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November, 1916 ary, made the following ports: San Francisco by way of the Straits of Magellan; Honolulu, two ports in China and two in Japan, then to Pagoumne, New Caledonia, where she loaded 8,000 tons of chrome ore for her return voyage. After discharging, GreorGiAN dry docked and was sold to Norwegian owners for a sum reported to be close to $2,000,000. * e * The Baltimore Dry Docks & Ship Building Co. has completed two col- lision damage jobs in record time dur- ing the past month. The steamship Grayson, which collided with the Dutch steamship PARKHAVEN had a new stem and 22 bow plates renewed in nine working days and the Norwegian steamship SorLAND, which collided with the steamship BRUNNEL, in the River Humber had a new stem and 24 plates fitted in 10 working days. ee ae The oil tank motor ship Rap BuLtowaA was launched by her builder, the Baltimore Dry Docks & Ship Build- ing Co., Sept. 17. RarpH BuLLowa was christened by Miss Laila Nortone, Philadelphia, and is the second of four motor-driven oil tankers building for Christopher Hannevig. The first of these tankers, BRAMMELL POINT, was purchased by the Vacuum Oil Co. and will have her finals late this month. eae The Andes Copper Co. has purchased the Baltimore & Carolina Steamship Co.’s steamship ExizapeTH WEEMS, formerly the Norwegian steamship Anita, which was wrecked on the east coast of Florida and brought to Balti- more for repairs. E1izABETH WEEMS is 1,118 gross tons, 224 feet long, 33.7 feet beam, 19.1 feet depth and was built, in Christiana, Norway, in 1906. The new owners will use ELizABETH WEEMS in coasting service between their mines on the west coast of South America. Boston Harbor By Geo. S. Hudson A fleet of steamers marily for the coal carrying trade is being built - by the Darrow, Mann Co., Boston. The first ship, Tiwewater, 9,000 tons, will be launched in November at Camden, N. J. DreEp- WATER, capacity 12,500 tons, will be put overboard early next year. The com- pany has just placed the steamer Corsica, built on the lakes, in the coast- wise service. designed pri- ek The cup defense sloop, JuBILEE, built for Gen. C. J. Paine, has been sold into merchant service and will be altered into a coal schooner with capacity of about 200 tons. JusiLer’s 40-ton lead keel has been sold for junk. The vessel was laid up 12 years at Marblehead, Mass. She will be commanded by Capt. Edward Joyce, formerly of the three- masted schooner JAMES SLATER. * * bs The Coastwise Transportation Co., Boston, has entered into a 5-year char- ter with Philadelphia parties for the steamer Surrork at $480,000 per year. The vessel will be used to carry coal from Chesapeake bay to Buenos Aires, returning to. Philadelphia with mangan- ese ore. . X* * 2 The two-masted schooner, Marcur- RITE, Captain Gayer, has been aban- doned to underwriters after having been sunk in Boston harbor, September 9, by the steam lighter Eureka. eee The Boston bark WunprusH will re- ceive $40 per 1,000 feet for a cargo of 1,350,000 feet of white pine and spruce lumber from Boston to Buenos Aires. This is said to be the largest freight rate reported since the war. In nor- mal times $8 was considered worth while. * ok * The steamer Epwarp LuUCKENBACH, largest of her type ever built in Massa- THE MARINE REVIEW : 405 chusetts, has been launched by the Fore River Ship Building Corporation for the Luckenbach line, New York. The ship is 437 feet long, 60-foot beam, with capacity of 10,000 tons dead weight. The ship will load general cargo at New York for Australia. x * - Capt. Robert Linklater, connected for years with the Bucknall Steamship Co., London, master of the steamship Kansas, died at Colombo last month. Captain Linklater was well known in Boston and New York shipping circles. | k * * Nova Scotia parties have purchased the two-masted schooner GEORGETTA LawreNce from J. C. Wilson, Bangor, Me. The vessel was built in 1869 at Brookhaven, N. Y. By F. K. Haskell HE Vancouver Shipbuilding Co. has been incorporated at Van- couver, Wash., by James Feeney, Feeney & Bremmer, contractors and boat builders. Associated with him are Hohn Steinback and R. C. Percival. The company is capitalized for $25,000 and soon will build a modern ship building plant with ways for construct- ing five wooden vessels. Enough busi- ness has already been. offered to keep the plant working at full capacity for a year. Zo *k E. P. Erckenbrack, for the past two ‘years assistant manager of the Border Line Transportation Co. and one of the best known of coast steamship men, has been appointed manager of the company with headquarters in Seattle, Wash. He succeeds A. F. Haines, who joins the Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co. in a similar capacity. ee EI The steam tug MIVERNESS was launched during the past ‘month at Eagle Harbor, Wash. The vessel, which is 65 feet in length, has engines rated at 200 horsepower and will be used for general towing in southeastern Alaska. * ok ok. Important schedule changes for the Admiral line vessels have been an- nounced by the Pacific-Alaska Naviga- tion Co. The changes are due directly to the growth of Alaskan freight busi- ness, the offerings being so plentiful that many of the steamers were de- layed through pressure of work. The sailing dates have been arbitrarily set ahead so that the regular schedule may be resumed. * Ox In preparation for a still larger in- ° crease in oriental trade via the Seattle gateway, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Japan’s greatest shipping corporation, has decided to increase its Seattle office force by the transfer of clerks from Kobe and Tokio. As the result of the inauguration of steamship service to the Atlantic coast via the Panama canal the company has decided to open its own office in New York City. Pe ae | The famous old cruiser Boston, which took part in the battle of Ma- nila, is to be stripped of her equipment at the Puget sound navy yard, and sold to the highest bidder. Boston was conveyed from the mouth of the Columbia river up the coast by the cruiser NEW ORLEANS. K * * Two big carriers of the Harrison Di- rect line, the British steamships Crown OF SEVILLE and Crown oF TOLEDO, cleared from Puget sound during the month bound for Liverpool. Servite carried upward of 3,000,000 feet of lumber and 750 tons of canned salmon. ee eee” A banquet complimentary to the ship ‘builders of the northwest who are re- . sponsible for the ship building revival on Puget sound was held during the month at the Washington hotel, Seat- . tle, Wash. * * * Capt. Peter Jordan, vice president of the Callendar Navigation Co., Astoria, Ore., and for 34 years a shipping man on the lower Columbia river, died re- cently. Captain Jordan was born in Ohio in 1857. Anchor Maneuvers (Continued from 383.) porary orlop deck was constructed with a raised level of 3 feet from the ship’s skin. In three hatches there were already pyramids of ore, when an earth and seaquake paid us a visit. The bottom of the bay was considerably disturbed as the soundings after the quake clearly proved, but the first announcement that we had was the rumbling of the anchor chains, sufficient to cause our ship to roll gently and sheer about. In the cargo holds the pyramids of loose ore were gradually leveled down by the tremor, while loose articles about the decks and cabins had the true fandango instinct of all Spanish colonies. Should you be riding out a heavy gale with both head anchors down and all chain out, go into the chain locker and rack both chains together, say 6 feet below the guide pipes of the windlass. Then should it come to the worst, if the gypsy or brake gives out, your vessel will not ‘be driven ashore.