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56 office of the Ford plant is in con- stant touch with all tows enroute, and knows what the weather conditions are and what speed is being made. The arrival of tows at different points along the way can therefore be ac- curately determined. It is also neces- sary to keep in mind that it takes the capacity of 21/5 “Lakers” to hold the scrap of one of the “Submarine” type boats and the three Atlantic coast shipyards where these vessels MARINE iREVLEW erew of nine men as follows: a cap- tain, an engineer, three firemen and one cook. The Ford tugs are coal burners and carry a crew of 21. A typi- cal tug crew may be listed as follows: captain, chief engineer, first mate, second mate, radio operator, six able seamen, one ordinary seaman, one assistant engineer, three oilers, six firemen, one cook and one mess boy. With good coal the fuel consumption is 18 tons per day. There is a Ford THE MAIN ENGINE OF THE: LAKE FONDULAC SET UP WITH ORIGINAL SCOTCH BOILERS AS A 1000-KILOWATT GENERATING UNIT IN THE FORDSON PLANT, FORDSON, MICH. are being scrapped must be supplied with sufficient “Lakers” to carry the current and future scrap. At the present time this is working out so that every ship brought to Detroit comes loaded with 1000 tons of “Sub’- boat scrap. Before the vessel can be towed out they must be sufficiently reconditioned to carry steam on one boiler in or- der to use the windlass, winches and pumps. They must be stored and quarters must be prepared for the men who are to live on board dur- ing the tow. Each vessel carries a representative in charge at all points where stops are regularly made. Those ships that are to be towed to Detroit are stored and placed in condition by the clerks and mechanics under the man in charge at their point of location. When this work is completed, over 275,000 gross tons of heavy melting steel will have been salvaged, which after all, with all ten of the open- hearth furnaces working at full ca- pacity requiring 800 tons per day, will be sufficient at this rate for only 844 days. There will also remain October, 1926 to the salvagor tremendous stocks of large reciprocating engines, turbines, hundreds of large scotch and water tube boilers, dynamos, windlasses, an- chors, steering engines, winches, cap- stans, pumps, tanks, piping, fittings, valves, navigating gear, port light frames, lumber and innumerable other items. If operations continue at the pres- ent rate and if weather conditions are not too severe it is reasonable to ex- pect that the entire program will be completed by the fall of 1927. For the magnitude of the job, it is being carried on with astonishing regularity and speed, due no doubt to careful planning, completeness of equipment and energetic direction. Safety Council Meets at Detroit Oct. 25-29 The National Safety council will this year hold its annual fifteenth safety congress at Detroit from Oct. 25 to 29 inclusive. The marine sec- tion will be particular importance. W. E. Welch, chairman cf this section has appointed A. R. Bush to head the program committee. Speakers of outstanding prominence in the marine field will discuss all angles of safety in connection with work on ships and docks. Organized safety work is becoming more and more a settled policy among steam- ship companies and fatal injuries have thus been cut down to a minimum. Among the speakers and_ their subjects, are: D. N. Hoover, super- vising inspector general, on “Essen- tials of Maritime Safety;”’ Lieut. Commodore H. H. J. Benson, United States navy on “The Navy’s Contrib- utions to Safety at Sea;” H. H. Ray- mond, president, Clyde Steamship Co., New York on “General Observations on Marine Safety;” Arthur N. Tode, marine department, Texas Co., New York, on “Ships’ Safety Activities of the Texas Co.”; A. D. Reiley, Mutual Life Insurance Co. on “Hazards of the Maritime Industry from the Life Insurance Point of View;” Capt. Irv- ing L. Evans, vice president the United States P. & I. Agency Inc., New York on “The Development of Statistics for the Marine Industry;” Ralph E. Prouty, Aetna Life Insur- ace Co. on “Safety Engineerign Ap- plied to Shipbuilding;” Andrew J. Smith, Marine office of America, New York, on “Protection and Indemnity Insurance;” J. J. Rosedale, consulting engineer, San Francisco, on “Organ- izing for Safety in the Shipping In- dustry of the Pacific Coast;” Capt. Asa S. Davison, vice president, Black Diamond Steamship Corp., New York.