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April, 1910 'TAE MARINE REVIEW yeas SHEAR Lecs AT Union JIRon Works, Nome run this summer. Dispatches from San Francisco state that the pur- chase price was $275,000, but no con-~ firmation of this statement can be ob- tained locally. General Manager Frank E. Burns and Supt. Eng. J. W. Pearson, of the Alaska Steamship Co., are in San Francisco and attended to the negotiations and inspection. The Alameda has been for years employed on the run from Honolulu to San Francisco, and was one of the most popular freight and passenger vessels of the line. She is .of 3,158 gross and 1,939 net tons, and is a product. of the Cramp shipbuilding yards at Philadelphia. The Alameda is especially adapted to the Alaska run, as her iron hull, constructed in 1883, is more heavily plated than any of the vessels. of her size and type now being built. Vessel Burns Oil. She is a single screw vessel, burning oil, and has a storage capacity for at least thirty days fuel at an average speed of twelve knots an. hour. The vessel easily can make sixteen knots PLACING SPAR IN STEAMER MEXICAN an hour, although her regular speed is less than that figure. She has triple expansion engines, the cylinders being 29 inches, 47 inches and 78 inches in diameter, with a 5l-inch stroke. She has all two-berth rooms, with accom- modation. for 96 first-class passengers outside the settees. Including the set- tees she will accommodate 115 cabin passengers. She will also handle 27 intermediate passengers and has per- manent quarters for 60 steerage, with room in the 'tween decks to extend the accommodations to an unlimited number by taking from the cargo space. The Alaska Steamship Co. recently chartered the freighter Riverside from the Charles Nelson Co., of San Fran- cisco, to take the place of the Olympia on the Valdez ruin when the latter shifts to the Nome run this summer. The Riverside will be taken over by The Alaska Steamship Co. April. 15. REPAIR WORK BY PUGET SOUND SHIPYARDS. The Moran- Co., Seattle, is well along on the construction of a new 151 single screw steel freight steamer, to be used in the Alaska trade by the Alaska Steamship Co. as a sister ship "to the Riverside, Falcon and Stanley Dollar. It will be completed and ready for service about September 1. A: single screw. steel passenger steam- et. for the Straits Steamship Co, to be run on the straits, is under way and will be completed August 1. Two submarine torpedo boats are being. built by the Moran company for the government. : In repairs and overhauling, the Moran company has the United States coast and geodetic survey steamer McArthur, which is receiving a general overhauling of hull and ma- chinery, preparatory to taking up her summer work. The Matson Naviga- tion Co.'s steamer Hyades has just left the -drydocks after an extensive overhauling, and the steam schooner Delhi is in to receive her annual re- pairs. The steamship Vashonian, and the Meta Nelson and Fanny .Dutard have just been docked for a general overhauling, The. season has been a busy one for the Heffernan Engine Works and Drydock, Seattle. The steamer Edith started on her way out recently with a new wheel and shafting, and. the _ steamer Portland will soon be docked for her semi-annual overhauling. The steamer Ella, of the Jebsen line, is on 'her way up from San Francisco for extensive overhauling. The steamer Victoria will be in in about 15 days for her annual spring overhauling. The steamer City of Seattle has just left the ways at the Heffernan dock and is ready 'for the summer's excur- sion business to Alaska. Hall Bros., at Eagle Harbor, Wash., while having no construction. work this season, have overhauled and re- paired the St. Paul, J. D. Peters, Har- vester, Guy C. Goss and Benjamin F. Packard, for the Northwestern Fisher- eries Co., and are now at work on the revenue cutter Rush, bark Fresno and steamer Gedney, and have work ahead for more than a month after a busy season. More overhauling and repair- ing is now under contemplation. The Canadian Pacific liner, Princess Charlotte, recently underwent a speed trial near Victoria, Br; @. The run lasted six hours and when the tide was with the liner there were some top speeds clipped off. The mean average of the whole six hours was well. over twenty knots an hour, show- ing that the fine new liner is all that was claimed for her, a good twenty knot steamer. i