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September, 1922 McAllister Heads Ship Cost Committee C. A. McAllister, vice president of ‘the American Bureau of Shipping, has ‘accepted appointment as chairman of ‘a committee to review present fuel prac- ‘tices and study burning equipment «and recommend improvements for shipping board vessels. In a letter to Joseph E. Sheedy, acting vice president of the Em- ‘ergency Fleet corporation, Captain Mc- Allister says: “As this “is a subject to “which. 1 have given a great deal of attention, ‘and have been advocating for years, it gives me great: pleasure to accept ‘the appointment as a member and I am also willing to serve as chairman ‘of the committee, in accordance with “your request. “As soon as I am advised by you as to the members to represent the American Society of Mechanical En- gineers, and the ~ Marine Engineers’ ‘Beneficial’ association, I will imme- diately call the committee together -and begin work. In the meantime, I ‘will ‘start preliminary work on such lyelevant matters’ as can: be.°ac- complished before the committee meets. “IT wish to congratulate you on the step you have taken in the authoriza- tion of this committee. As the cost of fuel is the largest single item in ship operation, this should mark an epoch in shipping, as the subject of fuel burning economy heretofore has been given but little scientific atten- tion. This applies not alone to Amer- ican ships, but to the ships of the world. I, therefore, hope that our ‘committee will be able to accomplish much for the ‘benefit of American shipping.” Shipping Firm Bankrupt Bankruptcy schedules were filed recently by the Caribbean Steamship Co., Ltd., 10 Bridge street, New York, showing liabili- ties of $743,047 and assets of $530,307. Assets include: $431,390 in shipping, $52,926 in accounts and $40,000 in securities. Cred- itors include the Terminal Dock Co., $186,- 695; the shipping board, $68,367; and the Atlantic Basin Iron Works, $14,853. Import Antipod ean Coal End of the strike of miners in the Newcastle, N. S. W., collieries, which has been going on since July 3, and the coincident railroad and coal strikes in the United States, have brought out a demand for ships to handle coal from the Antipodean collieries to California ports. Mayor James Rolph Jr., of James MARINE REVIEW Rolph & Co., San Francisco, announced at the end of July that his firm had chartered the steamer Hottywoop, from Swayne & Hoyt, to load coal at’ New- castle for delivery in San Francisco. The -freighter West Isiip, chartered by the Rolph company from the shipping board, ‘began loading 6000 tons of coal at New- castle, N. S. W., immediately on an- -‘noucement of the settlement of the strike, for delivery in San Francisco. The ‘Union Steamship Co., J, J. Moore & Co., and W. L. Comyn & Co., also have ships loading: with coal at Newcastle for San Francisco. Fogs: Cause Loss of Two Ships in Collision Dense fog was the direct cause of two disastrous marine mishaps on the north Pacific coast recently. On July 16, the intercoastal liner Harry LuckenBacu rammed and sank the steel freighter Henry T. Scorr, operated between Cali- fornia and Puget sound. The collision took place inside Cape Flattery, the LucK- ENBACH being outbound and the Scorr enroute to Puget sound ports. ‘The Scorr sank so quickly that six members of the crew lost their lives, among them being Chief Engineer T. W. C. Spencer, one of the best known men in his profession on the coast. Mr. Spencer was formerly chief of the Great NortHern. The Scorr was owned by Fred Linderman, San Fran- cisco, and was valued at $300,000. She was especially well adapted for lumber carrying. The wreck'lies in such deep water that salvage is out of the question. On July 27, just outside Seattle har- bor, the Japanese steamer Hawair Maru, of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, sank the local wood steamer Carista, whose 70 passengers and crew escaped without in- jury. The Carista sank quickly and will be a total loss.) The Hawai Maru was uninjured and proceeded for Oriental ports the same day. German Dividends Higher Drop in the value of the mark, dur- ing the past year led to increases in the rate of dividends declared by Ger- man shipping companies. Word from Berlin shows that the Hamburg-South American line paid 28 per cent in 1921 against 16 per cent in 1920. Both the Hamburg-American and North Ger- man Lloyd paid 10 per cent against 8 per cent the year previous. The Ham- burg and Bremen African line paid 15 per cent against 10 per cent in 1920. Eleven German shipping companies paid in 1921 an average dividend of 15° per cent against 12 per cent: in 1920. 373 Fire Apparatus Builders : Are Consolid ated , The Foamite-Childs Corp. has been formed, by the merger of the Foamite Co., 151 Fifth avenue, New York, and the O. J. Childs Co., Inc, Utica, N. Y., and executive offices have been established in Utica. The Childs company, . manu- ‘facturer of chemical and motor fire’ ap- paratus since 1896, has been manufactur- ing portable devices. for the Foamite company for several years. Under the merger, all departments individual with each company, will be consolidated with the other. | : Officers of the new company have been elected as follows: President, W. J. Childs; vice president, F. -M. Watters: secretary, “E. Janeway; treasurer, F._ J. Maginniss; and director in charge of sales, James C. Paterson. —_——. Bea gned Shipping Board Vessels West O’Rowa, 8388 tons. Assigned Columbia Pacific Shipping Co., managing agent. West Cayorn, 8542 tons. Assigned Columbia Ship, ing Co., Portland, Oreg. Portland-Far East service. PRESIDENT PieRcE, 12,077 tons. Assigned Pacific Mail Steamship Co., San Francisco. San Francisco- Tar East service. - PRESIDENT Tarr, 12,044 tons. Assigned Pacific Mail Steamship Co., San Francisco. San Francisco- Far East service. EASTERN GLEN, S520 tons. Assigned Mallory Transport Lines, Inc., New York. South and East African service. : Contorapo Springs, 9996 tons. Assigned S. Sgitovich & Co., Galveston, Tex. Galveston-Havre- Antwerp service. INVINCIBLE, 11,868 tons, & Co., Galveston, Tex. service. Assigned 8, Sgitovich Galveston-Havre- Antwerp PRESIDENT JEFFERSON, 11,442 tons. Assigned Pacific Steamship Co. indefinitely instead of for one voyage only. VINCENT, 9776 tons. Assigned Cosmopolitan Shipping Co. indefinitely instead of for one voyage only. Diesel Engined Yacht on | Trial Trip ‘Trial trip of the yacht CyNTHIA was completed successfully on July 20. She was built by the Todd Shipyards Corp., New York, for Commodore Merrill B. Mills, Detroit. The yacht is a twin screw, diesel engined vessel, 129 feet in length over all, 26 feet beam and 6 feet 6 inches draft. Her main propelling machinery consists of two diesel type, 6-cylinder, 4-cycle engines manufactured by the Winton Engine Co., Cleveland. Each ‘engine develops 225 brake horse- power. The yacht has a cruising radius of 4000 miles with a designed speed of 12 knots. Her owner will use the Cyn- THIA both in northern and southern waters.