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34 , THE MARINE REVIEW formerly the Hamburg American liner of the same name and was interned in Baltimore at the beginning of the war. She was purchased by the Atlantic Fruit Co., and brought under American reg- istry in the above port. ae ie The Nova Scotia schooner Perce, Capt. Koliler, fresh from her builders’ yards, established a sailing record in the Chesa- peake by reeling off the 59 miles from Cove Point to Baltimore in six hours and 15 minutes. Perce was built by Robin, Jones & Whitman, Halifax, N. S., and is a three-mast vessel of 308 tons. ae ne For the first time in a great number of years, phosphate is being exported from Baltimore. The big Danish four- mast sailing ship Sotoro is loading a full cargo for Copenhagen, Denmark, and the schoner Perce will load a sim- ilar cargo for Halifax, N. S. Around Puget Sound By F. K. Haskell The North . Pacific is: feeling the . effect of the shortage of steamers harder now than at any time since the European war opened. During the past month Portland custom house clearings were accounted for with just four vessels. The entire value of the shipments was $84,676.16. Ten coastwise steamers carried 7,030,000 feet of lumber to California and Alaska ports. * * * Because a vast number of men of the merchant marine of Great Britain have answered the call to the colors, the Harrison Direct line, which operates a fleet of carriers between Seattle and ports in the United Kingdom, has been compelled to employ Lascar crews shipped in East India. The big freighter DramMatist, which arrived in Seattle re- cently, had a crew of 56 natives of East India. xk oe Ox Increasing its Seattle fleet to nine big steamships, the Osaka Shosen Kaisha has ordered the new freighter S1am Maru, recently completed in Japanese yards, and the liner SEATTLE Maru to North Pacific trade. It is also probable that the new freighter Burma Maru will also be placed in Seattle trade. eee eee Capt. Frank M. White, a_ veteran Alaska navigator and president of the Shipmasters’ Association of the United States, has been appointed to the com- mand of the schooner NorTHLAND, which bears the distinction of being the largest American vessel of her rig afloat. NorTHLAND was purchased by a Grecian firm, but will remain under the American flag until after the European war is ended. * ** * Pointing out that the dangers to navigation on the west side of San Juan island are the greatest on the entire route followed by the big fleet of freight and passenger vessels plying be-— tween Puget Sound and ports in Brit- - ish Columbia and Alaska, the Ship- masters’ Association of the United States, has petitioned the federal light-. house department asking that a light be installed at Lime Kiln. Canadian ship- ping interests have opposed this action, urging that the light be placed at Kelp Bluff, which is a little farther north. ** * * Fifty-three wooden vessels suitable for coastwise or overseas lumber traffic are now in course of construction in Oregon, Washington and British Col- umbia. In the construction of these vessels, approximately 106,000,000 feet of lumber will be used; when completed, their combined carrying capacity will be 79,500,000 feet per trip. While the new tonnage is for the most part being. built specifically for the lumber trade, com- - paratively few of the vessels in course of construction are to be operated by mill companies. * * * The adoption of a constitutional amendment exempting from taxation all ships of 50 tons or more capacity by a majority of 50,000 votes in the No- vember election held in Oregon, is now being seriously considered in Washing- _ ton and steps will be taken to urge upon the incoming legislature the need Tix American steamer WILLIPA, 1,200 tons, valued at $125,000 and loaded with $30,000 worth of ma- hogany, was lost on the reefs off Cape Gracias, Nicaragua, late in November, according to reports received by H. S. Renshaw & Co., New Orleans, agents for the steamer. Capt. Charles Johnston, New Orleans, and his crew of 22 men escaped by taking to the boats in the surf which pounded the vessel to pieces. James Raugh, supercargo for the Frei- berg Lumber Co., Cincinnati, owners of WILLipa’s cargo, and the only other per- son on board, also was saved, and sent the information concerning the loss of the steamer.. Retake, Sie Bernard Strauss, one of the oldest river men on the Mississippi, died in his New Orleans home, late in Novem- ber, after an illness of four weeks. He had been a resident of New Orleans for 56 years. He was agent for the Carter Packet Co., which operates a line of steamers on the river. Nearly 100 representatives of steamboat lines, river captains and others connected with the shipping industry, attended the funeral. ok bd * Members of the United. States com- mission on navy yards and naval sta- tions made an extensive investigation and inspection of the navy yard at Algiers, across the river from New Or- leans, in the last week of November, to determine its availability as a general navy repair yard and base for sub- marine operations in the gulf, as well as for use for an aviation® school. No comment was obtainable on the result of the inspection here. * 2 * The seagoing tug J. W. THompson has been sold by Contractor J. W. Thompson to agents of the allies for $135,000, cash. The boat is now being overhauled in New Orleans, her fur- naces changed to coal burners and a wireless plant installed. As soon as this work is completed, the tug will sail for January, 1917 of similar, legislation to protect the ship- ping business of Washington and fur- ther increase its commerce. The amend- ment to’ the state constitution of Oregon provides that “all ships and vessels of 50 tons or more capacity engaged in passenger, coasting or foreign trade, whose home ports of registration are in the state of Oregon shall be and are hereby exempted from all taxes of every kind whatsoever excepting taxes for state purposes, until Jan. 1, 1935. ee, OU The Dominion government has author- ized the construction in British’ Colum- bia by the government of twe ocean- going steamers. They are to ply be- tween Vancouver and Halifax via the Panama canal. The object, which the authorities have in view is the establish- ment of a line of Canadian steamers to handle the. transcontinental freight in competition with the railways and thus exercise .a, control of railway rates. Several freighters are to be purchased on the Atlantic coast and it is expected within a year to have a half dozen vessels in operation. ; the Azores to take part in the European war. The boat was built in 1909 by John Dialogue, of Philadelphia, at a cost af $65,000, and is 112 feet long, 2l-foot beam, with draft of 13 feet. Her engines are 550-horsepower. She has been operating on the Mississippi and in the waters of the gulf for some years. * * x : Nicolas Segrera, agent of Veloz, Dames y Cia. large owners of cane and cattle plantations in Colombia, S. A., is trying to establish better freight and passenger service between Carta- gena and New Orleans by means of the big auxiliary schooner, CrupAD DE Car- TAGENA, which he purchased recently for $110,000, at Lake Charles, La. This ves- sel will make regular trips between Cartagena and the Crescent City, taking livestock and machinery to Colombia and bringing back products of that country to sell in the United States. * * * Capt. Hans Christopher Hansen, Ports- grund, Norway, has bought the auxiliary schooners NorrinGHAM and J. W. CLISE at Mobile, Ala., and ordered construc- tion at Tacoma, Wash., of another auxiliary of 2,500 tons. The three ves- sels are to be put in the gulf coast lum- ber trade. NorrinGHAM is on Mississippi Sound, and C Lise is en route to Sydney, Ni S.-W; ; bs 2K *k Daily service by the steamer Dotive between New Orleans and Mobile is being arranged by agents of shippers and merchants of the two cities, led by Theodore Brent, general manager of the joint traffic bureau, of New Orleans. It is planned for the steamer to leave Mobile at 9 p. m., each day, arriving in New Orleans the following morning and leaving again for Mobile as soon as she can be loaded. Dorive belongs to the St. Tammany Development Co. It is also planned to start similar service on practically all the inland waterways between New Orleans and -. Houston, with a steamer of the same company