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March, 1916 orders up to $8,000,000. The Norwegian Ship Building Co. has two of its new vessels partially finished on the ways. Six new additional ways are now being constructed in order that the new work may progress immediately. Around the Golden Gate HE Oakland estuary is fast be- : coming a ship building industrial center following the greatly in- creased demand for vessels for use in coastwise and offshore shipping. The purchase of the United Engineering Co. works by the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, means that a great deal of money will be spent in enlarg- ing this already well equipped institu- tion. Moore & Scott have gone after some big building contracts and at the present time ,have two big freighters un- der way, the contracts running up around the million-dollar mark. of these boats is for the Rolph Coal & Navigation Co. and is to be a sistef ship of ANNETTE RoipH, now under construction at another yard. She will be a steel steamer, 376 feet long, with a tonnage of 9,350. Moore & Scott also landed a contract. to construct a 7,100-ton steamer along the lines oi the Rolph boat, for a Norwegian firm, represented by Geo. W. McNear, San Francisco. a ook Another ship building plant is pro- posed for Oakland and the promoters have been granted permission by the state commissioner of corporations to sell stock in a company capitalized at $600,000, J... J. «Barnes, of the J. D. Barnes Co., San Francisco, which is backing the new proposition, state that half the stock has already been sub- scribed. The companv contemplates the purchase of 14 acres in the Oakland estuary for $75,000 and to construct on its ways and machine shops with: a capacity of turning out steamers up to 4,000 tons. It has been reported that an eastern syndicate, capitalized at $25,000,000, pro- poses to construct a plant along the estuary within the present year. The new corporation is said to be an out- growth of the Standard Ship Building Corporation, New York, recently formed. Negotiations are said to be progressing favorably. 4k e A number of the coastwise lumber carriers which on account of the stag- nation in the lumber industry were diverted to other lines of shipping, are now being withdrawn and put back into their regular service. One of the notable instances was the steel steamer Nann SmitH, owned by the C. A. Smith Lumber Co., and used in the run between Coos Bay and San Fran- cisco. She had made two trips in the Chilean nitrate trade under charter to W. R. Grace & Co. * *K OF The demand for bottoms to carry a largely increasing trade to West Mex- ican and Central American ports from San Francisco, has resulted in the chartering of the North Pacific Coast steamer GrorcE W. ELprer, by the Cali- fornia South Seas Transportation Co., to be added to its fleet of seven vessels. This company organized during the past year, has seen a large business built up. One . THE MARINE REVIEW 119 By Hollis F. Bennett HE British steamship SrncGApore, outward bound for Glasgow, ran ashore inside Smith’s Point, at the mouth of the Potomac, Jan. 11, but was floated the next day. and proceeded tosea. The ship is peported undamaged. * The British steamship PrerstriEtp, bound from Tyne, England, for Balti- more, ran aground outside the Virginia capes, Jan. 13. A wrecking steamer from Norfolk managed to release her without material damage. PReEISTFIELD is chartered to load grain for European ports, and is owned by the Peareth Steamship Co., Newcastle. She was built in 1901, and is of 4033 gross tons register, aes Cee The first full cargo of grain from the recently completed concrete elevator of the Western Maryland Railroad at Port Covington, was recently loaded into the Danish Steamship Tusporc. Tu- BorG took 14,000 quarters, consigned to Copenhagen. She was followed by the British steamship GLENRAZAN, which took a full cargo for British ports. This is the initial venture of the Western Maryland Railroad in grain shipments. Previously, all grain from Baltimore was handled by the Baltimore & Ohio and the Northern Central Railroads. *k For the first time in Baltimore’s his- tory, coal has been brought to that port for local consumption. Owing to the freight embargo on several of the railroads, the Maryland Steel Co. was forced to get coal from Norfolk. The tug DAUNTLEss brought in the first con- Im New York signment, in the barges J. H. MaRrvILL, SaFrety and C. T. Rowianp. The fleet of tugs and barges owned and operated by the Consolidated Coal Co. have been forced for the first time in many years to load at Norfolk. Pie ORC EM Col. John Biddle, U. S. Engineer in charge of the Baltimore district, re- cently went to Crisfield to hear argu- ments in regard to improving the chan- nel approaches to Pocomoke City on the eastern shore of the bay. The hear- ing was requested by the Pocomoke board of trade. Hes Me Wreckers are pumping out and float- ing the hull of the steamer Trvott, which was burned and beached near Thomas point. The hull will be brought to Baltimore and will be converted into a barge. OR Baltimore longshoremen recently went on strike for an increase of wages, and for some days the situation was serious. The disagreement was settled and the men returned to work, having been ac- tually out for one fay. * The British steamship GorpaANn CasTLe, which arrived at Baltimore recently from Bombay and Cape Town, brought a large quantity of bullion and other valu- ables, which were transhipped to Can- ada. A heavy guard was kept on GorpAN CastLE while in port until the valuable cargo was discharged. Two British cruisers convoyed the ship across the Atlantic, leaving her at the Vir- ginia capes. larbor By George Nicholson HE former steamer lighter HELEN M. Fietps, built a few years ago in 1904 for Arbuckle Bros., and a_ vessel of 321 gross tons, and which recently had been purchased by the Anglo-Ameri- can QOil Co., has been rebuilt into a tug, and her name changed to Lima- LIGHT. She steamed for Talara, Peru, via the Panama canal, a few days ago and will serve as station boat on Talara bay under the Peruvian flag. ee inal A new coastwise transporting service was started in January by the Cullen Transportation Co. Six barges are to be employed in this service, and the first of these, the CATHERINE W. CULLEN, 2,000 tons, was built by the Walter Moore Dry Dock Co., Baltimore, Md. The other barges will be completed shortly. oe eo Until the permanent opening of the Panama canal, the Atlantic Transporta- tion Line will put the four steamers recently purchased from the Pacific Mail Co., together with FinLtanp and KRooNLAND, under the American flag in the New York-London trade. Hee eke The five-masted schooner Kineo has been purchased by the Texas Co. for $85,000 and will be converted into an auxiliary motor ship by the installation of two 320 horsepower Bolinders hot bulb engines, driving twin screws. She is a vessel of 2,128 gross tons, 259 feet, five inches long, and built at Bath, Me., in 1903. ee oa The new Munson Line steamer Mun- AMAR, built by the Maryland Steel Co., Sparrow’s point, Md. was_ recently placed in service. ee An excellent indication of the value of tonnage at the- present time: was shown by the recent sale of the Clyde liner NAvVAHOE. The steamer NAvVAHOE, which at one time was owned by the Clyde line, was recently sold to Hart- field, Solari & Co. for $60,000, and re- sold later to R. Lawrence Smith for $120,000. The vessel is now at Bermuda with a cracked cylinder head, having put in there while on a voyage to Italy. An offer of $140,000 has been made for the vessel, delivered at New York. Her cargo will be forwarded to its destina- tion by the bark ANNA Maria _ pD’ABUNDO. NAVAHOE was formerly the THuRINGA, and was built at Hamburg, Germany, in 1880. ee ae Four steel barges belonging to J. B. King & Co. and which have been