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August, 1920 Buys Manitowoc Yard Charles C. West, vice president and manager of the Manitowoc Ship Building Co., Manitowoc, Wis., re- cently purchased the plant of this company at public auction on a bid of $410,000. He is now perfecting an organization to take over and operate the plant, the new company probably including a _ representative group of officials of the older firm. The Manitowoc yard is excellently adapted for ship construction and repair, having not only built large lake freight and passenger ships, but having constructed a number of ocean going vessels during the war emergency. Considerable expansion of facilitiess was made during the war, THE MARINE REVIEW 11,628,836,..have. been | delivered OF the 2289 keels laid, 1286 were cone) tract steel ships, 384 were requisi- tioned steel ships, 18 were composite, 589 were',wooden and 12 were caon- crete. To complete its original pro- gram, the Emergency Fleet corpora- tion has to have the keels of only 26 steel ships laid.- The following number of ships must be delivered before the corporation's program has been filled: 220 steel, 18 wooden and six concréte. Study Ship's Details Standardization of ships' details is being considered by British engineers. Eight different committees now are 445 : To Build Drydock Construction of a floating drydock capable of lifting a 12,000-ton vessel is announced by the Federal Ship- building Co., Kearny, N. J. The dock will be placed in the fitting-out basine of the company at its plant on the Hackensack river, near the head of Newark bay. About $1,500,000 will be invested in the addition, including the cost of two tugs and some addi- tional plant facilities made necessary. The dock itself will be built with steel wing walls and wooden pontoons, and will take ships up to 425 feet long. The dock will help stabilize opera- tions at the shipyard, providing steadier employment for the plant, and the working force of about 6000 DESTROYER SATTERLEE WHICH ESTABLISHED NEW AMERICAN SPEED giving rise to the problem of. re- financing the company on a_ basis which would permit successful: opera- tions under normal conditions, Status of U. Ss. Program Emergency Fleet corporation ship deliveries in June | totaled St Of 4 deadweight tonnage of 215,658. Twenty-six' of the ships, of, 190,158 _ tons, were steel; three, of 4000 tons, were wooden, and two steel ships, of 21,500 tons, were requisitioned. In the first week of July, the keels of four Steel ships, of 37,000 tons were laid; one steel ship of 5350 tons was launched, and two ships with a com- bined tonnage of 11,500 tons were delivered. In the entire history of the Emer- Scncy Fleet corporation, it has had laid the keels of 2280 ships, with a tonnage of 13,380,811; 2195 ships, with & tonnage of 12,516,386, have been launched, and 2071, of a tonnage of at work on the following details: 1-- bollards, fairleads, and mooring pipes; 2--hawsers, ropes, rigging screws and rigging gear; 3--boat davits, derricks, derrick fittings, stanchions, all ladders and ladder fittings; 4---windlasses, cap- stans, winches, steering gear and deck machinery; S--deck and hatch § fit- tings, watertight doors, manhole coy- ers, sidelights, ventilators, bunker and coal fittings; 6--cabin fittings, beds and electric light fittings; 7--sanitary fittings and all piping and pumping arrangements; 8--anchors, cables 'and chains. oe Completing a trip which took the vessel from Japan to Wilhelmshaven and Bremerhaven, Germany, through the Suez canal with 943 prisoners of war, and from Germany to New Or- leans and thence to Seattle for cargo for Japan, the Japanese steamship Kiruxu Maru has sailed for Kobe, Japan. i RECORD ON HER TRIAL TRIP men, who are now engaged in build- ing ten 10,000-ton freighters for the United States Steel Corp., and five 15,000-ton tankers for the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. With the new equipment, the Fed- eral company expects to take care of the drydocking and repair work of the fleet belonging to the Steel cor- poration. This fleet includes 14 large steel steamers now in operation, and 20 more under construction at the Federal yard and at the plant of an- other subsidiary, the Chickasaw Ship- building Co., Mobile, Ala. In addition to this work, the plant will do a gen- eral drydocking and repair business. On June 5, the shipping board owned and controlled 956 contract steel vessels; 205 requisition steel ves- sels; 271 wooden composite vessels; 4 concrete vessels; 24 purchased ves- sels; 31 seized German and Austrian vessels; 2 chartered from Peru.