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March, 1912 tracted with J. &. Duthie & ~Co., of Seattle, for a fishing vessel, 140 by 25 by 13% ft. capable of making a speed of 12 knots an hour. She will be one of the ablest fishing craft on the west coast and will be completed about June 1. The Duthie yard is a new one, and besides this vessel is building two whal- ers for the Alaska Whaling Co. The Coastwise Transportation Co., of Boston, has contracted with the New York Ship Building Co., Camden, for a fourth collier to have a carrying cap- acity of 7,200 tons. The new vessel is to run in conjunction with the Coast- wise, Transportation and Suffolk, and will be ready for delivery next August. The Craig Ship Building Co., Long Beach, are rushing the work on the new pleasure steamer they are building for the Southwestern Navigation Co. She is to be 210 ft. long, passenger capacity of 2,500, and will cost $20,000. The steamer will make three trips daily be- tween Santa Monica, San Pedro and Newport. ° The Hart Wood Lumber Co., of Aberdeen, Wash., has contracted with the Matthews Ship Building Co. of Hoquiam for a steamer capable of car- rying about 800,000 ft. of lumber and accommodating 27 passengers. 'This ves- sel will be equipped with two Babcock & Wilcox boilers, have a speed of 10% knots an hour, and 'cost about $130,000. The C. A. Smith Lumber & Mfg. Co., Marshfield, Ore., which owns and oper- ates two steamers, the Nann Smith and Redondo, are planning to have con- structed another steamer similar to the Nann Smith. It will be about 296 ft. in length, with 18 in. more beam than the Nann Smith, and will carry slight- ly more lumber. Plans for the vessel are now in the hands of ship builders. Work on a big barge for P. Doherty & Co. of Baltimore, will shortly be commenced at the Kelley-Spear Co. yard at Bath. The craft will be 215 ft. long: on keel, 40 ft. beam, 14 ft. 6 in. deep, and will have a carrying capacity of about 2,000 tons. Two barges for the Staples Transportation Co. are already under construction at the same yard. The Rowe Bros. Co. has given a con-. tract to the Kelley-Spear Co., of Bath, for the. building of a new steam lighter, which will be the largest and most efficient of the kind on the New Eng- land coast. The new craft, which is to be ready for delivery May 1, will measure 145 ft. in length, 35 ft. beam and 13 ft. depth of hold, and will have a carrying capacity of 800 tons. Two fore and aft compound engines of 700 h. p. will be installed on the new lighter. The Atlantic Fertilizer & Oil Co., of New York, are buiiding three pogy steamers at the Cobb-Butler yard, Rock- land, Me., the engines for which will be THE MARINE REVIEW supplied by the Portland Co., Portland, Me. The Mallory Line is having plans drawn for a steamer to come out in 1913. The Matson Navigation Co. are pre- paring plans for a steamer to have twice the passenger accommodations of the Wilhelmina and to carry about 6,000 tons of sugar. The Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co., Seattle, Wash. has received con- tract for a steel passenger steamer, to be known as the Potlatch, for the Inland Navigation Co. The new steamer will be 180 ft. long over ali, with gross ton- nage of about 570 tons. She will have triple-expansion engines and two Sea- bury water-tube boilers. This company has also recently received contract for four submarine torpedo boats for the United States government and two sub- marine torpedo boats for the Chilean government. The Statidard "Ui Co. is Having. 4 130-ft. barge built by Nelson & Kelez, Seattle, to be used in conveying oil fuel to steamers while loading at docks in Seattle harbor. The Union Sulphur Co. has contracted with the Fore River Ship Building Co., Quincy, for a single-screw steamer, 300 ft. long, to cost $400,000 and to operate between this and Mexican ports. The new vessel will be of the self-trimming type, capable of discharging cargoes at the rate of over 300 tons per hour. Bids for Gunboat No bids acceptable were received by the navy department for constructing One gunboat authorized by congress at the last session because the cost, exclusive of armor and armament, was not to exceed $500,000. The New York Ship Building Co. submitted a letter stating that the vessel could not be built within the appropriation and that a fair price for a vessel in accordance with departmental plans would be $735,000. William Cramp & Sons submitted three proposals: One for a vessel in accordance with de- partmental plans, speed 16 knots, for $716,000; a second on departmental plans but with a different electric plant, $723,000; and a third for a gun- boat of 1,300 tons displacement with speed of 14 knots for $485,000. This is 400 tons less displacement than the gunboat calls for. Jacob Ullman, of Buffalo, has pur- chased the plant of the Empire Ship Building Co., of Buffalo, at public auc- tion for $6,500. The plant was ap- praised at $12,907.64. >the pneumatic tires. 81 Loading Motor Car Aboard Ship The North German steamer Grosser Kurfuerst recently carried 70 motor cars from Germany to Southampton, in conjunction with the tour of the German Automobile Club' through Great Britain. The accompanying sketch shows how the cars were trans- © ferred on board the steamer. The device consisted of a platform hav- ing an angle bar at each side, the bars being turned up at one end. - The platform was slung from a hinged cross piece, supported by ad- justable wire rope stays so that the angle of lifting could be altered to Hoistinc Motor Cars suit the size of the car and the size of the hatch through which the car, had to be lowered. The cars were in turn driven onto this platform, a wood cleat with sand bag being pro- vided at the curved end to protect To prevent any side movement of the cars, wood cleats were fixed to the platform outside the wheels. The work of loading occupied about six hours. The stowage of the cars in the holds and 'tween decks presented no difficulty. When standing on a wood deck they were kept in place by wood cleats fixed to the deck, and when standing qn the iron deck they were prevented from moving by the use of sand bags placed against the wheels. The Toledo Ship Building Co., To- ledo, O., has closed contract for two steamships full canal size for At- lantic coast parties. The steamers will be delivered in August and Oc- tober of the. present year. |g