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&: mile. The JERSEY SHorE is of steel construction and is 206 feet in length overall with a beam of 58 feet overall and a depth of 9 feet 6 inches molded. She has capacity for 75 automobiles. The main propelling machinery is one double-ended, double-clutch four- cycle, single acting, solid injection Washington diesel engine, developing 925 brake horsepower at 200 revolu- tions per minute. The engine has eight cylinders, is nonreversing and drives a propeller at each end of the vessel through a one-way clutch and thrust bearing at each end of the en- gine. The clutches are inter-connected and operate through a single air con- trol mechanism. Only one clutch is engaged at a time, the vessel being driven in one direction with a right- hand propeller and reversed when necessary for maneuvering by engag: ing the left-hand propeller at the other end. This is said to be the first double clutch ferry on the Atlantic coast driven by a single non-reversing en- gine and her operation will be watched with interest by all ferryboat oper- ators. This powerful diesel engine, weighing 95 tons, was built by the Washington Iron Works and shipped from Seattlé to Wilmington, Del. where it was installed by the owning company. Ask Bids for Dredge Tender Sealed bids will be received at the United States engineer office, Vicks- burg, Miss., until 11 a. m. Oct. 2, 1931, and then opened, for constructing and delivering afloat at Vicksburg, one 51- foot 3-inch steel hull, diesel engine driven dredge tender. Bids Submitted for Building Ten New Destroyers Bids for the construction of ten of the eleven 35-knot destroyers author- ized in 1916, appropriations for be- ginning the construction of which were made by the last congress, were panes at the navy department Sept. Only the bids of private shipyards New 28,000-ton French line steamer Champlain, flagship of the one-class cabin fleet. launched recently at Penhoet shipyards, St. Nazaire were made public. The bids of the navy yards, because of difference in the estimating of costs, will be made public later. Bids submitted for construction ac- cording to navy department speci- fications and others for work in which the builder may make certain modifications were as follows: Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Me.—De- partment design: One in 30 months $2,626,000; two, in 30 and 33 months $2,380,000 each. Builders design: One in 30 months, $3,166,000; two, in 30 and 33 months, $2,931,000 each. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, Mass.Department design: One, in 24 months, $2,893,000; two destroyers, 24 and 26 months, $2,615,000 each. Builder’s design: One in 26 months, $3,044,000; two destroyers, 26 and 28 months, $2,738,000 each. Maryland Drydock Co., Baltimore—De- partment design: One in 3 months, $3,804,982; two destroyers, 30 and 36 months, $3,664,433 each. Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.—Department design: One in 27 months, $3,040,000; two destroyers, 27 and 30 months, $2,660,000 each. Build- ers design: One in 27 months $3,080,- 000; two in 27 and 30 months, $2,700,- 000 each. New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden— Department design: One in 25 months, $2,925,000; two in 25 and 28 months, $2,675,000 each. Pusey & Jones Corp., Del.—Department design: months, $2,895,000. United Dry Docks Inc., New York—De- partment design: One, 20 months, $2,645,000; two, 20 and 22 months, $2,500,000 each. Builders design: One in 27 months, $2,720,000; two, 20 and 22 months, $2,570,000 each; or one, 20 months, $2,900.000, two, 20 and 22 months, $2,630,000 each; or one, 20 Wilmington, One in 26 Bunker Prices At Philadelphia months, $3,020,000; two, 20 and 22 months, $2,680,000. The bids quoted are for hull and machinery only. Ordnance equip- ment probably will cost about $1,- 500,000 per vessel. The destroyers, the first to be built for the navy since the close of the World war, are to be of 1500 tons displacement. They will have a great- er cruising radius, more speed and heavier armament than any similar vessels ever built for the navy. French Line Launches Liner In the presence of a distinguished gathering of leading political figures, shipping and ship construction officials and representatives of the press, the new 28,000-ton French line steamer, CHAMPLAIN, which will enter the New York-Plymouth-Havre service as flag- ship of the one-class cabin fleet next spring, was launched recently at the Penhoet shipyards in St. Nazaire. The new steamer, named after Sem- uel de Champlain, famous XVI cen- tury French explorer, navigator, found- er of Quebec and first Governor of New France, or Canada, has a gross tonnage of 28,000 tons, a displacement of 28,627 tons, a between-perpendicu- lar length of 607 feet, an overall length of 650 feet. Her beam is 83 feet, and on her promenade deck, with the overhang which is a distinctive feature of all the French liners, she has a breadth of 86 feet. She will de- velop 25,000 horsepower. Other Ports At New York i i i Coal Fuel oil Diesel engine Boston, coal, per ton.. $7.88 Goons ae Eee trim in bugk alongside oil alongside Boston, oil, f. a. 8., per ne oe ia per bccral per gallon per ton per barrel per gallon 5 a eT ; Sept. 18, 1931.4.75@5.00 75 3.47% Sept. 18, 1931.4.75@5.00 iS 3.45 pea nies Tee g 5G Aug. 18......4.75@5 00 ‘75 3.47% Aug. 18. .-»: 4.75(@ 5.00 as 3.45 ; 00 tie i8...... 4.75@5 00 85 3.72% Fuly (hia -a 4.75@5.00 85 3.70 une 9 ; ae June l8...... 85@5 25 -90 38414 Fone 18.7. <> 4.85@5.25 :90 3. De esp oases se May 18......4.85@5 25 1:00 4.08 May 18..--.- 4.85.25 1.00 4-4 orp paring RE Mar. 18... isos 38 110 484 Nhe tet 855 23 1.00 ia Bate en pat 67s 6d Feb. 18. '85@5. 4.55% Feb. 18....+- 4.35@3. tae "F828 6d jn i‘ ers at 1:19 4.3514 Dec 18 ra tee "98 £88 British ports, Fuel oil 678 6d Noy. 18, 193074 $203.33 110 eae Nov. 18, 1930.4.85@5.25 1.00 4.88 British ports, Diesel oil.82s 6d MARINE REeview—October, 1931