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——_——— a, Latest Data on New Marine Work Information on New Ships Ordered—Building and Repair Con- tracts Let—Shipping Board Loans Made, Authorized or Pending HE accompanying illustration Te from a photograph taken the middle of May, shows the first of the 30,000-ton liners building by the New York Shipbuilding Co., Cam- den, N. J. for the United States lines. Work on the two vessels is: being ad- vanced to permit launching the first in December, and the placing of it in operation by May 1932. The second vessel will be ready for service early in 1938. Approximately 1600 men are en- First of new 30,000-ton liners for United States lines building at Camden, N. J. gaged in the construction of these two vessels which are the largest ever built in this country, and when completed will cost approximately $20,000,000. They will be 705 feet long overall and will have accommo- dations for about 1300 passengers. Their cruising speed will be more than 20 knots. Contract for Two Vessels Contract for the construction of a new all-steel automobile ferry boat was awarded May 1, by the Wilson line to Pusey & Jones Corp., Wilm- ington, Del. The new eraft, built especially for the line’s service be- tween Newcastle, Del., and Pennsville, N. J., will be ready for operation the latter part of this summer. Space will be provided for the trans- portation of 75 automobiles. Its dimen- sions are 206 feet long, 58 feet beam and 16 feet deep. The contract price was $350,000. With the new ferry boat the company will have four ves- 40 sels in service between Delaware and New Jersey. Another contract let by the Wilson line to the same shipyard was for the reconstruction of the steamboat CITy oF WASHINGTON, recently damaged by fire at Wilmington. Repairs will cost approximately $150,000. The Ciry or WASHINGTON, which operates. on the Wilson line’s Potomac river service be- tween Washington, Chaple Hill and Colonial Beach, will be ready for ser- vice June 20. Work on both contracts already has started. Steel Contract Awarded The Central Iron & Steel Co., Har- risburg, Pa., recently was awarded a contract to supply the United States navy with 3500 to 4000 tons of steel plates to be used in reconditioning two battleships, the New Mexico at the Philadelphia navy yard and the Mississippi at the Norfolk navy yard. Truss- Weld Barges The steel truss-weld barge N. A. D. Co. No. 1, first hull of this patented construction to be built by the United Dry Docks, Inc., was launched Tues- day, May 19, at the company’s Staten Island plant. The barge measures 60 feet x 20 feet x 6 feet and has a capacity of 35,000 gallons of fuel oil. It is of electric lapwelded construc- tion in its entirety and was built for the Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Co., New York, to be used as a tender for the dredge Scrop of Boston. Two derrick barges are also under construction. The derrick barges, both 60 feet by 30 feet by 6 feet deep will be launched early in July. All three ves- sels will be typically representative of the truss-weld system of hull con- UULLIVUUUTTRTTUUTTECEUHEOLLCUOOTT Steel truss-weld barge built by United Dry Docks Inc., for Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Co. UOT UTTEATLLTTTOHALACOOAH CCEA MARINE REVIEW—June, 1937 struction. Instead of the usual frames, ribs and beams they will have an internal structure of angle iron trusses, the members running longitudinally, athwartship and ver- tically, all welded at intersections and to the skin of the hull. New York Shipbuilding Co Low Bidder on Submarine The New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N. J., was low bidder on a contract for the last of the nine fleet submarines authorized by congress in 1916, the department of the navy an- nounced May 19, with a bid of $3,150,- 000 for construction within 30 months. Three bids were submitted by Elec- tric Boat Co., Groton, Conn., the only other bidder, for construction within 30 months. The bids ranged from $3,- 297,000 to $3,395,000 and were entered under two different classes. The New York Shipbuilding Co., bid was entered under Class 2, with the submarine to be built to the design prepared by the department and the machinery to be provided by the de- partment. The first Electric Boat Co. bid, $3,297,000, was for the submarine to be built to the department’s design for both hull and machinery. The same firm also bid $3,297,000 for one design and $3,395,000 for a second design under the class where the contractor designs the hull and the department designs the machinery. The submarine CUTTLEFISH will be 1100 standard London treaty tons, a reduction from the size specified in the original design which had called for a surface displacement of 1550 tons. Six of the group of nine so-called V-type fleet submarine authorized 15 years ago are already in service, while the other two are ‘under construction at Portsmouth, N. H., navy yard.