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440 her Katsartt. The vessel is of 6,606 tons register and is 414 feet long. She was built by the Maryland Steel Co. in 1910. Katsarir will fly the Norse flag. * * * The American barkentine KRrEMLIN, in port at Baltimore, has been sold by the John S. Emery Co., Boston, to Smith & Terry Co. New York, for $55,000. KREMLIN was built in Bath, Me., in 1890 and is 161 feet long and registers 786 tons. ‘ * * * The third tanker built for Christoffer Hannevig by the Baltimore Dry Docks & Ship Building Co. was launched Oct. 28. The vessel was christened HotpEN Evans after the president of the Dry News THE MARINE REVIEW Docks company by his daughter Miss Iris Evans. * X * Alfred W. Gieske has purchased the steam yacht Kayeruna in New York and has added her to the fleet of the Baltimore yacht club. 2 * * The Bethlehem Steel Co., Sparrows Point, Md., turned the steamship HELEN over to her owner, the A. H. Bull Steam- ship Co., Oct. 28. Heten is the eighth steamship built this .year by the steel company and is the third this year for the Bull company. Heten is 338 feet long, 46%4 feet beam, 261/3 feet depth of hold and has a deadweight ope of 4,700 tons. e Delaware By Joseph Fenerty the greatest ship building center of the world, according to a report recently issued by the department of commerce. The total tonnage under con- struction exceeds that of the principal British ship building districts, such as Glasgow, Newcastle and Belfast. Ninety ships with a tonnage amounting to 419,- 213 gross are now being built at Dela- ware river plants. * K x Control of the Delaware Ship Build- ing Co., Seaford, Del., has been secured by the Hannevig & Johnson Co., New York. The property comprises 12 acres and has a marine railway. Under the new management it is purposed to re- pair and build wood vessels. As a re- sult of the change, A. D. Cummins, Philadelphia, president of the Delaware company, will resign. * a * After a successful trial. trip over the government course, off Rockland, Me. the torpedo boat destroyer WILKES has returned to the Cramp ship yards, Phila- delphia, for final adjustment of machin- ery before being turned over to the navy department. Wik * The new passenger and freight steam- er GEORGIANA WEEMS has been launched at the plant of the Harlan & Hollings- worth Corporation, Wilmington, Del. Miss Mary Weems was sponsor. The vessel was built for the Baltimore & Carolina Steamship Co. She is 255 feet long, 39 feet beam and 25 feet in depth of hold. She will ply between Baltimore and Georgetown, S. %* * 2 In command of Captain Ockelman, the new steamship Sunort, recently com- pleted at the Cramp ship yards, Philadel- phia, for the Sun Oil Co., Chester, Pa., has begun her maiden voyage to Tam- pico. The vessel, which has a carrying capacity of 10,000 tons of oil in bulk, cost about $800,000. The owners were offered $1,500,000 for her before she left the ways. OT tee Delaware river is at present ** A * W. R. Grace & Co., New York, have awarded contracts to the Cramp com- pany, Philadelphia, for building two ad- ditional steamships of 6,300 tons capacity each. They are intended for Pacific and South American trade. Two steam- ships are now under construction at the Cramp yards for the New York concern. * % * The first direct steamship communica- tion between Philadelphia and South America was established on Oct. 17, when Carotyn, of the newly-organized ‘Philadelphia & South America Corpora- tion’s line, steamed from Philadelphia. Formal ceremonies marked the depart- ture. Addresses were made by Howard B. French, president of the chamber of commerce, which has been mainly re- sponsible for the establishment of the new line; W. Freeland Kendrick, re- ceiver of taxes, who represented Mayor Smith; George S. Webster, director of the department of wharves, docks and ferries, and E. J. Cattell, city statistician. Dr. William P. Wilson and Dudley Bartlett represented the commercial mu- seums. Representatives of the railroads having terminals in Philadelphia were also present. CAROLYN carried a general cargo. EvELyn, a sister ship, left Phila- delphia about the middle of November. After that, a monthly freight service will be operated. The new concern has been pledged a sufficient amount of freight to make the line a success. A number of firms not affiliated with the chamber of commerce have asked for freight rates to South American ports. * * * The new ways in the ship yard of the Pusey & Jones Co., Wilmington, Del., are being rapidly pushed to completion. The company will enter the business of building. steel ships of a much larger tonnage than heretofore. Four con- tracts from Norwegian shipping interests - have been awarded the concern. * * * Another attempt to induce the Penn- sylvania legislature to make an_ initial appropriation of $500,000 toward the re- moval of Horseshoe shoal and_ the straightening of the channel in the Dela- ware river at Horseshoe curve, was re- cently planned at an enthusiastic meet- ing of various commercial interests of the port. The project includes the com- plete elimination of the shoal and the construction of a channel along the Pennsylvania shore. This projected channel would minimize the existing dangers to navigation from fog, ice and December, 1916 other recurrent conditions and would open for early development, in a com- mercial way, the lower sections of Phil- adelphia. * * The Sun Ship Building Co., Chester, Pa., has been awarded contracts by the Shawmut Steamship Co. for constructing two 10,000-ton freight steamers. The vessels are to be delivered in two years. ok * * The new bulk oil carrier PEARL SHELL, built for the Shell Co., of California, by the Harlan & Hollingsworth Corporation, Wilmington, Del, has left for New York, to load her first cargo. * * * After a successful trial trip in Chesa- peake bay, the new tanker BRAMELL Point, named after the new refining plant now building for the Vacuum Oil Co. on the Delaware river, has left for New York to load a cargo of oil for Europe. News From Frisco By A. A. Willoughby According to figures compiled by the marine department of the San Francisco chamber of commerce, one- fourth of the — ship building at present being conducted in the United States, is carried on in Pacific coast plants. Further, it is said, that 67 per cent of this work is concentrated in two plants on San’ Francisco bay, the Union Iron Works and the Moore & Scott Iron Works. On the Oakland side of the bay, where the Moore: & Scott yards are located, more than $50,000,000 worth of work has been contracted for. Of the several plants on the Oakland side, the new plant of the Union Iron Works is making a strong showing having at pres- ent, in excess of $30,000,000 worth of work under contract, sufficient to keep the plant at full capacity for the next two years. The entire estimated ton- nage being constructed on the Pacific coast is 325,378, of which 219,158 is under way about San Francisco bay. The Moore & Scott yards are showing great activity. On the first of the year, there were 400 men employed. At present there are 1,800 working in three shifts. Es ok * - The motorship Cuire which left San Francisco the latter part of October for Copenhagen, carried 8,000 tons of barley, one of the largest cargoes shipped out this season. * * : SraR OF ScoTLAND, bound fromKarluk, was the last of the Alaskan salmon pack- ers to make San Francisco for the sea- son, arriving early in October. Along Puget Sound By F,. K. Haskell Formation of the Oregon Ship Building Corporation with a_ capital of $500,000, backed by the Smith & Watson Iron Works, insures the estab- lishment of a steel ship construction plant at Portland, Ore. Contracts closed provide for the building of four 8,800- ton steel freighters for Norwegian in- terests with a total value in excess of $4,000,000. * * * Capt. Albert T. Stream, well-known Pacific coast mariner, died recently in