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110 been transshipped_ to Seattle en route to the Orient. B. W. Greer & Sons have been appointed Vancouver agents. The passenger liners will call only at Victoria, B. C. 'and Seattle as at pres- ent. ok K x With logging camps closed and saw- being ex- mills idle, little lumber is THE MARINE REVIEW ported from Puget sound and the Col- umbia river at this time. The foreign market is in a depressed state and in consequence there has been general ces- sation of production. This affects the tug boat companies and a larger fleet than usual now is idle, Extensive repairs have been made by February, 1921 Todd Dry Docks, Inc. to the disabled lumber schooner SAMAR, which was forced to return from sea after spring- ing a dangerous leak. While being dis- charged, the schooner’s pumps were kept constantly at work, removing 120,000 gallons of water per day. More than 1,000,000 gallons were pumped to keep the schooner afloat. HE iron steamship TRUxXILLO, ; christened Brunswick, when _ she was built in Scotland in 1876, was sold at auction at New Orleans, Dec. 27, for the sum of $30,100 to David B. Penn, for the Gulf and Southern Steamship Co., of which he is president. The United Fruit Co. sold the steamer which, in 1918, was sold at private sale for $300,000, also at New Orleans. This is the second time Mr. Penn has owned TRUXxILLO, bought her first, when she was Bruns- wick, from the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co., in 1912. She will remain in the service of the Gulf and Southern Steamship Co., operating be- tween New Orleans and Tampa, Fla. oe el ‘The Kerr Steamship Co. of New York, will establish an office in Port Arthur, Tex. early in the new year, according to announcement from the company’s headquarters, and will operate British ships for cotton to British buy- ers and spinners, who prefer to use British bottoms to those of the United States shipping board. Eight survivors of the schooner JOHN Pierce, of Boston, which foundered in the Gulf of Mexico on the night of December 26, were brought to New Orleans by the steamship TEGUCIGALPA, of the Vaccaro Brothers’ Fruit Steam- ship Co., December 28. Among them were Captain Q. M. Carson and _ his wife. No one was lost from the JoHN Prerce, which was bound from Laguna, Mexico to Boston. *K * * New Orleans’ broke all her own records for arrivals of shipping, on Dec. 27, when 26 incoming vessels filed mani- fests and 24 were reported as entering the “mouth of the. river. The best previous day was August 17, 1920, when 22 filed inbound manifests. * * AK The Pan-American Steamship Co., of San Francisco, announces establishment of regular steamship service between New Orleans and Hong Kong, by way of Havana and the Panama canal. The first vessel to arrive in the new service was the. 3500-ton steamer WALLOWRA, early in January. ‘The American Fi- nance and Commerce Co. is general agent for the line, and J. Bloomer is its New Orleans agent, with offices at 332 Magazine street. k ok The Standard Oil Co., of New Jer- sey, sent down the river late in Jan- having - uary the largest steel barge that ever navigated the Mississippi. It was built in Pittsburgh and carried down to New Orleans 3000 tons of large pipe, ing shipped to the oil fields of Mexico and. Peru, according to a statement is- sued at New Orleans by Robert F. Meyer, of New York, chief of the trafic department of the Standard Oil Co., of New Jersey, on a recent visit to New Orleans. The barge was towed down the Ohio, thence down the Mis- sissippi to New Orleans, and docked there while the pipe was re-shipped, consigned to the Transcontinental Pe- troleum Co. for use in the southern re- publics. eee The Johnson Iron Works, Drydock & Shipbuilding Co., Inc. of Algiers, just across the Mississippi river from New Orleans, has obtained the contract to construct towboats and barges. for the Gulf Oil Refining Co. to a value of $75,000. The equipment to be furnished includes two steél barges, one steel hull and one towboat. This is the company which successfullly carried out a con- tract for ten 100-ton steel seagoing tugs for the government during the war. * *« * The federal grand jury has taken up the dumping of oil from ships into the Mississippi river at New Orleans, and has_ returned several indictments against steamship captains. The recent fire, which did heavy damage to the Jahncke drydock and ship repair plant there, is held to have been caused by sparks talling in oil floating on the river. oe meee, The New Orleans dock board is pre- paring to purchase another fire tug, at a cost not to exceed $200,000. Ce a Damages tentatively placed at $400,- 000 from a fire on the docks at Galves- ton, Tex., Dec. 23, when an explosion on board the oil barge Borrkow spread to the Southern Pacific railroad’s docks, Two men were killed and two injured, the oil barge was destroyed, and the steamers Er Occipentr, Hastnar and ASCHENBORG were damaged. Part of the docks and a grain conveyor were burn- ed. Captain Wallace Mackenzie, of the British steamer ASCHENBORG, saved his vessel from destruction, by crouch- ing on the bridge, steering with the lower part of the wheel, handling his engine-room controls with his feet, and backing her out of her berth, through a wall of flame, into the channel. Slight be- | burns to the superstructure, which caught fire three times during the passage, was the only damage to this steamer. * * * An indication of the revival of packet trafic on the Mississippi river, which has brought more than forty steamboats back to this stream and its tributaries during the past year, was given late in December, by the sale of the 150-ton packet, C. A. CULBERTSON, and the 100- ton packet, THomas B. FLorENcE, by Captain George Prince and O. K. Wilds, of Vicksburg. CULBERTSON went to the Wood Construction Co., of Lincoln, Neb., and FLorENcE to Reed and_Lanius, of Natchez, Miss. ok x * Value of cargoes carried by the Mis- Sissippi river barge line operated by the waterways department of the fed- eral government, for the year ending Nov. 30, 1920, ‘was more than $51,000,- 000, according to figures just com- piled by the headquarters of the gov- ernment barge service in New Or- leans. This total includes raw materials and finished products, and shipments were both up and down stream. The report makes the following interesting comment: “The population of the United States increased 39 per cent between 1900 and 1920, while, in the same pe- riod, the railroads increased their freight-car equipment 77 per cent, their locomotives 71 per cent, and their single- track road, 34 per cent. But the revenue tons on the railroads in the same period increased 167 per cent. Hence the freight . congestion, which the barge and steamboat lines come to relieve, and they serve 37 per cent of the population of the United States.” cae ee eae The West Indies Transportation Com- pany began construction, late in De- cember of its dock and warehouse at Marrero, La. on the west bank of the Mississippi, just across the river from New Orleans. These improvements in- clude a wharf for the unloading of Cu- ban molasses, and a 70,000-barrel ,mo- lasses storage tank. Construction is to be completed by the end of January, with an expenditure of approximately $100,000. ke The Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co., which is operating the river steam- er QUEEN City between the Ohio port and New Orleans, has named Henry C. Dreyfus, general agent at New Orleans.