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Cte: 5 Weigh as —_— _ | atest Data on New Marine Work Information on New Ships Ordered—Building and Repair Con- tracts Let—Shipping Board Loans Made, Authorized or Pending CCORDING to the monthly re- A port of the department of commerce, Washington, Amer- ican shipyards on Aug. 1, were build- ing or were under contract to build for private shipowners 100 vessels ag- gregating 325,620 gross tons, com- pared with 105 vessels aggregating 358,904 gross tons on July 1. Of the 100 vessels under construction, 23 ships were steel self propelled of over 1000 gross tons. The Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. had six vessels under construction: two passenger and cargo ships of 17,- 500 gross tons each for the Oceanic Steamship Co.; three passenger and cargo vessels of 7200 gross tons each for the United States Mail Steamship Co.; and one tanker of 1534 gross tons for the Standard Transportation Co. The Federal Shipbuilding Co. was building four passenger and car- go ships of 11,000 gross tons each for the Grace line. The Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. had under construction seven vessels: Two passenger and cargo ships of 21,900 gross tons each for the Dollar Steam- ship Co.; three passenger and cargo ships’ of 7500 gross tons each for the United Mail Steamship Co.; and two passenger and cargo vessels of 5700 Steamship lines. The New York Shipbuilding Co. was building two passenger and cargo ships of 30,000 gross tons each for the United Line Inc. The Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. was building four tankers of 9000 gross tons each for the Motor Tankship Corp. ~The Mississippi Valley Barge line, operating between New Orleans and Ohio River points, will shortly re- ceive bids for the construction of 10, 20, 30 or 40 steel barges. These barges are to be of special design for the Mississippi River service. Hear Loan Applications A hearing on application from the General Motorship Corp. for loans to be used in aid of reconditioning the motor vessel CLEVELAND, formerly the Twin Ports was set by the ship- ping board for Sept. 22. On the same date, hearings were granted on applications for loans in aid of building vessels for the Over- seas Railway, Inc., and the Gulf-Pa- cific line. Of these two, the former is an applicant for a loan on a freight car carrier to be operated under an ocean mail contract be- tween New Orleans and Havana and the latter is an applicant for loans on two ships to be built for the Gulf-Pacifie trade. The Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. is reported low bidder on one of two vessels for this company. The New York Shipbuilding Co. is low bidder on the other. Shipping Board Authorizes Construction Loan Loans aggregating $1,725,000 in aid of building two steel passenger cargo steamers for the Colombian Mail Steamship Corp. of New York in com- pliance with its ocean mail contract were authorized by the shipping board Sept. 16. The vessels are to cost $2,300,000 each, and the loans will be for three-fourths the construction cost under the terms of the Jones-White act. Repayment of the loans will be made over a 20-year period, with interest at the lowest legal rate, payable semi- annually. The vessels are to be built at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. The vessels will be combination pas- senger and cargo steamers especially designed for the Colombian line’s serv- ice from New York to Puerto, Colom- bia. They will be 404 feet 3 inches in length 57 feet 6 inches beam, and 23 feet 6 inches draft, with a total dead- weight of 4400 tons. They will be equipped with geared turbine propel- ling machinery having a normal shaft horse power of 6500 and a speed of 16 knots. A total of 54,000 cubic feet of refrigerated space will be provided for carrying fruit and other perishable cargoes. Ferryboat Jersey Shore The new automobile ferryboat Jrr- SEY SHORE, built for the Delaware-New Jersey Ferry Co., Wilmington, Del. by the Pusey & Jones Corp., successfully met all requirements on her trial trip Sept. 2. Invitations to the trial trip had been issued by the owning com- pany and a number of prominent ma- rine men attended. : The new vessel is now in operation on the Delaware river between New- castle, Del. and Pennsville, N. J. An average speed of 134 knots was at- tained for four trips over a measured Shown in the above illustration is the Wilson line steamer Cit: in chiar ; summer. The vessel was completely reconstructed ed lrg ollacebate which burned to the water’s edge early this of 60 days. The vessel was improved in many det to carry 2200 passengers on the Potomac rive item on the reconstruction appeared in the June iss 32 MARINE REVIEw—October, 1931 f Pusey & Jones and back in service i i ney Y 3 prvice in the short time ae i the rebuilding. The City of Washington is licensed and operates at a speed of 16 to 18 miles per hour. An ue of Marine Review