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come by constructing a 60-room hotel and 200 four and five-room cottages. The cottages are neat dwellings, equipped with modern conveniences, and the company is at present con- structing a sewage system, electric light plant and waterworks. Another active concern in Pasca- goula is the Gulf Ship Building Co., incorporated by A. F. Dantzler and B. G. Boaz of Moss Point and H. H. Colle, Pascagoula. This company has purchased the Geo. Frentz shipyard on the East Pascagoula river where it will conduct a yard for general re- pair work. The Dantzler Shipbuilding & Dock Co., Hodge Shipbuilding Co., Dierks & Blodgett Ship Building Co., and the John De Angele shipyard are other concerns in the Pascagoula district engaged in building vessels for the Emergency Fleet corporation. THE MARINE REVIEW New Type of Wooden Ship At the yard of the Allen Shipbuild- ing Co., Seattle, the keel has been laid for a wooden steamer of a special type of construction to be built for the Emergency Fleet corporation. The general arrangement of the vessel will be the same as that of the Ferris design and the same propelling ma- chinery will be used although the vessel is slightly larger than the Ier- ris ship, with a length overall of 288 feet, a molded beam of 43 feet 8 inches, a molded depth of 26 feet 4 inches and a deadweight capacity of 3650 tons. Plans for the new vessel are being drawn by Lee & Brinton, naval archi- tects, Seattle. They are introducing a type of construction which they have heretofore used with success in FAMILIAR SCENE ON THE GREAT LAKES--AN OCEAN FREIGHT CARRIER TAKING HER INITIAL PLUNGE To Build 15,000-Ton Ships Construction of 10 ships of 15,000 tons each, to be the largest cargo carriers in the American merchant marine, has been recommended by Chairman Hurley of the shipping board. Work on the designs was begun March 21. Secretary Redfield suggested recently that the board be- gin building larger ships, now that the construction of smaller ones is under way. Craft of the new de- sign probably will be built in some of the older yards which are equipped for building large vessels for the navy. The vessels cannot be laid down for some time. _ The steamship Avonpate, recently launched from the yard of the Chester Shipbuilding Co. Chester ,Pa., was taken to the plant of the New York Iding Corp., Camden, N. J., to machinery installed. | small craft and in which they are now adapting for use in vessels of the larger sizes. Single instead of double frame con- struction: is employed for the parallel midbody which is carried 45 per cent of the length of the vessel, each sez of frames is made up of only three pieces. A deep floor timber runs in one piece from side to side of the vessel and connects to the two side timbers by a special method of bilge construction. The floor timber runs flat on top and the deadrise is sawed out of the lower side. The turn of the bilge has a radius of 4 feet 6 inches and the midship section ap- proximates that of a steel steamer of the same size. Forward and aft of the parallel midbody, the floor tim- bers start to rise and are cut at the center line of the ship, while the side frames are slanted in toward the center line and with the radius of the bilge gradually increasing a fair ship- tle plans to shape form of under body is duced. The advantages of this of construction for rapid building a apparent and it is claimed by architects that the construction stronger than the ordinary type The plans for this type of const tion have been approved by the / ican bureau of shipping, Lloyd's re ter and the naval architects of 4 shipping board. The contract ¢aj for delivery of the hull in six month Seattle Will Launch 7 Ships This Year -- Recently compiled data show that approximately 220,000 tons of steel will be used in building ocean-going steel steamships scheduled for launc ing in Seattle during the present year, Seattle's tentative launching program for the year calls for building approx mately 70 steel steamships as follows: Sixteen 7500-ton vessels, fifty 8800-ton vessels, and four 9400-ton vessels. The deadweight cargo capacity of the ships will aggregate 597,000 tons. -- Seattle's wooden shipbuilding indus- try will also be busy. More than 50 ocean-going wooden ships are sched- -- uled for launching and these will add 150,000 deadweight tons to the Seattle record. Thus in steel and wood Seat- launch 747,000 dead- weight tons in 1918. Me At Belliveau cove, Digby, N. S., five large schooners are under construction within a radius of half a mile. P. A. Theriault & Co.'s 3-mast schooner CHARLES THERIAULT, is practically ready for launching and the keel has been laid for another vessel. Benjamin Belli- veau & Co. have started work on a 3-mast schooner to be about 250 tons -- net. The firm's new 3-mast schooner, Emma BEeELtivEAu, went to the West Indies on her maiden voyage. The R. H. Howes Construction Co., Boston and New York, has established a shipyard at Meteghen river, Nova Scotia. The company has leased the James Cosman shipyards at the mouth -- of the Meteghan river for a term of years. Mills, together with pattern shops -- equipped with modern machinery, have been equipped and are now operating. -- The company recently closed a deal for a tract of 500 acres of valuable timber land on the Meteghan river and it im- tends to enter the shipbuilding field on an extensive scale. Already ome schooner is entirely framed and other -- keels are being laid. ; Of the 81 commandeered and direct contract ships delivered to the govert ment and placed in operation Up March 9, Seattle has contributed