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18 MARINE REVIEW. [May 31, NEW STEAMERS FOR CANADA. The four new steamers recently launched in Great Britain for Elder, Dempster & Co., two of which are for the Liverpool-Canadian route, are described with some detail by the British papers. The Montreal! is for the Canadian trade. Her principal dimensions are: Length, 470 feet; beam, 56 feet; depth, 42 feet 9 inches (to shelter deck), and she is built to Lioyd's highest three-deck class, besides being specially strengthened on the upper works. She is constructed with a complete shelter deck, extending right fore and aft, which will give a high side and afford a large surplus buoy- ancy, which, with special features in the design of the model, will insure dryness and steadiness at sea. The officers and engineers are accommo- dated in large deck-houses. The 'tween decks are unusually high, and fitted for carrying about 750 head of cattle, with large cattle ports and other means of ventilation. Special provision has been made for ballast- ing the vessel by water, by the adoption of a cellular double bottom, run- ning fore and aft, and two large, deep tanks, also available for cargo, be- sides the fore and after peaks, all of which are fitted with powerful pump- ing appliances. The vessel is rigged as a four-masted schooner, and every facility has been provided for rapidly receiving and discharging cargoes, there being twelve powerful steam winches, besides derrick posts and twenty-one derricks. The engines are of the twin-screw, triple expansion type, being built and fitted by the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co., Limited, Wallsend. The cylinders are 22, 37 and 61 inches in diameter, respectively, with a piston stroke of 48 inches, and of sufficient power to drive the vessel at a speed of 12 knots at sea. She will carry, when loaded, about 10,000 tons dead weight, and has capacity in her holds and other cargo spaces for about 18,000 tons of measurement cargo. This is the fourth ship of the above dimensions built for these owners. The Delta is a steel screw steamer, built to the order of the British and African Steam Navigation Co., 'Limited. The vessel is of the follow- ing dimensions: Length between perpendiculars, 195 feet; breadth, 28 NAVAL RESERVE OF FISHERMEN. Admiral Sampson in an interview has declared for a naval reserve up of fishermen. : : mace ae a good many years," the admiral said, "'I have been deeply in sympathy with any proposition for the enrollment of our hardy coast fishermen as a naval reserve. These men know the sea better than naval militia men know it. They are toughened, rough-and-tumble, capable, courageous fellows, who may be instructed readily in the requirements of the places they would be called upon to fill in case of, trouble. We are going to have war some time or other, and I think it's a first-rate idea -to have physically capable and intelligently trained sailors ready always for emergency duty. I don't wish to say a word against the personnel o} the naval militia, but rather to indicate that the chief fault with it is that the several organizations are not under immediate government contro]. A young, strong, rough and ready fisherman of Gloucester or Salem or other port on our New England coast could be developed in winter to a very valuable reserve man with three or four months' work on board ship in the Caribbean." THE STEAM YACHT MARGARITA. A fine ocean-going twin-screw steam yacht, the Margarita, owned by Mr. A. J. Drexel, Philadelphia, was launched recently by Scott & Co., Greenock, Scotland. She was built to the designs of Mr. G. L. Watson, Glasgow. She measures over all 323 feet, on load water-line 272 feet, beam, extreme, 36 feet 7 inches, load draught 16 feet 8 inches. She is built of steel, with steel decks covered with teak, and has a double bottom her entire length, with ten water-tight compartments. She has twin screws driven by triple-expansion engines of about 5000 indicated horse- power, designed to give a speed of 17 knots. She will have two large double-ended Scotch boilers, and bunker capacity of 550 tons of coal. She THE OCEAN-GOING TWIN-SOREW STEAM YACHT MARGARITA, feet; depth moulded, 12 feet 6 inches. She has a single deck, with poop, forecastle and house amidships, light sun deck in forward well and at sides of casings, poop and on bridge. Every facility is provided for rapidly working a special cargo by steam crane and winches, and she is handsomely fitted out with accommodation for officers and a few passen- gers in poop aft. A Tyne firm will supply the Delta with propelling machinery of sufficient power to drive her at a speed of ten knots an hour, The third vessel is a steel screw steamer named the Sangara, which will be run in connection with any branch of the great ship owning com- 'pany's business which she may be considered most suitable for. She is of the following dimensions: Length, 325 feet; breadth, 45 feet; depth, 22 feet (moulded); and she is to class 100 Al at Lloyd's. This vessel has water ballast fitted fore and aft on the cellular system, with capacity for about 750 tons, and she is also fitted with all modern improvements for the rapid loading and discharging of cargo. These appliances include six double cylindered steam deck winches, direct-acting steam windlass, large donkey boiler, steam steering gear, etc. The engines are of the triple expansion type, having cylinders 23 inches, 37 inches, and 61 inches diameter respectively, with 42-inch piston stroke, and working at a pres- sure of 160 pounds per square inch. The fourth steamer is intended for the Canadian cattle and general freight trade. 'She is built to Lloyd's highest class, three deck rule, with continued shelter deck, specially arranged for the conveyance of cattle or horses.. Her principal dimensions are: Length, 390 feet; beam, 48 feet; depth (to shelter deck), 36 feet 5 inches, and her deadweight carrying "Capacity is about 6,500 tons on a light draught of water. Above the con- muous shelter deck are the bridge houses. The whole of the decks are f steel. The vessel is fitted throughout with electric light, has seven iter-tight bulkheads, and, in addition tc the usual water ballast, has also -a deep hold tank available for either water ballast or cargo. Her dis- charging gear, with derrick posts, etc., is specially complete, and she is 'in every way fitted as a first-class Atlantic cargo steamer. She will be "fitted with triple expansion engines, having cylinders 25, 41, and 69 inches diameter respectively, with a 48-inch piston stroke. Steam is supplied by three large boilers, working at 180 pounds pressure. _A contract for the reconstruction necessary to convert the auxiliary cruiser Resolute into a transport has 'been awarded to the Cramps. The government will spend about $150,000 in fitting out the Resolute and it is believed that she will then be fully equipped for the West Indian service. The Resolute was formerly the Yorktown of the old Dominion line. Be- ing of light draught she is especially adapted for West Indian waters. Bs sete has a complete installation of electric light, and a refrigerating plant capable of turning out 1200 pounds of ice a day. _. Her appointments are on a lavish scale; the drawing-room, the entire width of the ship, is in Louis XV. style: the dining room in Chippendale; and the social hall or library in the Empire style. She will have an equipment of rifle calibre automatic guns, and small-arms. KENSINGTON SHIP YARD COMPANY. The new ship building company which has acquired the plant of the late Charles Hillman & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co. on the Dela- ware river at Kensington, Philadelphia, will operate under the title Ken- sington Ship Yard Co. The company recently acquired a charter at Harrisburg, Pa., and is capitalized at $500,000. The property will be operated as an adjunct of the main Cramp ship building works. The directors will be Edwin S. Cramp, Francis L. Cramp, Samuel Dickson, Harry W. Hand, James H. Mull, William P. Smith, all of Philadelphia, and George C. Thayer of Merion. Mr. Thayer will be the president of the new company, A. H. Bye, secretary and treasurer, F. L.. Cramp, manager, and George Clarke, late of the International Navigation Co., superintendent. It is contemplated to make of the Hillman property a yard for the reconstruction and repair of ships and the new company will also carry on the dock and railway business. With this purpose in view it will lease the Cramp dry dock and railway. One advantage to the Cramp company of acquiring the Hillman yard was that it adjoined the Cramp dry dock. Already the fences between the two are down and the properties are now practically one yard. The Kensington Ship Yard Co. was formed because it was thought advisable to conduct the repair, reconstruction and dry dock business entirely apart from the main busi- ness of the Cramp company--that of building ships. The yard has a Nites een of 500 feet and is complete and well fitted for the business in- fended. CAPT. FOLGER ON THE KEARSARGR. The navy department has received a report from Capt. Folger com- manding the new double-turret battleship Kearsarge, summarizing the results of the gun practice which the big ship has been making in Lynn Haven bay for the Past two weeks. Capt. Folger declares that the re- sults were splendid, that his previously expressed opinion as to the merits of the ship were fully justified and that the electric installation of turrets and loading mechanism were absolutely perfect in their operation. The Kearsarge is now ready for her final trial inspection and Admiral Rodgers and his board will shortly go to Fortress Monroe for that purpose.