Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-12-15 | Page 2 | U. S. Merchant Marine Increasing

U. S. MERCHANT MARINE INCREASING Washington. Dec. 15. The American Amer-ican merchant marine has been augmented aug-mented by 101 vessels with an aggregate aggre-gate tonnage of 301,078 tons up to December 12 by the admission to reg-islry reg-islry of foreign ships owned by Americana. Amer-icana. Eleven vessels were admitted in the last two weeks under the new 1 a v . These include the passenger steamer Maracas. the tank steamers Petrolite, Corning, Gargoyle. Princeton. Prince-ton. Somerset and Caddo, the freight I steamer Georgiana, the ships British Yeoman and Poltalloch and the bark Edna M. Smith.