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September, 1915 been fixed to load coal at Newport News for Pernambuco at $7.50 per ton. This: <1s Manson’s second voyage to that port, the schooner having left Newport News last Feb- ruary. She is commanded by Capt. G. W. Torrey. The five-masted schooner Hreten W. Martin will be transferred to Russian registry, the vessel having recently been sold by Percy & Small of Bath, Me., to Russian interests. For 15 years the schooner was employed in the coal trade between Chesapeake Bay and New England ports. Her new hailing port is Archangel. Rumor says that the vessel will load war munitions at New York. The coast guard cutter OssiPEE, recently commissioned, will take the place of the cutter Woopsury along the coast of Maine with headquarters at Portland. WoopsBury has been in active service nearly 50 years and ' will be sold by the government. The officers and crew have been transferred to OssIPEE. Probably the last aid rendered by Woopzsury was in the floating of the sloop yacht Huskie II froma reef at Cape Porpoise, Me., early last month. Arrangements for a shipment of. refined sugar from Boston to France have been com- pleted though the name of the steamer and date of sailing has not been announced. A shipment of this nature is so unusual as to occasion considerable comment in local ship- ping circles. The ship will load at the American Sugar Refining Co.’s pier. Doubt is expressed whether the drillboat Rockport, owned by the Eastern Dredging Co., will be raised from depth of 22 fathoms off Stonington, Me. The craft broke away during a southeaster. A fleet of steamships has been chartered to load sisal fibre at Yucatan for Plymouth, Mass., and Boston. Recent reports. stated that ten vessels were awaiting a loading berth at the Mexican port, only one being accommo- dated at a time. Much of the fibre will be manufactured into binder twine which is, being exported in large quantities. Boston interests have purchased the lake- built steamer Maroa which is now due at Boston and will be operated in the -coastwise coal trade. The ship was dismembered, tugs taking the sections through the Welland Canal. Matoa was built in Cleveland in 1890; she is 290.6 feet long and _ registers 2,311 gross tons. Another lake-built steamer, Lansinc, has been rebuilt at expense of $50,000 and is engaged in the coal trade in command of Capt. Fletcher, formerly in the Steamer J. O. ELLIson. LANSING is now owned by Victor Heath of Boston. She was brought to the coast more than a year ago by C. W. Morse and was laid up at Bath, Me., for a long time. The tug Perrat, Capt. Decker, has been secured to tow several lake-built steamers from Montreal to Boston, a distance of about 1,400 miles. Prrrat will replenish bunkers at Louisburg, C. B. Capt. John Rawding, one of the best-known masters in the merchant service, died July 21, at his home in Melrose, Mass. He began his Seafaring career in square-riggers, having been in command of the barks Netiie SLavDE and Rost Inness. He then made many voy- ages in the schooner Exten Littte. Giving up sailing Capt. Rawding recently accepted the berth of chief officer on the steamer EpwarpD THE MARINE REVIEW Peirce while awaiting command of a steamer. He was stricken at Baltimore but returned home ten days before his death. For 12 years Capt. Rawding had been employed by Crowell & Thurlow of Boston. He was 43 years old and is survived by a wife and one daughter. Three of his four brothers are master mariners. : Rowe Brothers, of Boston, have purchased the steam lighter Cornetia from New York parties and will operate the vessel in the sand trade between Ipswich, Mass., and Bos- ton. Cornerra is twin screw and_ registers 285 gross tons. She will be thoroughly overhauled before entering the new service. Capt. Bener of the steam lighter EurexKa brought Cornetta from New York. The naval collier Proteus recently arrived at the Boston Navy yard for repairs to her propeller shaft and a cargo of 10,000 tons of coal, loaded at Norfolk for Manila, was dis- charged to lighten the ship so she might be floated: into dry dock. Owing to, dull business the Plant Line has discontinued its service between Hawkesbury and Charlottetown, P. E. I., and the steamer Harirax has been laid up. The condition is attributed to hard times resulting from the war. Steamers operating between’ Boston and Up and I 355 Yarmouth, N. S., are doing a fair business though passenger traffic falls considerably short of expectations. Reports that German sub- marines might be ordered to this side to prey on British merchantmen is held responsible for many persons abandoning a trip to and from the Provinces. Experiments with a new wireless system Fave been conducted on board the steamer Howarp of the Merchant’ & Miners’ Line, the inventor’s idea being to store current for lighting in addition to a reserve required by the apparatus. Included in the party were F. A. Kloster, of the Bureau of Standards; C. J. Parnell, of the Bureau of Equipment; W. L. Murray, Marconi expert, and H.. L. Davidson, an Edison storage battery expert. ‘ That the Cape Cod Canal may be safely navigated by small battleships is the belief of Capt. Ned Evans who recently brought the tug Iwana through the waterway while bound to Boston, from Newport, R. I. The canal has depth of about 25 feet and dredges are at work for. still deeper water. Traffic includes yachts and merchant vessels of moderate draft. Tolls were recently reduced. The company has invited the New York Yacht Club’s cruising fleet to make use of the canal, gratis, on occasion of the visit to Marblehead this month. down the Lakes By F. A. Churchill Jr. HE big coal dock owned by James Playfair at Midland, Georgian Bay, Ont., has been put in commission, the steamer GLENSHEE being the first ves- sel unloaded. The dock is 1,400 feet long and 360 feet deep. Its equipment consists of two bridges, each carrying a 2-ton clamshell. * * * A new buoy, to be known as East Alpena channel gas buoy No. 1, has been placed at the west side of the outer end of the dredged cut near the docks of the Michigan Alkali Co. and the Huron Portland Cement Co., at Alpena, Mich. The buoy is spar shaped and shows a white light of 120 candlepower, flashing for ten seconds with eclipses of equal duration. The South Graham shoal gas and bell buoy No. 18, in Mackinaw straits, has been changed from occulting to flashing white. The light is of 390 candlepower and flashes for 3/10-second every three seconds. * * * The steamer Geo. F. BrowNneELL, which is to go into service on the Atlantic coast, was re- cently placed in drydock at Buffalo to be cut in two for the passage of the Welland canal. * * * The largest cargo of iron ore ever received at Erie, Pa., was recently brought into that port when Wm. P. Snyper Jr. arrived with 12,400 tons from Ashland. *. * * A snowstorm in midsummer was the phe- nomena reported by Captain McLean of the steamer LAKELAND, who says his craft passed through a considerable area of snow and chilling rain on Lake Superior early in August. * * * A. stiff wind which backed up the waters of the Detroit river to a height of 2 feet, enabled several tugs to release the Northern Navigation Co.’s steamer Noronic, which went aground on Belle isle recently. * * * Captain John Knudson, 80 years old and a lake sailor for 33 years, died recently at his home in Milwaukee. * * * The steamer ALEXANDRIA, which went ashore near Toronto recently, is a total wreck, her underwriters settling on that basis. * * * Thomas S. Marriott has been named as Detroit freight agent of the Detroit & Cleve- land Navigation Co., succeeding G. G. Mc Intyre, resigned. Mr. Marriott has been in the company’s employ for 28 years. C. A, Miller, until three years ago employed by the company at Cleveland, succeeds him as chief clerk of the Detroit freight office. * * * Records of the Federal marine postoffice at Detroit show that 2,506 vessels passed through the Detroit river in July. * * * During July, 9,719,237 tons of freight were locked through the St. Mary’s canals at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. and Ont. This is an in- crease of 888,981 tons over the tonnage of July, 1914. * * * The schooner Crty oF SHEBOYGAN, on her way from Erie, Pa., to Toronto, Ont., with coal recently, caused no little worry by her non-appearance at the latter port, but after five days put in at Port Colborne with a tale of hardships endured in a series of gales which caused considerable damage to the vessel. * * * A book giving sailing directions for Canadian shores of Lake Huron and Georgian bay has just been published. Copies will be supplied to mariners free of charge on application to the hydrographic survey office, department of the naval service, Ottawa, Can. A chart of St. Joseph channel, Lake Huron, numbered 88, of the Canadian hydro- graphic survey, has just been published. Copies may be obtained from the hydro- graphic survey office, department of the naval service, Ottawa, Can.