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What the British Are Doing Short Surveys of Important Activities in Maritime | | | HE Southern railway’s £13,000,- 000 scheme for the extension of docks at Southampton has_ been started. Under the scheme 407 acres of mud will be reclaimed from the river in order to provide accommo- dation for 20 of the world’s largest liners. ; * * * * HIPBUILDING is sharing in the anticipated trade revival of 1927, and among the orders secured is one by Smith’s Dock Co. of South Bank, Tees Side for the building of three steamers for the Canadian lakes, and also for a cargo steamer of about 4000 tons. The first ship to leave the stocks in British yards this year was the ARANDOoRA, the fifth and last of the new £4,000,000 Blue Star fleet built by Cammell Laird & Co. Carry- ing only 180 passengers, all first class, this boat will help to maintain a fast fortnightly service between London and the South American ports. A fea- ture of the service will be that for a fare lower than that of the first class fare on British railways; passengers will cross the Atlantic in the enjoy- ment of accommodation surpassing HULDA oy mill TEAMSHIP companies report bulk and freight package shipping somewhat heavier in volume than in the early winter months last year. This increase is estimated on ‘the whole as about 10 per cent. The weather has been advantageous for winter shipping and thus far has re- sulted in comparatively few delays in schedule. Adverse weather during the winter months of the current season has been in the nature chiefly of high winds, with some slush ice in several of the harbors. Passenger and freight boats now are all on winter schedule. Daily service from Chicago to Milwaukee is being main- tained by the Goodrich Transit Co., while services to Muskegon and Grand Haven and also from Chicago to Centers of Island Empire that of the most luxurious hotels in the world. * a * HE Cunard liner AQUITANIA has been completely overhauled in dry dock for two months and left South- ampton on Jan. 5 on her one hundred and fourteenth voyage across the At- lantic. On the furnishing department alone 3000 men have been at work and the reconditioning included the examination of 200 miles of cable and 700 miles of electric wiring, while 90,000 porcelain insulators, 10,000 lights and 1500 bell pushes had to be attended to. The vessel accommodates 3000 to 4000 persons and has her own hospitals, recreation ground, po- lice and shops. * * * ORD GLANELY. insists that all British materials shall be used in the construction of five new steamers to be added to his Cardiff fleet. Four of the ships are to be built at Sunder- land and one at West Hartlepool. Robert Thompson & Sons Ltd., Sund- erland will build two of 9850 tons each and one of 7000 tons; William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd., Sunderland, HHT “NUUUUUURALU MUNCIE TUT AAT What s Doing Around The Lakes HUNAN NR Mn MMMM UNO Benton Harbor and Holland, Mich., are on the basis of three trips weekly. x * & T THE yards of the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corp., Manitowoc, Wis., the new steel carferry’ just completed for the Grand Trunk rail- road, was launched and christened Jan. 19. Miss Marian Dixon, daugh- ter of. George W. Dixon, one of the directors of the Grand Trunk system, christened the ferry, using a bottle of milk, symbolic of the dairy industry in Wisconsin, the leading industry of the state. * * * Aas H. VOGEL, manager of the Milwaukee division of the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Ce., has 34 one of 9400 tons, and W. Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool, one of 8800 tons. * * Es Ope of the two new British battle- ships, H. M. S. RoDNEY, author- ized under the Washington treaty is nearing completion in the yards of Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd., at Birken- head. She is expected to be ready by next summer and will be the most powerful battleship in the world. The same firm has under construction ves- sels for Elders & Fyffes Ltd., the Blue’ Star line, Alfred Holt & Co., the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co., and the Lancashire Shipping Co. * * * RITISH shipbuilders have never experienced such a bad year as 1926, many yards having been closed entirely. The coal strike effectively checked essential supplies of material and resulted in the closing of other shipyards which had a certain amount of work in hand. On the Tees only 11 ships of a gross tonnage of 40,599 were built during 1926, compared with 35 vessels with a tonnage of 111,081 in 1925. he IONIAN resigned and is succeeded by Henry J. Niederman, formerly assistant man- ager. Mr. Vogel assumed the direc- tion of the local division when the Great Lakes company took over the C. H. Starke Dredge Co., Milwaukee, in 1914, he then being president of the Starke company, with Mr. Nieder- man as assistant. B. D. Schnable, formerly assistant engineer at Chi- cago, will be assistant manager at Milwaukee, and Richard Beauvais, for- merly superintendent of marine work, is promoted to division superintendent. * 4 * HE Chicago river is regarded as of little importance as a navigable stream, and much pressure is being used for the final elimination of the bascule bridges, blamed for much of