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464 Prof. H. C. Sadler, member 'of coun- eu. 4. "Some __ Ship-shaped Stream Forms." By Assistant Naval Con- structor Wm. McEntee, U. S. N., mem- ber. 5. "Applications of Electricity to the Propulsion of Naval Vessels." By W. L. R. Emmet. 6. "The Producer Gas Boat Mar- enging." By H. L. Aldrich, member of council. 7. "Building and Equipping Non- Magnetic Auxiliary, Yacht With Producer Gas Propelling Equip- ment." By Wallace Downey, Asso- ciate member. Friday, Nov. 19, 1909. 8. "The Design of Submarines." By Harley F. Hay, member. 9, "The Foreign Trade Merchant Marine of the United States. Can it be Revived?" By Gerge W.. Dickie, member of council. 10. "Material Handling Arrange- ments for Vessels on the Great Lakes." By Alexander E. Brown, member. 11. "Structural Rules for Ships." By James Donald, member. 12, "Rivets in Tension," By Robert Curr, member. 13. "The Streneth of: Watertight Bulkheads." By Prof. William Hov- gaard, member. 14. "Cruising Motor Boats." By E. T. Keyser. COAST COAL LOADING AND UNLOADING RECORDS. The performances of the _ colliers Everett, Malden and Melrose, built at the yard of the Fore River Shipbuild- ing Co. for the New England Coal & Coke Co., have been such as to justify their construction and to prove the economy and dispatch over the old method of moving coal in schooners and tow barges. The records of dis- patch in loading and unloading are creditable and are quite equal to dis- patch on the lakes in the handling of coal. The New England Coal & Coke Co. has supplied Tue Marine Review with its loading and unloading rec- ords, saying: "Our fastest loading times to date are: "S. S. Malden loaded at B. & O. pier, Curtis Bay, Baltimore, April 12, 1909, 6,883 tons gas coal and 298 tons bunkers in 5 hours, 15 minutes. S. S. Melrose loaded at B. & O. pier, Curtis Bay, Baltimore, Sept. 20, 1909, 6,990 tons gas coal and 253 tons bunker coal in 5 thours. "At Western Maryland R. R. Pier, Port Covington, Baltimore, our steam- ers usually load about 7,260 tons Carnegie, | THE MaRINE REVIEW steam coal cargo and 260 tons bunk- ers in 8 or 9 hours. "At C. & O. R. R. Pier, Newport News, our steamers' have usually loaded 7,250 to 7,300 tons steam coal and 250 tons bunkers in 18 to 24 hours. "At Norfolk & Western R. R,, Lamberts Point Pier, Norfolk, Va., our steamers have usually loaded about 7,200 tons Pocahontas coal and 250 tons bunkers in 24 to 26 hours. "At Virginian R. R. Coal Pier, Sewalls. Point, Va, S. S. Melrose loaded on Aug. 26, 1909, 7,352 tons steam coal cargo and 229 tons bunk- ers in 914 hours. Only two voyages have been made so far to this pier, but they expect very shortly to load our steamers in 6 hours. "Our best discharging time has been at New England Gas & Coke Co.'s. Everett Works,. Boston, 7,210 tons in 12 hours 50 minutes working time and at Mystic Wharf, B. & M. RRS im-about 15 hours. < "The equipment at Everett Works at present consists of six coal hoist- ing towers with machinery by Mead- Morrison Mfg. Co., and having two- ton grab buckets. These are being added to and we expect shortly to discharge these steamers in 8 hours. "Similar arrangements are in use at Mystic Wharf, but discharging is de- layed by waiting for cars, not work- ing nights, etc. "The special type of construction of these steamers enables cargo to be loaded or discharged with an extreme- ly small expense for trimming and being constructed as first-class ocean- going cargo steamers, enables them to make their passages from port to 'port at all seasons of the year with great regularity." RECORD IN SHIP CONSTRUC- TION. The steamship Salvador 'has recently been completed by Messrs. Swan, Hun- ter & Wigham Richardson Ltd., at their Neptune Shipyard, Walker-on- Tyne.. The construction work has been carried out by them in 64 working days from the placing of the order--a performance which is claimed to con- stitute a record for a vessel of this size and class. This steamer, which is 'built with a clipper bow, is 255 ft. in length over all, by 33 ft. 6 in. beam, and has been constructed to the high- est class in Lloyds Register. There is accommodation for 20 first class pas- sengers in. deck 'houses amidships. The propelling machinery, 'built at the Neptune works, consists of a set of triple expansion en- November, 1909 gines, supplied with steam by two natural draft boilers. The vessel has been built to inaugurate the new ser- . vice to be started in December next by the Salvador Railway Company be- tween their railway terminus Acajutla and Salina Cruz, which is destined to reduce considerably the time now oc- cupied between London and New York and Salvador and the west coast of Central America generally. Of course, comparisons are odious, and in fact there are some things which cannot be compared, but it might be mentioned that the building at the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co. of the bulk freighter J. ©, Riddle, 552.1. overall, 532, ft. keel, 56 ft. beam and 31 ft. deep, in forty-five working days was as credit- able a. performance as this. Certainly the Riddle has three times more ma- terial worked into her than the Sal- vador. NEW MARINE REPAIR FIRM AT TACOMA. The McConnell Engineering & Ma- chinery Co., Tacoma, Wash., has been reorganized under the name of the Phoenix Engineering Co. Thomas Skinner, formerly of Hongkong, 'China, is president of the new corporation. Niven McConnell, formerly president of the McConnell Engineering & Ma- chinery Co., has disposed of his hold- ings in the Tacoma corporation and been appointed superintendent of the works of the Standard Steel Car Co., Butier, Pa. Mr. Skinner and the new owners - of the company will change its policy considerably and will devote special attention to marine work. Mr. Skin- ner is a marine engineer of wide ex- perience, as are the other officers af the new corporation and the company is well fitted to do marine work. [The company's first marine work consists of an extensive overhauling of the steel French bark Zinita, which recently arrived on Puget Sound load- ed with pig iron from Europe. The work on the Zinita includes fitting new ends on the main yard and the fore topsail yard, tightening the standing rigging, repairing several deck beams and hanging knees, paint- ing and general overhauling, The tug William D, which was sunk near the channel in the outer harbor at Ashtabula on Oct. 23, was success- fully raised and removed from. the channel Oct. 31. The channel is now clear,