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March, 1922 an aggregate of 8371 tons less. The last report showed more than 1000 ships had made Norfolk their home port dur- ing July, August. and September. This was caused by the large number of shipping board vessels which had been sent to be daid up or alloted to Hampton Roads companies. Ok Ok J. F.. Kenneally,, master of the schooner BLANCHE C. PENDLETON has filed libel in the federal district court at Norfolk against the steamship I. C. Wuire, asking $180,000 damages. It is charged the schooner was sunk and the cargo of lumber damaged by collision with the I. C..WuiTE in a fog 30 miles north of Cape Hatteras on the morn- ing of Jan. 21, 1922, and that the col- lision was the fault of the master of the steamer. * Ok Recommendations of the Hampton Roads Port commission to the Virginia general assembly for the creation of a permanent state port commission of three members have been incorporated in a bill which now is pending in the as- sembly. Sheela Bids for dredging the channel at the mouth of the Ononcock river to a depth of 9 feet, at low water, will be opened at the office of the U. S. district engi- neer, at Norfolk on Feb. 23. ok * * The shipping board steamer Mortrz has been ordered sold by the United States marshal, at Norfolk, the order being filed by Federal Judge D. Lawrence Croner. This order grew out of the libel of Fri- gorigoco Armour De La Plata for $250,- 000 against the United States as owner of the Morirz for damages to goods shipped on the steamer. eee The Emergency Fleet corporation is be- ginning to see the result of the improve: service it is rendering cotton shippers out of Gulf ports, Vice President Love de- MARINE REVIEW clared recently. Bookings of*this cargo in that district, he added, are showing a marked improvement for American ships. * ok Ok _ For the extension of its shipbuild- ing and ship repairing facilities, the Todd. Shipyards Corp. has acquired the realty holding of the Mobile Shipbuild- ing. Coy cat Mobile... Ala... “fhe Dodd corporation is the largest ship repair organization in the world and has plants in New York, Brooklyn, Hoboken, Ta- coma and Seattle. It operates a total of Along the Atlantic Bays IRE of mysterious origin Feb. 8 de- stroyed the steamship NorTHERN Paciric, speediest American vessel, off Cape May where she sank ablaze from stem to stern. She was on her way to the yard at Chester, Pa., of the Sun Shipbuilding Corp. to be repaired for the Admiral line, which recently had ac- quired her. She was to be renamed the H. F. ALEXANDER. Four of the Sun company’s force were lost but all of the Norrirn Paciric’s crew were saved. The coast guard cutter Kickapoo stood by as the great vessel plunged into the sea while the tanker Hrersert G. Wytie and the steamer TRANSPORTATION picked up the crew of the burning ship. The NortHern Paciric was commanded by Capt. William Lustie who had charge of her during her war service as a_ transport. The Admiral line paid the United States shipping board $1,000,000 for the vessel, which was to be used in Pacific coast- wise service in a run with the RutH ALEXANDER, ex-CaALLAo. The NortTHiRrNn Paciric was built, with her sister ship, the Great NortHern, by the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., for western railroad’ interests to be run between Astoria and San Francisco. ©Kadel & Herbert . THE ONLY ACCIDENT TO THE NORTHERN PACIFIC DURING HER WAR SERVICE IS SHOWN ABOVE WHEN SHE GROUNDED IN NEW YORK HARBOR 131 23 drydocks and owns the only private graving docks in the port of New York. * * ok Doubling of its service between New Orleans and the east coast of South America and the opening of a passenger service in that trade, has been an- -nounced by the Mississippi Shipping Co. The announcement followed a_ confer- ence between officials of the company, representatives of the shipping board and officers of the American Coffee Roasters’ association. She was 525 feet long overall, 63 feet molded beam and 50 feet 6 inches deep to the A deck. She was commandeered by the shipping board during the war, turned over to and operated by the navy and then returned to the board. She could make 23 knots. * ok Service between Philadelphia, Genoa and Tangiers is being operated by the Algerian-American line, with its agency at Philadelphia handled by the Hudson Shipping Co. This is a new run of the line which has 20 freighters. x ok O* A new run is being operated by the Ward lines between Philadelphia and Havana and Mexico ports. T. H. War- ren & Co., liave been made agents for tle company. * ok x During a fog in Delaware bay re- cently the Atlantic Refining Co.’s tanker, J. C.. Donnett, largest of the fleet. went ashore at Dan Baker’s shoals with little damage. ei ae The Sun Oil Co.’s_ tank PARAGUAY, recently was drydocked at the Chester, Pa., yard of the Sun Ship- building Co. for painting and repairs. Ok Ok Philadelphia steamship transatlantic hookings are numerous while transpacific tours are fewer. There has been a_ noticeable increase in Mediterranean voyages. Ac- cording to representatives of the Interna- tional Mercantile Marine Co., at Phila- delphia, transatlantic business looks brighter than at any time since before the war. offices report particularly ** ok bs The most significant feature of the coastwise trade at Philadelphia - during January was the increase in the regular line ships arriving and clearing. The total in that month was 126 vessels with a tonnage of 266,378 as against 73 in January, 1921 with a tonnage of 148,794. ee In the Delaware river the following gas buoys have replaced the winter buoys: Deep Water Point Range, gas buoy, 2D; Listons Range gas and hell buoy, 2I.; and Ben Davis Point Shoal gas and bell buoy, 16. * ok Ok With the coming of spring, Boston is to see the resumption of the old Boston steamship, -