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DREDGE HULL ALFRED E. HUNT. The Port Huron Construction Coy Port Huron, Mich.,shas_ just delivered the dredge ld Alfred E. Hunt to the St. Lawrence River Power Co. to be used at Massena, N. Y. This dredge' ' is what is known as a bucket dredge, ~ each bucket holding 12 cu. ft: \ The hull is built of steel with molded di- mensions as follows: Length, 120 ft.; ~ beam, 43 ft.; depth, 11 ft: The. sain gantry on which will be hinged the inboard end of the bucket arm is 27 ft. above the deck. Above the main gantry stands. the trolley 'gantry whose top is 46 ft.. above the deck. This trolley gantry will be used en- TAE Marine REVIEW over. the screehis 'anil falling? into dump scows alongside thé hull. These dump scows will then be towed away and the material will be disposed of in the usual manner. The finer ma- terial passes through the screens and. is carried by chutes to the intake con- necting to the suction end of the hy- draulic pump which discharges on the land in the usual way. The machinery is being. built by the Bucyrus Co., at South Milwaukee, Wis., and will be installed at Massena, N. Y. Ghiow TURBINE STEAMERS FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN. There was launched on Tuesday, May 28, from the works of the Fair- | DREDGE ALFRED E, HUNT, to - handle! nhachinery." The gantry is 'burkt two sections, the lower section only being shown on the photograph the upper tirely stern in being stowed in the hold for trans+ » There is a-well'8 fti 'wide: portation. cut througth the hull extending' from the bow aft to midships iothrough which the bucket arm operates. The bucket arm will be raised and lowered by the bow gantry not shown on the photograph but located at the for- ward end of the vessel. Two large hatches are cut in the after end of the vessel for the reception of the machinery and a 'special water tight compartment is built for a large hy- draulic pump so that in case an acci- dent happens to the pump it would only flood this compartment and not cause any damage to the rest of the hull. The material dredged after being dumped by the buckets at the top of the main gantry falls on a set of screens, the coarser material passing high-speed "built for the Egyptian Mail Steamship Co., and intended to inaugurate, in .the. field Ship Building and Engineering Co., Ltd.; at Glasgow, the first of two turbine - steamers being late autumn, a new express service bc- tween Marseilles and Alexandria, in order to assist the further development of Egypt as a health and tourist resort. Already many of the east-bound ocean' steamers take passengers to the land of the Pharoahs, and the P. & O. mail express steamers Isis and Osiris, run- ning between Brindisi and Egypt, have done much to develop this traffic. But the new vessels, with their speed of 21 knots, and with the very splendid ac- commodation provided must still fur- ther influence the favor with which Egypt is regarded as a winter resort?'°*' gyp "the Standard Oil Co.'s steamer Parthe- 7 Ts, These new ships, named Heliopolis and Cairo, are of great size, equaling the largest of Atlantic liners oF a few years ago. Their length over all is 545 ft.; their breadth, 60 ft. 3 i. and their depttr from keel to shelter deck, 38 ft. 4 The tonnagelds 12,000.tons. ers are running at 340 revolutions per minute. This is to give the speed of 21 knots already referred to. decks. ship, and. 46.7774, period, and seating accommodation is to be provided for, 266,persons, all at ye The smoking room is 50 8 ft. by 40 ft. and will have seats for 107 e ' small tables. passengers in nooks, alcoves and. cor- ners. It is to be finished in oak in the Queen Anne style. The music-room period: with The cafe is 63 ft, by 40 ft, seating accommodation Regency style. There are numerous other public rooms, and these, along with the cabins and_ other ences, promise to signalize the highest excellence achieved in naval architenn ture. TARGET PRACTICE. The compilation of the scores made by the various ships of the navy in the recent target practices reveals the ' fact that the Pacific station ships have made a remarkable showing. The awards are as follows: Battleship trophy to the Illinois, cru'ser_ trophy to the Boston, gunboat trophy to the Princeton, torpedo boat trophy to the Preble. These awards with the ex- ception of the battleship trophy, go to the Pacific station, the remark- able showing of that contingent being noted: in. the -fact that all o1 118 successful ships there exceeded 85 per cent in the No trophy was awarded to any ship of the Asiatié : station. The Republic Belting & Supply Co., of Cleveland are sending out an inter- esting souvenir in the shape of a cal- culator for figuring horse. power. Engineers and mill-wrights all over the country are writing in for them. They - The ma- chinery, 'which is of-'the Parsons: tur-" -- bine type, will develop 18,000 H. Py when three turbines and three propel: The hull is -- divided by water-tight bulkheads into. ten compartments, and there are seven -- As indicative of the provision -- made for passengers, it may be stated _ that the dining-saloon occupies the ae - width of the ee length. The design is of the Geotéion a for eighty-five persons, and: will be in the. . conveni- . final merit record. ra y is 45 ft. by 20 ft. and here the style of -- oe a _ decoration is to be of the Louis XVI- will be sent to anyone interested in power transmission upon application. Capt. Frederick Tholen, skipper of 'plying between New York and Hamburg, has recently completed his-- ne -one hundredth trip across the Atlantic. Mrs. Tholen has crossed the ocean ten ~-- times with her husband.