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4 MARINE REVIEW. Next Season’s New Tonnage. The annual report of the tonnage building presented below, showing the new tonnage that will be put forth from lake ship- yards and go into commission at the opening of navigation, con- tains much valuable information. While it shows about 2,000 tons less and $441,000 decrease in valuation as compared with the report of last year, the fact that only freight carrying tonnage is included in the tonnage column this year while 2,350 tons of passenger and government service tonnage was put in last year, should be taken into consideration so that to be exact the freight tonnage building at the present time equals that building last year. The difference in valuation, $441,000 less than last year is partly accounted for by the tendency of owners to build cheaper vessels. The total number of vessels building 45, capacity gross tons 76,000, valuation $4,896,000 show another departure in lake ship building. This departure is demonstrated when the average carrying capacity of ten of the largest freighters in the 1890 report is compared with the carrying capacity of ten of the largest steamers of the same class in the 1891 report. ‘The aver- age for the former was 2,652, while that of the coarse freighters building this year is 3,200 tons. Of the 45 vessels building 32 are of steel and 13 are wood, while only 21 of 38 in the last re- port were steel, an increase of almost one-fourth in steel. Forty of the 45 vessels building are steamers, 3 barges and 2 schooners. This shows the decline of the sailing vessel in lake navigation. The information contained in the table will be found accurate, the only case where figures were not obtained trom the builders “or representatives was that of the American Steel Barge Company, but it was learned from parties close to the company that the eight vessels included for that concern would be launched be- tween now and spring. The capacity in gross tons is computed ‘for a draft of 16 feet. The following table shows the work under contract Dec. 1 of this year as compared with the same date in past years: ‘Number of | Capacity Valuati oni boats. gross tons. 65,750 $4,074,000 108,525 8,325,000 100,950 7,124,000 124,750 7,866,000 77,950 5,337,000 76,000 4,896,000 563,925 | $37,622,000 _ The following shows work under contract in lake shipyards: cg : AS BUILDERS. Crass. 2% VALUE. FOR WHOM BUILDING. 32 oS Globe Iron Works, Cleveland| *Stmr |, 3,700 | $240,000 |Minn. Iron Co........... Cleveland AEN Be es *Stmr |° 2,900 174,000 |‘Sam/’1 Mitchell, Negaunee,Mich ah rd *Stmr| 2,750 178,000 |Anchor Line...............++. Buffalo ie siaess <3 da dix) FE oh a oper 77,850 |U.S. Gov’t., light-house service " ff e PSN Wea 77,850 = se oS us “6s “ *Stm ‘ Lge ] Wacht.|): 3... 100,000 |H. M. Hanna............- Cleveland ' Chie. Ship Bldg. Co., Chicago| *Stmr | 3,700 240,000 |Minn. Iron Oo............ Cleveland : 25 ee “h *Stmr | 2,250 120,000 Cliffs Iron Co............ Cleveland - Cley. Ship Bldg.Co.,Cleveland| *Stmr| 2,500 150,000 |Lake Sup. Iron Co....Cleveland “ “ee “es *Stmr 2,500 150,000 “es “ee oe : “ of * *Stmr | ;....- 68,000 |U.S. Gov’t., light-house service Detroit D. D. Co., Detroit...... *Stmr | 2,750 178,000 |Anchor Line.................. Buffalo ne si ysis pee *Stmr | 1,600 120,000 Cliffs Iron Co eveland 23 4 aa ea ste Stmr|: <.... 75,000 Clark Estate... .. Detroit “3 #8 May tse gan {Stmr ee 50,000 |Detroit Ferry Co..........ccccccseeeee Union Dry Dock Co., Buffalo] *Stmr | 2,750 178,000 |Anchor Line.................. Buffalo FE ef See eas *Stmr | ...... 55,000 |R. R. Co., Hammondsport,N.Y. Wheeler & Co.,West Bay City| *Stmr | 3,500 230,000 |Hollenback..................8aginaw : os a Stmr| 2,400 425,000: (Merion... cssscscccsicecaseashocstare Erie 4 se ee Stray) c3e0cs 47,325 |U.S. Govt., light-house, service a: re ‘ “Str | 5203 47,325 ns - 44 a is *Stmr |. ...... 47,325 ‘ ‘& = be sg 7 *Stmr|...... 47,325 “ ef ae Steel Barge Co., Superior...... *Stmr | 3,300 180,000 |Sam’l Mather............Cleveland ve ps *Stmr| 3,300 180,000 |Canadian Pacifie Ry. Co...... ..... EI ts 4d 5 8,300 180,000 es ah Mt aa eae $ nf 8 3,300. + 180,000 |Builder’s account........ ......... Aes F “ “ 3,300 180,000 cee at ee gauaghananavaaccdss FS ne ts 8,000 80,000 |Samuel Mather, Cleveland, 0... < tt sf 3,000 80,000 |Builder’s account.... Pen iI dg *Brge | 3,000 80,000 ae af : J. Davidson, West Bay City...) Stmr|} .2,400 120,000 + ws 2 id Dag ye ..| Stmr| 2,400 120,000 “ ez ~ ie oa ..| Stmr} 2,400 120,000 |’ ** age Craig Ship Building, Toledo...) *Stmr| 1,100 100,000 |Michigan parties... : Curtis&Brainard,Marine City) Stmr| 2,200 105,000 |Builder’s account wee R. Holland, Marine City...... Stmr| 1,400 60,000 |Mills Tran. Co., Marine City..... : a soe Behr |. 1,200 35,000 ef 8 é Shae eer Sip Bidg. Co bate +Stmr | 1,200 70,000 \John BH. Mills. ...: so ccccsescccecs J. H. Ihnnken, Algonace...........| Stmr 700 22,000 |Comstock Bros., Alpena, Mich. BS ‘&Wolter,Sheboygan| Stmr| 500 35,000 |For coast service........ ccc. ves Calvin Co.,Garden Island,Ont| Stmr 500 20,000 |Builder’s account CaptFairgrave,Hamilton,Ont| *Stmr 700 65,000 < a Montreal Trans.Co.,Montreal| Schr 500 18,000 Pe fA Polson IronWks,Owen Sound 1 ROR era ee sHiskasais Testor kes 90,C00 |Canadian Government.............. 45 76,000 | $4,896,000 * Steel. + Passenger. { Launched, but not yet in commission. On account of the boat not being ready for the opening of navigation the Detroit Dry Dock Company’s monste1 *‘straight- back” can not be included in the report but as the keel will be laid down as soon as work at the steel yard is completed it should be considered an addition to next season’s tonnage. It is no small addition either as the boat will carry 5,000 tons on 16 feet draft, the cost to be about $225,000. The including of the building ofa steel boat by the Craig Ship Building Company, Toledo, is an item of news. She isto carry lumber between Lake Superior and Tonawanda. One of the barges,118, included for the American Steel Barge Company has been towed one trip. TOTAL LOSSES DURING 1891. During the past season fifty-two vessels, valued at $564,800 and having a carrying capacity of 27,496 gross tons, were totally destroyed and have left the lake service. In 1890 the number was only thirty-four and carrying capacity 16,306 gross, but the aggregate value of last season’s total losses was $757,000, a figure much higher than that of the season just closed. This summary of disasters is, of course, far from representing the total of losses in the lake marine, as it is made with a view of showing only such tonnage as has actually gone out of com- mission. ‘The damage from strandings in the rivers, collisions, in which. valuable freight carriers were sunk amd afterward raised, and other causes, such as partial destruction by fire and from going ashore, would show an aggregate many times greater than that represented in the total losses, but it is impossible at this time to present accurate figures in this regard. It can be said, however, that on account of the great number of losses through strandings and collisions, few, if any of the insurance companies have made any money on the low rates at which the season’s business was taken last spring, and the English under- writers are especially unfortunate, their proportion of the losses being very heavy in comparison with the amount of business taken by them. A summary of accidents through which vessels have gone out of cofnmission follows: i Number of Capacity Valuation. Vessels. gross tons. Totally destroyed, all causes.......... Coe 27,496 $564 800 s ve by collision....... 5 4,070 IIg 000 if ae by fren A teccsccn 12 4,038 161 800 Following is a list of the vessels lost, with names of owners, capacity and valuation: : CARSON Seek LUATION. NAME OF VESSEL. OWNER. @Rosa TONS. Sehr. Atlanta ince tieacsce Hastman, Saginaw. .ccc.ce. dsc eccteedecaane 1,083 $ 28.000 Schr. W. C. Kimball......... Kimball, Manistee... Raeneaceiva 200 ei Schr. Mayflower....... ....... Leatham & Smith, Sturgeon Bay......... 416 3,00:, Schr. Thomas Hume... .....|]Hackley & Hume, Muskegon ............... 378 6,000 +Schr. Fayette Brown...... M. A. Bradley, Cleveland................0000. 990° 163000 =PrOD. Dave CLUY.cc..-s.cscees J. F. Rust, Cleveland ........:.. 444 10,000 Schr. TOpSey.......c<sesseascesee C. O. Barker, Chicago... 264 1,500 Tug American Hagle...... Dahike, Clevelamd: cis. acccssccsscsses naa oo eos 3,000 *Prop,.b. F. Ferris..;.cccca TUIrnOr, SAGINAW s.-<cs:cncsanceu cree eaceee ee tees 8,000 Schr: Niagara s...accc-cuan Baird “PTO iasiccssccscncankessstrenees eee 583 3,700 *Stmr. Wm. Alderson...... Dunn, Pt. Burwell..... .....0..... abe ssasethn etre ge 9,300 Schr. A. B. Pomeroy........ Parwell; Detrott ..c....c25s550c¢ cccrecunanevcnscas 700. 8,000 Schr. Evaline Bates... Dykes, Grand Haven he eee 42) “1,500 Schr. Thomas Parsons Mullens, Buffalo ...... 630 5,000 Schr. Mediteranean Kohnert, Chicago ...... 431 5,000 Schr. W. L. Peck... Kinett Bros., Saginaw 651 ~ : 8,500 *Prop. Winslow.... L. S. T. Company...... 1,251 35,000 Schr. Frank Pere Pierson, Cleveland "3,000 Prop. Daisy Day...... ict Nellson: Pemtwater 2c 2: cea-sasasomenshos = ees P eatuagcies “Tug Kingsbury....... «s| CROSDY; MUSKO@OR Soci ccc eee ee 8,000 tSchr. Wm. Young............ Millen, Detroit......... 800. 8,000 *Prop. Oscar Townsend ...|Root, Tecumseh....... 1,329 40,000 Schr. Lottie Wolf............. Dunham, Chicago ............ccccccc 604 .. 5,500 {Sehr. Birekhead .:.65...; Mason, Bi. Saginaw. vz..c.caccscecsccssecsacesses 380 2,000 SPPOD. AIDODS 5, scsssensnp cannes Westcott, Detroit... c5 ete ee 429° ~ 18,000 Schr. City of Erie............. McKay Milwaukee..:..03. oct ioe re 397 1,000 Prop. Sovereign ............06 N. W.'? 568 12°500 Prop, Passaic... Blodgett, Detroit ........... eh ee 618 12/000 Schr. SAWVEr .......cccccces Murphy, Cleveland . 1,149 17,000 Schr. Stewart.......ccsccsseses Squire, Marine City 984 “12,000 Schr. Bavaria. 0.0.0.0... Fraser, §: 779 7,000 Sehr. LC. Butts.....scscco S. 'T. Co., Sandusky...... 1,200 12;000 POD, COUP nck ees Ruby, Flumer 134 8,000 Schr. Montcalm......... .... R. T. Co., Buffalo 585 5,000 Schr. Hattie Hstelle........ |Estelle, Chicago. 560 » 55500 Prop. Oswegatchie............ Chas. F, Spademan, Marine Clty 450 6,000 Sehr. H. C. Potter -|Mrs. Abbie Westbrook, Detroit 550 4,500 Schr. N. P. Goodel 8. N. Jex, Port Huron 500 ~ 2500 Schr. Mediator... Rathbone et al., Chicago 600 5,000 Schr. Minnehah C. H. Lane, Buffalo............. 1,500 28,000 Prop. Ogomaw.. TOP teen eee eee ee *500 ~ 401000 “Tug John A, Miller » "4,000 wlug Leviathan ..............{8, @rummond, Detroit..ccccccnccal Ln 20,000 Schr. Nancy Dell... “300 1,500 Tug Mary Corrigan........... 10,000 *Tug Currier... oe 1,500 “Tug Arbutus..................../W. Patterson, Wallaceburg... | 5,000 Schr. H. M. Scove ... “BBO 3,000 Stmr. Jeanie............ 200 8,000 Schr. British Lion...... .. 150 800° Sehr. G. C. Finney........... 543 ~~ 5,500 +Prop. Saml. Mather Inter Lake T. Co., Cleveland... ............. 1,900 |. . 95,000 Totals............ .sssesseee| Number of vessels 52........... aoe seems] > 27,496 | $564 800 *Fire. — +Collision. Carrying capacity is omitted in the foregoing where the loss of a passenger vessel or tug is noted, a ee