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220 : THE MARINE REVIEW nage is 2,100, carrying capacity about 3,000 tons, speed 9% knots and _ indi- cated horsepower 1,600. She will go into commission in June, leaving imme- diately for salt water. The American Ship Building Co. is building a number of boats for foreign interests. Mrs. J. L. Wallace was sponsor for the new boat, the launching being wit- nessed by a large number of people. New Type Schooner Built At a cost of $180,000, Fields S. Pendleton is having constructed at Noank, R. I., a five-masted schooner which is said to be a novelty in sea- going craft. She is to be supplied with steel keelsons and steel strapped planking 5 and 6 inches in thickness. She is to be without topmasts but will have oil burning engines to fur- nish power for twin screws. It is expected that she will be ready for launching in June. She will bear the name of her owner, who is a promi- nent man in marine matters and re- sides in New York. Launch First Oil Tanker The steamship GrorceE E. PanppLe- FORD was launched at noon April 18 from the yards of the Harlan & Hol- lingsworth Corporation. She is the first oil tanker built by the corpora- tion for the Petroleum Transportation Co., a subsidiary of the Mexican Pe- troleum Co. Mrs.. J. -F.. Wood, of New York, was sponsor. The new boat is 405 feet long, 51 feet 4 inches. beam and 30 feet deep. The vessel has a capacity of 7,500 tons on a draft of 24 feet. It will be lighted by electricity and will be equipped with wireless. To Build 360 Ships Three hundred and sixty steel mer- chant vessels were building or under contract to be built in private Amer- ican ship yards on April 1, according to builders’ returns to the bureau of navigation of the department of com- merce. vessels is 1,067,856, representing an increase from 945,798 gross tons and 244 vessels reported on March 1. Com- parative tables beginning with July 1, 1915, are given showing that on that date there were 76 vessels build- ing or under contract with a _ gross tonnage of 310,089. On Dec. 1 these figures had increased to 202 vessels, with a total gross tonnage of 761,511. Separate statistics are given for the seaboard and for the Great Lakes and western rivers. On July 1, 1915, the total of 76 vessels was divided be- tween 62 on the seaboard and 14 on the Great Lakes and western rivers. ‘ rious yards on new contracts. The gross tonnage of these . On Dec. 1, last, 163 vessels were re- ported from the seaboard builders and 59 from the others. At the first of April the figures were 176 for the sea- board and 184 for the other classifi- cation. On this last date the gross tonnage represented was 823,651 and 244,205, respectively. ‘Details are also given regarding the vessels under construction in the va- There are 23 steamships and an oil barge listed, and in only three cases is the NOTHER important addition A to the rapidly-expanding ship building industry along the Delaware river, the Clyde of the United States, which will represent the largest new yard added to the ocean-going capacity of the country in a number of years, is to be estab- lished at Chester,. Pa, by. the Sun Co., a leading independent organi- zation. Contracts have been piaced for the erection of a complete new_ ship building plant costing, it is estimated, about $5,000,000. The plans call for a yard of six ways, each 100 feet wide by 600 feet long, or with a capacity for building ocean craft up to 15,000 tons in size. The company proposes to standardize ship building operations in that it will specialize on a few approved designs of both tank ships and cargo vessels, both for its own use and for the merchant trade, thereby effecting the highest econ- omies of operation. It is proposed as soon as the yard is built to con- estruct 18 10,000-ton boats which are ~ to be completed in about 30 months. The layout of the proposed plant provides for three large shop build- ings, the first of which will contain the machine shops and_ receiving bays, where the material enters; the second, the plate and angle shop and the third, the erecting shop from which the work is moved into any of the six ways. State Senator W. C. Sproul, Ches- ter; J. Howard Pew and Joseph N. Pew, of the Sun Oil Co., and Marcus “Hook were leading factors in the formation of the new company. Among others interested are; Gen- eral T. Cqleman du Pont, New York, and Wilmington, Del.;) S. M. Vau- clain, of the Baldwin Locomotive Works; EE. VY. Babcock, .. Pittsburgh lumber man, and J. Leonard Replogle, formerly of the Cambria Steel Co. Contracts for two tankers for the Sun Oil Co. and for four more for other interests are now in hand. It June, 1916 construction for foreign account. Two are colliers, and the rest are either tankers or cargo ships. With the ex- ception of the colliers, which will probably not be launched until the spring of 1918, most of the contracts call for launching or delivery either this year or next. The largest ship listed is one of 8,100 gross tonnage, with a speed of 18 knots, the rest ranging from 2,100 to 7,200 gross ton- nage, with speeds of from 9% to 12 knots. is expected that the first keel will be laid in about a month. More than $3,000,000 of the $5,000,000 capital of the company will be expended in con- structing and equipping the new yard. The company’s principal offices will be in the Finance building, Phila- delphia, Pa. The Sun Co. has acquired the going plant of the Robert Wetherill & Co., Chester, Pa., manufacturer of boilers and engines, and will build its own engines. This step insures the com- pany a great saving of ttme in pro- viding for the outfitting of its new ships. A new company now is being formed to handle the ship building proposition to be known as the Sun Shipbuilding Co. The Sun Co. is a New Jersey corporation with a cap- italization of $9,600,000. It is both a producer and a refiner of oil and has a large refinery at Marcus Hook, Pa., near which the new shipyard will be located. J. H. Pew Is president; J. N. Pew Jr., vice president, and Frank Cross, secretary and_ treasurer. Bids have been taken on 15 to 20 15- ton cranes and also have been asked for six large-capacity cranes of the revolving ship building type. The shop machinery and other equipment will be bought later. Will Enlarge Plant The Seaford Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Co. of Seaford, Del., has been purchased by A. D. Cum- mins and others, of New York. The property includes 20 acres of land and one-half of a mile of water front along the Nanticoke river, as well as a saw mill. The new own- ers propose to enlarge and improve the property and bring it up to a high standard of excellence. Con- tracts for several wooden barges and sailing vessels have already been re- ceived and sufficient orders are in hand to provide work for the ship building plant for a period of two years, we ai fou