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22 MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. sz. the = " NOMA, YEE 2 QOS es BEE?" ANG ee ~ B2>esn: ZSBANA47 S32 SSE EE Shy) SESS a ZF WE LR LEZLLZL e TY NG A NSW. sos iy ANY SZ Mie: Ying) tt, IIE ANOTHER LAKE SHIP YARD. Great Lakes Engineering Works of Detroit putting $2.000,000 into a fine plant--Everything new and up to date--A steel floaiing Dry Dock of 5,000 tons Capacity. - Another ship yard on the great lakes, a very large establish- ment planned in all respects:on modern lines, with a floating dry _ dock of 5,000 tons capacity, will soon be seeking a share of the. business that has kept the existing yards crowded for a long time past. When it was announced, a few months ago, that the works of S. F. Hodge & Co., one of the oldest marine engine plants. on the lakes, had been purchased by a_ corporation known as the Great Lakes Engineering Works, it was said that the. plans of the new company contemplated a large ship. yard, in addition to improvements in the Hodge works. Probably a hundred steamers of the lakes, many of them among the finest that were built up to a few years ago, had received their ma-~ chifiery equipment at the Hodge works. The shops were still [Jan. 8, AS : = P. pm LOY, ein Kaan "By. U 4 4 YY % AES Gay OD sh APE SPE RTE, aor eG WD ys, Wy yin a *upeee Like tp Ce INS "ORNS yg ZG; WipEOe OR ee 3 = ss . seu A ce <- ANDY Li A Sy yy (ES: Chicago; H. C. Potter, Jr., Detroit, vice-president State Savings Bank; C. L. Freer, Detroit; H. B. Ledyard, Detroit, president Michigan Central Railroad; Geo. H. Russel, Detroit, president State Savings Bank; H. M. Campbell. Detroit, of Russel & Camp- bell; W. G. Mather, Cleveland, president Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co.; Henry: Russel, Detroit, general attorney Michigan Central Railroad; Jno. A. Penton, Detroit, vice-president Iron & Steel Press Co. of Cleveland; John H. Avery, Detroit, vice-president Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Co.; Henry Ledyard, De- troit, attorney; W. S. Russel, Detroit, vice-president Russel Wheel & Foundry Co.; J. A. Ubsdell, Jr., Detroit, naval archi--- tect; Henry Penton, Detroit, marine engineer; W. J. Wickes of Wickes Bros., Saginaw, Mich.; I. W. Frank, Pittsburg, president - United Engineering & Foundry Co.; O. P. Letchworth, Buffalo, president Pratt. & Letchworth Co.; W. D. Sargent, New York, president American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co.; J. R. Russel, Detroit. fi ~ oe a 1 & . | -- | \! or | / Ptpe | ) : oS BV =a Shop|} Hult | ree DX 9 : heel | Pry Ton eles Paint Shop Wet Shop Matertal |! rae] SS Saw mill a nargt [or Stable : Storage. Pe a a a NS Et. Lumber | a ee = = e a | ogy Sheds Roof , ; se - _ - 7--. : z ~ 3 --, a © De bse Moutd Loft above Over ~{|h ani . \ m1 envenauyy Gormer Sher ' RX : + Ali 2 ropesed |p, ln, 'N many \ Berth © 3. : \ m Warehouse Janne shop pnt le | XN ey = gees Exiension'} oS v * = te Ok Floatine Dock ~~ tN = \ Rivets] @ ~ : ~S -- ft 500 ft.x HOft. x 5000 Tons. 18 ft over blocks. 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'They have gone along quietly getting up in their own works some of the equipment for the ship yard, and contracting for more of it, and have purchased on the Detroit river just below Smith's coal dock a tract of river front property having 85 acres of ground area. Their water frontage will be about 1,200 ft. The capital: of the original company, of which Mr. Antonio C. Pessano is president and general manager, Mr. Geo. H. Rus- sel, vice-president, and Mr. John R. Russel, secretary and treas- urer, is to be increased to $2,000,000 on account of the ship yard undertaking. The list of stockholders is as follows: Antonio C. Pessano, president and general manager, Great Lakes Engi- neering works; H. W. Hoyt, vice-president Allis-Chalmers Co., The names of two: young men very 'well known: in lake ship building circles, and who have had a great deal to do with the building of modern lake vessels, appear in. the list of stock- holders and they are already engaged in equipping the ship yard. John $. Ubsdell, Jr., formerly with the Chicago works of the American Ship Building Co., will have charge of the design and construction of hulls, and Henry Penton, who was also with the Chicago works, will look after the marine engine designs. Mt. Penton's principal training was in the old Hodge works when many engines for lake ships were built there. Especial interest will attend the construction and operation of the steel floating dry dock, as it will be very large and the only structure of its kind on the lakes. With dimensions of 500 by roo it, 5,000 tons capacity and 18 ft. over the blocks, this dock will take in any lake ship and will be an innovation on the Detroit river, where the conditions seem particularly suited to a floating dock. The first work at the new yard will be the