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442 the short season of navigation is dem- onstrated both by the unsatisfied de- mand for vessel capacity this fall which will force many of the boats to run later than scheduled, and by the orders now being placed. Few details have been made public relative to the two other large freight- ers ordered for lake service. Both of these vessels will be built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works, one being 450 feet long, with an approximate capacity of 9,000 tons, and the other designed for the stone trade, having a capacity of 6,000 tons. Of the 20 other boats ordered, six were placed by Norwegian interests, THE MARINE REVIEW burg, N. Y. The four auxiliary schoon- ers are being built for the Smith Ship- ping Co., New York. They will be steel, full Welland canal size. Oil burning engines will be installed upon the arrival of the vessels at the coast. Their speed will be about seven knots an hour. The three trawlers were ordered by the. Bay State Fishing Co.,. Boston. They will be 140 feet long, 22% feet beam and 12% feet deep. The survey steamer. be equipped with oil- burning engines, and will have a cruis- ing radius of 4,000 miles. Her con- tract speed is 12 knots. The four steamers for. salt water, will - RUTLAND and OGpENSBURG. December, 1915 Sells Last Boats The Rutland Transit Co., which op- erates a line of steamers on the Great Lakes, has sold its last two vessels, The pur- chaser is the Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co., Seattle, Wash. The sale of these two vessels makes six which have been disposed of by the Rutland Line as a result of the Panama canal act divorc- ing the lake lines from the railroads. Last spring the company sold ARLING- TON and BrAnpon to the New England Coal & Coke Co., Boston, and later it disposed of BurLINGcTon and _ BEN- NINGTON to the Alaska Steamship Co., five others are for salt water, one for ordered from the Great Lakes En- - Seattle. lake service, four are auxiliary schoon- gineering Works some months ago, The Erie railroad lake line sold Wetails of Ships Now Building AMERICAN SHIP BUILDING CO., CLEVELAND, O. Dimensions in feet. Approximate Over carrying j To be built at. Type. ald Keel. Beam. Depth. Engines. Boilers. capacity. For whom building, MeOraing 56... Bulk Frtr.. 600 580 60 32 24%, 42, 65 x 42 3,Scotch. 12,000 Pittsburgh Steamship Co., levine. OQ. WSordin 3.5 ee Bulk Frtr:. 600 580 60 oe 244, 42, 65 x 42 3 Scotch. , 12,000 Interlake Steamship Co., Cleveland, O. Cleveland... .: Freighter .. 261 251 43% 20 3,000 Norwegian interests. |. Cleveland..... s Ureiphter:.. 261 251 43% 20 3,000 Norwegian interests. : | ; Oran. oe. Bulk Frtr.. 600 580 60 32 24%, 42, 65 x 42 3 Scotch 12,000 Franklin Steamship Co., Cleveland, O. f Wyandotte..... Freighter . 261 251 43% 20 3,000 Norwegian interests. 4 Wyandotte..... Freighter 261 251 43% 20 3,000 Norwegian interests. Wyandotte..... Freighter 261 251 43% 20 3,000 Norwegian interests. Wyandotte..... Freighter 261 251 43% 20 3,000 Norwegian interests. i So. Chicago.... Freighter 260 250 42 20 3,000 G. B. Hall Coal Co., Ogdensburg, N. Y. GREAT LAKES ENGINEERING WORKS, DETROIT, MICH. HECOTSE 3, os oe Bulk Frtr.. 600 580 60 32 2414, 42, 65 x 42 3 Scotch 12,000 Pittsburgh Steamship Co., Cleveland, O. Ashtabulaccs ss. Freighter 260 250 42 19 3,000 Merritt & Chapman Co., New York. Ecorse: 6. ak: Freighter Sas ee ae os 6,000 Stone trade. Ashtabula... Freighter. 260 250 42 19 3,000 For coast service. Hicorse. =... 12) Hreishter 260 250 42 19 3.000 For coast service. HCOrse 6. es Freighter 260 250 42 19 3,000 For coast service. WCorse. 1,3... 6. Freighter as 450 56 ey 9,000 ‘For lake service. Heotse, fe, Freighter 260 250 42 19 3,000 For coast service. TOLEDO SHIP BUILDING CO., TOLEDO, oO. Toledo... 25...» Auxil. schr.- 260 250 42 19 Auxil. oil burning 3,500 Smith Shipping Co. Toledo... cos. c2 Auxil. schr. 260 250 42 19 Auxil. oil burning 3,500 Smith Shipping Co. Moledon ac. ee. Auxil, schr. — 260 250 42 19 Auxil. oil burning 3,500 Smith Shipping Co. ‘oledo.. 2.4. Auxil, schr. 260 250 42 19 Auxil. oil burning —§ ———_~— 3,500 Smith Shipping Co. Loledo.. 25. .5° Bulk Frtr 600 580 60 32 3 Scotch . 12,000 Gt. Lakes Steamship Co., Cleveland, O. MANITOWOC SHIP BUILDING & DRY DOCK CO., MANITOWOC, wis. Manitowoc..... Sury. vessel 186 160 34 20% 1,000-H. P. 2 Scotch 800 U. S. Coast & Manitowoc..... Trawler 140 a 22% 12% 1,300 Bay Suk Hie Survey. Manitowoc..... Trawler 140 22% 12% 1,300 Bay State Fishing Co. Manitowoc..... Trawler 140 22% 12% 1,300 Bay State Fishing Co. ere for the coast trade, three are ae ro aa are Yagui, Yuna, four of its vessels recently. The rail- trawlers and one a government vessel. INcA an orRIS ADLER. Yagur has roads assert that unless the law is re- With the exception of the trawlers and survey steamer, all of these boats are steel freighters of full Welland ‘canal size. They will be about 260 feet long, 42 feet beam and 20 feet draught, with an approximate carry- .ing capacity of 3,000 tons. The aux- iliary schooners, however, will have an approximate carrying capacity of 3,500 tons. The Great Lakes Engineering Works will build five of these freighters, one being for the Merritt & Chapman Co., New York, for wrecking work on the coast. The American Ship Building Co. will build seven canalers, six for Norwegian interests, and the other for the George B. Hall Coal Co., Ogdens- already reached New York and Yuna is enroute. Inca was. scheduled to leave Detroit by Nov. 20, while Morris ApvLER will get away from the Ashta- bula yards about the same time. A new steamer has been launched for the Harrison line at the yards of Charles Connell, Scotscoun, and chris- ened Barrister. The new liner, which will probably find her way into the company’s service from Liverpool to Tacoma, is 365 feet in length. The Harrison line has lost several freight steamers since the beginning of the war and the new vessel has been named for a former vessel of the fleet which was lost. pealed other lines will likewise be forced to sell their vessels. The sit- uation brought about by the interstate commerce commission’s decision, rela- tive to railroad owned steamship lines, was discussed at length in The Marine Review, July, 1915. Dock Commissioner R. A. C. Smith, of New York, has awarded to Post & McCord, a contract for the con- struction of a pier at the foot of Thirty-fifth street, Brooklyn, thus placing three piers to be built in that section under contract. The bid which was accepted from the engineering company amounted to approximately $297,000.