Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Marine Review (Cleveland, OH), July 1922, p. 299

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July, 1922 and South Atlantic. Ports. served in West Indies. No regular port for loading and discharging. Williams Steamship Co. Inc., 11 Moore St., New York. Line—W illiams foreign countries— Line. Operating manager—P. A. Dwyer. Freight manager—J. A. Wells. Ships owned—4; net tonnage—l4,- 000. Vessels operated—2; net tons—5300. Home port—New York. ; Ports served in United States—New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk,. Balti- more, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Seattle; Tacoma, Wash., Gray’s Harbor, Wash., Oakland: Cala. San: ‘Diego; Calif. Ports served in foreign countries— Victoria, B. C. and Vancouver, . B. C. Henry Wilson, 110 Market street, San Francisco. Line—Wilson Line. Operating manager—F. A. Wilson. Freight manager—F. A. Wilson. Ships owned—3; net tonnage—3000. Home port—San Francisco. Ports served in United States—Pa- cific Coast Ports. Yellowstone Navigation Co., 430 San- some street, San Francisco. Line—Arrow Line. Operating manager — Swayne & Hoyt, Inc. Manager—Charles E. Brown. Passenger ships owned nage—456. Home port—San Francisco. Ports served in United States—San Francisco, Coos Bay, Oregon, and Southern California. 1; net ton- Assigned Shipping Board Vessels 8360 tons. Assigned Mallory Transport Lines, Inc., Baltimore, managing agents, for their Gulf-North Atlantic-South and East Afric: service. Hammac (tanker), 9980 tons. Assigned MecAllis- ter Bros., New York, managing operator. Orleans-Philadelphia. SHoovrers. IS_anp, EasreRN Crown, New- 7249 tons. Assigned ©. H. Sprague & Son, Boston, managing agent. Montreal- Scandinavian service. SAHALE, 7825 tons. Assigned Export Transporta- tion Co., Ine., Baltimore, managing agent. Balti- more-London service, HINCKLEY, 7433 tons. Assigned C. H. Sprague & Son, Boston, managing agent. Baltimore-Boston- Baltic-Scandinavian service. EASTERN OCEAN, 9052 tons. Assigned Cosmo- politan Shipping Co., New York, managing agent. New York-Havre-Dunkirk. Restoration of $330,000 in the annual army supply bill for the Mississippi-War- rior service by the senate after its reduc- tion to $30,000 by the house is consid- ered at New Orleans to mean the turning point for the barges in the implied recog- nition of their value. MARINE REV PEW Change Great Lakes Built Freighter to Oil Burner The Lakes Great the has PLANT, a owned by steamer CorTrron built Lumber freighter Go. converted Pacific San Francisco, fr Om sa scOadL. the Installation recently been burner for use in lumber the . Pacific oil burning equipment was car- the Baltimore Dry Docks 3altimore, of the Bethlehem Ship- Core. data: The equipment selected is the complete Bethlehem-Dahl mechanical system. The Cotron PLANT was built for the shipping board in 1919 by the Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich., and was recently purchased by the Pacific to an oil trade coast. of the ried plant, building on out by OCEAN FREIGHTER company. Her principal dimensions are: Length, 253 feet 4 inches; beam, 43 feet 7 inches; depth, 24 feet 5 inches; capaci- ty,. 4140 deadweight .tons; speed, 10 knots; boilers, 2 Scotch, 13 feet 6 inches x 11 feet; engine, 1 three-cylinder triple- expansion. Obituaries Capt. David Howard Tribou who was long stationed as a chaplain at the navy recently 1848, chaplain in yard, Charlestown, Mass., died at Philadelphia. He 1872 was appointed President Grant. was born in and in the navy by During Captain Con- LAN- service as chaplain the COLORADO, PoWHATTAN, Iowa and WIscon- his long Tribou served on GRESS, | HARTFORD, CASTER, NEW York, SIN, and at various times was _ stationad at the North Atlantic, Mediterranean, 299 South Atlantic and Pacific naval stations. William F. age 70 years senior member of Ross & Heyn. New Orleans, and for many years the foremost : figure the agents of New Orleans, died, recently at Bay St. Louis, Miss. Mr. ‘Ross was active in all the larger affairs of:.the port of New Or- leans for nearly. 50 years and was one Ross, among steamship ot the chief advocates of 35 feet of water in. Southwest pass im the Mississippi.. Approves Ocean Ore Ships E. G. Grace, president of the Beth- _ Steel Corp. in a letter to the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater as- sociation, said the question of build- ing ore carrying ships ocean lehem for sery- TONPLANT cot BUILT ON THE GREAT LAKES WHICH HAS JUST BEEN CONVERTED TO AN OIL BURNER ice presents no difficult problems, as his company’s experience has taught it in the fleet which it is operating between Cuba and the United States. It would seem that the transportation of ore from the upper lakes to the seaboard ports in. vessels should be considerably cheaper than the part vessel and part railroad method, which is now neces- sary, he concluded. Lake Michigan Receipts Receipts of ore at Lake Michigan ports for May were 309,302 gross tons, as shown in the following record by ports: Port Gross tons South : Chicago. Jlo.26 foi nse or ee 174,647 Bast: Jordan; Michi... ae es Seo eo en ee Boyne: Gity,. Mich... theo Sec Cee Whi iwaukeeea es ceo yc ek wh She gc el oe poses IndianasHarbor, “indy si.3 > eet eee 134,655 Gary, Vande sis causes sta derebline yas Syd wee Oo ad Potals: SOc cteee eu e ee ce nk Ae aa 309,302

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