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4 A Big Revival Along Great Lakes and Contracts Al- if) y ready Placed Call for 1916 Delivery on 27 Vessels ing deliveries. The industry has revived with a rush and during the past few weeks sufficient orders have been taken to insure ca- pacity operations at a number of the ship yards for the next 10 months. The new work includes a number of lake freighters coupled with an over- flow of ocean going vessels that the coast yards were unable to build within the time specified by the ship- ping interests. The contracts recent- ly booked by lake yards call for 27 vessels, with an approximate carry- Lo ship builders are now talk- beam, 2 feet more than the last 600- foot freighters built on the lakes. Of the vessels already ordered, the American Ship Building Co. has taken 10, with a carrying capacity of 57,000 tons. The Great Lakes Engineering Works has orders for eight vessels, withacarrying capacity of 42,000 tons. The loléde: Ship Building Co. To- ledo, O., will build five vessels of ap- proximately 26,000 tons carrying ca- pacity while the Manitowoc Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Manitowoc, Wis., has orders for four boats of 4,700 tons capacity. In addition a fire By R. V. Sawhill Scotch boilers. They will be of Ish- erwood construction and will be built under Lloyds inspection to class Al. They will have 9-foot hatches, spaced on 12-foot centers. Their general features are shown in the accompany- ing illustration. When these vessels are completed, the Pittsburgh Steamship Co. will have ‘23 steamers of 600 feet or over. The Interlake Steamship Co. will have a fleet of 37 steamers and two barges. Its new boat, together with the steam- er W. B. DaAvocx, which was putr- chased a few weeks ago, will replace Length OverAll 600-0 /tachinery Length Between Peps. 580-0" Triple Expanston Ly gine Breadth Nolded S0-0° 4 LIKSIXESUIZ” Depth Molded eae XC o:0ldloi0'0ic .Gotojoicoio Olos Iwo Boilers maa Purrseurcy SrtansiP ois New STEAMER Ce eee Snes = See TS ————Ss " ee ee ee GENERAL FEATURES OF NEW BULK FREIGHTER ORDERED BY PITTSBURGH STEAMSHIP CO. ing capacity of 129,700 tons. These include five 12,000-ton bulk freighters, two additional bulk freighters for lake service, 12 Welland canal size steel freighters, four auxiliary schooners for the coast, three trawlers and a sur- wey steamer. To Build Ocean Boats The revival is marked by two inter- esting features. Lake builders have never competed seriously with sea- board ship yards previously, but dur- ing the past year they have proved their ability to take business in any quarter of the world. The four ocean- going vessels ordered in the spring from the Great Lakes Engineering Works, Detroit, are nearing comple- tion, one having been delivered at New York, a second is en route to that port while the other two will leave for the coast within a few days. The second feature of interest is the slight modification in the size of the new bulk freighters for the lakes. Each of these vessels will be 60 feet boat for the city of Cleveland is being built at the Manitowoc yard. Two of the bulk freighters were ordered by the Pittsburgh Steamship Co., Cleveland, the American Ship Building Co. and the Great Lakes Engineering Works each securing a contract for one vessel. The Inter- lake Steamship Co., Cleveland, and the Franklin Steamship Co., Cleveland, each ordered one vessel from the American company. The Great Lakes Steamship Co., Cleveland, placed its order with the Toledo Ship Building Ca, The five bulk freighters are all duplicates, with the single exception that the Toledo-built boat will have quadruple expansion instead of triple expansion engines. Each freighter will be 600 feet overall, 580 feet keel, 60 feet beam and 32 feet deep, with a carrying capacity of 12,000 tons. Four of them will have triple expan- sion engines, with 2434, 42 and 65-inch cylinders and 42-inch stroke. Each vessel will be equipped with three 441 Arcus and MHyprus, lost in the big storm of November, 1913. The Frank- lin Steamship Co., of which Herbert K. Oakes is manager, now owns the steamers’ EF. J. EARLING and = EE. Hi: Uttey. The Great Lakes Steamship Co. operates a fleet of 21 freighters. Big Increase Over 1915 All of the lake boats will be de- livered by September, 1916. Those that were ordered first will go into commission in the spring. The orders for these freighters was particularly pleasing to lake interests, as during 1915 only one bulk freighter was launched. This vessel was W. F. Wuire, which was described in detail in The Marine Review, October, 1915. In 1914, seven bulk freighters were launched; in 1913, five; in 1912, five; in 1911, five; in 1910, 20; in 1909, 17; in 1908, 24; in 1907, 40; in 1906, 40; in 1905, 29; in 1904, seven; in 1903, 42, and in 1902, 30. That this build- ing program has not provided suffici- ent capacity to handle lake freight in