repaired. * * ” In the presence of an immense crowd of spectators, estimated to number more than 10,000, the first launching in 10 years took place: in. Chester; =a, on Aug. 26, when the steel oil freighter MALMANGER, safely left the ways of the newly organized Chester Ship Building Co. MALMANGER was built for Westfall Larsen, of Bergen, Norway. Mrs. C. M. P. Jack, wife of the president of the