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218 000. She will be known as ATLANTA. The Johnson Iron Works, across the river from New Orleans, is doing this job, and also is extensively repairing St. CHARLES, a steamer which had been practically abandoned. Both these steam- ers will be put in the New York-South American trade. Another romance of the sea was re- vealed when the Allen & Friedrichs Co. bought from Capt. William Bisso for a small sum an old hulk which the captain had been using for a stationary, submerged coal barge, on the batture off the naval station for six years. The hull was that of a French steamer which had been caught in the eruption of Mt. Pelee, Martinique. She was so_ badly damaged that her owners abandoned her as a complete loss. The Stern Foun- dry Co. New Orleans, salvaged her, took out her machinery, plugged up the holes in her hull and sailed her as a barkentine to New Orleans harbor. There she lay idle until six years ago, the Stern company turned her over to Captain Bisso for a small sum. The captain, in turn, did not realize what he had, for he sold her at a low price to the Allen & Friedrichs Co., which spent $10,000 in raising and _ scraping her. It was found that her plates were in fine condition and at least %-inch thicker than those on modern ships. Experts estimate that it would cost at least $175,000 to build this hull today. The contract to equip the ship, which is known as Carioca, has been let to a Mobile firm. She will come out of their hands as a modern barkentine, the cost of the repairs being about $45,000. When completed she will be worth between $200,000 and $225,000. New Orleans shipping men say that Allen & Fried- richs Co.’s little venture in the sunken hull netted them approximately $100,- 000 profit. Carioca will sail between gulf coast points and England. Two Barges From One The Johnson Iron Works also has built from old hulks taken from the river, the largest barges ever con- structed in this part of the country. From the remains of an old barge, years ago condemned as _ unseaworthy, the Johnson works reconstructed two 15,- 000-barrel oil barges which, when com- pleted, cost the Gulf Refining Co., Port Arthur, Tex., $350,000. The old barge was once a side-wheeler, with a rudder at each end, a transfer boat for the Frisco railroad, used to carry complete trains across the river. She was 350 feet long and 120 feet beam. Years ago, she broke amid- ships while in operation, was condemned, dismantled and left to lie idle along the river's edge. Then came several years of the European war, and the demand for derelicts brought to light this old THE MARINE REVIEW barge. Engineers of the Johnson works cut the old craft in two, added 65 feet of model bow to each end and made each craft 4 feet deeper. The result was two sea-going oil barges of large size, with iron hulls. They were equipped with Scotch boilers, pumps, anchors, towing machines, steam steer- ing engines, electric lighting equipment and sails. Five hundred tons of steel was used in the reconstruction. Builds Steel Tankers The Alabama & New Orleans Trans- portation Co., now operating self-pro- pelled steel freight barges between New Orleans and the FRED. W. SALMEN, PRESIDENT SLI- DELL DRY DOCK & SHIP BUILD- ING CO. is building four steel tank ships for the Mexican Petroleum Corporation, New York. The ships are being built at Violet, 12 miles from New Orleans, where the Alabama company has _ its yards for building and repairing its barges. According to J. L. Brierton, general manger of the transportation company, each steamer will cost $250,- 000. Each will be of 16,000-barrel, or 3000-ton capacity. They will be sister ships and will carry crude oil from Tampico Mex., to the refinery at New Orleans. The boats are of the Isher- wood type, with twin screws and _ tur- bine-generators. Each will be 260 feet long, 37 feet beam and 19 feet deep. They will carry crews of 15 men. Prac- tically all the steel used in these ves- sels has come from Birmingham, Ala. being brought to the~ plant at Violet by the motor barges of the transporta- tion company. About $30,000 was ex- pended on the yards at Violet in prep- aration for building the steel tankers. Alabama coal fields, June, 1917 Greorce T. Lock, a large 4-mast schoon- er, built by the Clooney Construction Co., Lake Charles La. for the Aiken Towboat & Barge Co., Pensacola, Fla., has been delivered. The schooner is 184 feet long, 37 feet beam and 14 feet deep, and is equipped with auxiliary engines. She will carry 750,000 feet of lumber and will be used in the lumber carrying trade. between gulf ports and Cuba. This is the seventh vessel built by the Clooney yards for the Pensacola firm in the past few years, and it is under- stood that another similar schooner has been contracted for. Lock cost $50,000. The Clooney Construction Co. also has. completed a large transfer barge for the Gulf & Interstate railroad, which will be used for transferring trains be- tween Port Bolivar and Galveston, Tex., a distance of 5 miles. The barge, which required four months in building, is 244 feet long, 42 feet wide and 12 feet deep, contains 425,000 feet of lumber and cost $50,000. She carries three tracks and has a capacity of 15 large or 18 small loaded freight cars. The first of a fleet of three large schooners to ply between New Orleans and Genoa, Italy, has been launched | at Orange Tex. Henry Piaggio is the builder of the fleet of schooners and the other two will be built as rapidly as possible. This first vessel has a ca- pacity of 1,500,000 feet of lumber. She was christened ORANGE City. Gulf coast ship yards have been busy for months turning out schooners for the .,oyster fishermen. Four were launched at Biloxi and Pascagoula in one day. The Biloxi Ship Building Co., Biloxi, Miss., launched GERTRUDE B 30 gross and 22 net tons, 59 feet long for Francis Brander, Biloxi. The M. M. Flechas Ship Building Co., Pas- cagoula, Miss., launched the schooners Liry Rost, Henry CriarK and Joss- PHINE Foster, sister boats 57 feet long with tonnages of 23 gross and 16 net. The first two were built for the Devitt & Clark Packing Co., and the last for the -C. Bo. Foster. Packing: Cox “all “of Biloxi. The Wood Boiler Co., New Bedford, Mass., is removing its heavy machinery from its plant to Vancouver, B. C., in order to make six huge boilers for the Cunard company’s new steamships that are under construction on the Pacific coast. The boilers will be too large to ship across the continent, so the com- pany will transport its plant to the western coast. The work will require about four years. The. future plans of the company in regard to its New Bedford business are indefinite, but it is proposed to continue an office there and perhaps a plant for boiler and repair work. The officials and many of the workmen expect to go to Van- couver.