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86 Oil Eng. Electric Tugs for Panama Canal The Panama canal commission has awarded a contract to the Ingersoll- Rand Co. for four 480 horsepower, six cylinder, 15x20 inches, solid injection marine oil engines for installation in two oil-electric tugs which are soon ‘ to be built at the Balboa shops for service on the Panama canal. One of these will be assigned to the ma- rine division on the Pacific coast for towing large vessels into and out of the entrance to the canal. The other tug will be used by the dredging divi- sion for servicing the dredging oper- ations in the various parts of the canal. The tugs when built, with an over- all length of 150 feet, will be the larg- est and most powerful oil-electric tugs in the world, exceeding in both size and power all other oil-electric and diesel-electric tugs in American wat- ers. The famous and efficient Ward Leonard system of pilot house con- trol will be installed. This system provides a variable voltage control, and places the speed and direction of the propulsion motor under direct control of the pilot on the bridge. Two engines will be installed in each tug for driving direct cur- rent generators and exciters. Power will thus be supplied for a single screw 750 shaft horsepower direct current double armature propulsion motor, current for motor driven pumps and electrical convenience. The tugs in an emergency will also be avail- able for fighting fire as each will be equipped with motor driven fire pumps of large capacity. Lighthouse Tender Bids With a bid of $127,561 and nine months for completion, the Southern Shipyard Corp., Newport News, Va., was the lowest bidder for the pro- posed steam propelled lighthouse tender to be christened Brrcu. Bids of other comanies were as follows: Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N. J., $160,000; American Brown Boveri Electric Corp., Cam- den, N. J., $153,000; Spedden Ship- building Co., Baltimore, Md., $190,- 500; Staten Island Shipbuilding Co., Staten Island, N. Y., $142,000 and Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. $149,800. Reorganize Old Company The business of The Leslie Co., Lyndhurst, N. J., manufacturers of Leslie pressure regulators and re- ducing valves, has been purchased by MARINE REVIEW S. Inglis Leslie and a new company has been organized known as Leslie Co. with the following officers: S. Inglis Leslie, president; J. J. Cizek, vice president, and J. M. Naab, sec- retary and treasurer. In addition to the president and vice president, the following have been elected directors of the new company: William L. Allison, senior vice presi- dent of American Arch Co.; F. A. Schaff, vice president of Superheater Co., and Frederic E. Schluter, presi- dent of Schluter & Co. Inc., invest- ment bankers. O. H. Hagerman, manager of the marine department of the Reading Rail- road Co. for many years, died at his home in Philadelphia, Sept. 8. Mr. Hagerman was 66 years old and had been in ill health for some time. A Shipping Birthday In celebrating its fifth birth- day this week, the United States Lines looks back with _ sat- isfaction on steady growth. It must look forward as well, in the hope that one day the U. S. A. government will draw its poor, burnt finger out of the shipping pie, and let the United States Lines flourish as a private com- pany. In the meantime the line’s business in five years has _ in- creased by 47.27 per cent. This season the Leviathan, on her voy- age from New York on July 3, brought to Europe 2414 passen- gers, the largest number carried eastbound by any ship this year. The same liner, on her sailing from Southampton and Cherbourg on Aug. 10, carried 2242 passen- gers, this number constituting the record westbound this year, with the peak of the season still to come. Then why does the United States shipping board lose such a lot of money? Reprinted from the Liverpool Journal of Commerce, Aug. 20, 1926. Unau thorized C. C. Hanks, formerly one of the publishers of the defunct Great Lakes Vesselman, has kindly called the attention of MARINE REVIEW to the activities of one Lewis Ring. Mr. Hanks informs us that this man is taking subscriptions for the now de- funct Vesselman and offering the Great Lakes Red Book free. MARINE REVIEW has no representa- tive named Lewis Ring. The publi- cation called the Great Lakes Vessel- man stopped publication on May 15. No one is authorized to offer the Great Lakes Red Book free. October, 1926 Euack So: Algonquin at Newport News On Sept. 9, the fourth new coast- wise cargo and passenger vessel for the Clyde line was launched at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va. She is a sister ship of the MOHAWK, SEMINOLE and CHEROKEE, recently added to the fleet and now in active service in the line’s New York-Florida service. Two more vessels, larger and still more elabo- rate, now also under construction at Newport News will be added to operate in the New York-Miami service of the Clyde line. With the addition of these two ships and the ALGONQUIN the total new tonnage built for this com- pany will reach about 45,000 tons, aggregating in cost approximately $14,000,000. The sponsor of the S. S. ALGONQUIN was Mrs. Nellie D. Raymond, of a family long connected with the com- pany. The new line has been named according to the custom of the Clyde line, after one of the prominent Indian tribes. The name is that of an aboriginal group of Quebec and Ontario Indians whose language forms a key to many other dialects from the same stock Theodore FE. Ferris, the well known New York naval architect is the designer of this ship, her sister ships and the two Miami liners now under construction. He has had the benefit of the close co-operation and individual and progressive ideas of H. H. Raymond, president of the Clyde line. These ships are splendid, staunch, seagoing vessels with most luxurious and comfortable passenger quarters. The length is 402 feet, beam 55 feet, and draft 20 feet. The vessel is single screw, driven by tur- bines through reduction gears at a speed of 17 to 20 knots. Oil fuel is burned under boilers. The fuel tanks capacity is 6180 barrels giving a steaming radius of 7000 miles, sufficient to cross the Atlantic and return without re-fueling. The United States civil service commission has announced a competi- tive examination for the position of navigation officer. Applications must be on file at Washington, not later than Oct. 238. The examination is to fill a vacancy in the bureau of navigation, depart- ment of commerce, at $2760 a year, and vacancies occurring in positions requiring similar qualifications at this or higher or lower salaries. Com- petitors will be rated on_ practical questions concerning their knowledge of vessels and of navigation laws and regulations and education experience and fitness.