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February, 1917 THE, MARINE REVIEW 51 BUILDING A STEEL SHIP AT PLANT OF J. F. DUTHIE & CO., SEATTLE, WASH. On Dec.: 21, 1916, Hanna NEILSEN was accepted by her owner B. Stolt- Neilsen of Norway. This was the second 8,800-ton steel vessel turned out by the Skinner & Eddy Corporation of Seattle, from its plant located where last February there was nothing but an unimproved tract. On Oct. 21, 1916, when Hanna NEILSEN was_ launched, the keel was laid for ,a new vessel; there are five others in various stages of construction. Figures turned in to the United States department of com- merce, bureau of navigation, show that the company has contracts for 11 ships with a total gross tonnage of 61,400. BOW VIEW OF WOODEN AUXILIARY SANTINO ‘ passed J. F. Duthie & Co., of which C. D. Bowles of Portland is president, is completing a modern plant at- Seattle and ways are in readiness for the first three of the seven steel vessels for which contracts are held. Steel for the three 8,800-ton steel vessels which the recently incorporated Ames Ship- building Co. will build will arrive Feb. 1. The Ames Shipbuilding Co. is building a permanent plant to take care of all kinds of repair work. The yard will include a 12,000-ton drydock. Plenty of Work Ahead The old-established Seattle Construc- tion & Drydock Co., which recently into the control of Wm. H. Todd, of the Todd Shipbuilding Co., and the Tietjen & Lang Drydock Co., New York City, reports contracts for 11 vessels aggregating 64,370 gross tons and since that time has been awarded a contract by the government for a war vessel at nearly $5,000,000. Announce- ment was recently made that a 12,000- ton drydock would be added to the equipment of the plant and the dock is now under construction at Port Blakely. It will be built of wood, in three sections. Subsequent to the pur- chase of control of the Seattle plant the Todd interests incorporated the Todd Shipbuilding Co., capital $1,200,000, and purchased a site of 100 acres of. tide lands at Tacoma, Wash., for a plant, on which work has probably started by now. Two other companies were in- corporated during the closing months of the year for steel ship building in Tacoma, the Tacoma Shipbuilding Co., and Washington Shipbuilding Co., the latter holding contracts, according to re- ports, for the construction of eight 8,800-ton steel vessels. At Portland, four yards are now, or soon will be, building steel vessels whereas at the beginning of the year there was one. The Union Iron Works Co., San Fran- cisco, turned in an incomplete list to the bureau of navigation, on Nov. 1, 1916, which showed a total of 175,000 gross tons contracted for, more than any other yard in the United States. Those best informed look upon the steel shipbuilding boom as a more or READY TO LAUNCH A WOODEN SHIP ON THE PACIFIC COAST