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568 the steamer FRANK E Kirpy. The La- ‘peau will leave Kelley’s island daily, proceeding to Catawba, Put-in-Bay, Middle Bass island, and Detroit. ok oS Henry S. Connell, assistant local in- spector of boilers in the Detroit office ‘of the United States steamboat inspec- tion service, has been appointed United States local inspector of boilers in that city, succeeding George M. Milne, who resigned to engage in other business. * * bs Capt. F. B. Goodrow has fesigned as master of the steamer W. H. TRUESDALE to take command of the steamer H. H. Porter, built by the American Ship- building Co. on its own account. Cap- tain Goodrow has been connected with Brown & Co., Buffalo, for 10 years. He THE MARINE REVIEW is succeeded by Capt. J. A. McDonald, inate on the steamer Cot. J. M. SCHOON- MAKER of the Shenango Transportation Co., Cleveland, for the last four years. eo oe The steamer H. H. Porter, the last of the four 600-footers built by the American Shipbuilding Co. on its own account to be sold, has been taken over by the Brier Hill Steamship Co. The Porter will be operated in the ore trade and took her first cargo at Two Har- Lors. ee eee see The steamer Mary A. McGrecor went ashore on the rocks at Magnetic Shoal, Georgian bay, recently. Fire broke out and the vessel has been abandoned as a total loss. All of the members of the crew were saved. She was built in 1889, was 179 feet keel and October, 1920 3254 feet beam, and had a carrying capacity of 1000 tons. x * * The Pringle Barge Line Co., Cleve- land, recently purchased the steel tug Custop1AN, built at Baltimore jor the shipping board, and has brought her to the lakes. ee The steamers Wittis L. Kine and Superior: Crry collided on the night of Aug. 20, in Whitefish bay, Lake Su- perior, and in less than two minutes the Superior City sank, Only four of the 33 members of the crew were saved. Pe The sand boat Kettey IsLAND was badly damaged recently when she struck a submerged obstacle on her way to Clevcland from Point Pelee. She was towed to drydock at Lorain for repairs. HE first units of the Portland, Oreg., municipal terminals are completed and an era of active shipping is now anticipated. Pier No. 1 has been in service for several months and work is progressing on additional units, including a bunker for handling rock phosphate which is to move in large quantities from Idaho to Japan. The municipality’s grain elevator with a capacity for 1,000,000 bushels of grain is ready for the fall and winter export movement. This is a splendid terminal, thoroughly modern in every respect. Ad- jacent is a large flour mill under con- struction. These modern terminals are bringing much new business to Port- land which is conducting an energetic campaign for a share of overseas busi- ness. ae ae Paul Schnetter, chief engineer of the 5000-ton wooden steamer SNOQUALMIE recently accomplished a remarkable feat when alone he operated the engines of the vessel for a distance of 150 miles. The vessel went to a British Colum- bian port for coal. When the engine room crew quit unexpectedly, Schnetter assured the captain he would run the ‘SNOQUALMIE to Port Townsend, Wash., a distance of 150 miles. He made good and the distance was accomplished in usual speed in slightly more than 12 hours. * * * The old iron steamer Exri1nu TuHom- SON, built in 1888, has made her last voyage to Alaska, as she is about to be delivered to her new Peruvian own- ers for service along the South Ameri- can coast. The Erinvu THomson has had a varied career in the north Pa- cific for several decades. She was fer- merly in the. Hawaiian trade but for years has operated to Nome and St. Michael. ae eee Contracts have been signed under which the new terminal of the port of Seattle, will be used jointly by the Nip- pon Yusen Kaisha and Pacific Steam- ship Co. in handling their transpacific passenger and freight vessels. Under a preferential agreement to last five years, the Japanese company will have the west side of the new pier and the American line the east side where the new shipping board passenger vessels will berth. The port is now engaged in constructing a 500-foot shed on the west side of the terminal for accommo- dating the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Pier B has a length of 2540 feet and breadth of 367 feet. It is solidly filled and “is separated from Pier A by a slip 350 feet wide. eae The shipping board liner West Jrs- TER was recently docked at the Todd Dry Docks Inc., plant, Seattle, for sur- vey but was found to have been un- damaged by going aground on a spit at the entrance to Yokohama harbor. Shortly after this mishap, the West JESTER assisted in the rescue of the Japanese steamer Kiyo Maru which was threatened by fire. * * * Effective Aug. 1, the harbor com- missioners of Vancouver, B. C., levied a tax of 5 cents per ton on all cargo inbound or outbound. These rates are in addition to the wharfage charges and include all articles landed or ship- ped to Vancouver. 2s se Value of exports from the Cuvulum- bia river for the first six months of 1920 totaled $21,191,341 while in the same period imports aggregated $4,993,- 852. The principal exports were: Wheat, $3,407,502; flour, $3,737,451; cotton, $6,492,922; lumber, $3,611,459. * ok Ox Within six months, the first unit of the Tacoma, Wash., terminal improve- ments will be in operation. This is an open pier, 840 feet in length and 166 feet. in width. It will be served by ample railroad trackage and in every respect is to be thoroughly modern. eee North Pacific shipping men are great- ly interested in the disposition of the dozen German sailing ships which have been interned in Mexican Pacific wa- ters for six years. It is understood that this fleet is to be delivered in Eu- rope but according to present plans they are to be towed to Puget sound for docking and overhauling and then are to load foodstuffs for Europe where they are to be turned over to the Al- lies. cee According to announcement by S., Hashimoto, manager of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha with headquarters at Tacoma, Wash., no change will be made in the company’s present schedule be- cause of the Jones bill. Neither will the “terminal of the line be transferred to Vancouver, B. C. The company has just added two new freight and passen- ger steamers to its Puget sound fleet, the ArizonA Maru and ALABAMA Maru, and will continue to maintain a fort- nightly service out of Tacoma and Seattle. 2 aye Henry G. Seaborn, of the Skinner & Eddy Corp., Seattle, has just equipped his sailing schooner CAaMANO with a power launch which is to be carried on deck. The purpose of the small tug is to tow the Camano through the calm areas of the wide ocean enabling her to‘ make much better time. While this is largely an experiment, it is believed to be entirely practicable. The CAMANO is a 4-mast, topsail schooner with a ca- pacity for 900,000 feet of lumber. 2k * Transpacific lines have announced an imcreas€ in passenger rates of 20 per cent effective Sept. 15. Under the new schedule, first class passengers will pay the following from Seattle: To Yoko- hama $300; to Kobe, $310; to Nagasaki, $334 ; to Shanghai, $345; to Hongkong, $375; to Manila, $375. Second class pas- sage ranges from $175 to $218. ae See British Columbian yards are making repairs to the British freighter Eurypa- MAS which was injured in collision at San Francisco with the Hawaiian liner MANOA and to the Swedish motorship Paciric which ran aground in 4 fog near Victoria, B. C., and damaged sev- eral plates. ie eee Norwegian motor schooner BLAATIND, launched at Seattle a year ago but