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June, 1915 The War and Shipping British and German shipping has suf- fered considerably as a result of the war, that is the trading ships apart from men of war. The total German trading tonnage is about one-fourth that of the British and as the latter has the command of the sea, Great Britain has been able to inflict very considerable loss on her foe. At the commencement of December the results of 16 weeks of warfare have been ascertained to be as follows. The details given below show at a glance what the words hold- ing the ocean highways really mean. The statement is limited to steamships of over 100 tons gross of which at the commencement of the war Great Britain possessed 10,123 of a total gross tonnage of 20,523,706 and Germany 2,090, aggre- gating 5,134,720 tons gross. The aver- age tonnage of the British trading fleet is 2,027 tons, and of the German 2,450 tons, the Germans have therefore a rela- tively larger number of vessels of big ' tonnage. Briefly the present positions and respective losses have been as fol- lows: GREAT BRITAIN Captured, detained Total at German vessels. ports. Plying. No. of trad’g : vessels .... 10,123 195 9,928 Gross tonnage 20,523,706 587,635 19,936,071 Perc’t. of No. 100 1.9 98.1 Perc. of ton.. 100 2.9 irfeal GERMANY No. of trad’g vessels... 2,090 1,221 869 Gross tonnage 5,134,720 4,584,926 549,794 Pere’t: of: - No: 100 58.4 41.6 Perc. of ton.. 100 89.3 10.7 The following schedule gives particu- lars of the vessels captured or detained: BRITISH MOAN EMRE donc iisis ec ciate arc eceeire ee eis ate nine Bil Detained in German (ports. 0... .6s.0.00 75 Help up in Baltic and Black Sea....... 71 ROA leibese Miasce cues cious Cie seats & Weietes where eens 197 GERMAN ‘CHG ORR eee Lng aaNet a Rape OEE Le at Fee tan 80 Detained in British or Allied ports..... 166 Seeking refuge in neutral ports......... 646 Mie Gecmianie portsdicc ss veces ea svoie fa ccs 329 MP Oban se Man tr Ve eRe Cale See Searle 1,221 It will be noted that the whole of British ships not captured or detained, Tepresenting 98.1 per cent of the total and 97.1 per cent of the aggregate ton- Mage are keeping the seas. While of 869 German ships not captured or ‘detained, only ten are known to be at sea. German ships over 500 tons not accounted for 125, steam trawlers not accounted for, 353; small coasters not accounted for 381. Total of these 869. The Inter-Island Steamship Co. has purchased 35 acres of property front- ing on the proposed Kalihi channel at Hawaii and will construct a com- plete plant consisting of ships, ware- houses and docks. . The cost of the Property was $340,000. THE MARINE REVIEW Albert Lloyd Hopkins Among the persons who lost their lives in the sinking of the Cunard liner Lusitania by a German sub- marine off the coast of Ireland, was Albert Lloyd Hopkins, president of the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co. His loss is very keenly felt throughout the whole shipbuild- ing industry. His friends were legion and no finer personality followed the profession, Mr. Hopkins was born Sept. 7, 1871, at Glens Falls, N. Y. His: early life was spent at Glens Falls and in Troy, N. Y. In 1888 he entered the Rensse- laer Polytechnic Institute in the course of civil engineering and graduated with high honors in 1892. The direc- tor: or - the “institute ~.said. of “him: ALBERT LLOYD HOPKINS About 10°. per cent of those who apply are admitted to the institute. About 20 per cent of those admitted are graduated and among these once in a while we find a Hopkins.” Shortly after his graduation Mr. Hopkins was appointed to a position in the bureau of construction and repair, navy department, Washington, and about 18 months later was trans- ferred to Newport News as a member of the staff of Naval Constructor J. J. Woodward. In the summer of 1897, Mr. Hopkins was transferred from Naval Constructor Woodward’s office and assigned to the graduate school of naval architecture in the United States Naval Academy, at which place he was an instructor and lecturer on naval architecture and ship construc- ager. 227 tion. At the outbreak of the Spanish war in April, 1898, Mr. Hopkins was assigned to the naval station at Key West, Fla., the nearest station to the blockading fleet operating in Cuban waters. While at Key West, Mr. Hop- kins was in charge of all the con- struction and repair work done for the fleet at that station. He was also active in improving the efficiency of the plant, installing much new equip- ment and rendering it capable of serv- ing as a repair station for naval pur- poses. It was while engaged in this work that Mr. Hopkins received from W. A. Post, general superintendent of the shipyard, an offer to return to New- port News. He accepted the position of personal assistant to Mr. Post in August, 1898. In this capacity Mr. Hopkins achieved a most enviable reputation and when Mr. Post was made general manager of the company in 1905, Mr. Hopkins was appointed assistant general manager and in 1911 when Mr. Post succeeded to the pres- idency on the — death, of -@ = B. Orcutt, Mr. Hopkins was made man- Upon the death of Mr. Post in February, 1912, Mr. Hopkins was elected vice president and became the chief executive officer of the com- pany with headquarters in New York. This opened up an entirely new line of work as it’ carried «him among bankers, lawyers and men of large affairs, but he was more than equal to it and the impression that he created was deep and lasting. He was made president of the company in March, 1914. Mr. Hopkins was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Naval Engineers, Society of Naval Architects and Ma- rine Engineers, and the American Academy of Political and Social Sci- ence. In June, 1906, Mr. Hopkins was married to Miss: May Davies, of Chase City, Va., who with her daugh- ter, May Davies Hopkins, survives him. Mr. Hopkins is also survived by his mother, of Glens Falls, N. Y., and his brother, Charles E. Hopkins, of Hudson, N. Y. His father, Stephen De Forrest Hopkins, died at his home in Glens Falls, May 1, 1915, only a few hours after his son sailed on his ill-fated voyage. Cramp’s, Philadelphia, have just re- ceived orders for the construction of three new steamships, one a _ 10,000- ton oil tanker from the Huestica Oil Co., of New York, and two general cargo carriers for W. R. Grace & Co., New York, to ply in the Atlantic- Pacific trade via the Panama canal.