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286 THe Marine REVIEW OurTBoARD PROFILE OF STEAMER Hamonic or NortTHERN NAVIGATION Co.'s FLEET. August, 16 of docks, yards and workshops is of the most modern description. On one fitting-out quay there is a 150-ton crane, tested up to 200 tons, and on another a 40-ton crane. South of the wet dock the building slips to accom- modate eight large Atlantic liners are situated, and here ships over 1,000 ft. in length can be laid down. Behind the slips have been erected an iron foundry, pattern shops, joiners' shops and platers' sheds. The platers' sheds cover an area of 145,000 square yards, and their facilities for the rapid han- dling of the heaviest class of material are quite notable. The wood working departments have been laid out with great care, and equipped with the most modern machinery. In the vast engine shop alone there are machines and im- _ plements which have never been used other ship building firm in the "cou try, the very latest inventions } having 'been adopted 'both for produc- ing the most delicate work and for the general overhead cranes driven by elec- tricity which will lift the steamship parts to any position of the buildings. The steel plate rolling department will be a practical romance in modern engineering, for there will 'be nearly a hundred different machines driven by electricity, each manipulated 'by one man. The power throughout. the ex- tensive works is electrical and gener- ated. from Mond gas manufactured in the yard, a 4,000-H. P. plant having been erected. The electric power sta- tion ig close to the gas generator, which tequires to 'be worked by two men only. There is besides a com- plete installation of hydraulic and pneumatic power. ~The new works at the present time are gradually being brought into use as new ship building orders are booked, but some considerable time must yet elapse before all the machinery and the exceptional facilities of this new ship building yard are in full operation. The Southern Ship Building Co., of Tottenville, Staten Island, N. Y., is building a steamer for the Haverhill Steamship Co., of Gloucester, Mass., to be 170 ft. long, 32 ft. beam and 12% ft. deep, to be propelled by a twin screw engine of 1,100 H. P. She will have a speed of 10 knots iand is in- tended for the fish-carrying trade be- tween Gloucester and New York. It is expected that with the completion of the Cape Cod canal it w'll be possible to develop a trade in fresh fish with New York.