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October, 1924 Launch Lake Vessel from English Yard A single screw steamer, the RAHANE, specially designed for service on the Canadian lakes, canals and St. Law- rence river was launched by Swan, Hunter, & Wigham Richardson, Ltd., from their Wallsend, England, yard recently. The principal dimensions are 248 feet in length between perpend- iculars, 43 feet in width, with a molded depth of 25 feet and a fore- castle 42 feet long. Water ballast will be carried in the forward after peaks and in the double bottom fore and aft. Five cargo hatchways are provided. Electric lighting will be installed throughout the ship and steam heating in all living accommodation. The engineers, oilers and firemen will be housed aft in a_ steel deckhouse on either side of the engine and_ boiler casings and the captain, officers and seamen in the fore end of the ship. The engines, driving a single pro- and New Ship Orders The Bath Iron Works, Inc., Bath, Me., has been awarded the contract for constructing a _ pas- senger steamer for the New Bed- ford, Marthas Vineyard & Nan- tucket Steamboat Co. The steam- er will be 210 feet long and have a carrying capacity of 2000 pas- sengers and 100 tons of freight. * * * The Lehigh valley railroad has ordered two car floats from the New York Shipbuilding Co., Cam- den, N. J. The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad has ordered one car float from the same shipyard and two barges from the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., New- port News, Va. The New York Central railroad is inquiring for bids on a ferry. Ce ee The Standard Oil Co. of Cali- fornia has ordered a tanker mo- | torship from the Bethlehem Ship- building Corp. at San Francisco. The vessel will be 210 feet long and will be similar in size and equipment to the recently com- pleted tankers Alaska Standard and Standard Service. The ves- sel will be fitted with twin diesel engines, 400 brake horsepower each, with generators and motors for driving the propellers. The engines will be of the Werkspoor type built by the Pacific Diesel Engine Co., Oakland, Cal. MAKINE REVIEW 409 Arctic Motorship Imprisoned in Northern Ice Pack HUDSON ice fields. After futile efforts to release her, staunch little ship to its Arctic ice prison. February, BAY CO. AUXILIARY FREIGHTER LADY KINDERSLEY This year, on her fourth annual visit to the )Canadian Arctic, she has ‘been caught in heavy the crew was forced to abandon the She is described in Marinp Review, 1924 peller, will be placed at the after end of the ship. Steam will be supplied from two single ended boilers. The machinery and boilers are being built by the North Eastern Marine Engineer- ing Co. Ltd., Wallsend on Tyne. The Kolster type radio compass is to be installed on board the steamships YALE and Harvarp, plying between San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, Cal. Contracts have just been closed be- tween the Los Angeles Steamship Co. and the Federal Telegraph Co., sole own- er and manufacturer of the compass. The second largest sand and gravel dredge in inland waters slid into the Ohio river Sept. 18 from the marine ways of the Dravo Contracting Co., Neville Island, near Pittsburgh. The craft was built for the Ohio River Sand Co., Louisville, Ky. The dredge is of all-steel construction and is steam driven. It has a capacity of 500 tons an hour, is 155 feet long, 44 feet wide and 8 feet deep. Four months were required for completion to the launching stage and another month will elapse before it is ready to be towed to Louisville where it will operate in the Ohio river. A contract has just been closed with the Sperry Gyroscope Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., which makes it: exclusive agent in China and Japan for the Kolster radio compass, according to an an- nouncement made by Ellery W. Stone, president of the Federal Telegraph Co., San Francisco, manufacturer of the radio compass.