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Naval Architects to Meet In November The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers will hold its forty- second annual meeting at 29 West Thirty-ninth street, New York city, Noy. 15 and 16, and will close with a banquet on Friday evening, Nov. 16 at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. A dinner dance will be held on the S. S. WAsH- INGTON on Saturday evening, Nov. 17. The following papers are to be pre- sented: “Robert Fulton’s Original Drawings,” by F. D. Herbert; “Ship Structural Design,” by HE. F. Spanner; “The Determination of the Efficient Length for a Given Form and Speed,” by L. A. Baier; “Recent Developments in Propeller Design,” by K. EK. Schoen- herr; “The Measurement of Propeller Thrust on Shipboard,” by H. E. Saun- ders; “Development in Ground Tackle for Naval Ships,” by E. 8S. Land; “Ven- tilation of Ships,” by J. E. Nichols; “Some Examples of Arc Welded Ship Construction,” by David Arnott; “The Battle Cruiser,” by H. E. Rossell; “Ma- rine and Naval Boilers,” by C. A. Jones and T. A. Solberg; “Bunker Fuel Oil Problems,” by C. A. Jones; and “Safety in the Design of Small Oil Tankers,” by M. G. Kindlund. A request of the members of the so- ciety is made to assist in obtaining new members and to seek the reinstate- ment of former members. The execu- tive committee has waived the pay- ment of entrance fees by the new mem- bers elected at the 1934 meeting. The Clyde Mallory lines will main- tain bi-weekly sailings to Miami Beach, Fla., on the liners MoHAWK and ATI- GONQUIN until Oct. 6, and will continue, beginning on Oct. 13, with the SHAW- NEE, sailing from New York every Saturday. Appoints Peacock Director Shipping Board Bureau James Craig Peacock has been ap- pointed director of the United States shipping board bureau of the depart- ment of commerce. The announce- ment of his appointment was made by Daniel C. Roper, secretary of com- merce, on Aug. 25. While acting director of the shipping board bureau since May 1, 1934, he demonstrated his fitness and ability to serve as di- rector, and his appointment is a pro- motion because of eminently satis- factory service. Mr, Peacock is a native of Phila- delphia, a graduate of Princeton and of the law school of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his ap- pointment as a member of the ad- visory committee of the shipping board bureau on April 9 last, he had been engaged in the practice of law in Washington for 15 years. Since June 21 he has also been president of the Merchant Fleet Corp. When Secretary Roper was com- missioner of internal revenue, Mr. Peacock served as secretary succes- sively of the excess profit advisors, tax reviewers, and the advisory tax board in the bureau of internal rey- enue. In 1914 and again in 1916 he was associated with the merchant marine and fisheries committee of the house of representatives as legisla- tive draftsman. In that capacity he had an active share in drafting the shipping act of 1916 and also in the formulation of legislation for the in- surance of cargoes and hulls by the war risk insurance bureau. For about four years prior to that time he had been a member of the staff of the legislative drafting re- James Craig Peacock Director, Shipping Board Bureau search fund of Columbia university, during which time he assisted several congressional committees and federal commissions. As director of the shipping board bureau, Mr. Peacock will be respon- sible for fostering measures to en- courage the development of an effi- cient and adequate American mer- chant marine. French Line Service According to an announcement made by the General Steamship Corp. Ltd., San Francisco, Calif., the French line will maintain weekly sailings from the Pacific coast to Europe. This new schedule will be so timed that the French line will make a sail- ing from San Francisco every Tuesday and from Los Angeles every Thursday. The vessels will, of course, also con- tinue to serve Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. This will enable shippers and passengers to count on sailings with practically the same certainly as in the case of the French line’s service out of New York. MARINE REVIEW—October, 1934 Galveston Shipyard Plant Acquired by Todd The Todd Shipyards Corp., New York, according to announcement made by John D. Reilly, president, has ac- quired the plant and equipment of the Galveston Dry Dock & Construction Co., Texas. Formal operation of the new subsidiary company, Galveston Dry Dock Inc., began on Sept. 1. The plant, at the present time, has one 10,000-ton floating dry dock and one marine railway of sufficient ca- pacity to handle vessels of 1500 tons. Plans are under way to increase the ca- pacity of the plant, and another 10,- 000-ton floating dry dock and other equipment will soon be in service there. The Todd corporation has had under consideration a ship repair plant in this locality, and a year ago planned to construct a yard in Houston. Due to unanticipated delays, it was decided to take over the Galveston property, which could be modernized in much shorter time and provide facilities in that port sooner than an entirely new plant could be completed at Houston. The new plant is very accessible to the ship channels for the ports of Houston, Beaumont, Texas City, as well as Galveston. The addition of the Galveston yard gives the Todd Ship- yards Corp. additional facilities in the Gulf as it already operates plants in Mobile and New Orleans. It also has a yard in Seattle, Wash., and operates three other modern ship repair plants in New York harbor. Captain Lee Takes Charge Capt. William H. Lee, who was re- cently appointed general superintend- ent of the International Mercantile Marine-Roosevelt Steamship Co., on the retirement of John Watson, began his nautical career on the training ship ENTERPRISE in 1904. In 1906 he shipped as quartermaster on the Persia of the Boston and Philadelphia Steamship Co., and a year later joined the U. S. S. HANNIBAL, then under command of Capt. A. B. Randall, commodore of the United States lines fleet, serving until 1922 on various ships of the navy. From 1922 until 1926 Captain Lee commanded, in turn, the SAGAPORACK, ARTIGAS and COELLERA, ships of the J. H. Winchester & Co., operating to Liverpool, Manchester and Avonmouth. He then joined the staff of the Roose- velt Steamship Co., supervising the re- conditioning of the present American Pioneer line vessels, operated by the company. He was given command early in 1926 of one of these vessels, the mo- torship SAwoKLA, then in the India and South American trade. Later that year he waS made marine superintend- ent of the line, and held this post un- til his appointment May 1, 1933 as as- sistant general superintendent. 25