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_— January, 1917 phia;. H. A. Magoun, Camden, N. J. Mr. May is chairman of the board, while Mr. Knox is president of the company. In order to assist in meeting the re- quirements of the government’s con-. struction program, a certain amount: of government work, if offered, will prob- ably be taken by the new company, al- though the demands for the renewals of the fleets of the companies purchasing the yards, together with private business now on hand and in contemplation, will, it is estimated, use the entire capacity of the yards and proposed extensions for the next five years. The New York Shipbuilding Co.’s plant appealed to the American In- ternational Corporation, it was said, be- cause of its location, its new and ef- ficient equipment, and its general adap- tability to large scale production. Re- cently a 7,000-ton deadweight freighter was built in this plant and the trial run made in the remarkable time of 14 knots. The cost of tonnage has risen in Eng- land until it is about the same as here. Buyers who get bids from both Eng- lish and American yards find the Eng- lish prices just as high as ours, where- as in the past they used to average per- haps a third lower. As the New York Shipbuilding Co. has a large frontage, there is ample room for enlarging the plant. The proposed immediate extension contem- plates the building of two shipways 150 feet wide by 1,000 feet long. These ways will give considerable additional capacity. In the plant as it now stands but little change in machinery and equipment is necessary, as that now in use is practically all of the latest and most efficient type. Diesel Tanker Overhauled In November, 1912, the motor-driven tanker, JuNo, was placed in_ service, and she was equipped with the first high-powered reversible diesel engine that the Werkspoor Co., of Amster- dam, built for marine purposes. This _ motor is 1,100 brake horsepower (1,460 indicated horsepower at 115 revolu- tions per minute with mechanical effi- ciency of 78 per cent, and a mean effective pressure of 105 pounds per square inch) or equivalent to about 1,300 steam indicated horsepower. This ship was docked recently at Newport News to undergo Lloyds No. 1 survey, which takes place at the end of four years’ service. According to Charles Bailey, chief engineer of the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., a thorough examination was made of the hull and machinery, but very little work on the engine was found neces- THE MARINE REVIEW sary. One-of the company’s engi- neers accompanied Juno to the Capes, and reported the running of the ma- chinery as satisfactory. Juno is of 4,300 tons displacement, and carries about 2,500 tons of cargo, on a dead weight capacity of 2,675 tons, at an average loaded speed of 9% knots, and with a fuel consump- tion of a little: under five tons of crude oil per day. Her engine has six cylin- ders, 22-inch bore by 393-inch stroke. Her engine room staff consists of chief, first, second and third engi- neers, four oilers and two cleaners. The lubricating oil consumption is stated to be about 20 gallons per 24-hour day. Her length between per- pendiculars is 258 feet, with 45-foot beam, and 18%-foot draft, and her trial speed was 10% knots. She is owned by the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., London. It may be remembered that with the PPLICATION for the leasing for A 30 years of 30 acres of tide- lands at Los Angeles harbor, for use as a big ship yard, has been filed by E. G. Ekstrom as president of the new Los Angeles Ship Building Co. The company plans to build more than $10,- 000,000 worth of ships annually and to employ at least 1,000 men when the plant is built. “Our site will have a frontage of 3,000 feet on the west basin and will be suf- ficiently large to provide for a future dry dock to be built by our company in the event that the city is unable to make the desired improvement,” said Mr. Ekstrom. “Work will commence at once on the buildings of a ship building plant, fully equipped with modern machinery and capable of building five 8,800-ton ships at one time, three of which will be started at soon as the yard is ready. “The ship building plant will cost be- tween $500,000 and $750,000. Our com- pany will specialize on a standardized steel freighter of 8,800 tons deadweight capacity, but it will also build 10,000-ton freighters and tankers and do general repair work in connection therewith. The company also expects to operate the proposed new dry dock the city plans to build in the near future and which will be an improvement that will be instrumental in bringing to this port the much needed bottoms to move local freight now routed through San Fran- cisco. “The officers and staff have been re- cruited from the big ship yards of the Atlantic and Pacific and all are men of over 20 years’ experience in their re- 27 old design of Werkspoor diesel en- gines it was believed there was not. enough space between the valves for cooling purposes, and about a year ago a new cylinder design was produced in which there is at least 4 inches of cooling water between every valve, and this was found to be so: satisfac- tory that the builders were not con- tented with adopting it for new en- gines, but fitted the new design of cylinder to some of the. older ves- sels in service. JUNO was one of these ships, and having the new cylin- ders, new pistons naturally had to be put in to fit and the opportunity was taken to use the latest design. A section of crankshaft also was fitted. This was at the beginning of the year, since when the engine has been run- ning continuously. All this goes to: prove how necessary is sea-going ex- perience to produce a_ satisfactory design of marine diesel engine. spective lines. The finances of the com- pany, which were arranged by Henry ‘Clarke, 1917 Leighton avenue, were ob- tained outside of Los Angeles and are ample to take care of every need.” In order to provide the company with | the necessary site, it is proposed that the city shall do certain dredging of. channels and fill the area to be used. by the ship building concern; also that the ship building company shall advance the. necessary funds for this work, the same to be applied on the rent that it is pro- posed the company shall pay the city for the use of the lands. It is announced that the new company has $500,000 al- ready deposited in a local national bank. Acting Traffic Manager C. H. Matson of the harbor department, who has just returned from an inspection of ship building plants at San Francisco, said: _ “The northern ship building plants are building at least $50,000,000 worth of ships at the present time. The ship yards have more business than they can attend to. Eastern ship builders also have more than they can handle right now. The coming of the proposed ship- building plant to our local port means millions of .dollars in business at Los Angeles Harbor. It behooves the city to get busy and pave the way for a big dry dock, which will be imperatively needed. Dee “This new company here proposes to. invest at once between $500,000 and $750,000, and probably more as time . goes on. Harbor business will jump ahead by leaps and bounds as a result of the business that this new concern will handle, the business to be handled by the Union Oil Co., which proposes