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Payment Will Be Made For Acceptable Photographs '1€ SAID TO BE THE BIGGEST MARINE GASOLINE ENGINE EVER MADE This 8-cylinder 600-horsepower engine, which weighs 120,000 pounds, was built by the Union Gas Engine Co., San Francisco, for the passenger and train ferry Ramon, a description of which was published in The Marine Review, December, 1915. The engine, which is 45 feet long, is coupled to a propeller at each end of the ship, through friction clutches, doing away with the need of reverse gears. A SPLENDID NEW MEMBER OF OUR COASTWISE MERCHANT MARINE Built by the Maryland Steel Co., Sparrows Point, Md., MunamMar, a handsome 4,000-ton steamship designed for both freight and passenger accommodation, is now in the service of the Munson line between New York and Antilla, Cuba. She is 368 feet in length with a 47-foot beam and a 27-foot draught, and has a speed of 15 knots per hour under load. UNCLE SAM’S BIRD PROTECTOR U. S.-S. Tuertis, once a Dundee whaler, pa- trols the Hawaiian group, Laysan, Midway, and other island possessions in the interests of .the government bird reservations. ON HER TRIAL TRIP, OKLAHOMA DID 21.47 KNOTS PER HOUR While this is well in excess of the speed required under her contract, it is not fast enough, according to many naval experts, to cope with the swift-heeled, hard-hitting battle cruisers which are winning such a reputation in the present war. Should we continue to build superdreadnaughts such as OKLAHOMA, or not? The big fighter was constructed by the New York Ship Building Co., Camden, N. J. 95