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November, 1912 Launch of the Frieda There was launched on Saturday, Oct. 26, from the yards of the Fore River Shipbuilding Co. at Quincy, Mass., the bulk cargo steamer Frieda, to the order of the Union Sulphur Co., from the designs of George Simp- son, naval architect, New York City. The vessel was christened by Miss Adeline H. Snider, daughter of Clar- ence N. Snider, the treasurer of the Union Sulphur Co. This: vessel. is 315.{t. in leneth and of 5,000 tons deadweight on a mod- erate draught. The Frieda has been designed especially for the transport of bulk cargoes of low density and for this reason there has been incor- porated in her hull, topside and also athwartship ballast tanks, on the Simpson principle, making the holds self-trimming on all four sides, there- by more than doubling her ballast capacity and reducing her tonnage 20 per cent. The hull has been built to the high- est class in Lloyds Register, on what is known as modified transverse fram- ite The vessel is of the single deck, poop, bridge and forecastle type with propelling machinery installed aft and is rigged with three pole masts, the fore and main having derricks and cargo discharging gear. The accommodations comprise sepa- rate state rooms for the captain and navigating officers, together with two guests' rooms in the bridge house amidships. .The engineers are quar- tered in a commodious Liverpool house on the poop deck, and the pet- ty officers, seamen, wipers, etc., in wing houses at the forward end of THE MARINE REVIEW the poop deck. These accommoda- tions will be exceptionally comfor- table and go far to establish the superiority of the quarters allotted to American seamen. The auxiliary machinery comprises a Hyde windlass and steam capstan, Lidgerwood winches and steam steer- ing gear with telemotor. The equipment of the Frieda is up- to-date: in every respect, and 'con- sists in addition to the usual articles, a submarine signal, wireless. tele- graph installation, Morse night sig- nal and a porhydrometer for the au- tomatic weighing of the cargo. The propelling machinery consists of a 22% in. triple-expansion engine } 387 on eighteen battleships. The Wyoming and Florida carried three sets of coaling gears; there were twenty-one ammunition hoists, fourteen boat cranes and five of the famous Prov- idence towing machines. Most noteworthy of all of these items was the great preponderance of Williamson steering engines on the battleship and armored cruiser fleet, tor out of thirty-five vessels no less than twenty-five were controlled by these machines. As practically every case represented was based upon case represented was based upon prev previous experience with the ma- chines, it is pértéctly clear "tiat the United States government has the FRIEDA, OF THE UNION SULPHUR Co.'s FLEET From a sketch furnished by the Fore River Shipbuilding Co. with two large single-ended. Scotch boilers with Howden's forced draft and fitted for burning liquid fuel. There has been installed in the en- gine room duplicate sets of 10 kilo- watt generators; also capacity ice machines to take care of the crew's consumable stores. The North Atlantic Fleet When the Atlantic fleet passed in review before the president of the United States, Oct. 15, it carried out to sea no less than 269 machines of the Providence and Williamson make, of which 187 were on twenty-five of the thirty-one battleships in the fleet. Fifty of the ships, including twenty- two battleships, were steered by Wil- liamson steering engines. There were twenty - six Providence windlasses, thirty-one winches and hoists, and fourteen capstans on various vessels. Twenty-five of the ships carried 105 ash hoists, of which eighty-eight were two half - ton: utmost faith in the product of the American Engineering Co., of Phila- delphia. The Bluefields Fruit & Steamship Co. has been organized under the laws of Louisiana to engage in the growing and transportation of ban- anas and other fruits. The company was formed to take over the property and holdings of the Bluefields Steam-- ship Co. The headquarters of the new company will probably be in New Orleans. _ ™ The Dominion government has given an order to Thornycrofte & Co., South- ampton, Eng., for a customs patrol steamer for service in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to be 185 ft. long and 32 ft. beam, and will be equipped with two sets of triple-expansion engines driving twin screws. The contract price is stated to be about $275,000.