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Or No DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY INTEREST CONNECTED OR _ ASSO- CIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Published every Thursday by The Penton Publishing Co. CLEVELAND. eee es 73-74 Journal Bldg. Beer AL BOO wg Gigis ee bie ete or 932 Ellicott Sa. (CECA Oi oiccersce oe eins oe 1328 Monadnock Blk. CINGCINNATI....... First National Bank Bldg. NEW YORK........--- 1005 West Street Bldg. PIS WU IG: oo. ise oe ee ce es 510 Park Bldg. CEE coke Use 6 is wine os 411 Providence Bldg. Correspondence on Marine Engineering, Ship Building and Shipping Subjects Solicited. Subscription, U. S. and Mexico, $3.00 per anti Canada, $4.00. Foreign, $4.50. Subscribers can have addresses changed at will. Change of advertising copy must reach this office on Thursday preceding date of publication. The Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with the Marine Review through the regular channels of the American News Co. European Agents, The International News Company, Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C., England. - Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second Class Matter, July 2, 1908. BRITISH ICE CRUSHERS FOR CANADA. Ice-BREAKER FOR THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. --The London Engineer reports that an order for another ice-breaker has been placed by the 'Canadian with Messrs. Vickers Sons & Maxim, Ltd.. Barrow. The vessel is to be 270 ft. long,.46 ft. beam, and capable of de- veloping, on trial, a speed of 16 knots. That the ways of government of- government ficials are devious and past finding out we are frequently reminded and that we enjoy no monopoly of this in the United States the recent action of the Canadian government in placing an order for another ice crushing steamer with an English firm is evidence. Can- ada pays a bonus to ship building plants as an assistance and encourage- ment in their maintenance for the very obvious purpose of encouraging the 'building and operating of ships, and then as soon as there is a bit of work for them to do and which properly be- longs to them, totally regardless of any possible difference in price, sends it abroad, It cannot be urged as a reason that a better ship can be had, because the Tre /aRINe REVIEW ship builders of the great lakes, both": had' Canadian 'and American, have more experience with ice and_ ice- breaking craft than all the ship builders of the world put together. The only notable work in that direction done abroad has followed almost exactly the lines developed here, and some of the methods adopted in securing the De formation went far beyond the bounds of decency, to say nothing of honesty. To be sure, it may be said that this second ice breaker cannot be taken through the canals, which is true, but, while this may be a-plausible enough explanation for the house of parlia- ment or the general public, the man who. knows will be more likely to con- clude that the dimensions were con- veniently arranged for that very pur- pose. There are naval architects on the lakes who will, without hesitation, undertake to produce a ship within canal dimensions that will do far more ice execution on St. Lawrence river 'packs than the ship proposed and for less money. It is a well known fact tiat the boat having' a form best adapted for ice work will never be driven at 16 knots per hour, we might safely say cannot be, and those who seek anything of the sort are either not informed on the subject or are simply throwing their money at the birds. | | The Montcalm, the first ice-breaker ordered by the Canadian government and also built abroad, and recently : Quebec, within canal dimensions, and it is per- sunk in collision near was 'fectly -safe. to say that there are in <- Canada builders who would, without hesitation, undertake to build a boat her superior in every way for the pur- pose intended, if given the opportunity. Patriotism is: a good. thing, but it must. be more than skin deep to be genuine, and this action of the govern- ment, as well as that of sundry vessel Owners who have had built in Great Britain within the past two or three fleet steamers, seems to indicate that most Of it ig of that variety. | The. ship builders of Canada have invested their money in the face of very discourag- ing prospects and parliament has rec- years a large of canal-sized _bring: her in duty free? where the longitudinal position of all ognized that fact by conceding a bon- us, of small proportions to be sure, © but yet a help, while denying them the : only really effective support and which _ is their right, an import duty on ton--- nage built abroad. How is it to be ex. pected that a young industry, which steel ship building is in Canada, is to struggle to its feet while every owner who wants a ship not too large to pass the canals, can go to Britain and buy her at a somewhat: lower price and It is a rank injustice to the Canadian builder and the government itself has added a foul wrong when it went abroad and placed orders for work that by every right belongs to him. The question of -cost has no bearing on the case whatever. CRAGG'S NEW SYSTEM OF SHIP CONSTRUCTION. Considerable interest has. been taken in British ship building circles in the an- nouncement that Messrs. R. Craggs & Sons, ship builders, of Middlesbrough, have adopted an entirely new method of ship construction. It is said that the idea is to substitute longitudinal fram- ing for the old method of transverse framing. Quarter pillars and hatch pil- lars are dispensed with, and the center pillars reduced to a minimum. In the new system the idea has been hit upon whereby longitudinal frame work could be simply and directly applied to the structure of the vessel as a whole,. and it has now led, after most laborious in- vestigations, to a complete and definite system of ship building, which enables the multitudinous transverse attachments which are the seat rather of weakness than of strength to be thrown to one side in favor of a continuous and homo- geneous structure. It follows from what has been said, and also from the most important fact that the redistribution of material that has taken place has brought -- very nearly the whole of the steel in the vessel into the direction necessary to resist the greatest strains that a ship has to bear, viz. longitudinal strains. Be- tween the frames and beams of the or- dinary transverse-framed vessel there is nothing but the plate to resist the bend- ing or breaking of the vessel between the frames, whereas under the new system,