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which are to be erected in the yard and then knocked down and sent to Panama aboard a steamer. These are each of 900 tons but are without mo- tive power. The battleship Connecticut was docked at the navy yard, New York, on June 18, and an examination made of her hull to, ascertain what injury she. had sustained when she ran aground last February on a reef off Culebra Island. It was found that between the bilge keel and the docking keel on the , starboard .bow four of the half-inch steel plates for a length of about sixty feet had been more or less badly dam- aged, but none of them showed an ac- tual break. It is not certain that the damaged plates will be replaced at present, but the hull of the vessel is being cleaned and painted. The new passenger steamer City of Savannah, building for the Ocean Steamship Co., was launched June 11 at the yards of the Delaware River Ship & Engine Building Co., Chester, Pa. The dimensions of the new steam- er are as follows: Length on 20-ft. water line, 376 ft.; length over all, 403 ft.; breadth of beam, molded, 49 ft.; depth, molded, 27 ft. The gross ton- nage will be about 5,900 tons, or 350 tons larger than her sister ships, the City of Atlanta and the City of Colum- bus. The vessel will go into commis- sion about Sept. 1, running in the regu- 'lar freight and passenger service of the Savannah line. The ~ Burlee. Dry Dock Co.,: Port Richmond, Staten Island, N. Y., re-. cently launched the tug Standard II, built for the Standard Oil-Co. The new boat is of steel throughout and is equipped with all the modern appliances necessary for a boat of that class. The dimensions are as follows: Length, 152 ft.; breadth of beam, 26 ft.; depth of hold, 16 ft. The engine is triple expansion, with cylinder diam- eters of 17, 25 and 43 in., with 30 in. stroke. Steam is to be supplied by a steel Scotch boiler 151% ft. in diameter and 12 ft. long, having four furnaces and allowed a pressure of 180 pounds. The tug is fitted with steam steering gear, a powerful electric plant and all necessary fire and wrecking pumps. There are under construction at this date for the Consolidated Steamship Lines Co., known as the Morse inter- ests, nine vessels of which three, the Camden, Yale and Harvard are fitted with turbine engines. The apportion- ment is as follows: The Brazos for the Mallory line, building by the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co.; the Yale and Harvard, now receiving their machinery at the W. &° A. Fletcher Co.'s yard; a freight THE MarRINE REVIEW steamer for the Clyde line, building by the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia; the steamer Washington Irving for the People's. line and a,steamer for. the: Citizens line, which are being built by the New York Ship Building Co., Camden, N. J., and the: T..S. Marvel Ship Building Co., Newburgh, N. Y., respectively, and which are to be en- gined by the W. & A. Fletcher Co. The steamship Old Colony, building by the William Cramp Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, under a contract . with the Quintard Iron Works, New York, for the New Eng- land Steamship Co., a subsidiary of the New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co., was successfully launched June 26.. The Old-Colony is a sister ship of the Massachusetts and Bunker Hill, with the exception that the Old Col- ony is propelled by turbine machinery. These steamers were designed to maintain a seventeen-hour service on the outside route between New York and Boston. The Massachusetts is al- ready in service and the Bunker Hill is about finished and ready for deliv- ery. These three vessels will be care- fully observed to determine the merits of the turbine and reciprocating types of propelling machinery as they are exactly alike with this exception and are to perform the same service. Thomas McCosker & Co., Baltimore, have received an order from Philip Weaver & Sons, Baltimore, for build- ing a wooden tug boat 110 ft. long, 2314 ft. beam and 11 ft. depth of hold. The craft is to have two masts and as she will be fitted for deep sea towing she will have electric: lights, search- light, fire and wrecking pumps, ma- chine to make ice, steam windlass, cap- stan and steering gear. The deckhouse is to be built of steel. The Harlan & Hollingsworth Corp., Wilmington, Del., is to build the machinery. The engine will be compound, with cylinders 18 and 34 in. diameter and 24 in. stroke. Steam will be supplied by a large steel boiler tested to 160 pounds pressure. The former lake steamer Ravens- craig, which has recently arrived on the coast is to be overhauled and al- tered at the yard of the Burlee Dry 'Dock Co., Port Richmond, S. I, N. Y. She will be fitted for carrying coal and when completed will embody many novel features, being probably the most convenient vessel for loading coal or other similar cargoes on the Atlantic coast. The work will be done under the supervision of Matteson & Drake, naval architects, New York, by whom the plans for the alterations were pre- pared. ELECTRICITY ON NEW CUN- ARDER MAURITANIA. . -- An unusual interest attaches to the electrical installation that is just now being put into the new Cunarder, the Mauritania, on account of the great | variety of uses to which electricity is being put and the exceptionally large size of the plant. When she is com- pleted, as she will be in the course of a » few months, her generating: station will have a bigger plant capacity than many a public lighting station has been able to boast of during its first few years. For instance, for lighting pur- poses only, there will be something like five thousand lamps of 16 candle pow- er, and to these we must add radiators on the luminous lamp principle for heating purposes. The electric motor is to render service in the operation of a great deal of auxiliary ,machinery, such as forced draught stokehold fans, refrigerating machinery, passenger hoists betwen the various decks, and a number of luggage and stores hoists. The lifeboats will be raised and low- ered electrically, and the variety of op- erations inseparable from a bakery and pantry will fully use electrical agency. It is said that for the purpose of venti- lation © between fifty and sixty latee «electric. "fans? will pe cme ployed. Télephone electric bells are essentials that, of course, will be largely in vogue, both in the general service of the ship and for passengers' convenience. Electric search lights are indispensable on a modern vessel of any .size, and the Mauritania will have four powerful ones, while electricity will also do the masthead and side light illumination. From the bridge it will be possible to close electrically all the watertight doors throughout the ship. As to the plant for supplying the energy for all these purposes, this will consist of four turbo-generators of about 440 kilo- watts capacity each; these generators. are placed in pairs apart, so located and installed that, thanks to watertight bulkheads, their supply will not fail in the event of flooding of the engine room occurring. How important this is needs no pointing out. The Locke Regulator Co., Salem, Mass., has just issued a catalog de- scriptive of the Locke automatic en- gine stop and speed limit system. The Locke automatic engine stop per- mits the immediate stop of the engine from any part of the plant and makes | a fly wheel explosion absolutely im- possible. The catalog is well illustrated and will be mailed to anyone upon re- quest. apparatus and