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WELIN DAVITS. The Welin Davit & Lane & DeGroot Co., 17 Battery place, New York, has recently received orders for the com- plete equipment with Welin quadrant davits of the United States coast and geodetic survey steamers Bache and Patterson. William Cramp & _ Sons, Philadelphia, have ordered these davits for the steamships Ancon and Christo- bal, of the Panama Railroad & Steam- ship- Co.'s iine, as well as for three harbor tugs building for the quarter- master's department of the United States government. The Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., New: ' -port News, Va., has ordered. Welin davits for the steamships Bear ana Beaver, which it is building for the San Francisco & Portland Steamship Co., of San Francisco, and also for the steamer Wilhelmina, which is under con- struction -for the Matson Navigation Co., San Francisco. The Associated Oil Co.'s steamer, J. A. Chanslor, will also be fitted with these davits. The Standard. Oil Co.'s Imperial steamer and the Erie railroad tug Daniel Wil- lard, recently received equipments from the Welin Davit & Lane & DeGroot io. . direct. NEW CUNARD LINER. The Cunard line has given an order to the firm of Swan, Hunter & Wig- ham Richardson, builders of the Maure- tania, for a large passenger steamer de- signed to take the place of the Lusitania and Mauretania when either of them are laid off. She will, however, be a smaller steamer than either of these, being about 20,000 tons, but her equip- ment will be of the finest character. SHIP YARD NOTES. The two vessels building at Newport News for the San Francisco & Portland Co. will be named Bear and _ Beaver. The Portland Ship Building Co., Portland, Me., is to repair the lighthouse tender Geran- ium, the work comprising repairs to her pad- dle wheels and engines. The three steamers building by the Mary- land Steel 'Co., Sparrows' Point, Md., for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., will be ones the Kentuckian, Georgian and Caro- inn, The Erie. Basin Dry Dock Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., has obtained a contract for lengthening the Meérchants & Miners Transportation Co.'s steamer Howard 40 ft., as well as to install a new set of steel boilers. William E. Woodall. & Co., Baltimore, Md., have launched a seven-pocket mud scow, hav- ing a capacity for 800 yards. Sne was built for stock and is of the following dimensions: Length, 25 fti; beam, -38 ff.; depth, 14 ft. ' The Skinner Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Baltimore, Md., is building a large tug boat for the Baltimore & Ohio railway, to be Hie tt. 6 «in. long, 24 f€! begm and 16 "ft. {6 in. molded depth.- She 'will have fore and aft comsound engines with cylinders 20 and 40 in. diameters by stroke of 28 in., supplied with 'ste-m by a Scotch boiler. The Clinton Ship Building & Repair Co., Philadelphia, Pa., recently launched the new steel steamer Clio, which has been built for service 'between Prilade'phia, Odessa and other points on Delaware' Bay. She is owned by S. B. Watkins, of Odessa, and oth- Ors. the Clio is 116 ft. lone, 23 ft. beam and ..71%4 ft. depth. of. hold. THE MarINE REVIEW The Manhattan Navigation Co. are asking for bids for two additional steamboats for 'the Hudson river trade. These boas are to be fitted with a number of special and un-que features for accommodation of passengers, an it is the intention to have taem. Supericr to anything now in existence. Boats are to be of medium size, and to cost not over $400,000 each. Bids will soon be called for for reconstruct- ing the government dredge Chinook, the sum of $125,000 having been set aside by the last congress for this purpose. As soon as the Chinook is ready for service she is to be put at work on the bar at the mouth of the Co- lumbia river, Oregon. The appropriation pro- vides that $80,000 may be spent upon the repairs to her boilers and $45,000 upon the repairs to her hull. : M. P. Howlett, of Philadelphia, has placed a contract with a ship building firm at Wilming- ton, Del., for the construction of a wooden tug 75 ft. long, 18 ft. beam and 9 ft. depth of hold, to be named after her owner. The lighthouse tender Mayflower has _ been ordered to the yard of the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., to receive repairs and alterations to her hull and engine to cost $25,754. The Mayflower was built at the Bath Iron Works in 1897. ; The battleship South Carolina recently un- derwent a successful trial trip off the Dela- ware capes, in which it was demonstrated that the vessel is the fastest ship of its class in the navy. In the four-hour full speed run the South Carolina made 18.88 knots, the con- tract requirement being only 18.5 knots. In the five high-speed runs over the meas- ured mile the battleship attained a mean speed of 19.25 knots. During this s'andard-zation run the South 'Carolina's fastest mile was 20.52 knots. A record three knots faster than that of any ship in the United States navy was scored Sept. 1 by the Bath-built torpedo boat destroy- er Flusser in a standardization trial, the first of her official acceptance trials on the Rock- land mile course. Her fastest mile was made at the rate of 33.7 knots an hour, while an- other was at the rate of 33.4 knots. The av- erage of her five top speed runs was 32.7 knots. The contract speed requirement is 28 knots; The Maryland Steel Co., of Sparrow's Point, Md., is completing work on the plans for the steamer which it is to build for the Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railroad Co. and they Bie are to be submitted to the officials of the. steamboat company for approval soon. 'The - new steamboat is to be 190 ft. over all, 36 ft. beam of hull and 56 ft. over guards. She will be of light draught, about 6 ft., to permit of the vessel reaching any of the landings in the territory in which the railroad operates its vessels. It is expected that the steamer will be completed and ready to go into commis- sion by Jan. 1. She will be used as a night boat on the Rappahannock, Potomac and Patuxent rivers. The Heffernan Dry Dock Co., Seattle, has transferred its 8,000-ton floating dry dock from Quartermaster harbor, near Tacoma, to a new site purchased on the East Waterway, Seattle. While in some respects the location at Quartermaster harbor was ideal, it was too far from the center of activities in Seattle to be convenient, for which reason the dock was moved. The Heffernan Dry Dock 'Co. has been recently awarded the contract for the repair of the steamship Eir. The price ap- proximates $78000 and the dry dock company is under contract to 'have the Eir ready in 47 working days. This is one of the largest repair jobs awarded by the underwriters on the Pacific coast in more than a vear. The William G. Abbott Ship Building Co., of Philadelphia, has been awarded a contract by Vhilade'phia interests for the construction of a barge 190 ft. long, 23 ft. beam and 7 ft. depth of hold, to be built of Delaware oak and Virginia pine. She will be the largest baree ever constructed on the lower Delaware. The T. S. Marvel Ship Building Co., New- burg, N. Y., was recently awarded a contract for the construction of a ferryboat for the Newburg & Fishkill Ferry Co. The new boat will be 160 ft. long and 56 ft. beam and is to be completed by May 1, 1910. She will be a. twin screw propeller with a _ steel hull and is to be equipped with two Scotch boilers. : if M. P: Smith & Sons Co., 116 Broad street, New York, have recently awarded a contract _ to the' Staten Island' Ship Building | Port... Richmond, S. I. N. YS ae mo. struction of a steel steamer for. use in their wrecking and transporiation business. The new vessel will have all modern appliances for the work in which she is to engage. Her engines wll be of the fore and aft compound type with cylinders 18 and 38 in. diameter by 26 in. stroke. There will be two Scotch marine "or all bids, September, 1909 boilers carrying 160 Ib. of steam. The en- gines are expected to develop from 750 to 800 H. P. Plans and specifications for the vessel were drawn by Theodore Ferris, of 'Cary, Smi:h & Ferris, naval architects, of New York The contract calls for the delivery of the ves- -sel on March 1, 1910. NEW LAKE CHARTS. The United States Lake Survey office dur- ing {June published two new charts pertaining to its series of navigator's charts of the great lakes. These charts are engravings lithographed in several colors to depict land areas, shallow and deep water, sailing courses, lights and other aids to navigation, are prepared' from government surveys, and, by congressional di- rection, are sold at a nominal figure covering cost of paper and presswork. 'Coast chart No. 3, Lake Huron, covers the south end of that lake from Harbor Beach on the west shore and Port Albert on the east (Canadian) shore to the head of St. Clair river. It embodies all Canadian and United States government surveys available to date. The scale of the chart is 1:120,000 (1 inch = about 1.9 miles), and a special inset on the . chart shows the harbor at Goder:ch, Ont, on scale of 1:10,000 (63% in. to the mite). Chart of the Apostle Islands, Lake Superior, shows, on one sheet, the entire Apostle group and 'Chequamegon Bay, as well as the shore line of the lake from Little Girl Point, Mich., to Sand Point, Wis. It includes the results of the detailed resurvey of the island region made by the Lake Survey in 1901-1902, and other antecedent and subsequent government surveys. The chart scale is 1:60,000 (1 in. = 5,000 ft.).. These charts may be had from THE MARINE REVIEW. The Keuffel & Esser Co, of Hoboken N. J., have just issued a little circular on blue print pavers. Prices and weights are given. The C. O. Bartlett & Snow Co., Cleveland, O., has recently closed contracts for complete coal mine equipments for the McGittiveary Coal & Coke Co. of Coleman, Alberta, and the West Canadian Collieries at Bellevue, Alberta. The contracts were closed through F. C. Greene, mining engineer, and will in- clude a steel tipple with all the necessary machinery, including the Greene Patent Transfer Dump, type 4, for each plant, as well as a' complete power plant equipment and haulage system for both plants. The plants will be entirely electrically operated and are to be in operation by Noy. 1, 1909. ROPOSALS:---Sale. of -U. S.. S. -- Enter- prise and U. S. Navy Coal Barges Nos. 7, 8 and 42.--Sealed proposals will be recd. at the navy department until noon on Oct. 1, at which time and place they will be opened, for the purchase of the U. S. S. Enterprise, appraised value $7,000; U. S. Navy Coal Barge No. 7, appraised value $1,000, U. S. Navy Coal Barge No. 8, appraised value $1,000; and U. S.Navy Coal Barge No. 42, appraised value $400. They will be sold for cash to the person or persons or the corporation or cor- potations offering the highest price therefor above the appraised value thereof. A separate proposal for each vessel bid upon must be submitted in a sealed envelope addressed to the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C., endorsed "Proposals for the Purchase of thes ale Sie. S. ;? (naming the vessel for which offer is made) and each proposal must be accomnanied by a satisfactory certified check for not less than 10 per cent of the amount of the offer. On application to the 'Navy Department forms of bids and bonds, together with the terms and conditions of the sale, al- so a printed list giving general information concerned the vessel, will be furnished. The vessel can be examined at any time after Sept. 1, by applying to the commandants of the navy yards where they lie--Enterprise, Navy Yard, Boston, Mass.; Coal Barge No. 7, Naval Station, Key West, Fla.; Coal Barge No.8, Naval Station, Key West, Fla.; Coal Barge No. 42, Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal. They must be removed from the limits of the respective navy yards within such reasonable timeas may be fixed by the department. The department reserves the right to withdraw any or all. vessels from sale and to reject any Wm. S. Cowles, Acting Secre- 8-24-09. CONSTRUCTION. AND. DELIVERY OF steel barges, U. S. Engineer Office, Vicksburg, Miss., August 16, .1909. Sealed proposals for constructing and delivering steel barges will be received here until noon, Oct. 6, 1909, and then publicly opened. Information on application. Clarke S. Smith, Capt., Engi- neers. tary of the Navy. | ; 3 ;