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34 Engineers Beneficial association from which position he was appointed to head the steamboat inspection service by President Roosevelt in 1903. A particularly fitting tribute pub- lished in Marine Review for January, 1926, was paid to him as a man and chief by Dickerson N. Hoover who succeeded him as -head of the steam- boat inspection service. Well Known Shipbuilder Appointed Manager Education along shipbuilding lines and a career devoted to practical ship building especially qualify W. S. New- ell for his recent appointment as gen- eral manager of the shipbuilding divi- sion of the American Brown Boveri W. S. NEWELL Electric Corp., Camden, N. J. This company some time ago acquired the large splendidly equipped and well known plant of the New York Ship- building Corp. and, besides considera- ble commercial work, is now complet- ing the mammoth airplane carrier SARATOGA for the United States navy. Mr. Newell was born in 1878. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduating in 1899. During the summer vacations between terms at school he served as cadet engineer in the American line and in a riveting gang at the Bath Iron Works. In 1899 he worked in an outside engineer’s crew at Sparrows Point. From 1900 to 1901 he was an instructor in naval architecture and marine engineering at the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology. In 1902 Mr. Newell was appointed assistant superintending engineer of MARINE the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., in which capacity he served until 1908. He continued with this company and in 1928 was made engineer and works manager. From 1923 to the time of liquidation he was general manager of the Bath Iron Works. He then be- came associated with Cox & Stevens, naval architects and engineers until he was appointed to his present posi- tion. During his long residence in Bath, Me., Mr. Newell took an active in- terest in all civic affairs serving as president of the Bath water. district, trustee of the Bath hospital, alder- man, chairman of the finance com- mittee, member of street and sewer board, member of the state of Maine board of vocational education, mem- ber of the state’s fuel administration and as president of the Rotary club. Reconditioning Liners Is His Specialty Carl E. Petersen, who recently re- signed as naval architect of the Unit- ed States lines has been associated with the reconditioning, maintenance and operation of many of the ex- German passenger liners since their acquisition by the government during the war. He received his education as mechanical engineer at Pratt in- stitute and Polytechnic institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., later graduating from the United States navy engi- neering school. After serving an apprenticeship in the machine shops of the Morse Dry Dock Repair Co., he, became drafts- man, estimator and finally outside su- perintendent which position he held for three years, during which time the seized German vessels were placed in troop service. Mr. Petersen left the Morse company after a service of eight and one half years to accept a commission in the United States navy as engineer officer for transport duty during the World war. After the armistice, he was superintendent engi- neer in the army transport service at New York during the period of. conversion of cargo ships for troop service and their subsequent recon- version. Upon completion of this work, he became estimator for the construction and repair department of the shipping board, having charge of estimates and the costs of repairs in the New York district. When the United States Mail Steamship Co. was formed, he _ be- came assistant naval architect and later naval architect for that com- pany, retaining the latter position for several years after the vessels’ opera- REVIEW October, 1926 tion was taken over by the United States lines. During this period, the liners, GEORGE WASHINGTON, AMERICA and other ex-German vessels were reconditioned for passenger service as well as extensive alterations planned and carried out on the PRESIDENT HARDING and PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. Upon completion of this work, Mr. Petersen left the United States lines, joining the United Dredging Co. as designing engineer at Galveston, Tex., leaving that position to become works manager of the Great Lakes Boat Building Corp., returning to the United States lines about a year ago to survey the superstructure of the AMERICA and to prepare plans and specifications for the structural re- pairs to that vessel, and for the con- version of the PRESIDENT HARDING Underwood & Underwood CARL E. PETERSEN and PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT to cabin class vessels. When the AMERICA was badly dam- aged by fire while undergoing re- pairs, Captain Crowley, president of Fleet corporation directed Mr. Peter- sen to prepare plans and_ specifica- tions for the immediate reconditioning of the MOUNT VERNON, later doing similar work on the AMERICA. He is a member of the American Society of Naval Engineers, the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, as well as a licensed engi- nee1 for ocean steam vessel of any tonnage. Mr. Petersen is a frequent contributor to the technical press and societies his studies and investigations concerning the economics of transat- lantic passenger liners being partic- ularly noteworthy.