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September, 1926 Roscoe Seybold Promoted Roscoe Seybold, formerly manager of price statistics of the Westing- house Electric & Mfg. Co., has been appointed assistant to F. A. Merrick, vice president and general manager of the company. Mr. Seybold has been with the Westinghouse company since 1907. He ROSCOE SEYBOLD was born in Rockville, Ind., and at- tended Purdue university. After graduating from that school in 1907, with the degree of bachelor of sci- Can Run 30 HE tugboat JOHN T. HUGHES ; shown in the accompanying il- lustration was built at the yard of M. M. Davis & Son at Solomons Island, Md., for its owner, John T. Hughes, 15 Moore street, New York City. This tugboat is powered with a 240-horsepower Fairbanks-Morse C-O engine turning a_ three-bladed propeller 6 feet in diameter by a 8 feet 8 inches in pitch at 250 revolu- tions per minute. It is also equipped with a 10-horsepower Fairbanks-Morse type Y diesel engine which operates the auxiliaries and a 4-inch centrifugal pump with connections through the side of the house with the neces- sary suction hose aboard for pump- ing other boats. General characteristics of the boat are as follows: Length 80 feet; beam 20 feet; draft when fully loaded be- tween 7 feet and 8 feet 6 inches. The hull and frames are of white oak and the house is of white pine. It has an operating radius of 30 consecutive days time, as it is equipped with the necessary tanks to carry approximately 10,000 gal- lons of fuel oil and 600 gallons of MARINE REVIEW ence in electrical engineering, he im- mediately came to East Pittsburgh where he entered the college grad- uate apprentice course. At its com- pletion he was placed in the price department and later was transferred to the sales department, where he was located for some years prior to this present appointment. Order Oil Barge Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. has been awarded a contract for a 10,000 barrel oil barge to be built at the corporation’s Harlan plant, Wilming- ton, Del., for the Seaboard Shipping Corp. This barge is intended for service in New York harbor. De- livery is to be made Jan. 1, 1927. Rossbottom Retires Head of U.S. Lines Thomas H. Rossbottom, manager of the United States lines of the United States shipping board, has _ retired from this position and will return to the war department. Mr. Rossbottom was loaned to the shipping board by the war department shortly after the shipping board com- menced operation of the transatlantic fleet, including the Leviathan. He had made a-fine record as head of as 49 the Panama Railroad Steamship Co. which is a corporation owned by the United States government and op- erated by the war department. Gen- eral Dalton, president of the Fleet corporation intimated that the war department has asked for Mr. Ross- bottom’s return by September 1. In the meantime David Burke, his as- sistant will fill the position of man- ager temporarily. Every fair minded person will con- cede that the retiring manager made a splendid record in operating the LEVIATHAN and the other transatlantic liners for the government. He has through careful management steadily reduced deficits to a point where it has been predicted that this line would soon be a paying proposition, The resignation of Elmer C. Crow- ley and the appointment of General Dalton as head of the Emergency Fleet Corp. was an indication to many that the shipping board intended to carry out the administration’s plan of selling the government ships’ as rapidly as possible. At a recent meeting of the stock- holders of the Sperry Gyroscope Co., Elmer A. Sperry, founder of the com- pany, was elected chairman of the board of director, and Charles S. Doran, president and manager. Days Without Re-fueling lubricating oil. There are accommo- dations for seven men, all on deck. Since having been completed and placed in operation in July, 1925, the JOHN T. HUGHES has been constant- ly employed with a double crew aboard, consisting of seven men. At present it is employed in towing barges between Philadelphia and Nor- folk, Va., via the Chesapeake and Delaware canal and Chesapeake bay. The tug in general is built equal in strength to a 125-foot tug and was designed by the owner for inland and coastwise work. Mr. Hughes has been engaged in the transportation and shipbuilding business for the past 17 years. This oil engined boat is the third of its kind built by him for his trade. DIESEL TUGBOAT JOHN T. HUGHES BUILT BY M. M. DAVIS & SON, SOLOMON’S ISLAND. MD.