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"TAE Marine REVIEW 31 RO bet Bes Bests. heating is required. Test pumps are installed in each pump house' so water can be fur- nished to test boilers and feed boil- ers while ships are being repaired in the dry dock. There is a hand crane at the head of the slip dock to facilitate the hoist- ing material on bow repairs. and: hot. water Grading and railroad track . from the main line to the shear dock ate completed enabling them to switch boilers and engines under the 60-ton shears and. pick them off from a car and land them on board of a vessel. They have a winter mooring at the ship yard of 22 vessels aggregating 84,000 tons. The Toledo Ship Building Co. is to be congratulated on the commence- ment of its third year. It has a modern yard substantially built, with the good will of the ves- sel owning interests in general and a profitable winter's business to start with. Capt. Robert Murray will command the steamer Rochester of the Western Transit Co.'s fleet this year. BRITISH ADMIRALTY REPAIR SHIP CYCUOPS, A WONDERFUL FLOATING DOCK YARD. -- The fitting out of His Majesty's ship Cyclops by Sir James Laing & Son, ship builders, Sunderland, has now © been completed, and from particulars that can be obtained she is destined to be one of the most novel craft afloat. The se- crets of this ship have been so jealously guarded that even the workmen of the builders have been conducted to the de- partments in which their work lies, and have not been allowed to communicate with any other part of the ship. Even at meal times .if the workmen had brought their food with them they had to go ashore to eat it, all this in ac- cordance with the carrying out of the official secrets act. Nevertheless a few privileged persons have been allowed to see through the ship, and they all speak with wonder of what they have seen. The works on board 'the ship. are equiv- alent to those uf a dock yard employing 300 workmen, that being the number of artificers she will carry in addition to the crew to work the ship. H. M. S. Cyclops may be described as the most complete repair ship or floating dock yard in the world, and is the outcome of an experi- ment made some time ago when an old cruiser was converted into a repair ship at Portsmouth and named Vulcan. The Cyclops is a vessel of 11,000 tons and her dimensions are: Length, 460 ft.; breadth, 55 ft.; and- depth, 40 ft. . Ship yard and engineering machinery are fit- ted up in her interior. As a-matter of fact there is not a machine to be found - in a ship yard or marine engine work's that is not represented in the hold of the Cyclops. On her lowest deck is a fully equipped foundry and forge with cupolas where damaged parts of ma- chinery can be replaced by new castings. Then .there are carpenters', blacksmiths' and armorers' shops, fully equipped, fit- ting works, coppersmiths' and _ elec- tricians' departments. On a higher deck is a boiler shop where boiler and ship plates can be dealt with, punching and shearing machines being there just as in a land ship yard. A powerful crane trav- els all around the ship to lift«repairs from the holds, and on or off the war- ship that has come up for repairs. An electricity generating station is also in- cluded in the Cyclops' equipment, for by this power all the machines and cranes are worked. Ice making plant is also carried, and as a contrast refrigerating is also represented, while on another deck is a gigantic set of condensers ca- pable of supplying a whole fleet with