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62 TURBINE FOR JAPANESE CRUISER. Herewith is published a photograph of a rotor being lifted from lower casing for one of the two 144-in. sev- marine en-stage Curtis revers'ble THe Marine REVIEW a salvage steamer. Her dimensions are: Length between perpendiculars, 125. ft; breadth molded, 25. ft.; and depth mold- ed, 14 ft., built in excess of Lioyds high- est class with a full equipment, powerful steam windlass, steam capstan, steam LIFTING ROTOR OF JAPANESE ARMORED CRUISER FROM LOWER CASING, steam turbines which are to be in- stalled in a Japanese armored cruiser of 23-knot speed. Each turbine will develop a brake horsepower of 12,000 with considerable overload capacity. This pair of turbines will be shipped during the present mionth by steamer via the Suez canal to Kure, Japan. The two Japanese officers shown in the photo- graph are on the left, Lieut. S. Yoshida, senior inspector imperial Japanese navy, and on the right, Lieut. Constructor Y. Kamimura. The other photograph shows the turbine in process of con- struction. TUG FOR MUTUAL TRANSPOR- TATION CO. The Greenock & Grangemouth Dock Yard Co., Ltd., successfully launched from their Grangemouth syard this month the single screw tug Stirling which they | have built to the order of the Montreal Transportation Co. Ltd, of Montreal, Canada, to designs and specifications by the company's naval architects, Messrs. John Reid & Co., of Glasgow, London and New York. The vessel, which is one of the most powerful and up-to-date of her kind afloat, is intended for service on the St. Lawrence river and Canadian great lakes. She is fitted with special auxiliary machinery in the engine room and on deck for the easy handling of the tow lines, and can also be used as steering gear and electric light through- out. Accommodation is provided for officers and crew in keeping with the gines and a large boiler fitted with How- den's forced draft for a speed of 13 knots in working conditions. As the vessel left the ways she was gracefully named by Mrs. Dunlop, wife of John Dunlop, of Glasgow. After the launch the company adjourned to the 'builder's model room where the usual toasts were proposed and responded to, and cake and wine was partaken of. R. P. Schwerin, vice president and general manager, Pacific Mail Steam- ship Co., in discussing the Ocean Mail Act now before congress, said that he feared that the appropriation would be almost entirely consumed in the added cost of substituting Americans for Asi- atics. He calculated that the annual wages of the Asiatic crews on the five vessels is $276,924 and the food bill $90,- 392. The substitution of white crews would increase the wage scale to $547,611 and the cost of food to $316,218. The Graham & Morton Transporta- tion Co. will make their first sailing of passenger steamers on April 1, with daily trips on both divisions of their line. The steamship Pomona belonging to the fleet of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., was wrecked on Mon- tery reef, March 17. Passengers and TURBINES FOR JAPANESE ARMORED CRUISER IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION, . company's usual standard. The machin- ery is being supplied by Messrs. Muir & Houston, Kinning Park, Glasgow, and consists of a set of triple-expansion en- crew were all saved. The Pomona was built by the Union Iron Works in 1888 and is 225 ft. over all, 33 ft. beam and 16 ft. deep.