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188 carrying capacity of about 900 tons. Her dimensions will be: Length, 160 feet; beam, 35 feet; depth, 13 feet. In a number of Maine coast towns, ship yards that have been idle for years are now being worked or made ready for new construction. At Machias, agents of a New York con- cern have bought a tract of land on the harbor front and will build a number of large schooners. Several schooners will be built at Rockland, one at Rockport and two or more at Milbridge, while at Bath a consid- erable resumption of building has tak- en place. er ee FFICIALS of the larger Seattle ship building plants recently es- timated that vessels of various types valued at $8,258,000, either are under way or have been contracted for at Seattle yards. Work on 10 steel vessels costing $6,700,000 has been started at the plant of the Seattle Construction & Dry Dock: Co. The. fleet* includes. three submarines for the United States navy, a torpedo boat destroyer, two steel freighters for the Ward line, costing $600,000 each; three steel freight steam- _ers for Norwegian interests, represent- ed by A. O. Anderson & Co., which will cost $2,000,000, and a steel cargo steamer for the Luckenbach Steam- ship Co., of New York, representing an expenditure of $1,000,000. The Skinner-Eddy Corporation, a ship building plant on the east water- way, has completed plans for four steel steamers, which will cost approx- imately $1,200,000. The company is incorporated for $300,000. It is ex- pected the first vessel will be ready for delivery by next December. At the Anderson ship building yards on the east waterway, the United States steel lighthouse tender Rosr, which will cost $110,000, is nearing comple- tion. J. F. Duthie & Co, have. begun work on the new Elliott bay ferry for the Seattle port commission. This vessel will represent an expenditure of approximately $30,000. Nilson & Kelez are completing a twin screw freighter of 300 tons for the Nelson- Lagoon Packing Co., a subsidiary of the Pacific American Fisheries, which will cost $25,000. At the yards of Johnson Bros. & Blanchard, a twin screw tunnel stern freighter for the Westward Navigation Co. a newly organized corporation, is building. The vessel will be 150 feet long and 35 feet beam, and will cost when com- pleted and fully equipped approxi- mately $70,000. This firm is also building many lifeboats for steamers under construction at the various THE MARINE REVIEW plants. Edward Heath is building a large power schooner for Capt. Louis Lane and John Borden, of Chi- cago, at Port Blakeley, which will cost approximately $75,000. The ves- sel.is to be used in cruising in the Arctic and will be ready to sail from Seattle by June 1. x ek HRISTOFFER HANNEVIG, Chris- tiana, Norway, has purchased a majority of the stock of the Pusey & Jones Co., Wilmington, Del, thus acquiring control of this firm. He is a member of Hannevig & Johnson, New York ship brokers, and recently has contracted for a large number of ships in this country. It is his intention to improve the ship building facilities of the Wilmington plant and to engage in the building of vessels upon a more extensive scale than heretofore. The plant will be operat- ed by the same officers and organiza- tion as before. The yard will build standardized ships, turning out a large number of the same size, build and type, selling them as fast as they can turn them out. In this manner it is hoped to effect a tremendous saving in cost, as one set of plans will do for all the ships, and large quantities of plates and shapes can be bought or manufactured at the yards and stored away until wanted. American ship builders have until the present time frowned upon the standardization idea, preferring to turn out each ship to special. order. The method has been a great success in England, how- ever, where standard cargo boats have been: turned out for as low as $35 a ton. Six ships of 6,000 tons each will be built at the yard of the Pennsylvania Ship Building Co., Gloucester, N. J., as soon as the company is able to erect the necessary buildings and get things going. Four hundred and fifty men will be employed. Two 5,000-ton tankers and’ a 4,000-ton freighter are under construction at the Chester Ship Building Co.’s yard at Chester, Pa. Twenty-five ships are building at the New York Ship Building Co. plant, at Gloucester, 18 at Cramps and 14 at Harlan & Hollingsworth’s. Ok HE Huaspeca Petroleum Co., New York, has ordered a huge tank steamer of 10,000 tons from the Moore & Scott Iron Works, Oakland, Cal. The vessel will be 450 feet long and will represent an expenditure of $1,- 250,000. She will be built according to the Isherwood system. With two contracts already signed for 7,200-ton steel steamers for George W. McNear & Co. and the Rolph Coal sides warships, are two steamers of May, & Navigation Co., the yard n enough work on hand to keep j ning to capacity for many mop Golden. Gate shipping men are of opinion that the order for this yes which will be almost as large ag Union Oil Co.’s new tankers, La B and Los ANGELES, built by the Iron Works, is the forerunner of big contracts which will soon be on the west coast by eastern conce The new oil tanker is to be equipp with 2,600 horsepower Curtiss turbin engines capable of propelling the y sel at a top speed of 12 knots. Joseph Moore, brother of the senic partner of the company, has been a pointed to the position of gener manager of the company’s plant Oakland, a post formerly held | iT, Scott, , * ok ** M OST of the ship building yards in Sweden have enough work on hand to keep them busy until the end of 1917. As most of the vessels a for Swedish firms and as Norwegian and Danish ship builders are also building for Swedish firms, it is eyi- dent that the merchant marine of the country will be greatly increased in the near future. The Swedish ship building industry is developing consid- erably, and different yards are special- izing in different branches of work. Bergsunds Verkstads-aktiebolag is specializing on smaller vessels, especi- — ally those run by power. This com- | pany is supplying Russia with power — boats to take the place of, other — vessels used on the rivers. In addi tion the company has orders for one | ice breaker and one combined tug- — boat and ice breaker. The present — orders will keep it busy for 18 months. — Motala Verkstaden also has many — orders on hand. It specialty is tug- boats, a combined tug and ice breaker — in particular, furnished with a 500- horsepower engine. The director of — Gotaverken in Goteborg states that — the establishment has work to keep it busy until some time in 1918. Some of the vessels under construction, be 9,000 and 10,000 tons for the Trans — atlantic Steamship Co., and 8,000-tom — vessel for the Viking Steamship Co — Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verstads Aktie- — bolag has work until the middle of — 1917, At present it is specializing is 900 and 1,800-ton vessels, but after — the works has been enlarged it intends : to specialize in larger vessels. Lind — holmens Verkstads-aktiebolag a8 enough work until the summer ° 1918. It is building a 6,500-ton vessel for the Nord Steamship Co., Stock holm, and has received orders fof