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sdraft. THE MARINE RECORD. 7 SHIP BUILDING AND REPAIRS. . STEEL SCHOONER MARTHA LAUNCHED. _ Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. cones CHICAGO, March 10, 1896. The large steel ‘schooner Martha was successfully launched last Saturday afternoon at 2:50 o’clock at the Chicago Ship Building Co.’s yard, under the able direc- tion of Manager W.I. Babcock. She was built for the Minnesota SteamshipCo. Her dimensions are 352 feet keel, 366 feet over all, s4 feet beam, 26 feet molded depth. She will have a steam deck hoist and a Shaw & Spiegle steam towing machine. WILLIAMS. OTHER LAUNCHES. The big steamship L. C. Waldo, built to the order of the Roby Transportation Co., was launched last Satur- day at the yard of ’. W. Wheeler & Co., West Bay City. The Waldo is 400 feet 9 inches over all and 380 feet keel by 48 feet beam and 28 feet depth. Her engines are 23, - 37% and 63 by 44 inches. She is one of the first if not the first lake steamer to install a system of induced It is known as the Ellis & Haves system. ’ The steamer City of Bangor, bnilding for Eddy Bros. at F. W. Wheeler & Co.’s yard, will be launched next Saturday. The steel tug building for the Duluth & Iron ‘aivice Railroad Co. at the Cleveland shipyard will be launched about April 1 and will be christened Edna G. Wood, Skinner & Co., Newcastle‘on-T'yne, are the “bullders of the new steamer Rosemont, for the Canadian Montreal Transportation Co. Her dimensions are 250 feet in length, 40 feet 9 inches béam, and 21 feet 3% inches molded depth. She is being built so that she can bé separated into two parts just forward of the ma- chinery Space. Her speed will be about 10 ‘knots per hour. The Michigan Boiler Works, of Port Huron, has just completed and shipped two Majestic Safety Water Tube Boilers, one for the Sinith Bros.’ new fish tug at Port Washington, Wis, and one for the fish tug of Theune & Eernisse Bros., at Cedar Grove, Wis, They were built for 174 pounds working pressure. The Montagtie Iron Works Coi, Montague, Mich., have received an order ftom Capt. W. H. Singer, of Du- -luth, Minn., for a 20 x 44-inch high pressure marine en- ~ gine and au 8x 14feet marine boiler to be placed in the new tug being built at KE. W. Heath’s shipyard at Ben- ton Harbor, Mich. M. J. Steffens, of the Chicago Columbia Yacht Club, is having built at Saugatuck, Mich., a steam yacht to be named Laura S. The dimensions of the Laura S are: Over all, 85 feet; water line, 65 feet; beam, 14 feet. She will be equipped with one Warrington boiler capable of a working pressure of 250 pounds to the square inch. Her engines will be triple-expansion, equal to 200 horse power. Fifteen knots an hour are counted on under an ordinary consumption of coal. She is to be schooner- rigged and will carry a large spread of canvas in addi- tion to her steam power. ‘The yacht will be furnished throughout in the richest material obtainable. Her cost will be about $40,000. om AT THE CRESCENT SHIPYARD. The $200,000 steam yacht Josephine, building at the Crescent Shipyard (Lewis Nixon, manager), Elizabeth, N. J., for Peter A. B. Widener, of Philadelphia, was launched on Wednesday of last week. She is one of the finest pieces of marine architecture ever seen in Amer- ica. The Josephine is 225 feet long over all, and 183 feet on the load water line, by 28 feet beam, and 15 feet depth. She will have a mean draft of 11% feet, anda displacement of 800 tons. She has a steel house 135 feet long and 13 feet wide, covered with mahogany. She will not bury herself in asea, as she has 13 feet freeboard. There is a promenade deck, to be fitted with double awnings, fore-and-aft. Her engines are of the triple-expansion type, built by John W. Sullivan, and measuring 18, 27,and 42 by 28inches. She will have two Scotch-type boilers, built by the Globe Iron Works Co., Cleveland,:11 by 14 feet, and tested to 175 pounds working pressure. Her electric plant will light fifty 16-candle power lamps, besides separating an - Edison search-light anda refrigerating plant. Below deck are ten large state-rooms and a ladies’ salon. The owner’s apartments are at the after end of the deck ee EON EAE I EE Ds PER EEN ALY BD OPES I ae MLSE mae ORD aA ee iy ae hour. ‘furnishing search and incandescent lights. house. ‘The Josephine’s boat outfit consists of a 30-foot steam launch, a 21-foot naphtha launch, a 20-foot whale- boat, a 25-foot gig, and a 16-foot dinghy. She will be commanded by Capt. Fred C. Miller. ‘There are now employed at the Crescent shipyard 350 men. Work is progressing rapidly upon the new double- decked, double-ended steam ferry boat for the Camden & Philadelphia Line. She is framed and plated, and will be delivered next June. She will have a screw at each end. Four Almy water-tube boilers are in the yard, all in readiness to be placed in the new boat. Four of the 13 steel barges for the Cleveland Steel Canal Boat Co. are nearing completion. Hach boat is 98 feet long over all by 17.10 feet beam and 10 feet depth. The ten tow barges will each carry 200 tons on six feet draft. [The three steamers will each carry 125 or 130 tons. They will have 200 h. p. engines and Robert’s safety water-tube boilers, 8x8 feet. Mr. Clarence Postley’s yacht Colonia is being converted into a centerboard schooner. The stocks are ready for laying down the government’s new gunboat No. 10, of 1,000 tons displacement. THE REINA DE LOS ANGELES, The Neafie & Levy Ship and Engine Building Co, ex- pect to launch from their yards at Philadelphia next Saturday afternoon, the handsome and commodious steamer Reina de los Angeles, built for Menendez & Co., of Cienfuegos, Cuba, and is intended to carry passen- gers and freight between Batabano and Santiago de Cuba, and other ports on the south coast of Cuba. The new vessel is fitted up in a first-class manner for 100 passengers. Her length is 244 feet; beam, 25 feet, and depth, 22 feet, with a gross tonnage of 1,300. She has twin screws, propelled by two vertical triple-expan- sion engines of 1,2(0 horse power. The surface condensers are supplied with water by centrifugal pumps.of a capacity of 120,000 gallons per Three large independent pumps are arranged for fire, feed, and sanitary purposes. A complete modern electric light plant will be placed in lower engine room, There are four steel boilers. She is the sixth vessel built by the Neafie & Levy Co. for the Menendez Co. There is also being built, at the same yards, a steel steam lighthouse tender for the Mexican government, . which will be ready for launching some time next month. The vessel will be-similar in design to the United States steamship Maple, and will be 142 feet long, 25 feet beam and 11 feet deep. Her armament will consist of several very large and effective guns. GENERAL REPAIR WORK. Cuicaco.—At the Chicago Ship Building Co.’s ship- yard the steam car ferry Ann Arbor No. 2 was in dock and had one of her shafts straightened and received re- pairs to her outboard coupling andsleeves. The steamer Havana is in dock for overhauling and recalking. At Miller Brothers’ shipyard the schooner C, C. Trow- bridge is in dock for a general overhauling and recalk- ing; tug Ira O. Smith for repairs to shoe and stern bear- ing and some calking; steamer Tom Adams for some new bottom planking, a new piece of keel aft, some general repairs, repairs to stern bearing and recalking. Considerable repair work is being doneon the Anchor line steamers Delaware, Lehigh and Schuylkill; the Western Transit Co.’s steamers Boston, Harlem and Syracuse; and the Lehigh Valley line steamer Seneca. The steam yacht Sentinel is receiving general repairs and having her bow remodeled. The government light- house steamer Dahlia is at the derrick receiving new masts. Thesteamer Thomas W. Palmer is receiving some calking; the schooner Dundee some repairs and calking. Capt. V. Harms has built acabin on deck forward on the schooner Julia B. Merrill and has recalked her ceiling. WILLIAMS. CLEVELAND.—The steamer Yuma went into the Ship Owners’ dry-dock Tuesday. Five plates had to be re- moved. ‘The fish tug Markwell and the V. O. T. dredge are in the other dock for spring-overhauling. At the Cleveland dry-dock the steamer Forest City is In for new keelsons. The Canadian steamer Erie went into dock Thursday morning. Burralo.—The Thomas Maytham left fice. -dock Fri- day, after getting considerable bottom repairs. The Conemaugh has been given a new stem and: other re- pairs, - Capt. H. J. Davis, owner of the Wenona, is pre- paring to spend abont $1,500 on her.. He will look after the work himself.. The Rube Richards’. boiler. has not yet-been: shipped, and she will:probably not get-out at “the opening of navigation. The new machinery of the Queen of the West is allin place. The St. Louis will be rebuilt above the water line and her machinery over- hauled, all this costing about $15,000. The. other boats of the Crosthwaite fleet will be thoroughly overhauled. Port Huron.—The tug A. Sumner is in Dunford & Alverson’s lower dock to have her wheel and shaft taken out and placed in the new hull now building for her machinery. She will be followed by the Britannic, which will then receive what repairs she needs in dock. The barge ren eta will go into the dock for repairs. Hd, K. REPAIR NOTES. The rebuilt barge Schiide is to be known as the Eureka. The rudder of the steamer Majestic (Br.) has been en- larged at Collingwood. . The steamer City of Owen Sound (Br.) rebuilt, has been renamed the Saturn. Reconstruction of the ferry steamer Hope, jateaded for the Niagara River trade; is in heaves at Walker- ville, Ont. : ' Wickes Bros., of Saginaw, have completed the pellets for the City of Bangor, but cannot deliver them at West Bay City until the ice leaves Saginaw River. The tug Moore has gone to Gilmore’s dry-dock for some work preparatory to setting out for Detroit for the Massasoit. George H. Breyman & Bros.’ dredges, tugs and scows are being overhauled at this dock. The rebuild of the tug Temple Emery, at T'wo Rivers, Wis.,includes new deck beams and deck, covering-board, stanchions, and an entire new house, besides a thorough overhauling of machinery. The fore and mainmasts of the schooner Kvaline have have been taken out and she will be equipped witha deck staysail, or what isknown as the Grand Haven rig. The old spars will be replaced after the necessary changes are made. It is said now that while the damage to the Selwyn Eddy, in dry-dock at the foot of Orleans street, will amount to more than $15, 000, yet every one of the plates and frames which she bent so badly when she fetched up standing in the Soo River, can be ategie eae out and replaced in her bottom. _. The tug North Muskegon, which is on the boxes at Manitowoc receiving a thorough rebuild, will have a new boller 6% feet in diameter, 12 feet long, and will be allowed 140 pounds of steam. ‘The tug Golden, which is also at Manitowoc, is to havea new boiler 7 feet 4 inches in diameter, 12 feet long and to be allowed ano pounds of steam. : F. &-P. M. PLANS. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record, West Bay City, March 10, A great deal of the matter printed lately about the marine interests of the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad Co. has been badly twisted. FI’. W. Wheeler &.Co. are not to take the No. lin part payment for the car ferry steamer, the contract being free from any riders of this sort. A syndicate is being formed to buy the No. 1, and the transfer will probably be made early in the season if all goes well. Attempts are being made. to charter her or one of the other boats into other transportation lines. The company is interested in projects to deepen harbors at Ludington and other ports, but not with the intention of building any more wooden steamers. The boats now owned by the F. & P..M. are not adapted to their present uses. They were originally built to ac- commodate some passengers, and as a result have too much top hamper to be useful in their.present trade, and remodeling would cost too much. .The manage- ment is now inclined to favor metal construction, and if they can dispose of their steamers to other lines in whose trade they would be more useful, orders would be placed for steel steamers so arranged that they would carry large cargoes on comparatively shallow. draft. Capt. W. S. Mack and Capt. George P, McKay are at Ottawa, Ont., this week, pressing the claims of com- merce against the Detroit River bridge. .They are re- ceiving the hearty co-operation of the Canadian Marine Association, which is represented at the hearing by its secretary, Capt. J. V. Trowell and others.