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420 . the completion of these vessels, it is likely that some 10,000-ton tankers will be built. The yard, as at present laid out, has capacity for the simultaneous construction of six barges and two 10,000-ton vessels. The plant for- merly was known as the E. J. Marble yard and up until its purchase by the present owners, -was_ devoted largely to the construction of vessels for the Hudson river trade. It was acquired in June, 1915, by the Fuel Oil Distribution Corporation, another subsidiary of the Southern Oil & Transportation Co. and later the Tank Ship Building Corporation was organized. In addition to the con- struction of oil barges and tankers, the yard has engaged to some extent in general repair work. Improvements at Bath The Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., recently installed a new 5-ton over- head crane which is devoted to hand- ling plates as they are received at the plant. The crane runway commands form a distinctive type, for which there is a large and in- creasing demand. Such vessels are indispensable for the navigation of many inland waters, rivers, estuaries, lakes and land-locked sea areas in all parts of the world. A vessel repre- senting the best results of many years’ accumulated experience has re- cently been constructed in England. She is designed for both passenger and cargo service. The length of the run for which this steamer is in- tended is about 400 miles, on a dan- gerous and difficult river course beset with rapids and whirlpools, the posi- tions of which frequently change as the river rises and falls with the seasons. The new steamer is _ in- tended to supplant smaller ones, which were warped up the rapids by means of ropes, necessarily a wearisome and often a dangerous operation. She will be sufficiently large and power- ful to negotiate the rapids under her own steam, without warping. The vessel is 190 feet long, with a beam of 30 feet, the draft being 5 feet. Her steering gear consists of three balanced rudders actuated by both hand and steam. Two steam steering wheels are provided, one in the wheel house and one on the upper bridge. The hand gear is also in the wheel- house. The steering engine is in the S HALLOW-DRAFT steamers now 4 THE MARINE REVIEW the new pickling bath. The company now is building torpedo-boat destroy- ers Nos. 66 and 74, a car float and a seagoing steam yacht for John N. Willys, Willys-Overland Co. These vessels are of steel with the exception of the car float. The G. G. Deering Co., Bath, Me., is building a 4-masted wooden schoon- er. Percy & Small, Bath, also are building a 4-masted wooden schooner which will be fully equipped as an auxiliary. The Texas Steamship Co., Bath, now has two 9,000-ton tankers under construction. The company is pre- paring to put in three more ways and on the completion of these, it will have capacity for building five vessels simultaneously. The Kelly, Spear Co., Bath, just has completed and launched a wooden coal barge and it is building three more. These vessels are 3-masters, having a 235-foot keel, 41-foot beam, 245-foot length and are 19 feet, 6 inches deep. They have a cargo ton- nage of 2,900 tons. mer for By T. Osborne main engine room. The steamer, it is said, can turn within two lengths with both engines working at half power. The hull is subdivided into 19 com- partments by transverse and _ longi- tudinal bulkheads with water-tight doors, which are also fitted to the bunker bulkheads, as experience has shown that damage to the hull is more frequent at the turn of the bilge than on the bottom. There are four decks in all, the main, upper, boat and awning deck. Below, in a= cen- tral position are the engine room and boilers, with two holds aft and three forward. On the boat decks aft are four boats, the salon and the cabins for European passengers and officers, with pantry, galley, bath rooms and the steward’s cabin. A first and a second class salon, each with a group of cabins for natives; a third central group of cabins surrounding the en- gine room skylights; the wheel house, lavatory, filter tanks and three rooms for the purser, are situated on the upper’deck. The main deck provides accommodation for 170 native steer- age passengers, 15 firemen and three engineers. In the forecastle are ac- commodations for four petty officers and 12 men, also a mess room for 14 cooks and boys. The bottom of the steamer is flat and the sides are vertical, giving a box-shaped section. PVA V Y "> Y UW YD ] MAY A. * A December, 191 Follows Lake Practice © The Pennsylvania Ship Buildin Co. rapidly is bringing its new plant. at Gloucester, N. J., to completion. This yard has ways for building six craft simultaneously. Incidentally, it is the only yard on the Atlantic sea- board where the side launching meth- — od, which has become so general on the Great Lakes, has been adopted. The company has contracts for 10 vessels. These include six- 7,000-ton tankers, to be fitted with steam tur- bines, and four 12,500-ton cargo boats, . to be provided with geared turbines, electrically operated deck machinery, etc. All these vessels will have a sea speed of 11 knots. an hour. The work of construction is well under way and the first tanker is to be delivered in July, 1917. The main office of the company is in the Land Title building, Philadelphia, and the officers are as follows: President, H. E. Norbom; vice president, Charles H. Moyer; general manager, Henry Lysholm; secretary and _ treasurer, George S. Hoell. The .bottom slopes upward towards the stern, so as to clear the lower halves of the two screws and the rudders; the upper halves of the screws being in semicircular tunnels, rising from the ship’s bottom, which is also sloped upwards under the forecastle. Electric lighting is provided through- out, current being supplied by an oil- driven dynamo which makes it un- necessary to keep up steam when the steamer is moored for the night. The holds between the main deck and the vessel’s bottom provide an aggregate capacity of about 16,000 cubic feet, and on a draft of 5 feet the steamer has a dead-weight capacity of about 300 tons. A double-headed auxiliary steam capacity is provided forward, one head being arranged for working the anchors and for ordinary warping purposes and the other for warping up the rapids in case of emergency. Rollers are fitted on the berthing for bringing in the warp, — A large number of ballards and fair- leads are placed forward and aft. oe The vessel is equipped with two sets of triple expansion condensing engines of 2,000 indicated horsepower. Piston valves are fitted to the high pressure, mean and low pressure cylinders. All the bearings have large surfaces, so as” to ensure satisfactory results with the engines when running at a somewh higher speed than is usual with this class