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16 T. V. O’Connor of the United States Shipping board has announced ithe following sales of government tonnage: UNIoN Liperty, LAKE FLAG and LAKE IKATAN, lake type freighters were sold to the Southern Steamship Co. for $25,000 each, cash, with an obligation to perform certain altera- tions and betterments. These vessels are typi- eal deep draft, lake-built, steel vessels of 4095, 4230 and 4208 deadweight tons, respectively, of 1425 indicated horsepower, two scotch boil- ers, with a speed of 914 knots on 20% tons of oil per day. The three vessels at the time of the sale were tied up at Philadelphia and were available for immediate delivery. Hoven, Hampton Roaps, and Ceci, County, steel tankers. The board approved the form of advertisement submitted by the president MARINE REVIEW Recent Sales of Ships of the Fleet corporation calling for sealed bids on the foregoing tankers to be opened at noon, Oct. 12, 1926. CASTANA, a Hog Island type cargo vessel converted to a bulk oil carrier was sold to the Tankers Corp., N. Y., for the sum of $200,000. DEUEL, a steel vessel of 8557 deadweight tons, sold to W. R. Grace & Co. at $6.50 per dead- weight ton. Title is to be taken by Grace Steamship Co. The S. S. DEUEL was built by J. S. Duthie & Co., in November, 1919, and is equipped with one triple expansion engine of 2520 indicated horsepower and three scotch boilers. Her speed is about 1014 knots on 33 tons of oil a day. The vessel was at the time of the sale under assignment to the Yankee line, but was laid up at Baltimore. The DEUEL is to be added to the Grace company’s fleet operating under sales contract with the ship- ping board in the service between the west September, 1926 coast of the United States and South America. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, steel tanker authorized for sale for conversion to diesel electric drive. World Markets APPALACHEE, single deck steamship, 3767 gross tons, 53850 deadweight tons, for about £10,000 to Italian buyers. MELPO, single deck steamship, 5222 gross tons, 8000 deadweight tons for about £35,000 to Care & Marquand Shipping Co., Cardiff. SUREWAY, double deck steamship, 5131 gross tons, 8280 deadweight tons, for about £36,000 to Japanese buyers. VERENTIA, double deck steamship, 5185 gross tons, 7033 deadweight tons, for about £32,000. LorpD ERSKINE, single deck steamship, 1995 gross tons, 3260 deadweight tons, for about £15,000. BARFLO, single deck steamship, 1085 dead- weight tons, 751 gross tons, for about £9000 to Hijos de Romulo Bosch, Barcelona. KyYAK, single deck steamship, 6410 dead- weight tons, 3668 gross tons, for about £9500 to Olivier & Co., London. NORDSEL, single deck steamship, 6300 dead- weight tons, 3771 gross tons, for £13,150 by auction, to N. Kulukundis, Syra. PAYS DE LigGE, double deck steamship, 5919 gross tons, for about £9500 to Belgian buyers. Second Largest Dry Dock Is Ready HE new graving Esquimalt dry- dock at Esquimalt, located three miles from Victoria, B. C. is now open and available for commercial service to all vessels. This gives Es- quimalt two dry-docks at this point. The new dock is a big step in ad- vance for the Canadian government. The dock is the largest of its kind in all the British Empire and the second largest dock in the world being ex- ceeded in size only by the famous Commonwealth dock at Boston. The dock was designed and, con- structed by the public works depart- ment of Canada, K. M. Cameron, chief engineer for the department and J. P. Forde, district engineer in charge of the work. The total cost of the development Was approximately $6,000,000. The dock is 1150 feet long with a clear width at the entrance over the sills of 126 feet; the width at the top of the dock at the coping level is 149 J. P. FORDE, M. E. I. C. District Engineer in Charge feet; the depth of the water on the sills at high tide is 40 feet. The area at the bottom of the dock is 142,600 square feet and when the dock is filled it contains 43 million Imperial gal- lons. With the electrically driven pumps the dock can be emptied in three hours and twenty minutes. The dock is designed and is able to accommodate the largest commer- cial or naval vessel afloat, the design being such that caissons can close the dock into sections, one 400 feet and one 750 feet long to accommodate vessels of varying dimensions, or the full basin of 1150 feet is available. All equipment around the dock is of the latest and most modern type, be- ing electrically operated. Bollards are amply spaced around the dock and there are nine capstans spaced at dif- ferent intervals; eight of these cap- stans electrically operated give a line pull of 25,000 pounds each at a speed (Continued on Page 40) SECOND LARGEST GRAVING DOCK IN THE WORLD RECENTLY COMPLETED AND PLACED IN COMMISSION BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AT ESQUIMALT, VICTORIA, B. C.