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376 known along the Great Lakes as a dredging and dock contractor, died Sept. 6 at his country. home in Pe- waukee at the age of 79 years. New River Steamer The steamer Bay Queen, running in the daily package service between Huntington and Portsmouth on the Ohio river, is 147 ft. long, 28-ft. beam and 4 ft. deep. In light condition she Gtaws only 12 in. of water. She is THE MARINE REVIEW weather, and they must therefore be a most unwieldy craft. The Navy Board has recommended to Secretary Daniels of the Navy De- partment the reopening of the Pen- sacola naval station with the con- struction of a mammoth dry dock and repair facilities. The board feels that the navy yards at New York and Bos- ton will probably have to be aband- oned eventually as a result of the de- mands of commerce for the space which they occupy. STEAMER BAY QUEEN OF THE HUNTINGTON PACKET equipped, with . Zhe ED-s engines, 10x 48 fin, sand two boilers 34 in: diameter and 20 ft. long, allowed 190 lbs. steam pressure. She was completed in De- ccember of last year and is' "said -to be 'the lightest business boat on inland waters. The Bay Queen is owned by William Bay, Ironton, O. Items of General Interest In anticipation of the abandonment of the New York navy yard, Secre- tary Daniels is now examining other sites. He recently looked over a site of 300 acres at Communipaw, N. J. The Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass., launched the subma- rine torpedo boat K1 on Sept. 3, one of the nine submarines building at that yard for the Navy department by the Electric Boat Co. The new steamer Santa Cecilie, the fourth building at Cramp's, Philadel- Pea, for VW R. Grace & Co., was launched on Sept. 15. The new vessel s 420 ft. long, 54 ft. beam and 36 ft. deep, and is intended for service through the Panama canal. The schooner George W. Wells, the first six-master ever built, was lost in the hurricane off the Virginia 'coast last month. This makes the third of this type of vessel to be lost in heavy AND PORTSMOUTH DAILY SERVICE z+the Sam Smalley General Co., Bay 'City, Mich., recently sold two 25 FH. P. engines to the United States gov- ernment for use in the lighthouse, ser- vice on Lake Superior. They will run on kerosene and are equipped with a mechanical ignition system. These engines mark an innovation for the Bay City company. The Maryland Dredging & Con- tracting Co., Baltimore, Md., were the lowest bidders for dredging in St. James river, near City Point, Va. The other bidders were the Dredging Co., Norfolk, Va., ford Ross, Inc., Jersey City, and Norfolk Dredging Co., Va. secretary Daniels of the navy de- partment, has rejected all armor plate bids for battleship No. 39, and has an- nounced that he is going to invite for- eign competition. What the secretary hopes to gain by this proceeding is not quite clear, as foreign countries pay more for armor plate than does the United States. The Florida & East Coast Railroad Co. is contemplating establishing an open sea ferry service from Mey West to Havana and has the matter up with some of the eastern ship- yards. The dimensions of the boats are given as 400 ft. long, 58 ft. beam P. San- N.];, Norfolk, Coastwise - of New York, October, 1913 and 24 ft. deep, with capacity for 36 passenger cars. Should this service be established a passenger boarding a train in New York would not leave his car until landed in Havana. The Navy Department has awarded contracts for six torpedo boat de- stroyers to the following firms: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., one at $884,000; Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass., one at $861,000; the New York Ship Building Co., Camden, N. J., two at $820,000 each; and Cramp's, Phila- delphia, two at $881,000 each. The vessels are duplicates, 310 ft. long, 29 ft. 10 in. beam, displacing 1,090 tons at 9 tt. 6 im, draught. They are to burn oil and carry 4 in. fapid fire -guns and four twin torpedo tubes. The Lighthouse department has plans for erecting a steel lighthouse 150 ft. high with a light sufficiently bright to be seen twenty miles in clear weather on Navassa island, at the en- trance to the Caribbean sea. This isl- and is in the direct track of vessels en route to the Panama canal from New York and other north Atlantic ports, and is a most dangerous men- ace. It is practically without vegeta- tion and entirely without water. The keeper of the light will certainly have a most lonely and desolate time. William Simons & Co., Ltd.,Ren- ~~ frew, Glasgow, Scotland, have just re- ceived an order from the Tongkah Harbor & Tin Dredging Co, for a _dredger. .of, somewhat similar type to those furnished the company hitherto, but more powerful. The dredger now under construction is the fourth that the firm has been commissioned to build for the Tongkah Co. The oper- ations of the Tongkah company in the past have been eminently success- ful, dividends at the rate of 40 per cent per. annum having been paid to shareholders during the past two and one-half years, which is, we might add, going some. The new ocean-going steam yacht Cyprus, designed by Cox & Stevens, is nearing completion at the yard of the Seattle Construc- tion & Dry Dock Co., Seattle, Wash. The yacht is building for E. C. Jack- ling, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and is 230 ft. long by 28 ft. beam, drawing 12% ft. of water. She is of the double deck type, her plating being carried up to the awning deck. The propel- ling machinery consists of twin-screw. reciprocating engines burning fuel oil under Babcock & Wilcox boilers. She has sufficient power to maintain a sea speed of 16 knots and at moderate speed has a cruising radius of 4.000 knots. The yacht has three large sa- loons, eleven staterooms and six bath- rooms,