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What the British Are Doing Short Surveys of Important Activities in Maritime Centers of Island Empire HE shipbuilding tonnage under construction during the September quarter was the highest since Sep- tember, 1922. The total was 1,536,416 tons, an increase of 146,028 tons on the June quarter and of 761,619 tons on the figures for the previous Sep- tember. The Clyde is now fairly active and there is a marked in- crease in the proportion of motor ships in course of building. * * * HE Orient line has placed an or- der for a. mail and passenger steamer for their Australian mail service with Vickers Ltd., the build- ers of the ORAMA, OTRANTO and OR- FORD. The new steamer will be larger than her predecessors, her ton- nage about 22,000 and speed 20 knots. * * * WAN, HUNTER & WIGHAM \” RICHARDSON, Tyne, has booked an important con- tract for six more Canadian Lake steamers and is also reported to have obtained an order for a cargo vessel for North country owners. The ves- sels will be built at the firm’s Walker yard and the builders will supply ma- chinery for the Lake steamers. k * * HE triple-screw steamer LAUREN- TIC has been handed over by Har- land & Wolff after undergoing suc- cessful trials in Belfast Lough. The LAURENTIC has been built for the White Star line’s Canadian service, but be- fore taking up her regular sailings to Canada, she will be engaged on some of the popular winter cruises from HMMA : What's Doing Around The Lakes JVUNUAOTHUA TULUM Se ents of steel and pig iron on the Great Lakes made an ap- preciable gain during the 1927 sea- son, which characterized the tendency of iron and steel producers to reach out more widely for markets. Esti- mates are that between 25,000 and 30,000 tons of pig iron were shipped into the Chicago district from Cleve- land and Buffalo furnaces during the 40) Wallsend on . New York. The vessel is one of the cabin class, being designed to carry 1600 passengers and she is of 18,724 tons gross. The vessel is propelled by three screws, each wing shaft be- ing operated by a four-cylinder, triple- expansion reciprocating engine which exhausts to a low pressure turbine, direct coupled to the center line of shafting. The low pressure turbine in turn exhausts to two condensers of the regenerative type. The re- ciprocating engines and the turbine parts are specially balanced to elimi- nate vibration. Steam is supplied by four double-ended and four single ended boilers burning coal under natu- ral draft, and the steam is super- heated before delivery to the engines. * * %* & J. INGLIS LTD., Pointhouse, has launched the light-draft twin screw passenger vessel IGUAZU, built to the order of the Argentine Naviga- tion Co. (Nicolas Mihanovich) Ltd., Buenos Aires, for service on the Alto Parana, Argentina. The vessel which is 135 feet in length, 34 feet in breadth, 15 feet 9 inches in depth to saloon deck, and of about 600 tons gross, will have semi-diesel internal combustion engines of the Gardner type. * * * NOTHER of the new steamers or- dered by Cardiff ship owners has been launched by Hawthorne, Leslie & Co., Hebburn on Tyne. This is the LLANBERIS of 8250 tons deadweight, built to the order of Thomas Radcliffe & Co. The steamer is 400 feet x 53 season. This tonnage includes a number of mixed cargoes of steel and pig iron coming from Buffalo, Steel shipments alone far exceeded each of the past several years. Struc- tural sections shipped from eastern mills comprised a large portion of the 1927 movement. Chicago district mills slightly increased their ship- ments to Montreal and other Cana- MARINE REVIEW—December, 1927 feet 6 inches x 28 feet molded depth, and built of steel, is of the single deck type and built to Lloyd’s highest class. * * * HE CALEDON SHIPBUILDING & ENGINEERING CO. Ltd, Dundee, has obtained orders for four steamers. Three, which are for Lon- don owners, will each be of 9000 tons. The fourth, ordered by James Currie & Co. Ltd., Leith, will be smaller, and will be employed in the Conti- nental trade. James Currie & Co. have also contracted with Ramage & Ferguson Ltd., Leith, to build a 1200 tons deadweight steamer for’ the Leith and Copenhagen trade. * * * FURTHER bid on the part of that section of the marine engi- neering world which favors the em- ployment of steam, as opposed to diesel engines, has been made in the design of the engines of the Ellerman line’s CITY OF ROUBAIX launched from Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richard- son’s yard. This vessel will be pro- pelled by single reduction three-stage Parsons turbines, fed by steam at a pressure of 300 pounds per square inch, all her auxiliaries being elec- trically driven and it is expected that very economical results will be ob- tained. She is one of three vessels, the other two being quadruple expan- sion and diesel engined, respectively, which are being built for the Far East, and Australian trades main- tained by the Bucknall Branch of the Ellerman lines. AHN dian points during the season. Ship- ments to Montreal averaged about. one cargo every two weeks for the greater part of the navigation sea- son. Improved facilities for unload- ing pig iron at South Chicago have been developed. * * * REAT Lakes combination pas- senger and freight services went