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1903. ] sociated Carpenters and Joiners, just issued by the secretary of the society, states that during the month of November 170 Mem- bers were in receipt of unemployed benefit, 257 in receipt of sick benefit, nine members had been removed by death, and eighty- four new members had juined the several branches. Notices of reductions in wages to take effect in the ship yards in February, have been issued by the Clyde Ship Builders' Association. Roughly speaking, Clyde builders have on hand orders for about 342,000 tons; Forth builders about 4,500 tons; 'Tay builders about 10,500 tons, and Aberdeen builders about 4,000 tons. SAILING SHIP YOUNG AMERICA. The Nautical Preparatory School of Providence, R. IL, has given a contract to the Perth Amboy Ship Building & Engineer- ing Co., Perth Amboy, N. J., for a full-rigged sailing ship with auxiliary steam power to be used as a private schoolship. She will be of the most advanced type of modern steel construction and her general dimensions will be as follows: Length over all, 262 ft.; length on load water line, 230 ft.; beam, 4o ft.; draught, 19 ft.; displacement about 3,000 tons. The vessel will have the MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE, RECORD, : : Bid commission on the port of London, which reported in favor of dredging a channel 36 miles long from the Nore to the Royal Albert dock, to be 30 ft. deep at low tide, and 1,000 ft. wide for a distance of 29 miles and 600 ft. for the balance; thence about 9 miles to the London docks, 25 ft. deep, at a cost, including the completion of certain river accommodation work of £2,500,000, or about. $12,500,000. 'Then the docks must be purchased and put. into condition and fitted for modern needs, at a cost of £24,500,000, or about $122,500,000, making a total, to fit the port of London to do a successful and competing business at the pres- ent day, of £27,000,000, or about $135,000,000. "Liverpool, in addition to $200,000,000 already expended on its system of docks, is spending yet more in dredging and increas- ing its dockage accommodation for twentieth-century ships. Bristol, ungland, is another port aroused to the requirements of the day and, with a population of only 318,000, recently pro- cured an act of parliament to-permit the expenditure of the large' sum of $13,875,000 for the improvement of the port at Avon- mouth, in order to provide twentieth-century accommodations to steamships. These projects are perfected and the work. well Go: véeRss Pu~ \ ae! eee ~ The Sailing Ship Young America. old sailing frigate divisions of spar deck, main or school deck, berth deck, orlop deck and hold. She will have double bottoms throughout her entire length and will be subdivided into five watertight compartments. The ship will be lighted throughout by electricity. The purpose of this vessel is purely educational. She will tour the world while the students are studying. BOSTON WANTS A DRY DOCK. - In its annual report just out the board of harbor and land commissioners calls attention to the inadequacy of the present dry dock accommodations at Boston. The report says: "The usefulness of the new dry dock at the Charleston navy yard for merchant vessels will be wholly contingent upon whether or not it may be occupied or needed for war vessels, the growing number of which renders the chance for merchant vessels a constantly decreasing quantity. It may be safely said that no leading port abroad is so deficient in this respect as Boston, as, for instance, at Liverpool there are twenty-four dry or graving docks, at Antwerp ten, at Southampton five or more, one of which is 750 ft. long; the largest, 92514 ft. long, is at Liverpool. It would be unfortunate if, after the other requirements of a first- class port had been complied with, opportunity for docking in case of needed repairs should be found. lacking. Economical reasons for making repairs on the other side of the Atlantic are _ diminishing, and when the time comes that repairs can be made as cheaply and advantageously at this port as elsewhere, a new and valuable industry offers itself for encouragement." : About the improvements in Boston harbor as compared with other ports, the report says: "It is encouraging to realize that the port of Boston, although still awaiting further improve- ments, is not less prepared than other great ports, both here and abroad, for the floating of modern steamships. Not only is New York having its harbor channels widened and deepened, and Liverpool having new docks built with lower gate sills, but Lon- don has been awakened by loss of trade to the necessity of over- hauling its' dock system and deepening the channels. of the Thames. At London, with its population of 6,000,000 in 1899, goods were imported of the valuation in round numbers of £164,000,000, or about $820,000,000. Nevertheless the falling off in the entrepot trade led to the appointment of a parliamentary ee top of beam amidships, 14 ft. 11 in. advanced. Already these increased facilities are attracting at- tention, and a new line between Bristol and Boston is under negotiation. As compared with the sums spent on harbors abroad, such as $200,000,000 at Liverpool, $74,000,000 at Glasgow, $39,000,000 at Hamburg, $28,000,000 at Havre, $26,500,000 at the Tyne ports, $26,000,000 at Rotterdam, $25,000,000 at Antwerp, $23,000,000 at Marseilles, $13,800,000 at Melbourne and $11,400,000 at Bombay, the amounts so far expended for the improvement of the port of Boston do not seem large. When all the present pro- jects shali be completed, the harbor of Boston, in point of ap- proach, entrance, protection, depth, area, anchorage, convenience and port charges, will compare favorably with any of those above named." -MORAN BROS. CO., SEATTLE, WASH. Moran Bros., Seattle, Wash., recently launched the light- house tender Heather in the presence of a number of naval offi- cers from the Puget Sound navy yard. 'This vessel has already been comprehensively described in the Review. The Heather is of the following dimensions: Length over all, 178 ft. 6 in.; beam, molded, 28 ft. 6 in.; depth of hold from top of keel to The boilers and machinery are now being installed and it is expected to deliver the vessel to the government in about three months. There are nearing completion at the works of Moran Bros. Co. two steel tugs 90 ft. long, the Wyadda and Bahada, for the Puget Sound Tug Boat Co. The propelling machinery of these vessels consists of one single-ended cylindrical boiler, 11 ft. in diameter and 11 ft. long, allowed a working pressure of 160 Ibs. and a compound engine with cylinders of 13 and 30 in. diameter and stroke of 24 in. 'The auxiliary machinery is to be complete, including steam capstan and windlass and electric light plant. ; The framing of the battleship Nebraska is nearly complete for the lower structure. The machinery for the vessel is also well under way. New boilers and machinery are being installed in the steam- ships Umatilla and Cottage City, both belonging to the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. New boilers are being installed in the steamers Mainlander and George E. Starr.