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436 double acting steam driven oil pumps. Steam is furnished by a large donkey boiler located in the stoke hold. The pumps are placed as low as possible. An 8-in. suction main leads from each pump room to the various tanks. Goosenecks are led from this main into the tanks terminating in bell mouths placed low so that the tanks can be pumped dry. The controlling valves are located on deck. The entire cargo of creosote can be pumped out in 20 hours. There are seven cargo hatches, four forward and three aft, and seven car- go winches. The hatches are double; the large outer hatches are for geue- ral cargo and the smaller inner hatches are for loading oil. The propelling machinery cerisists of a triple expansion engine with cy- linders 24, 41 and 68 in. diameter with 'a common stroke of 48 in. Steam is furnished 'by three Scotch marine boil- ers of the usual ¢ type. The donkey boiler is also of the Scotch marine type and is located in the stroke hold. Forward of the donkey boiler is a large cross 'bunker, additional bun- kers are situated between decks for- ward and aft. On er ttial trip -the: H. C. Henry reached a speed of 11.75 knots per hour. Her normal loaded speed is eleven knots. oe The forecastle is roomy and com- fortable. With the exception of one spare room, the ship has no passenger accommodations. The cabins are amid- ship and are tastefully fitted; each officer has a separate room. The vessel is named after H. C. Henry, president of the creosote com- pany. The house flag consists of a blue field with red diamond, bearing the name Rood in white letters in honor of H. R. Rood, vice presi- dent and general manager of the Pa- cific Creosoting Co. The H. C. Henry has made one trip from Great Britain to Puget Sound, bringing a cargo of 1,500,000 gallons of creosote. Although she encountered very heavy weather she made good time and her performance was highly pleasing to her builders and owners. She was built by the Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co., Ltd, Greenock, Scotland, and flies the Brit- ish flag. The City of Philadelphia, building at the yards of Harlan & Hollings- worth at Wilmington, Del. will prob- ably be launched in December. This vessel is being built for the Wilson line to run between Wilmington, Chester, and Philadelphia. THRE MarINE REVIEW - ed November, 1909 Ship Building on the Delaware PWARD of $25,000,000 of work is now in hand in the various ship yards on the Delaware, and with inquiries coming in steadily, as a result in the increase in. the greater volume of com- merce, it is generally expected that be- fore the oncoming of winter all of the establishments will be at work, with virtually 100 per cent of the work- ing force that they employed when in full swing before' the depression. The William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., with almost 4,000 men now employed, will increase this force, as soon as the 26,000-ton battle- ship Wyoming, now under contract, is laid down. The New York Ship Build- ing Co. with 3,000 now at work, is steadily building up its yard force from the men whom it was obliged to lay off many months ago, With the present outlook for business in the ship yards, the Philadelphia navy yard, which will have a large volume of repair work throughout the fall and winter, is concerned over what prom- ises to be a great scarcity of skilled labor. 'There are construction in the Cramp yard _ not less than nine war vessels, the un- finished work of which represents up- ward of $10,000,000 of. business. The battleship South Carolina is still in the yard, and is being installed with an electrical outfit. It is expected that the work will be finished early in No- vember, when the ship will be turned over to the government. The destroyer Joseph B. Smith is also passing through the finishing stages, having made her trial run successfully and having demonstrated that, next to the Flusser, she is the fastest among the nation's vessels. She, too, will be de- livered in November. The destroyer Lamson, a sister ship of the Smith, is 95 per cent completed and is almost ready for her trial trip. Like the Smith the Lamson was built for 2914 knots, and it is hoped that on the coming trial a speed equaling the Flusser's 33 knots will be attained. On the stocks and almost ready to launch are the destroyers Warrington and Mayrant. It is probable that they will not go into the Delaware until spring. The contract speed of these two is 30 knots, half a knot greater than the Smith and the Flusser, and it is the hope that when completed one of the pair will give the speed record to the Cramp yard. Still another de- stroyer, No. 36, unnamed as yet, is in now under contraet for. in. 1910. the early stages of construction, the frames now going. up. There is also on the ways the col- lier Cyclops, one of the largest of the colliers built for the navy. The ves- sel is 35.5 per cent along toward com- pletion and will not be launched until spring. Besides these' warships the yard is building for the government three tugs for harbor service. Keels are already laid for these. Most important of the lot, however, is the 26,000-ton battleship Wyoming, the contract for which has just been made. The work of preparing the ways for the new ship, which will out. class any of the American navy now afloat, is going forward, and the keel will be laid in the winter. The con- tract time is 32 months and the ship is to attain a speed of 20% knots. Besides these the yard is now making extensive alterations and' repairs to the - Creole and Comal of the Southern Pacific fleet, which have been withdrawn from the New York-New Orleans ser- vice for the time necessary for their overhauling. The Creole is being fit- ted with reciprocating engines, while the Comal is having new boilers in- stalled. Equally busy on government work is the New York Ship. Building Co., in Camden. The destroyer turned a few days ago from a success- ful builders' trial. The destroyers Mc- Call and Burrows are to be delivered The battleship Utah is now 40 per cent completed and not. yet launched. The company has also under contract destroyer No. 35, which is not laid down. There is also to be built the 26,000- ton battleship Arkansas, sister ship of the Wyoming, so that the Delaware is to turn out the two largest ships thus far projected by the government. Al- ready the company is ordering ma- terial for this ship. In the matter of merchant vessels, the yard is also very busy. It is, first of all, building a transfer car barge for New Orleans. This is designed to carry an entire passenger train around the city, as the Federal and Colonial expresses. are conveyed around New York on the Maryland. This barge is 360 feet long and will be finished in November. Two coal barges, each 200 feet in length, are being built, one for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and one for stock. There are also under contract two colliers for the Coastwise Transportation Co. to operate between Norfolk and Boston. Preston re-. |