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THE MARINE REVIEW December, 1913 ARE By BATTLESHIP TEXAS ON HER TRIAL TRIP Built by the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Nevpave News, Va. ful consideration, have just recom- mended a further expenditure of $15,- 000,000, in the development of the na- val station. Here is the greatest dis- tributing point for steam coal in America--/7,687,825 tons having been distributed from this port in 1912, and 1913 will show a material increase. The Albemarle and Chesapeake canal, connecting this port with the North Carolina sounds, and forming a con- necting link in the magnificent sys- tem of inland waterways along the Atlantic seaboard, has just been pur- chased by the United States govern- ment. The opening of the Panama canal will make this the great coaling port for all vessels to and from the European ports. By the report of the Chief of En- gineers of the United States Army for 1910, it appears that the water- borne commerce of the port of Nor- folk and Portsmouth, for that year, was 12,447,501 tons. This was nearly 25 per cent greater than the combined water-borne tonnage of Wilmington, N.C, Charleston, -S. C.,..Savannah, Ga., Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans, La., and this tonnage, if carried at one time, would have overloaded by about 1,000,000 tons the entire mer- chant shipping of Great Britain, and would have loaded all the merchant ships flying the flags of France, Ger- many, Italy, Norway and Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands and Bel- gium. When all this is considered, it is not surprising that the people of this maritime section are alive to the importance of having the activities of the United States government, in re- lation to the waterways of the coun- try, put upon a broad business basis and freed from influence of partizan politics and they recognize the work of The National Rivers and Harbors Congress as the greatest factor in producing this much desired con- summation. Battleship Texas The battleship Texas, recently com- pleted by the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., underwent her 'standardization trials Oct 27, at- taining a mean speed of 22.28 knots on one run over the mile course off Rockland, Me. The average of the five fastest runs was 21.128 and the maximum horsepower developed was 28.100. Contract for section 2 of the Well- and ship canal has been awarded to Baldry, Yerburgh & Hutchinson, St. Catherines, Ont. The work involved amounts to $5,500,000, and the section embraces about 4% miles, extending from bridge 2 to bridge 5. The con- tract for section 3 was awarded to O'Brien & Doheney and Quinlan & Robertson, Montreal. Among the recent contracts closed for Terry turbines for government work, one covers two 50-k. w. sets for the United States fuel ship Kanawha, building at the Mare Island navy. yard, San Francisco. Another includes two 300-h. p. turbines for fire pumps for the Brooklyn navy yard, each running at 2,600 revolutions per: minute. What is probably the oldest vessel in the world to be fitted with an in- ternal combustion engine is the Ceres, built at Salcombe in 1811, and for many years in the fruit trade in the western islands. The Ceres was pur- chased in 1855 by Messrs. Pethrick, of Bude, who have just installed in her a two-cylinder 24 h. p. marine heavy oil engine. the steel tue E. L. Ray, building by,the John W. Sullivan' Co. for: the Southern Pacific Co., was launched from the yard of the New Jersey Dry Deck Ca, at. Euzabethport, N. }., Nov, 3. This tug is 96 ft. long, 23 'ft, beam and 11% ft. deep. The Chesapeake Concrete Barge Co.,. Fairfield, Md., launched a con- eructe scow en Nov. 3. This eraft.has a box girder frame, a carrying capac- ity of over 500 tons and is 112 ft. long, 30 ft. beam and 10 ft. deep. ihe Portland Ship. Building Co., Portland, Me., is building a passenger steamer 110 it. long, 24 ft. beam and 10 ft. deep for the Cape Breton Elec- tric 'Co., Sydney, B.C. I OFFER FOR IMMEDIATE ACCEPT- ance two Morris centrifugal pumps, size each, 14-in. suction, 12-in. discharge, direct connect- ed to Armington and Sims center crank en- gine 15 x 15-in.; excellent condition; (capac- itv 40,500 gals. per hour) $680, net, f. o. b. Cleveland. W. H. Bosworth, 505 Commer- cial Bank building, with Capt. C. E. Benham. Cleveland, O. Main 25. an ee,