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"TAE MarRINE. REVIEV/ 15 TERSHANA--A TURKISH SHIP YARD. (A correspondent in The Engineer, London.) In Turkish Ters means a ship, Hana means a fabric or works; so that Tershana means the ship yard of the Turkish government. It is situated along the Golden Horn, beyond the second floating bridge and at its entrance is the Ad- miralty building, a square building of Moorish design, where the Minister of Marine and other Pashas do congregate, each attended by his kavass or aide-de-camp. There the German band plays in the afternoon when the minister is in his bureau. There, there is collected a miscellaneous crowd com- posed of all sorts. Turkish women crowding around the Mazabadjee or cashier of the Admiralty, waiting for pen- sions that have not been paid for years; officers imploring the payment of only one month's salary; laborers begging for just one medjidere, three shillings and fourpence, in pay- ment in part for a week's work, There also you will see Greek and Armenian contractors begging for something on account of goods supplied and not paid for. The Mazabadjee has a heart of steel. To one he says: "Come back next year about this time." To another he says: "Ben da para yok," which is to say, being interpreted, "I have got no money." To an Armenian merchant he says: "If you won't have patience I will have you put in prison," and so he gets rid of them all. Some are grumbling, and the woman are crying. The new minister is a wit in his way. To one appli- cant for money he said: "Look here, you may beat me. yeu may imprison me, you may torture me, you may even kill me; but there is one thing you cannot do, and that is you cannot get any money out of me." The late minister, Hassan Pasha, left a pile of debt to the arsenal, and a large fortune to his: numerous wives and children, so that the present minister has to face a multitude of creditors, and a very much reduced.revenue. "-- But to pass through the gates into the arsenal or ship yard proper. The length along the shores of the Golden Horn is about 11%4 miles, and on the right are the different stores in which are kept various things suitable for the service, such as ship stores, sail cloth, ropes, old chains, anchors, etc., etc. These stores are in a more or less state of dilapidation. On the left in the Golden Horn there are a number of torpedo boats rapidly going to decay. Amongst the rest may be seen the. submarine boats which Nordenfelt built, now red with rust. They were never used. Passing these we come to a number of old battered hulks, wood and iron, paddle and screw, and in the foreground a collection of old iron which a marine store dealer would be proud of. consisting of old marine boilers, funnels, masts, old marine engines, paddle wheels, propellers, crank shafts, broken down gun carriages, cranes, etc. Also there are the two loco- motives that many years ago used to carry the traffic along the railway which runs right through the arsenal. These have retired, and mean to spend the remainder of their days on the universal scrap heap. Passing on, we now come to what is called the square of Jamalti. On the left we now have something better to look at, for there we see the handsome shear legs made by Day & Summers & Co., which are still in a good state of preservation. On the right is the skeleton of a cruiser which was laid down twelve years ago. The frames were set up, and she was partly plated, but in the interval she be- came obsolete, and is now being cut up and consigned to the » scrap heap. Passing on still, on the right we have a collec- tion of buildings, some with roofs, but mostly without, con- taining a lot of miscellaneous materials, and on the left in the Golden Horn-another collection of old shops which an irreverent Englishman called Rotten Row. In the foreground appears the usual collection of old metal. A little further on there is moored the new American cruiser and the one built by Armstrong, and, to bear them company, the fifty- year-old ironclads, which have been repaired, and which have a speed of nine to ten knots. On the right there are some more shops, and the offices of the Chief Constructor of the Turkish Navy. After this we come to the ship building slip, where there is a large shed where ships of 300 ft. or 400 ft. can be built, but nothing is being done, and the shed is sadly in want of repair. Some smaller boats are on the other slips, but nothing has been done for years, and the unfinished hulks are red with rust. Next we reach a group of buildings consisting of, first, the six-ton steel furnace which was built twenty years ago on the Radcliffe system, and which has been used frequently, but which is now obsolete and falling into ruins. Near this building is the marine shop where, at one time, a good many marine engines were built, but is now idle. On the other side is what is called the Forge, with one or two antiquated steam ham- mers; and close by it are the pumping engines, auxiliary en- gines, cylinders, valves, pipes and other parts of a 3,000-ton hydraulic forging press. This machinery was delivered about twelve years ago, and has not been unpacked. On the other side of the square is situated the tube factory, which has a collection of machinery for making steel, iron, and copper tubes, but there is no one to direct it, so it stands idle like the rest. In the middle of this square there is the usual collection of 2,000 or 3,000 tons of miscellaneous material, including a great number of steel ingots with unknown analy- sis steel, scrap, old engines, boilers, etc., etc. Near by is the 40-ton Siemens steel furnace, which turned out the base and entablature for the 3,000-ton hydraulic forging press twelve years ago. These steel castings lie alongside as they left the molds. This plant, with its 50-ton steam crane, is rapidly going to decay; it has not been worked for many years. In the same building is the rolling mill, which is also in a> state of decay. Passing on we come to the boiler shop, | which has a Tweddles' hydraulic plant, also in a out-of-repair condition. This shop is full of unfinished -and old boilers, and also miscellaneous scrap; you have to thread your way through it. The machines here as elsewhere are in a filthy state. / Crossing over to the other side we come to the gun factory, the shell factory, and what is called the Fuze factory. This is under: the control of a Pasha, whose only qualification is that he was once a naval attache somewhere. In the shell factory all the shells are made from forgings, although there is a complete plant of machinery for making cast steel shells somewhere; who knows, like other machinery it lies unpacked. The gun factory was erected to build guns 9-in. bore and 35 calibers long, twelve years ago, and during this period it has produced one 6-in. gun of 35 calibers, and done some ".minor repairs to smaller guns. This building is about 300 ft. long and 60 ft. wide, and is served by a powerful shaft- driven crane of 60 tons. Owing to the great increase in the length of modern guns the machinery is now practically obsolete. A number of old machines have been collected from other parts of the arsenal and put in here. Outside in the yard is a very fine steam traveling crane to lift 75 tons, 4o ft. from the ground to under the girders. This is of the Goliath type, and if cleaned and painted would be an ornament to the place. It is used for shrinking and oil hardening, and is of the horizontal type. Now for the management. There are forty-six Pashas, an innum- erable number of Beys, the remainder being marines and native workmen. There are one or two Englishmen and a few Germans, but all hold inferior positions. At one time there were Englishmen in charge of the boiler shop, the tube factory, the ship building yard, and the marine engine shop. But the fiat of the late minister went forth, and all had to go, and the management was placed in the hands of Turkish officers, with the result I have described. :