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34 SHIP YARD NOTES. - The Risdon Iron Works, San Fran- cisco, Cal., has secured a contract for repairing the British steamer Braemont. The navy department is about to ask for bids for the construction of the eight submarines authorized by the last congress. The Union Iron Works, San Fran- cisco, Cal., has been awarded contract for effecting repairs to light vessel No. 70 at a cost of $1,820.80. The Risdon Iron Works, San Fran- cisco, Cal., has the army transport Logan at its yards for a thorough overhauling which is to cost $275,971. The Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., will deliver the new armored cruiser Mon- tana to the navy department, July 15, at the Norfolk navy yard. : The Bishop ship yard at Gloucester, Mass., has a fishing schooner under con- struction for Boston owners, which will be launched some time this month. She is to be named Athenia. "be -John N. Robins Co., Erie Ba- aia. Brooklyn, N.. VY... fas had. the British steamship Anselm at its yard for repairs. She stranded on English Cay in February while bound from New Orleans to Balize, B. H: The Sharpfown Marine Sharptown, Md., recently launched the barge Timothy J. Hooper for John T. Donohue & .Co., of Balti- more She is 200 ft. long, and 35- ft. beam. M. Mitchell Davis, Solomon's, Md., has launched the tug Esther Phillips, which he is building for Capt. Vivian Phillips, of Baltimore. She is 70 ft. in. Jengih, 1634 it. Deam. and 8 ft. depth of hold. ihe ship -buildiie firm of J. -T. Dickie & Son, Raymond, Wash., is now in the hands of a receiver, who . has asked an order from the court to "permit the completion of a steam schooner which is now under way there. The Fore River Ship Building Co., Quincy, Mass., recently delivered two of the lightships, Nos. 92 and 93, which it has been 'building for the government. No. 92 is to be stationed at San Francisco and No. 93 at the Swiftsure Bank, Puget Sound. The United States naval tug Patapsco, which is being built at the navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H., was launched June 30. The Patapsco is 160 ft. long and will cost $150,000. She will be capable of accompanying a naval squadron on any expedition. The W. & A. Fletcher Co., Hobo- ken, N. J., is engaged in finishing the interior of the big turbine yacht Van- adis, recently built on the Clyde for Railway, THE Marine. REVIEW C.K. G. Billings, of Chicago. She was brought to this side owing to a strike in the Scotch yards which hindered her completion. J. M. Hammitt, Marietta, O., has been awarded contract by Capt. Parminter, of Nashville, Tenn., for the construction of a fine steamboat for service on the Cum- berland river. The vessel is to be 150 ft. long and 33 ft. beam and will have Marietta boilers and machinery. Her cost is to be over $20,000. The Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me. was damaged by fire recently to the extent of $90,000. Eight torpedo boat boilers, 12 torpedo tubes and many patterns and spars were destroyed. The: loss is fully covered by insur- ance. The origin of the fire has not been d'scovered. The Robert Palmer & Son Ship Build- ing & Marine Railway Co., Noank, Conn., launched the tug Henry J. Créew* on June 29. She is building for the White Star Towing Co., of New York and is 90 ft. long, 24 ft. beam and 10 it. deep. Her engines will be built and installed by John W. Sullivan, of New York. The submarine torpedo boat Octopus, built for the Electric Boat Co. by the Fore River Ship Building Co., Quincy, Mass., was formally accepted by the navy department recently. She was placed in commission at once and has joined the second submarine flotilla at the port of New York. The Fore River Ship Building Co., Quincy, Mass., has recently been awarded a contract 'by the United States war department for the con- 'struction of eight of the 12 ocean- going revenue tugs which are to be built for that branch of the govern- ment. The other four are to be built on the Pacific coast. Advices from. Chester, Pa., are to the effect that the Delaware River Ship Building & Engine Works, which has been put under the con- trol of the Roach interests since 1871, will Be put on the market in order to settle the estate of the late John B. Roach, the heaviest creditor of the company for loans advanced from time to time. The Sanford & Brooks Co. Balti- more, Md., has two six-pocket scows in frame which it is building for the United States engineer corps for use ay Wilmineton, N.C. Both are alike and are of the following dimensions: Length, 120 ft.; beam. 32 ft., and depth, 10 ft. It is intended to launch both scows at the same time, side- ways. Joseph Supple, the Portland, Ore., ship builder, has submitted a bid for the construction of the four screw revenue steamers single- which the 'sive repairs to the United States en 'pockets overhauled, as well as paint- war department has announced are to be built on the Pacific coast. The craft are to be built of wood, will be 60 ft. long and are expected to cos about $30,000 each. William E. Woodall & Co., Balti more, Md., recently completed exten gineer corps' suction dredge Cape Fear and she has left for her station at Wilmington, N. C.- The yegeem was docked, stripped, caulked and re_- metaled, had stern renewed. and sand ed throughout. The William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, Pa., is engaged in extensive repairs to the Panama Railroad & Steamship Cos steamer Colon. She is expected to take up her service again by the middle of the month when the steamer Panama will be sent to the same concern for an over- hauling. Both vessels will have their passenger accommodations considerably enlarged. President McGregor of the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, and Pres- _ident Hibbs, of the Moran Co., Seattle, Wash., are quoted as saying that they believe it likely that some of the con- tracts for constructing torpedo boats and. gunbots authorized by the last congress will go to Pacfic coast build-~ ers, and each expects to get his share by determined effort. Crawford & Reid, Tacoma, Wash., have secured the contract for building a speedy stern-wheel steamer for the Olympia & Tacoma Navigation Co., of Tacoma, to be used exclusively in the passenger ser- vice which that company conducts be- tween those two cities. The new craft will be 151 ft. long, 22 ft. beam and 6 ft. deep and will have engines of 16-in. diam- eter with a 7-ft. stroke. The boiler will be of the fire-box marine type, 7 ft. in diameter and 22 ft, in length. The cost of the new vessel is estimated at $40,000 and she will have accommodation for 300 passengers. She is designed to main- tain a speed of 17 knots. The negotiations which have been en- tered into by the Boston Steamship Co. for the sale to the government of its steamships Shawmut and Tremont. for the use of the Panama Canal Commis- sion, have progressed to such a stage that a board of special survey is soon to go to Seattle for the purpose of in- specting the vessels in dry dock and re- porting to the government as to their condition and value. These steamers are managed by Waterhouse & Co., of Seat- tle, Wash. in a regular service to the Orient and are known to be in first class condition, having been surveyed last year. ===