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304 Erie Railroad Tug Alice Stafford The Erie railroad has. recently placed in commission in Chicago har- bor a second steel tug, the Alice Staf- ford, for handling its line steamers, car floats and lighters. The Stafford is practically a duplicate of the Fred- THE MARINE REVIEW by the Manitowoc company, while those of the Robbins are by another builder. The engines of the Stafford, of which we present two views, are from new designs prepared to the specifications of Babcock & Penton, Cleveland and. New York, who also prepared plans and specifications for ENGINE OF ERIE RAILROAD TUG ALICE STAFFORD--FRONT VIEW erick U. Robbins, for the same owner, which was placed in commission August last and was described in MarinE Review July, 1913. Both were built by the Manitowoc Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Manitowoc, Wis. The only essential difference is found in the machinery equipment. in The main engines in the Stafford are. both tugs. The engines have cylin- ders 17 inches and 36 inches by 30 inches, designed for a working pres- sure of 150 pounds. All pumps are attached, contrary to general tug practice. The same plan was followed in the case of the Robbins and found extremely satisfactory. The air pump is.24 inches by 10.inches. The pro- August, 1914 peller is fourbladed, sectional, 9 feet 6 inches diameter, 11 feet pitch, The use of buckwheat anthracite as fuel was found so completely sat- isfactory it the Robbins that it: js also adopted in the Stafford, Both tugs have a _ working draft with full bunkers of about 7 feet for- ward and 13 feet aft, and are said to be the most powerful as well as most economical in Chicago harbor. Both are fitted with fire-fighting ap- pliances, including large turret nozzles and special fire pumps, the hose equip- ment being Chicago. fire department standard and designed to work in conjunction with the.department's fire . boats and engines. 3 Lloyds' Register-.of American Yachts The publication of Lloyds Register of American Yachts for 1914 calls to mind the interesting fact that it is just 40 years since the first attempt was made to establish an annual record of this kind in America. The American Yacht List, as-the little book was called, was "published with the official sanction and under the patronage of the New York Yacht Club,"'. by the late Neils Olsen, then steward and for many years after superintendent .of the club. .-[t was hardly more than a_ pamphlet, 5x7 inches, with but 145 pages and five rather crude color plates of club burgees. Though like Lloyds Register today, it included Canada with the United States, the total number of clubs listed was but 36, in- cluding the New York Canoe Club and two model-yacht clubs. The total num- ber of yachts listed was 507, of which 21 were entered as "screw steamers", though most of these were very small launches. A typical steam yacht of the day was the Day Dream, built in 1871 for the late William H. Aspinwall, a wooden craft of 70 tons, 115 feet over all; 109 feet length water line; 19 feet wide and 7 feet depth of hold; no draft and no particulars of the engine being given. All the yachts were of wood with a single notable exception, the iron cutter Vindex, designed by A. Cary Smith for Robert Center, the first American cutter, the first iron yacht and the first yacht built from a design paper instead of from the wooden block model. How yachting has flourished in this period may be judged from the Ameri- can Yacht Register of today, a sub- stantial book 714x9 inches, with 513 pages and 49 color plates, listing a total of 3,564 yachts, 544 yacht clubs, and 36 yachting associations or other organiza- tions connected with the sport. The old schooner America, which by chance did not appear in the little on