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Latest Data on New Marine Work Information on New Ships Ordered—Building and Repair Con- tracts Let-—Shipping Board Loans Made, Authorized or Pending Review bids were published on the new 10,000-ton, 8-inch gun, cruiser for the navy. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.’s bid of $8,196,000 was the low- est. This bid was $1,329,000 under the next lowest bidder. The contract has been awarded to the Bethlehem Ship- building Corp. The award was an- nounced by the navy department on Dec. 20 last. [: THE January issue of MARINE New Lighthouse Tender Bids for building the new lighthouse tender, Hremiock, were published in the January issue of MARINE Review. On Jan. 10 the lighthouse service ac- cepted the proposal from the Berg Shipbuilding Co., Seattle, Wash., low bidder, for the construction of the new vessel at a price of $228,480. The con- tract calls for the completion of the tender within 285 days. The Hremiock will be a twin screw vessel of all steel construction, 173 feet long, and with steam engines of 1000 horsepower. Watertube boilers of the straight tube type, designed for 200 pounds working pressure, will be in- stalled. The engines are to be of ver- tical inverted, triple expansion type, with cylinder dimensions 12 x 19 x 32 inches and a stroke of 24 inches. Hach engine will drive a four-bladed propel- ler, 7 feet 3 inches in diameter and 10 feet 9 inches in pitch. The starboard propeller will be right-handed and the port propeller left-handed. The new vessel will be used off the coast of Alaska, replacing the tender Frrn, a smaller wooden vessel, built in 1915 and not adequate for service. Scrapping Bids Received In response to an invitation for proposals for dismantling and scrap- ping 40 obsolete vessels, the shipping board on Dec. 28 received the fol- lowing bids: Sun Ship Building & Dry Dock Co,, Chester, Pa., $1.25 per gross ton of recoverable material for 10 vessels; Union Shipbuilding Co., Baltimore, Md., $1.06 per gross ton of recoy- erable metal for the entire 40 ves- sels; Messrs. N. Block & L. Chen- man, Norfolk, Va., $1.47 per gross ton of recoverable metal for the 12 vessels located at Norfolk. _ Under the proposal the successful bidder is required to completely dis- mantle and scrap the vessels, includ- ing the complete dismantling and 28 scrapping of the hulls, engines, boil- ers, auxiliary machinery, and all oth- er equipment whatsoever as they are rendered nonusable for other than scrap. At this writing no. word is availabe as to the award of contracts to the various bidders. Another New Ship Planned It is understood that the Gulf Pa- cific Mail line which is operated by Swayne & Hoyt Ltd., San Francisco, is planning to place an order for a large freight and passenger steamship during 1933. The cost is estimated at $1,600,000. It is likely that the order will go to a Pacific coast yard in order to aid the unemployment situation. The new vessel is intended for serv- ice out of San Francisco. Ask Bids for Derrick Boat The United States engineer office, first Chicago district, 333 N. Michigan avenue, has requested bids to be opened Feb. 1, for the construction and delivery afloat in the Brandon road pool at Joliet, Ill., of one 15-ton steel hull, full revolving, steam operated derrick boat. The notice stated that the contract will be awarded as a whole to the low- est responsible bidder. Keel of the latest American de- stroyer to be named U. S. S. WorRDEN was laid at the navy yard, Bremerton, Wash., on Dec. 29. At the completion of the cruiser AsroriA, under construc- tion at the same yard, work on the new destroyer will give continual em- ployment to 310 men for nearly two years. The United States Engineer office at San Francisco called for bids to be in late in January for dry docking, clean- ing, painting and repairing the United States seagoing hopper dredge, SAN PEDRO. Steel Barges Ordered Near the middle of January, it was reported that the Barrett Line Inc., Cincinnati, had placed an order with the American Bridge Co., Pittsburgh, for the construction of six river barges, steel hulls, 196 feet long, 34 feet wide and 8 feet deep. These barges MARINE REVIEwW—February, 1933 are to be used for operations on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Delivery will be made in May. Miscellaneous Awards Todd Dry Dock, Engineering & Re- pair Corp. New York received a con- tract for repairing the United States. dredge Heit GATE on a bid of $19,655. Jersey City Dry Docks Co., Jersey City, N. J., has received a contract for the repairs to the tug DELAND of the United States engineers, New York, at a price of $7744 with an allowance of 1% cents per pound for condenser tubes. The United States engineers at San Francisco asked for bids to be opened. Jan. 25 for removing the sunken and abandoned steamer WINCHESTER lying in the north channel in Brooklyn basin. Oakland harbor, Calif. At the time of writing this, no further infor- mation is available. Tenders Hickory, Wistaria The two new lighthouse tenders,, Hickory and WISTARIA, are soon to be delivered by their builders to the lighthouse — service. The Hickory,. under construction at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., on Jan. 9 was 80: per cent completed and should be ready about the middle of February. The tender Wistartia, building at the Staten Island, N. Y. plant of the United Dry Docks Inc., is due for de- livery about Mar. 30. United States Engineer The United States Engineers at Pittsburgh received a bid of $7256. from Capt. Earl Webster, Pittsburgh, for two steel dump scows which had been offered for sale on Jan. 6. Other bids received were the Ohio Dredging. Co., $3000; Vang Construction Co:; $3000; Union Sand & Gravel Co., $1600; McCrady-Rodgers Co., $802; and the Ohio River Co., $427. The United States dipper dredge Os- WEGO was sold on Jan. 6 by the United States Engineers of Pittsburgh to the Monongahela & Ohio Dredging Co., Pittsburgh who had submitted the highest figure, $14,100. The Oswereo is a steel hull vessel with a 2% yard bucket and was used’ in channel work on the Ohio river.