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June, 1915 the tourist sees lying off the river, laden with produce as he makes the Sunday excursion to Greenwich is very soon sent home. One _ who knows the port of London best tells us some interesting facts anent the place. x “ihe ‘port’ of London;” ‘he. says, “beginning officially at Teddington Lock but. practically at London bridge, extends to the mouth of the Thames opposite the Isle of Sheppy, and is actually occupied by shipping nearly all the way to Tilbury docks. About one-fifth of the total shipping annually entering the United King- dom enters London. The imports of London are about one-third and the exports about one-fourth of the total of the kingdom. “Immediately below. London Bridge begins the pool, which is held to end at Limehouse basin. Ships bearing the produce of every nation under the sun here discharge their cargoes, which, previous to sale, are stored, subject to customs, in large bonded warehouses, mostly in the docks. Be- low these warehouses, which form small towns of themselves and extend in long rows along the banks of the Thames, are extensive cellars for wine, oil, etc., while above ground are huge magazines, landing stages, packing yards, cranes and every kind of apparatus necessary for loading, unloading and custody of goods. The docks have hitherto been owned by various private stock companies. THE MARINE REVIEW “Some size of the magnitude of these docks is given by concrete fig- ures. To the east of the tower, for one, and separated from it by a single street are the St. Katherine docks, opened in 1828 and covering an area of 23 acres, on which 1,250 houses with 11,300 inhabitants for- merly stood. The engineer was the great Telford and the architect, Hard- wick. The docks admit vessels up to 250 feet in length and 24 feet draught, while the warehouses from latest figures obtainable will hold 110,000 tons of goods. St. Katherine’s steamboat wharf, adjoining the docks, is used mainly as a landing stage for steamers from the continent. London Docks “London docks themselves, off to _ the east of St, Katherine’s docks, were ' constructed in 1805 at a cost of £400,- 000 ‘and cover an area of 100° acres. They have three entrances from the Thames and contain water room for about 400 vessels, exclusive of lighters. Their warehouses can store from 170,- 000 to 260,000 tons of goods, accord- ing to description, and their cellars 121,000 pipes of wine. At times up- wards of 3,000 men are employed at these docks in one day. Every morn- ing at 6 o’clock there may be seen waiting at the principal entrance a large and motley crowd of laborers, to which numerous dusky visages and foreign costumes impart a curious and picturesque air. The door in the east 195 angle of the docks, To the Kiln, in- formant tells us, leads to a furnace in which adulterated tea and _ tobacco, spurious gold and silver wares and other confiscated goods used to be burned. The long chimney is jest- ingly. called | the “King’s “Tobacco Pipe’.” A leading compiler of cicerones speaks as follows of the London docks: “Nothing will convey to. the stranger a better idea of the vast and stupendous wealth of London than a visit to these warehouses, filled to overflowing with interminable stores of every kind of foreign and colonial products; to these enormous vaults, with their apparently inexhaustible quantities of wine and to these ex- tensive quays and landing stages, cumbered with huge stacks‘ of hides, heaps of bales and long’:tows of Caskey ee 7 Se ae “The public are freely admitted to the quays, but visitors should be on guard against accidents. from _ the working operations always going on at the, docks. “Access to the warehouses and sheds is limited to persons having business there. Those who wish to taste the wines must procure a tasting order, as it is called, from a wine merchant”; and the solicitous guide to the London docks concludes with the note that “visitors should beware of the insidious effects of tasting in the heavy vinous atmosphere!” The Moreno is a First-Class Fighting Craft Having a Formid- able Battery and High Speed—Driven by Curtis Turbines HE Argentine battleship Moreno recently completed by the New York Ship Building Co., Cam- den, N. J., for the Argentine Republic is of the following dimensions : ener over. valli. oss.) aaaees 594 ft. 9 in. HEAR b She. cei tite , Tras 98 ft. Oin. Depth, to upper ‘deck....:..... 42 ft. Oin. Normal load draught........... DTG coy iil. Displacement; 23.5): fete.) 8 oh ets The protection consists of a main belt of armor 12 inches thick, for about 250 feet amidships, and 10 inches thick to the forward and after 12-inch turrets. This armor extends from 5 feet ll inches above, to 3 feet 3%4 inches below the water line, at normal thickness, and then tapers to a thickness of 5 inches at 5 feet 11 inches below the water line. The belt armor forward of the forward 12-inch turret reduces to 6 inches and 5 inches and that aft of the after 12-inch turret, to 4 inches. Above the main belt, the armor is 9 inches thick at the bottom, tapering to 8 inches at the upper deck, from the forward to the after 12-inch turrets, reducing to 5 inches and 4 inches forward. Trans- verse armor of 8 inches and 6 inches thickness is fitted at the ends of the 10-inch main belt, connecting to the for- ward and after barbettes. On the upper deck is built the citadel of 6-inch armor, extending from the forward 12-inch turret to the after amidship 12-inch turret, in which are mounted twelve 6-inch guns. The barbette is 9 inches thick above the level of the belt armor, and 3 inches thick below. The forward conning tower is of 12- inch and the aft one of 9-inch armor. On top of the conning towers are -mounted fire control turrets of 8-inch and 7-inch: armor. Amidships, are lo- cated two secondary fire control towers of 6-inch armor, on which are mounted tubular masts. These masts are con- nected by a bridge, and support plat- forms for searchlights. To them are also: connected the cranes for raising and lowering the small boats carried on the superstructure deck. Further protection is afforded by nickel steel decks and bulkheads, while the magazines, boiler and engine rooms are protected from torpedoes and mines by nickel steel decks and _ bulkheads, which, with the inner bottom and outer shell, form a third skin to the vessel. Additional protection against torpe- does is afforded by a torpedo net, cov- ering practically the entire length of the vessel. The main battery consists of twelve 12-inch guns, of 50 calibres, mounted in pairs in six turrets. The turrets are located two on the center line at the bow, one on the starboard side just for- ward of amidships, one on the port side just aft of amidships, and two on the