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1902.] MARINE REVIEW. 25 IN THE BLACKSMITH SHOP AT MORAN BROS. CO.'S WORKS. facilities for handling materials in ship construction are of the best. It might be said that the battleship now -being constructed: is set up in the shop. An examination of the accompanying map. will bear this-out. > This plant also includes a modern saw-mill where Puget sound timber, and also imported hard woods, are manufactured into dressed. lumber for all purposes. This department of the plant includes the saw-mill proper, where logs up to 8 ft. in diameter and 125 ft. long can be .cut imto large or small lumber; also planing mills, steaming plant and dry houses. Spars of the largest diameter, made of faultless timber, are turned out in this mill. With the refuse from the saw-mill steam power is generated for the operation, aside from the mill itself, of hydraulic, electric and com- pressed air power plants. Electric current is used for the operation of shop tools, and all large tools are fitted with independent motors. A number of portable ap- pliances are also operated electrically. Pneumatic tools are in use throughout the works for innumerable pur- poses. Hydraulic power is applied to flanging and punching appliances, also to riveters. The large forg- ing hammers, -- generally called steam hammers, are operated here with com- pressed air. Only modern appliances are in use, it having been the aim of this company to equal in point of equipment, and_ con- venience of arrangement any plant in existence. The company has long had in operation a large marine railway. Last year saw the addition to the plant of a floating dry dock of 3,000 tons capacity. A new dry dock and floating derrick combined is under con- struction, the derrick being designed for lifting heavy machinery, ord- nance, etc., in outfitting vessels. The derrick will have a lifting capacity IN THE BOILER SHOP LOOKING NORTH AT MORAN BROS. CO.'S WORKS. IN THE MAIN SHOP LOOKING SOUTH AT MORAN BROS. CO.'S WORKS. IN THE MACHINE SHOP LOOKING NORTH AT MORAN BROS. CO.'S WORKS. of 100 tons and will be operated by electricity. The arrangement of the plant, as shown by the accompanying drawing, covers an area of approx- imately twenty-eight acres. Additional lands belonging to the company adjoin on the south and make it possible to extend the plant as may be necessary. Aside from the battleship Nebraska there are under construction by Moran Bros. Co. one steel lighthouse tender, the Heather, 175 ft. long,' and two steel tugs, each 90. ft. long. There. 18 Of Hane also a large amount of gen- eral. vessel repair worse which is a large proportion of their business. The works as now oper- ated comprise, aside from the ship-shed and ship fit- ting shops above described, a blacksmith shop equipped for the heaviest forgings, a boiler shop in which boilers of the largest size are built, a machine shop equipped for a large output of small and large work, a pipe and copper shop in which are produced sheet metal and pipe work of all descrip- tions, a pattern shop, brass and iron foundries where castings of size represent- ing 50 tons can be made. The steel ship buildin shops include large bar and plate furnaces. Large store- houses and store rooms are kept well stocked with ma- chinery, fittings and sup- plies entering into the con- struction and outfit of ma-_ rine and stationary work. A mold loft 50 by 600 ft. is used for laying out lines of vessels preparatory to their construction. The company's drawing office employs a force of thirty to forty men in the preparation of plans for work under construction and in contemplation. The works are located on a deep water frontage in the business, por- tion of Seattle. Waiter frontage nearly 1,000 ft. long on the face of prop- erty together with piers and water ways give the plant nearly a mile of wharf face for berthing vessels; hence the docking facilities and frontage are ample for the accommodation of a large number: of vessels, there being at times as many as ten of large dimensions undergoing repairs. A heavy crane of the shear leg type and of 100 tons capacity is used for handling heavy weights in and out of vessels. The railroad connections to the works are also. very conveniently ar- ranged. Cars loaded with ship building material are delivered into the yard, where they are weighed on track scales of 100 tons' capacity, and there unloaded by means of electric traveling cranes. Spurs from the main railroad tracks extend to the deep water wharves, one of these pass- ing under the 100-ton crane already described, thus permitting of the handling of heavy weights directly to or from the cars and vessels. Other tracks run through the shops at various points and the transportation of the output of the shops from any point to the main railroad lines or wharves is rendered' an easy task. Aside from the ship building and the output incident to such construc- tion Moran Bros. Co.'s works are equipped to turn out mining and other machinery of all kinds and general structural work. : The Austrian-Lloyd Steam Navigation Co. is about to start a direct line of cargo steamers between Trieste and Durban, via the Suez canal, with fornightly sailings. This line was really started about a year and a half ago, but the prolonged war rendered it necessary for the company to suspend the steamers. The Austrian government has mow agreed to allow the company a special subvention and to pay the Suez canal tolls of those ships sailing between Trieste and Durban.