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- new 80 shafting overhauled general repairs. The Wobun is having her tail shaft removed and undergoing a survey. 'The tugs Emily and Meteor have had new propellers fitted. The passenger steamer undergoing a. survey. and undergoing Ulrica is Skinner Ship Building Co. The Skinner Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Baltimore, Md., are at pres- ent engaged on the following work: One leg boiler for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.'s tug Transfer; one steel tug boat for the Hartford & New York Transportation Co., length on deck 115 ft., beam moulded 25 ft., depth from top of keel to top of beams at sides and shallowest place 11 ft. 9 in.; one covered lighter for the Chesapeake Lighterage & Towing Co., 90 x 28 x 8 ft., a duplicate of' one just finished for them; Norwegian steamship Nordhvalen docked, new tail shaft and propeller in- stalled, all bearings opened up, crank pin brasses remetaled, making new _ propel- ler, etc.; Norwegian steamship Sif docked, cleaned and painted bottom, re- moved propeller and tail shaft for ex- amination, stern bearing rewooded, rud- der pintles rebushed and machinery over- hauled; Norwegian steamship Katie docked, new stern post gudgeon, bushing rudder pintles, renewing shell rivets and new rudder chains; Norwegian steam- ship Terje Viken, retubing donkey boil- er; changing sterns and installing new stern frames in two. oil barges; com- pleting extensive repairs and renewals; new boilers, oil engine and air com- pressor plant installed on United States light vessel No. 52; retubing condenser and making new crank pin for engine for one of B..& O. elevators; laying sheathing on deck of steamer Three Rivers; making new fresh water tanks for Consolidation Coal Co.; steam- er Columbia, making machinery repairs and retubing boilers. Seattle Construction Co. The Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co., Seattle, Wash., is making extensive repairs to the steamship Victoria, of _ the Alaska Steamship Co., including the building and installing of two double- ended Scotch marine boilers, 14 ft. diam- eter by 17 ft. 4 in. long; one donkey boiler, 8 ft. 9 in. diameter, and 9 ft. long, with all copper pipe connections; building fuel oil tanks and installing oil- burning system in the new _ boilers; building social hall and furnishing din- ing-room and increasing somewhat the passenger accommodations of the vessel. The ship yard is also adding an awn- ing deck on the steamer La Touche, of the Alaska Steamship Co.'s fleet, greatly THE MARINE REVIEW increasing her cargo carrying capacity, They are also building and installing molasses tanks and increasing the oil. 'carrying capacity of the steamer Hyades, of the Matson Navigation Co.'s fleet. Repairs are also being made to the bow plating and frames of the steam- ship Virginian, of the American-Hawai- ian Steamship Co.'s fleet, which was re- cently damaged in collision with the British steamer Strathalbyn: on Puget Sound. -- They are also installing fuel oil burn- - ing apparatus on the steamer Princess Adelaide, of the Canadian Pacific Line. The army transport Dix is also under- going considerable repairs in the engi- neering and deck departments and new furnaces are being installed on the steamer Indianapolis. The company re- cently cast in its own foundry a new cylinder, weighing nearly 15 tons, for the steamer City of Pueblo, of the Pac- ific Coast Steamship Co.'s fleet. The cylinder is 43 in. diameter and 60 in. stroke. General Repair Work whe Perth Amboy. Dry - Dock - Co., Perth Amboy, N.. J., has during the past few weeks hauled out and made general repairs to. schooners' Eagle Wing, Herald, Pendleton Sisters, Perry Setzer, Bessié Whiting,. Ann Louisa Lockwood, and Blanche H. King; barges Doris and Atlas Portland Cement Co. No. 7; steamer Robert W. Johnson and boat W. H. Brown; and minor repairs to. the' schooners: By & 9 T.- Lipton, Charles H. Sprague, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Humarock; barges L. S. Storrs, Fannie Preston, Josephine, and Nathan Lawrence; boats Violet Blossom, War- ren Huber, and James Brown; steamer Ashfield, and tug William Schaubel Sr. The U. S. dredge Sabine will go from Sabine Pass to the Weaver & Son ship yard at Orange, Tex., for alteration and repairs costing $40,000 or more. The dredge will be the first vessel hauled out on the set of new ways just com- pleted by Weaver & Son. The Alaska Steamship Co.'s recently purchased steamer, Mariposa, is having structural and other alterations made ut Seattle to fit her for use in northern waters. Alterations will be made to her cabin doors, which will be rehung to open aft instead of forward. In addi- tion to having doors rehung, the Mari- posa's hatches will be enlarged to facil- itate movement of ore cargoes, which this season are expected to play a highly important part in Alaska trade. Also more staterooms are t be added aft. The Commercial Boiler Works, Seat- tle, Wash., have received an order from J. F. Duthie & Co. for a Sgotch marine | boiler, to be installed in a steel fishing vessel being built by the latter company .1ls to be caulked, painted and March, 1912 for the San Juan Fishing & Packing | Co. Diameter of boiler, 13 ft.; length, 11 ft. 6 in.; three Morison suspension furnaces; internal diameter, 38% in., and 272 3-in. dia. steel tubes, which is to be built for a working pressure of 180 Ibs. The oil fuel tanks are at present being installed in the steamer M. F. Plant at the Commercial Boiler Works and when these are in place, her new boilers will be instailed. The M. F. Plant, in addition to this work, is having a forecastle deck and new bulwarks aft built at this plant. Work on the new hatches and. boiler foundations on the steamer Amur is progressing satisfac- torily. The boiler for the cannery tug A. B. Carpenter and the boilers for the cannery vessel W. H. Smith are ready for installation and the boiler for the North Star is approaching completion. The Commercial Boiler Works are busy with 18 steel cone liners, 9 ft. diameter, for the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredg- ing Co., and they are making good prog- ress with the steel pipe line for the city of Seattle. The halibut schooner Sophia Johnson has been on the Elliott Bay Dry Dock Co.'s dock for cleaning, painting and general repairs, and the Sound pass- enger steamer Puget was hauled out, re- moving old propeller and installing new one. The Seaford Marine Railway Co., Seaford, Del., are building a new 175-ft. baiwe for Capt W. ° Willams, of Bethel, Del. and are making alterations and repairs on three fishing steamers for the Menhaden Oil & Guano Co. The steamers Hanna A. Lennen and "Alden S. Swan are to be straightened, refastened and cabled all over, the after-house raised and quarter decks and rail put all around and _ extra clamps and new main and bilge keelson put in. The steamer Samuel S. Brown slight repairs made. The yacht Elmer Con- naway is having her engines installed at this yard. The Northwestern Rishetica Co.'s new cannery tug A. B... Carpenter: -was launched from Hall Bros.' ship building yards at Winslow, Wash., Feb. 8 The A. B. Carpenter is designed to be one of the staunchest and fastest of the Alaskan cannery tug fleet, and is 110 ft. long, 23 ft. beam and 10 ft. deep, equip- ped with 300-h. p. engines and Scotch boilers, giving her a speed of 10 knots. New Ship Construction Kruze & Banks, Marshfield, Ore., laid the keel, on Feb. 3, for the steamer they are to build for the Estabrook Co., of San Francisco. The new vessel will be 200 by 42 by 11 ft., and will run in the San Francisco-Coquille River trade. The San Juan Fishing Co. has con-