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COR Se May, 1921 soting Co. by the Ballard Marine Rail- way Cc. Both vessels will be used for general utility in local waters. Some interesting testimony was given at Tacoma in. the suit: of A. R. Tit- low against George P. Wright, owner of a wooden shipyard at Tacoma which built Ferris type vessels for the govy- ernment. Mr. Titlow as Mr. Wright's at- torney asked for a fee of $20,000 al- leging that he obtained a settlement of $416,000. for the Wright yards from the shipping board. Mr. Wright con- tended that Mr. Titlow had nothing to do with the settlement. Among the witnesses was Judge R. A. Ballinger, formerly secretary of the interior, who testified that the fee asked was not excessive. Mr. Titlow, who is prom- inent in politics, was awarded $7000. Mr. Wright is former mayor of Ta- coma. : On March 17, the steel steamer SxKIR- MISHER, 8390 deadweight tons, was launched from the Wallace shipyards. Vancouver, B. C. The vessel was built for the Canadian government and is the last large craft under construction at these yards. The CANADIAN TRAVELER, built by the Harbor Marine Co., Vancouver, B. C., has completed her trials and has started loading railway ties for her maiden yoyage to Alexandria, Egypt. Christened by a Boy Scout, Harold Adams, the tanker SwiFrscoUT was launched on March 12 from the ways of the Northwest Bridge & Iron Works, Portland: The Boy Scout idea was that of Raymond Desmond, Cranford, N. Jj., whose . fathers Charles 2. es. mond, a naval architect, had charge of construction. British Columbia shipbuilders a closely watching the proposal to in- crease the Dominion tariff on steel plate from $3 to $7, as the increase will have material bearing on the future of yards on the Canadian side. After completing the construction of a 15,000-ton wooden floating drydock, in five pontoon units for the public deck commission at Portland, the ship- building firm of Cornfoot & McIntosh will shortly be dissolved and its prop- erty disposed of at auction. This in- cludes the plant of the Albina Ma- chine & Engine Works which built sev- eral steel steamers for the government during the war. Suit has been filed in the United States district court at San Francisco by the Australian -commonwealth to fore- close mortgages for $1,625,000 on eight wooden motorships sold to the Pa- cific Motorship Co. known as one of the companies in the W. L. Comyn are MARINE REVIEW interests. Appointment of a receiver is asked pending the outcome of the ac- tion. The vessels involved are the Bat- CATTA, -BENOWA, BoopyALLa and Ba- BINDA, built by the Patterson & Mc- Donald yards, Seattle, and the Cooicya, CETHANA, CHALLAMBRA and CULBURRA, constructed by the Sloan yards, Olympia, Wash. They were originally ordered for the Australian government but were acquired by J. E. Chilberg, Seattle, who later turned them over to the Comyn interests. Recently they have been op- erated between British Columbia and Gulf Yards 2g Puget sound and west coast of South America. The federal court at Seattle has re- opened the case of the Sloan Shipyards Corp. against the Emergency Fleet cor- poration in which damages amounting to $3,500,000 were asked because of can- cellation of contracts. The court had previously dismissed the action but granted a motion to set aside this decision that an amended complaint may be filed. This action is supposed to be preliminary to an appeal to the Supreme Court. Are Active Shipbuilding Plants Take Up Repair and Small Boat Work ETTING back to peace business ¢, after the hurry and expansion in work and profits during the war has been a serious problem for the shipbuilding companies along the Gulf coast, but at least three of them in New Orleans have solved the problem. They are operating with full forces and have files well filled with orders. These companies have turned their yards into ship repair plants, and into works for constructing seagoing steel barges, steel deep sea tugs, and coasting steamers of shallow draft. Other companies along the Gulf coast which have not been able to make this change, or have not seen the wisdom of doing it, are hav- ing considerable difficulty in finding suf- ficient work to keep their employes to- gether. The first New Orleans company to take up the construction of smaller craft was the Johnson Iron Works, Dry Dock & Ship Repair Co., which con- structed several 100-ton seagoing steel tugs for order of the government at its yard on the Bayou St. John, and is now engaged in building steel barges for the Mexican oil trade. This company also operates a drydock and ship repair plant on the Algiers side of the river. The Doullut & Williams Shipbuilding Co. Inc., which built a fleet of eight 9600-ton steel steamships for the ship- ping board, completely outfitting them at its plant on the inner harbor and navigation canal, launched the last of this fleet, the OrpHam, on March .19. Four of the eight ships have been de- livered, complete, to the shipping board agents at New Orleans, having been taken around over Lakes Ponchartrain and Borgne and thence up the Mis- sissippi to the Louisiana port. The other four are being outfitted for early delivery. = While the last of these ships was on the ways, the Doullut & Williams company began construction of a num- ber of large steel seagoing barges for use in transporting oil on the Panuco river and across the bar at its mouth, at Tampico, Mexico. Two or three of these barges were launched by April 1 and more are on the ways. The Doul- lut & Williams company also is going into the construction of seagoing tugs, and coasting steamers, The Jahncke interests, which operated © a yard for the construction of wooden ships at Madisonville, some 30 miles across Lake Ponchartrain, during the war, are investing approximately $1,000,- 000 in a large drydock and ship repair plant on the Mississippi river within the city limits of New Orleans. In ad- dition to drydocking and repair work, this plant also will construct tugs, barges and small steamers. ~The small boat construction field is being well cared for by the New Orleans Boat Building Co., in which A. Duvic & Sons are the largest owners, and which is building power work and pleasure boats and repairing those in service. The Southern Yacht club has started the organization of a co-operative boat repair and construction yard, to be located on the grounds of the club at West End, New Orleans, to take care of the fleet of 300 or more power boats which fly the S. Y. 'C. pennant. The oil tanker, TUxPANOIL was launched recently from the south plant of the Baltimore Dry Docks & Ship Build- ing Co., Baltimore. The sponsor was Mrs. Roe Edwin Wells, a niece of Wil- liam H. Todd, president of Todd Ship- yards Corp. The Tuxpanot is a 10,300 deadweight ton tanker; 430 feet in length, 59-foot beam; 33 feet 3 inches in depth; 2650 shaft horsepower; single screw; geared turbines; with a speed of 10 knots; equipped with three Scotch boil- ers; oil burning; forced draft. She has a cargo capacity of 3,000,000 gallons.