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Plans for Three New Ships Reports received from Seattle state that Carl Robinson, Northwest man.- ager for Swayne & Hoyt Inc., owners of the Gulf Pacific Mail line Ltd., has received preliminary plans for three passenger and freight ships to be built for the new mail route established re cently by the government from Seat- tle to Puerto, Colombia; Colombia to Kingston, Jamaica, and Tampico, Mex- ico. “The plans provide that the new ships will be 400 feet long, 59 feet beam and 24 feet in depth, with a dis- placement of 11,494 tons and a dead- weight tonnage of 7500. The vessels will have a total capacity of 403,000 feet, including 33,000 cubic feet of re- frigerator space. The ships will have a speed of 13 knots. They will go from Seattle to Puerto Colombia, Kingston and Tampico and then to New Orleans, Mo- bile and other United States gulf ports. A monthly passenger, mail and freight service will be maintained by the Gulf Pacific Mail Line Ltd., Col- onel Robinson has announced. ’ Cargo handling equipment will be of the very latest type. Each ship will also have total accommodations for 20 cabin passengers. Plan New Carferry The Florida East Coast Car Ferry Co:, which operates the ferry service between Havana and Key West pro- poses to continue its Key West service with one new carferry and shift the other two carferries to the proposed New Orleans-Havana service, making stopovers at Key West when necessary. Launch New Liner The Antieua, first of three turbo- electric liners building at the Fore River yard of the Bethlehem Ship- building Co. for the United Fruit Co. at a total cost of $10,500,000, was launched Dec. 12. . Mrs. Victor M. Cutter, wife of the president of the United Fruit Co., was sponsor. The ANTIGUA, named after the ancient capital of Guatemala, Rar ttc 8 At New York Coal Fuel oil alongside alongside per ton per barrel 32 Diesel engine oil alongside per gallon 2: 3 Si. ay she 3 OF 4.0 4. 4, 4.5 will ply between the United States and Latin America. She is 447 feet long, with 60-foot beam, 34-foot draft, and 11,000 tons’ displacement. She will ac- — commodate 120 passengers. In addition to the three vessels be- ing built here, three others are being constructed at Newport News, Va. The shipyard turning out the best ship will be awarded the contract for a seventh liner of similar design, ac- cording to reports. Dredge Equipment Award The Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Co. announce receipt of a contract from the Dravo Contracting Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., for the main dredging equipment for a stern wheel dredge for the war department, United States engineers corps, which will be used in the St. Louis district. Shows High Speed in Trials The $8,000,000 Matson liner MaArt- posa, launched July 18 at Quincy, returned to her builder’s yard at noon Dec. 11 with a speed record which will make her one of the _ fastest American liners in the Pacific service. On her fastest run over the mile course of Rockland, Me., she logged 22.843 knots, or 29.69 miles an hour. Trials included 14 runs over the measured mile course at various speeds and a 12-hours endurance run at maxi- mum speed. She will be taken over by the Matson line early in January and will sail from New York on her first cruise to the Far East and South Seas Jan. 22, reaching her home port at San Francisco in time to go into the San Francisco-Australia service with her sistership, the MONTEREY, which was launched’ recently, also at Quincy. The Mariposa is the first of three sisterships being built by the Matson line for the Pacific service. The third will be named the Luriinr. Each of the vessels is of 26,000 tons displace- ment and is 632 feet long, 75 feet wide and 28 feet in draft. Twin screws drive the ships, which have nine decks and accommodations for 750 passengers, divided in first and cabin classes. Bunker Prices At Philadelphia Coal Fuel oil trimin bunk alongside per ton per barrel Dec. 18, 1931.4.50@5.00 Now. 21852227. 4.50@5.00 MARINE REvieEw—January, 1932 Diesel engine oil alongside per gallon Approve Loan Application The shipping board Nov. 27 ap- proved the application of Seatrain Lines, Inc., a corporation of the state of Delaware, for loans from the con- struction loan fund to be used in aid of the construction of two new ves- sels to be used in ocean mail contract service on Route No. 56 from New Orleans, La., to Havana, Cuba, and other foreign service. The total cost of each vessel will be $1,586,250, in- cluding commercial appliances. Hach vessel will be approximately 473 feet long, 6314 feet beam and 22 feet draft with approximately 8445 dead- weight tonnage. They will be equipped with geared turbine pro- pelling machinery having a normal shaft horsepower of 6500 and will have speed of approximately 15 knots. The board’s approval authorizes a separate loan on each vessel, each loan to be for an amount not to ex- ceed three-fourths of the cost of con- struction, not exceeding $1,152,187 each, plus not to exceed three-fourths of the cost of the necessary equip- ment for each vessel, not exceeding $37,500 each, the latter to include spares, commercial appliances, ete. The vessels will be.constructed in the yards of the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pa. The Seatrain Lines, Inc. will take over all the assets of the Over-Seas Railways, Ine. Small Suction Dredge A new suction dredge, small enough to be trucked knocked down to any inland water supply and strong enough to stand the strain of launching un- der trying conditions, has just been built for the department of public works, division of water, of the city of Newark, by United Dry Docks Ine. on its patented truss-weld system. The dredge, which is now at work clean- ing the bottom of the Macopin reser- voir, is only 31 feet long and 14 feet beam, with two feet draft, carries a full sized 6-inch suction of standard design and cutter machinery. The hull is made in two pontoon sections to be bolted together in the water. It will dig to a depth of 10 feet below water. Other Ports Boston, coal, per ton.. $7.33 Boston, oil, f. a. s., per 0.91 ey Hampton Roads,coal.per ton, f.o.b.,piers$4.25 to $4.35 June 9—Cardiff, per ton London. coal, per ton... —s — Antwerp, coal, per ton..18s 9d Antwerp, Fuel oil, per ton. 67s 6d Antwerp, Diesel oil, per ton 82s 6d British ports, Fuel oil...67s 6d British ports, Diesel oil.82s 6d He oR OO Od OH