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SHIPYARD NOTES. William Cryer, of Oakland, Cal. is building a twin-screw towboat 45 ft. long for Peter Nelson & Co., of San Francisco. - Arthur D. Story, of Essex, Mass., has launched the knockabout schooner Russel J, Silveira, built to the orders of Capt. Silveira. The Tampa Foundry & Machine Works, Tampa, Fla., are to build a dredge to cost $25,000 for the Holder Phosphate Co., of Inverness. William E. Woodall & Co., Balti- more, Md., recently launched an open lighter for the Piedmont Guano Co. The vessel is 80 ft. long, 24 ft. beam and 7% ft. deep. The Vineyard Shipbuilding Co., Mil- ford, Del., is building a tug for Mc- Lowery & Co. of New York city. It will be 92 ft, long, 27 ft. beam and 8 ft. 9 in. deep. The Moore & Scott Iron Works, San Francisco, have a contract for in- stalling oil-burning apparatus in the quarantine steamer Argonaut at an approximate cost of $5,000. The West Kentucky Coal Co. has completed arrangements for establish- ing a ship yard on the Tennessee riv- er front at Paducah, Ky. It is the intention of the 500 barges at a cost of $2,400 each. Sawyer Bros., Millbridge, Me., have obtained a contract for the con- struction: of a four-masted schooner tor M, P, Smith. & Sons, of New York. She is to be capable of carry- ing about 550,000 ft. of southern pine. The British Columbia Marine Rail- way ©o,; "Victoria, 'B. C., isereported: to have obtained a contract for the con- _ struction of two new steamers for the Canadian Pacific Railway .Co:, for use in the Pacific coasting trade. Williams Bros. & Alexander Me Donaic; of Lone Branch; N. J.; are building a 100-ft. power yacht for H. N. Baruel, of the - Atlantic Yacht Cinb; She will have a beam of 17 ft anu a depth of 4 ft; 6 'in: The Bath Iron Works expects to have the steel turbine passenger steamer Belfast ready for her official trial by May 15. It is expected that she will display slightly Brahe speed than her sister ship. The Moore & Scott Iron Works, San Francisco, Cal., are progressing rapidly on the repairs to the govern- ment tug General McDowell, and it is expected that they will be complet- ed well within the 18 days allowed iby the contract. R. L. Bean, Camden., Me., will soon launch the three-masted schooner company to build. -42 ft. THe Marine REVIEW building for Capt. Samuel W. Theall, of Boston. As soon as she "is off the stocks work will be begun on a somewhat larger three-master for Capt. William Nelson, of Lyndon, Mass. C. Durm & Sons, Baltimore, Md., have been awarded a contract for the construction of a composite Ketch cruising yacht to be 60 ft. long and of steel frame construction. She will be fitted with a gasoline! engine of considerable power, The Verdon Co., New Brighton, S. I, N. Y., are building a steam 'lighter for the M. J. Rudolph Co., Inc, of New York, which is to be 106 ft, long, 29 ft. beam and 10% ft. depth of hold. She is to be used for supplying coal and water to yachts and the general shipping trade. The Moore & Scott Iron Works, San Francisco, Cal., have recently installed a large Scotch marine type donkey boiler on the oil schooner Rhoderick Dhu, which is owned by the Associated Oil Co., of San. Fran- cisco. The boiles was built by the Moore & Scott Works. The . Portland: Shipbuilding Co., Portland, Me., is erecting a building 80 x 30 ft, for use as a machine and engine' plang. J. ©. Noyse has. been appointed to take charge of the new branch. He was formerly connected with the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me. Robert Crawford, Tacoma, Wash.; is soon to begin the construction of two craft, one an auxiliary fishing schooner for Seattle owners, to be in length, 10 ft. beam and 6 tt. deep. The other' vessel' is' to take the form of a floating grocery store and. wilh be SO ft. long: 14 - ft: beam and 4 ft. deep. William R. Osborn, Croton-on-Hud- son, N. Y., has, been awarded a contract for the. construction of a 55-ft. light-draught wooden R. G. Davis, 454 48th street, Brook- lyn, N; Y.. The tug-is to draw: not over 5 ft. of water when coaled and equipped' for . work. . She -is to be launched on or before April 1. The Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock' Co., Newport News, Va., is making excellent progress on the -- construction of the torpedo boat de- stroyers Roe and Terry, the keels of which' were laid some time in December, 1908. On March 1 the Roe was 17.1 per cent completed and the Terry 16.7 per cent. The Risdon Iron Works, San Fran- cisco, Cal., are making good progress on the that of the 'who bid $243,000 for the installation. tug by. repairs to the steamship ee Sampson. A_ cofferdam has been | built about the ship in order to get at the rivets in the bulkheads below the water line. This was necessitated by the lack of dry docks in "Say Francisco other than those controlled by the Schwab interests, and which are not obtainable ei use by other firms, ~The Mosher Water Tube Boiler Co., 1 Broadway, New York, is mak- ing a strenuous effort to get the award for furnishing boilers for the new battleship Florida. The bid of the Mosher Co. was $69,000 lower than Babcock & Wilcox Co., The disposition of the navy depart- ment is to award the contract to the latter firm asits boileris exactly suited to naval purposes. The Mosher boiler has never been instalied in a battle- ship and would therefore be more or less of an experiment, although it has been tested in torpedo boats of the United. States. navy, The Mosher boiler is on the Yarrow prin- ciple, ; The Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., laid the keel of the steamer which it is to build for the Matson Navi- gation Co, of .San° Franciseo. os March 15, This steamer is to be 450 ft. in length and will cost $800,- 000. She will ply in the sugar trade between San Francisco and the Ha- waiian Islands. She will be fitted with passenger accommodations also, will carry 6,000 tons of freight and is to make a speed of 15 knots. The Maryland Steel Co., Sparrows Point, Md., will probably launch the first of the three colliers which it is building for the navy department early in April. Practically all the frames are up, the bulkheads are in and the hull plating remains to be finished when the Mars can be put overboard. The Venus will probably be the second one to be launched and she will be followed a month later by the Hector. H. S. Groves, president of the Wil- liam Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., of Philadelphia, sailed for London recently for the purpose of negotiating concerning the con- tracts which are about to be awarded by the republic for naval vessels, involves contracts to the amount of $20,000,000, and if obtained for the Philadelphia yard will be one of the biggest undertak- ings in the history of the plant. Argentine The order