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MARCH 15, 1900. PRESENT AND FORMER NAME. Few people, eveti attiong the number whose interests are liidiitie, HaVe dily adciifate kttowledge of the great number Of ldke vessels whicli for various teasotis ate giveti a change of Hattie by their ownets. Believing that 4 list of the Stealers aid Schoolies how sailirig under another nante ra that first bestowed will Be of intérést {6 a latgé abtiber of lake men, the Buffalo Courier; throtgh tte kihdness of Capt. Fitzpatrick of the the Clover Leaf line; prints tte names below. This list simply includes the vessels which have had a rechristening within the past ten years. Considerable red tape surrounds the matter of changing a vessel’s name. Application for a permit to do so is first made by the owner to the Collector of Customs at the vessel’s home port, and through the latter officer to the Secretary of the Treasury at Washington. A good reason for the chatige tnust be presented and the boat tuder cott- Sidetation must be perfectly free from debt. As follows is the list; the present naine of the vessel dppeatitig first it €ath inStance ; ‘ Stedttlets=A. A, Parkief was Kasota: Agnes Artiold, Bob Mills; Alpha, Shaugraum; Argo; Tyeila; . EB. Benham, E. M. Peck; Caledonia, William B. Motley; CalutHet, Lancet; Caprice, Henry Douglas; Charleston, Cate Stewart; Charles 0. Smith; Lb; S. Durage; City of Charlevoix, Chaniplain; City of Green Bay, M: ©; Hawley; City of Louisville, R. C: Reid; City of Sandusky, Jay Cooke; Cit} of the Straits, City of Detroit; Coaster, Fred Tank; Commodore, Oo. B. Green; Edward Watkins, Gen. W. W. Belknap and also Gen. A. A. Humphrey; Edward H. Jenks, E. M. Foster; Ella G, Stone, EH. L. Mason; Empire State, Sylvan Stream; Empress, Sophia; F. W. Gillett, Odd Fellow; Fannie H., Mamie; Florence Yates, Samuel H. Barons; Fritz Karste, R. Davis, G. J. Dorr, Gertrude; Gossoon, Bertie; Gov. Morton, Australia; Grace, Moti Lilly} Grace A. Ruelle, John Nice; Greyliotind, Northwest; Henty, George A. Dickson; Henry Cort, Pillsbury; Idlewild; Gtace McMilien: Isiand Belle, island Wanderer; J. C. Ames, J.C. Penett; J. H. Upham, Jr, M. R. Swan; J. S. Blazier, H. A. Ballentine; James Beatd, Wesley Hawkins; James D. Heilson, Washburn; Jesse Spaulding, Henry Marshall; John Otis, G.J. Truesdale; John Spry, May Durr; John C. Pringle; W.H. Gratwick; John E. Moote, Only Son; John H. Pauly, Thomas Kingsfofd; Lewiston, Susan E, Peck} Lizzie Madden; Chetiango; Lucille, Pick Up; McCormick, A. A. Eustophiefa; Marquette, Re- public} Mary Virginia, George W. Lormer; Maryette, Lib- erty H. Ware} Mentor, Hattie A: Fox} Monahansett, ira H. Owen; Morning Star, Athello; Munson, Two Brothers; Nettie Denessen, Schiller; Norseman, Enterprise; 0. M. Field; Cora Fuller; Pacific, Sphynx; Ald. Rocks, B. J. Moore Pathfinder, J. A. Crawford; Peter Smith, Ada; Phcenix, Waldo A. Avery} Warieka; Laura; Wayne Isabel, T. R. Merrill; Maynard, Winifried} White Star, J. Maria Scott. Schooners—Amboy, Helena; Argo, Lizzie T: Davis; Arthur, G. C. Trumpff; Canton, China; G. W. Waghtin, R. C. Craw- ford; Checotah, George D. Russell; Charles C. Buell, Erie Queen; Dan Mabee, I. M. Hill; Ebenezer, Watts Sherman; Eugenia Vesta, Russie; Eureka, Schilde; George Sturgess, Higgie & Jones; George W. Johnson, D. W. Powers; Grace Greenwood, Search; Hattie Hutt, F. B. Stockbridge; Horace Taber, Bessie & Essie; Horace A. Badger, Kate Gillett; Iron City, Daniel E. Bailey; Iron State, G.S. Hazard; J. E. Potts, Mohawk; James G. Blaine, Pensaukee; Jay Bird, Lady Essex; John C. Bauer, Planet; Lillie E., Louisa McDonald; Wissa- hickon, Edward Kean; Lizzie P. Betts, Miami Belle; Lydia HE. Raesser, Gipsey; Madeline T. Downing, Mary Copley; Massasoit, Jessie Linn; Metacomet, Iron State; Mike Corey, J. O. Thayer; Nelson Bloom, Meteor; R. Kanters, City of Woodstock; Tasmania, James Couch; Thomas Dobbie, Co- manche; Vega, St. Paul; W. W. Stewart, W. J. Spicer; Wanesho, Nabob; Wm. Brake, L. Gardner. es As A result of the passing of the deficiency appropriation bill, which allows $2, 500,000 for work on vessels, orders have been issued to resume work at the Navy Yards and many men will be employed. At the Boston Yard there are the Olympia, Topeka, Chesapeake, Vesuvius, Sterling, Pe- oria and some tugs; at Portsmouth, N. H., the Raleigh; at New York the Indiana, Massachusetts, Cincinnati and several torpedo boats; at Norfolk the Newport, Annapolis, San Francisco, Terror, Puritan, Reina Mercedes and some converted yachts and tugs; at League Island the Miantono- mah, Minneapolis, Columbia and Katahdin; at Mare Island the Boston, Philadelphia, Mohican and Alert. FOS aS 7 aay em ga EY ETS TC TERING CR DD LETS SDT LITT THE MARINE RECORD. SHIPBUILDING IN 1899. According to a consular report frotm Bremen on the ship- building record of the past year, the United Kingdom still leads in tonnage output. In 1899 British shipyatds turned ott steatiiships to the amount of 1,414,000 tons, and sailing vessels to the attiount of 2,000 tons, or 1,416,000 tons alto- gether, &xélusive of warships. This, the report states, was “oné-fifth less that the entire steamship fleet of Germany.” Watships were turned otf to the aniount.of 168,000 tons, inaking the grand total of constrttction for the year 1,584,000 tons. Of the warship totinage, 121,600 tons were added to the English fleet. Most of the remainder (42,000 tons) was for Japan, while 4,000 tons wéte for the United States, Of the 1,416,000 mercantile tontia#ve built in the United Kingdom in 1899, the portion built for Gertatiy was 68,000 tons; for Austria, 37,000 tons; for Norway, 28,000 tons; for Spain, 26,000 tons; for Denmark, 24,000 tons; for Holland, 22,060 tots; for Russia, 15,000; for Sweden, 9,000 tons. Of the remainder 1,149,000 tons were added to the British mer- éatttile fleet and 18,000 tons went to British colonies. Other cotititries built together 881,060 tons—503 merchant vessels and 56 warships. Gefmany built 252,000 tons, the United States, 233,600 tons; Francé, 1§§,000 tons; Italy, 67,000 tons; Holland, 39,000 tons, and Russia, 34,000 tons. The tendency towards lat#er vessels, as being most profitable, is shown in the fact that of the steamships built in the United Kingdom nine were over 10,000 toris, sik were over 12,000 tons, and the Oceanic was of 17,274 tons. Gertany produced the Patticia, of 13,293 tons; the Grosser Kurfutst, 12,500 tons, and six othét vessels'of over 10,000 tons. THAT FORWARD WHEEL. The following comes from the St. Ignacé News : That interesting article entitled, ‘‘Mammoth Ice Breakers’’ which appeared in the Detroit Free Press Sunday last, was, no doubt, as interesting to its many readers elsewhere as it was to us who live here at the Straits; and it would doubtless Have been even more interesting had the discovery and utility of a “forward wheel” as an ice crusher, which has proven so great a success iff the steamers St. Ignace and Ste. Marie been correctly given. ‘ All the older citizens of Mackiriae Island which at that time was the only port on the Straits, remember the time when the steamers of the old Northern Transportation Co‘, would, ot reaching the Straits in the early Spring and find- itig thé ice too heavy for a single boat to push through, ldsh their bows together and the one push the other through the ice stern first, while both work their engines ahead, the for- tner under a full head of steam, the latter under check. Wn. Marshall, keeper of Round Island Light House, says he Has seen these boats work their way through ice 30 in. thick in this manner, and that this practice commenced about the year 1852. Mr. Marshall came to Mackinac in the first fine passenger steamer that was built on the lakes the ‘“‘Genessee Chief,’’ and arrived here in May 1848, and since that time tesided there. He further says that many of the officers of these steamers belonging tothe Northern Trans- portation Co., are stifl alive, and that the practice of lash- ing their bows together to work through the ice in the Spring lasted for many years. | ‘ Capt. John McCarty, of Mackinac Island, is another who watched the feats of the little northern boats, and was mate of the Algomah at the time Mr. McCool states he ‘‘conceived the idea’’ from a ‘‘tug making a current to carry sewage,”’ and ex-Mayor Thos. F. Madden, of St. Ignace, was the dynamite expert that Mr. McCool speaks of. Madden and McCarty were out on the ice with a crew of men trying to blast a passage for the boat when McCarty stated to Madden that ‘if he was master of that boat he would work her through that windrow stern first in two hours.’” Mr. Mad- den communicated this to Supt. McCool and he in turn sought further information from mate McCarty, with the result that he ordered Capt. Ames to turn the Algomah around and proceed, under McCarty’s instructions, stern first. Capt. Ames said the boat could not be turned around, but McCarty finally took charge of the whole job and worked the boat through the ice just as McCool described, except that it was not Supt. McCool’s idea at any stage of the ceedings. PiWe have heard the story of the ‘‘forward wheel’? told so often during our twenty years stay on the island, by our most reputable citizens, that it seems hardly reasonable that Mr. McCool would attempt to appropriate any of the credit for inventing that very useful piece of machinery. : We might have let the matter drop unnoticed, were it not for the attempt to mix our beautiful crystal-like ice and blue water of the Straits with the filthy sewage contained in the Hamburg canal in Buffalo. or Miles E. Barry, manager of the independent tug line at Chicago, has written the independent tug lines to co-operate with him in opposing the Great Lakes Towing Co., which is going to use its wealth and influence to crush the inde- pendent towing companies.”” Mr. Barry claims that his line can tow Io per cent. cheaper than the Great Lakes Towing Co., if all the independent lines will co-operate with him. NOTES. fan i ACTING on the suggestion that some projection on the © blades of propellers would give them a better grip of the water, F. S. Snowdon and W. J. Orr propose fitting two bat- tens on each propeller blade. These will be roughly L- shaped, and will thus form two channels which will prevent — the water slipping off the blades in the easy way of an ordi- ~ nary propeller, They will not only prevent the circumfer- _ ential ‘‘throwing off’ of the water, but by setting the bat- tens with their trailing ends nearer to the center of the shaft — than their leading ends, they tend to throw the water in to- ward the center, and thus give more solid water for the pro- _ peller to work in. The inventors state that in the case ofa ~ small craft tried in New Zealand waters, the fitting of the battens increased the speed of the vessel by over Io per cent. — without any increase in the number of revolutions run by — the engines, the same propeller and load being used in each _ ease. i THe tenth annual meeting of the British Corporation for — Survey and Registry of Shipping was held on Feb. 21st., © Mr. Nathaniel Dunlop presiding. Mr. Sloan, in submitting the annual financial statement, said that the balance sheet for the year ending Dee. 31st showed that the Corporation aos was ina very satisfactory position. The following gentle- men were elected to the Committee of Management : Messrs. — Hogarth, Riddle, Mann, Clark, Mackie and Brook. Mr. George Smith was elected to the vacancy on the directorate caused by the death of his father. Inthe course of his ad- dress the chairman said that they had on their books up- ward of 600 vessels, representing about one and a half million tons, and during last year they had assigned load-lines to — 153,918 tons, and added 106,234 tons to their register. Mr. Archibald Denny, chairman of the Scientific Committee, and Mr. Courtier-Dutton, Chief Surveyor, also addressed the , meeting. A WOODEN vessel, 172 ft. long by 33 ft. beam by about 16 ft. draught, is about to be built by the Dundee Shipbuilders’ Co., — Dundee, for Antarctic exploration purposes, and to the order of the Expedition Committee, of which Sir Clements Mark- ham, president of the Royal Geographical Society, is chair- : man. The vessel’s displacement will be 1,570 tons, and the ak hull is to be constructed generally of oak, with anouter sheathing of greenheart. It will be specially strengthened to withstand ice pressure. A magnetic observatory is tobe fitted up on the upper deck amidships, and, to obviate any magnetic interference, all metal fitting for a radius of about 30 ft. are to be of brass. The deck is to be lined with asbes- tos, arid the machinery will be placed aft, in order that the observatory amidships may be free from undue magnetic influence. ‘The vessel, which will be barque-rigged, is to be completed by March, 1901. The engines are to be supplied by Messrs. Gourlay Bros. & Co., Dundee. , THE dry dock for which the Morse Iron Works & Dry Dock Company has just purchased a site at Bay Ridge, near New York will be the largest dry dock in the United States. It will be almost twice the size of the dock now being used at the plant of the William Cramp & Sons’ — Company, and will accommodate with ease the largest vessels in the world. . Contracts for all the material, with the exception of lumber, have been placed, and 1,5 0 men will be put to work at once driving piles and erecting the workshops and electric plant. The electrical operation of the dock will be anew feature. A man at a switchboard ~ will simply have to press abutton and the gates will be raised and the pumps setin motion automatically. Even the scraping of the vessels will be done by a new electric system. It is not the intention of the company to stop at that and within the next two years the dock will be doubled in size, making it the largest dry dock in the world. oor or ir MARINE PATENTS. Patents on marine inventions issued Mar. 1, 1900. Re- ported especially for the MARINE RECORD. Complete copies of patents furnished at the rate of ten cents each. 645,070. External leak-stopper. Antoine Colomes, St. Etienne, France. : 645,221. Water-wheel. S. J. Tutthill, Oakland, Cal., assignor to the Tutthill Water Wheel Company, San Fran- cisco, Cal. 645,225. Boat-pump. M. M. Cullen, New Cumberland, W. Va. 645.337. Centerboard for boats. C. J. Smith, Holly, N. Y. 645,354. Propeller for steamships. C. R. Emrich, Nor- folk, Va. : 644,723. Metallic life-boat. W.S. Ray, San Francisco, 644,943. Diving and submarine apparatus. Giuseppe Pino, Genoa, Italy.