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56 Lake Shipyards Busy (Continued from Page 22) type of bulk freighter is among the nine referred to. This vessel also will be a stone carrier and is under construction by the American Ship Building Co. at Lorain, O., for the Bradley Transportation Co. This ves- sel, 638 feet long by 65 feet beam by 83 feet depth, will be the largest ves- sel ever built on the Great Lakes. She will be a self-unloader generally similar to the T. W. ROBINSON built at the same yard and by the same owners two years ago. As at least 25 per cent of the en- tire power needed for propulsion will be required for operating the self- unloading facilities of this ship, it was decided to adopt what is con- sidered an advanced type of propul- sive power, particularly on the Great Lakes, that is, a turbo-generator, sup- plying power to an ‘electric motor direct connected to the propeller. - A few scows and _ nonpropelled barges are also under construction. It is understood that inquiries are _ being made calling for construction of OR the purpose of bringing to- K gether into a compact ethical working unit all of the shipyards and ship repair plants of the United States and providing a medium for greater co-ordination of thought and expression on problems of mutual in- terest the Atlantic Coast Shipbuild- ers association recently invited one of the senior executives of every ship- yard and ship repair plant in the country to serve on a committee which will function in legislative matters and in such association activities that are national in scope and conducted for the benefit of the entire indus- ‘try. Acceptances were received from 67 shipbuilders and. ship repairers, and a committee of that number was formally appointed. The members of the committee will also serve in an ’ advisory capacity to the officers and councilors of the association. A striking illustration of the ex- panding spirit of co-operation in the shipbuilding industry and an example of how the newly created committee will function is cited by Secretary King, who described the manner in which shipbuilders and ship repairers of the United States worked together in developing and placing before the Shipb uilders Co-operate MARINE REVIEW two smaller tankers. The tentative pro- posals call for diesel propulsive ma- chinery. Several cities of the Great Lakes are more or less seriously con- sidering the addition of a modern fire boat. Whether anything will come of these inquiries is at this writing quite uncertain. Repairs Not Especially Heavy Contrary to accepted notions, re- pair work which always constitutes a steady volume of work for the differ- ent plants of the shipyards of the Great Lakes, has been about the same or less this year than a year ago. This despite the fact that an early and severe winter very materially in- terfered with operations toward the close of the season. Apparently no particular damage was suffered on ac- count of the ice conditions except to propellers of some ships. On account of new work the Toledo Shipbuilding Co. Inc., Toledo, O., is now employing 945 men as against 815 men a year ago. The other yards have also had an increase in work- ing forces but not in anything like the same proportion. country a definite and constructive plan to improve the maritime position of the nation and conserve the ship- yards as an important factor in up- building and maintaining an Amer- ican merchant marine, The bill, which is known as _ the overseas trade act, was sponsored in the United States senate by Senator George Wharton Pepper of Penn- sylvania and is now pending before the senate committee on commerce. Under its terms tariff protection would be extended to. shipbuilding. The personnel of the Atlantic Coast Shipbuilders association’s national committee of shipbuilders and ship re- pairers is as follows: New England Section—S. W. Wake- man, vice president and general man- ager, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.; S. W. K. Brooks, president, S. W. K. Brooks Co.; Paul J. Bertelsen, gen- eral manager, Atlantic Works; Wil- liam E. Rice, president, Rice Brothers Corp.; E. A. Morse, president, Noank Shipyard Inc., and L. Y. Spear, presi- dent, New London Ship & Engine Building Co. New York Section—L. H. Korndorff, vice president and general manager, Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock February, 1927 Co.; John J. Amory, president, Con- solidated Shipbuilding Corp.; W. Parker Runyon, president, Perth Am- boy Dry Dock Co.; Henry B. Nevins, president and treasurer, Henry B. Nevins Co.; E .H. Ewertz, general manager, Moore Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.; E. P. Morse, presi- dent, Morse Dry Dock & Repair Co.; C. Pliny Brigham, secretary and treas- urer, Greenport Gasin Construction Co.; Charles Cooper, president, Chelsea Ship Repair Co.; William A. Hall, president, C. M. Lane Life Boat Co.; George Hutchinson, president, New- burgh Shipyards Inc.; J. A. Dwyer, vice president and secretary, R. Lena- han Co., and Foster L. Hawkins, manager, Port Jefferson Shipyard. Delaware River Section—H. Birch- ard Taylor, vice president, William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Build- ing Co.; A. W. Main, naval architect, the Pusey & Jones Co.; Clinton L. Bardo, vice president, American Brown Boveri Electric Corp.; Robert Haig, vice president, Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; N. W. Robinson, pesident, Mathis Shipyard Co.; C. W. Weaver, general manager, Harlan plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., and John’ Baisley, president, John Baisley Iron works. Baltimore Section—James C. Leon- ard, president, Cambridge Manufac- turing Co.; J. Macy Willis, general manager, Baltimore plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Southern Section—Homer L. Fergu- son, president and general manager, Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; Frank B. Hooper, vice president, Warwick Machine Co.; A. J. Dyer, president, Nashville Bridge Co.; W. G. Larmour, general man- ager, Old Dominion Marine Railway Corp.; O. A. Bloxom, president, South- ern Shipyard Corp.; George W. Roper, president and _ treasurer, Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corp.; J. H. Curtis, president, Gas Engine & Boat Corp.; H. R. Humphreys, presi- dent, Humphreys Railways Inc.; W. W. Storm, vice president and gen- eral manager, Wilmington Iron works; E. F. Hamme Jr., Hamme Marine Railways Co.; C. V. Boykin, vice president and general manager, Charleston Dry Dock & Machine Co., and J. R. Massengale, president, St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co. South Atlantic and Gulf Section— James C. Merrill, vice president and general manager, Merrill-Stevens Dry Dock & Repair Co.; Ernest Kreher, president and general manager, Tam- pa Shipbuilding & Engineering Co.; J. F. Taylor, president and general manager, Warren Fish Co.; Warren (Continued on Page 68)