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M A R I N ps R E Vig 2 steamer Providence is also under construction for the same company. Her general dimensions are: Moulded length on 12-ft. water line, 378 ft. 6 in.; length over all, 397 ft.; breadth of hull moulded at widest place, 50 ft.; breadth over guards at widest place, 88 ft.; depth moulded at lowest place in shear, 21 ft.; depth moulded at center lowest place, 21. tt. 16) ile Her engines affairs. He is chairman of the board of trustees of the Mystic and. Noank library and a member of the state board of trustees' of the Baptist convention of his native state. He is also trustee of the Mystic Oral School for Deaf and Dumb Mutes and while he does not let it be known largest contributor to religious and_ charit- able work of he is the are double in- clined pound 44 in. by $3 in. Vby 108 ie 8 tO kOe | which weiilil drive her ata speed of 20 miles per hour. Steam is gen- erated in six single-ended Scotch boilers 14Tt. 6 inv diz ameter, ©12. ft. over all. The Providence will not be as large as the Priscilla but about the same size as the Pilgrim. C0 In-- HAS BUILT FIVE HUNDRED VESSELS. One of the oldest ship building companies whose work has been exclusively devoted to coastwise construction is the Robert Palmer & Sons Ship Building & Marine Railway Go. of Noank, Conn. The first vessel constructed by this company was the sloop smack Alona of 23 tons built by Robert Palmer. in 1849, when he was twenty-four years of age. The records do not show that Mr. Palmer constructed anything further during that year, but by 1853 he had constructed the sloops I. L. Hammond, the Noank, Welcome, Wm. Rice, G. H. Dud-| rows, E. Smith, Franklin Pierce, Moses Rogers, W. H. Dud- ley, G. G 'King, Sara Clark, Siméon Draper; Comanche, Connecticut and D. N. Eldridge. The plant has grown from small beginnings until it has now to its credit a total of forty-three sloops, forty-nine schooners, three brigs, 146 barges, seven terns, two barks, fifteen tugs, forty-six lighters, nine- teen dump scows, thirty-three steamers, seven sailing yachts, four steam yachts, three pilot boats'and 125 big car floats, a total of 502 vessels. The company has now under construc- tion the schooner Andrew J. Pierce, Jr., a car float for the Starin Transportation Line, together with three barges and six car floats. The growth of the coastwise service can be well followed in the increased dimensions of the car floats constructed by this company. Formerly they were from 160 to 180 ft. long with a capacity for eight cars; nowadays it is a common thing to build floats 316 ft. long having three tracks and a capacity for twenty-two cars. The barges, too, have been greatly increased until the proper size now is one that , carries 3,300 tons with good freeboard. | The schooner Andrew J. Pierce, Jr., now building by the company, is.a bald- headed schooner, having lower masts only and is the 'second of this type to be built on the Atlantic coast though the type is quite common on the Pacific coast. The company does a big business in repairs, one of its latest jobs being the repairs of the large sound steamer City of Trenton which recently collided with the steamer Plymouth and had her bow com- pletely torn away. Mr. Robert Palmer, the head of this company, was born on May 25, 1825, and though over seventy-nine years of age is still active not alone in his business but in a variety of other SIX-MASTED STEEL SCHOONER WILLIAM I, DOUGLAS. persons in that section of the 'country, giving -away for' this purpose every Svyear mB a y times more than he spends for his own liv- ing. Outside of the fishing and lobster busi- ness. 1b * May truly be. said th at > nearly every resident of the village of Noank "35 connected in some way with Mr. - -Palmer's ship yaid. COASTING NOTES, -- Since 1870 the Jackson & Sharp Co., Wilmington, Del.. has constructed for the coasting trade seventeen eames. ten steam barges, twenty-three tow boats, two barks, twenty-three schooners and seventy barges, ranging in tonnage from 200 to 1,800, ; Since the discovery of oil in Texas quite a list of oil tankers have come into existence. During 1902 and 1903 the Town- send & Downey. Ship Building Co., Shooter's island, New York, built for the Standard Oil Co. for the trade between Texas and New York two five-masted schoone1-rigged barges 360 ft. long, 50 ft. beam and 28 ft. deep, having a capacity of about 7,000 tons deadweight. The question of liquid fuel for use in the coasting trade has been given mote attention on the Pacific coast than it has on the Atlantic. Qil has been adopted as fuel on quite a num- 'ber of vessels and is constantly receiving the attention of ship builders on the Pacific coast. It is renorted that the Arizonian and Alaskan of: the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co's fleet operating between San Francisco, the Hawaiian islands and New York are to be equipped with liquid fuel burners. The Nebraskan of this fleet was the first vessel to make the long run from San Francisco to New York using oil as fuel. Several large steamérs plying between San Francisco, Panama and western Pacific ports have been using oil as fuel for some time. The Allan Line steamer Victorian, the largest turbine vessel yet built, was launched at the yard of Workman & Clark, Bel- fast, Ireland, last week. She is 540 ft. long, 60 ft. beam and 4o ft. 6 in. deep. She is to be equipped with turbines of the Parsons make, a preliminary description of which was pub- lished in the Review of July 7. The fastest automobile boat Standard, winner of the Chal- lenge cup last June, offered by the American Power Boat Association, has been sold by her owner C. C. Riotte to Price McKinney of Cleveland. She will be used at the owner's new home in the Thousand Islands. The Standard has made 23 miles an hour.