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Pacific Marine Review was an illustrated monthly maritime trade journal published on the United States West Coast from 1904 to 1950. Originally the official organ of the Shipowners Association of the Pacific Coast (SAPC), the magazine later became the official organ of both the SAPC and the Pacific American Steamship Association. It was considered one of the leading American maritime journals of its day. After 47 years of independent existence, the journal was merged with another maritime magazine, The Log, in 1951.

History and description
Pacific Marine Review was founded in about April 1904 in Seattle, Washington, the original publishers being W. J. Milliken and H. B. Jayne. In March 1913, the proprietor and editor, H. B. Jayne, sold the magazine to its erstwhile advertising manager, James S. Hines. Hines relocated the magazine's main office in May 1913 to San Francisco, California, where he would continue to publish it until its demise.

Pacific Marine Review was the official organ of the Shipowners' Association of the Pacific Coast until November 1919, when it became the official organ of the newly established Pacific American Steamship Association; from October 1923, it was the official journal of both organizations. As such, the magazine promoted the interests of employers in the industry; in 1922, for example, the Review published a glowing editorial on the activities of the newly-formed American Society of Marine Engineers, an organization which was actually a company union formed in order to weaken the labor union of American marine engineers, the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association.

During World War I, the magazine was edited by "one of the best known authorities in the United States on marine subjects", Frederick M. Dickie&mdash;son of George W. Dickie, the prominent West Coast marine engineer and former manager of the Union Iron Works. After Frederick's early death in October 1918, his brother Alexander J. Dickie&mdash;also a marine engineer&mdash;succeeded him. A. J. Dickie would go on to become the magazine's longest-serving editor, retaining the role for some 28 years until April 1947, when he became consulting editor before retiring in 1948. Dickie was succeeded in turn by T. Douglas MacMullen, who edited the magazine in its final years, from 1947 to 1950.

Pacific Marine Review was published monthly, with a total of 47 volumes published from 1904 through 1950. Issues varied in length but were commonly between about 60 to 80 pages; page height varied somewhat over the course of the magazine's history, from 28 to 32 centimetres (11 to 12.8 inches). The magazine was broad in scope, covering most aspects of the maritime industry in the United States, with an emphasis on matters pertaining to the West Coast. Typical topics included shipbuilding and dockyard news, mechanical and technical innovations, profiles of companies and individuals, reporting and analysis of government policy and of domestic and international issues related to the industry, historical pieces and so on. In addition to its copy, the magazine was heavily illustrated with photos, diagrams and other images, generally of good quality; numerous industry advertisements were also carried. The magazine was printed mostly in black and white, with the front and back covers as well as an occasional inner page featured in a limited color palette. An idiosyncratic feature of the journal in later years was an increasingly arcane page numbering system.

Pacific Marine Review ceased publication in December 1950. In January 1951, it was merged into The Log, a Miller Freeman publication that was originally the official magazine of the American Society of Marine Engineers.