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46 MARINE REVIEW THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC AUTOMOBILE FERRY NEW ORLEANS IN HER SLIP AT SAN FRANCISCO. THIS FERRY WITH BOILERS AND RECIPROCATING STEAM ENGINES WAS COMPLETED JAN. 2, 1925. THE NEW FERRIES WILL BE OF ABOUT THE SAME SIZE AND GENERAL LAYOUT BUT WITH DIESEL-ELECTRIC PROPULSIVE POWER inder liners. Steel tie bolts, extend- ing from the top of cylinder block to December, 1926 the bed plate serve to transmit com- bustion forces directly to the crank- shaft and relieve the cast iron of such tensile strain. Other features include intake and exhaust valves mounted in cages and interchangeable and a patented design of cylinder head which gives superior cooling effect and minimizes the pos- sibility of cylinder head _ fractures. The orders in connection with the building and equipping of these fer- ries have been allocated as follows: Three boats to be constructed by the Union plant of the Bethlehem Ship- building Corp., San Francisco, two boats to the Moore Dry Dock Co., Oakland, Calif. and one boat to the General Engineering & Drydock Co., San Francisco. Electrical equipment for the six boats has been divided evenly between General Electric and Westinghouse. All 24 diesel engines have been awarded to the New Lon- don Ship & Engine Co., Groton, Conn. It is expected that these ferries will be completed in record time and that they will be placed in operation in the spring of 1927. Use Boyne City as Winter Quarters Michigan is a lake port that is not on the usual traffic routes. Lying as it does almost twenty miles from the big water, only those vessels which have direct occasion to trade at the port are aware that such a place exists. A decade or more ago, in the day of the schooner and barge, when lumber and timber prod- ucts formed the bulk of Lake Mich- igan tonnage, the docks of Boyne City were alive with shipping, and boats to and from all lake ports, from Tonawanda to Chicago and L THE northwestern part of lower The author, C. T. McCutcheon is second vice president and secretary of the Boyne City Chamber of Commerce. BY C. T. McCUTCHEON Duluth, were a common sight. Located at the head of Pine lake eighteen miles from the entrance at Charlevoix, with three miles of water front, with deep water close inshore, surrounded by high ranges of hills on all sides as a protection from gales, with abundant space for a hun- dred ships to anchor without any inter- ference with each other, the harbor at Boyne City is ideal for loading and transferring cargoes. For the past ten years the CICOA and later the GRIFFIN, Capt. J. H. Gallagher, of the Charcoal Iron Co. has made this port its winter quar- ters. Because of the captain’s satis- faction with the conditions that exist and the manner in which his require- ments for repairs have been met, the chamber of commerce of Boyne City believes others might be interested. The port has good machine shops, capable of caring for all repairs to the machinery of vessels laid up. With rail transportation for supplies, with abundant electrical service avail- able at any place on the harbor front, with freedom from the menace of gales, ice movements and _ floods, with good mechanics and free dock- age, the business men of Boyne City think that the conditions for winter quarters are ideal. PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE WATER FRONT AT BOYNE CITY, MICH .—THIS LAND LOCKED HARBOR IS WINTER HEADQUARTERS FOR LAKE VESSELS SUGGESTED AS A SUITABLE