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= =| = =I = = = = = = = = Yard A Snappy Summary of the Lesdine Events of the Month in the Vessel Construction Field AAA I Activities ail S a result of long negotiations, A the American Ship Building Co. on Nov. 2 “sold: its - Canadian plant at Port Arthur, which was operated by the Western Dry Dock & Ship Build- ing Co., to James Whalen, of Port Arthur. Mr. Whalen took the plant over at once and the price paid for the property was about $2,000,000. The name of the company will not be changed, at least for the present. The yard at Port Arthur was*start- ed eight or nine years ago by the American. Ship Building Co., and a number of big ships were turned out at the plant. The company was of- fered a good price for the property and owing to the rush of work and the difficulty in operating a plant on the Canadian side of the lakes the officials of the company at a meeting late in October decided to sell and accepted the price offered by Mr. Whalen. The bonds of the company will be taken over by the new own- ers. Mr. Whalen has been at the head of the Western Dry Dock & Ship Building Co. for a number of years and is one of the best known vessel men in Canada. Among the vessels turned out. at the Port Arthur yard were the steamer W. Grant MORDEN, which is the larg- est Canadian ship and the longest boat on the lakes, and the big pas- senger steamer Noronic. The company has closed contracts for three steamers of full Welland canal size. These boats, which were ordered by James Playfair, of Mid- land, Ont.,. are fer: the salt water trade. One. of the steam- will be completed in time to go to the coast this fall and the other two are for 1917 delivery. The company has 100 acres of land at Port Arthur. The plant, which is up-to-date, includes a foundry, boiler and machine shops, and a drydock, which can take the largest boats on the lakes. The drydock is 700 feet long, 98 feet wide and 16 feet deep. The plant is located 1 mile from the entrance to Port Arthur harbor, and 4% miles from the mouth of the river at Ft. William. With a big ship yard and dry- docks at Superior, the American Ship Building Co. will be in shape to take care of the boats in the Lake Superior trade. The company also has build- ing plants and drydocks at South Chi- cago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Lorain, Cleveland and Buffalo. The steamer Sir Trevor Dawson, building at the yard of the Superior Ship Building Co., Superior, Wis., for VESSELS UNDERGOING REPAIRS IN DRY DOCK AT PORT ARTHUR PLANT 419 the Canada Steamship Lines, Ltd., Montreal, Que., was launched on Oct. 18. Dawson is a 600-footer and was named in honor of Sir Trevor Dawson, R. N., president of the Canada Steamship Lines. The after end of Dawson is the rebuilt section of the | steamer W. C. Moretanp, which was salvaged after the steamer was wrecked. The new bow was launched Sept. 9. A com- plete description of the reconstruction work appeared in The Marine Review, August, 1916. Tank Yard is Busy The Tank Ship Building Corpora- tion has considerably improved its plant at Newburgh, N. Y., by the ad- dition of equipment designed to stand- ardize the various stages of vessel construction. Included in the machin- ery which it now is installing are a large multiple punch and a spacing table for handling large ship plates. The company so far has engaged in the construction of vessels almost ex- clusively for the Southern Oil & Transportation Cor- - poration, of which it is a subsidiary, and it is. likely that the require- ments of the par- ent company will keep it busy a long while to come... The = fret work done was the conversion of the yacht AMERICAN into a sea-going oil barge having capacity of 2,050 tons. It also just has completed three 1,050-ton steel sea-going tank barges. Four more boats of the same type and capacity now are under con- struction. After