The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

_ within the history of the lake ore trade. MARINE Wie. VL. REVIEW. CLEVELAND, OHIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1892. 2 No. 6, War Vessels Built by the Cramps. i : A supplement -- ks accompanying this issue of the REVIEW pre- > several war ves- |» sels built by - William Cramp _> & Sons Ship ,and Hngine Building Com- _ pany of Phila- delphia. This -- great ship _, building plant _ established in 1830 by Wil- liam Cramp and 1872 covers an area of twenty- five acresin the tii yout st wards of the city of Phila- UNITED STATES CRUISER YORKTOWN. delphia, and has a water frontage of 1,229 feet. The works employ 3,500 men, having under construction at present a total tonnage of 43,696. 'The total value of ships under construction is $14, 526,- 000. The horse power of marine engines under construction 1S 76,000 and of land engines 25,000. It is interesting to note that the windlasses and capstans on all these five war ships were furnished by the American Ship Windlass Company. Full Statement of Iron Ore Shipments. Within the past week the iron ore dealers of Cleveland and others directly interested in the traffic have been furnished with a detailed statement of shipments of ore from the different upper lake ports. 'I'wo or three of the dock managers object, how- _ ever, to a statement of shipments by ranges and ports being given out, and it is enough to say here that the total shipments from all Lake Superior mines to Aug. r is 4,085,577 gross tons. Following is a comparison for the past three years: To Aug. 1, Full season, 5, gross tons. gross tons. US a tates cas ashe ssine eee ge ANOS IY oe Sonesta NS OE vecectncmenerenta ce maser 2,718,958 G O11, 933 BOO Wee skehiecet dass tataos. data 4,053,000 9 "003, 701. From this statement it will be seen that the shipments on Aug. 1 of this year are 52,577 tons in excess of the shipments on the corresponding date in 1890, the season when more than 9,000,000 tons of ore was produced in the Lake Superior region; or putting it in another way the shipments to Aug. 1 this year are greater than they have been on the same date in any year Clear docks and an early opening of navigation with a fair range of lake freight rates have had more to do with this heavy movement of ore than the conditions that have prevailed since April last in the iron market. Producers say the movement will be greatly reduced during the remainder of the season. It is not expected that the full season's shipments will reach the 1890 total of nine millions, but notwithstanding the surprise caused by the large gain so far over previous years, it is well known that at both Escanaba and Ashland for three weeks past the supply of tonnage has been very much short of the stocks of ore crowding the different docks. /\ sents views of eighteenth and Largest Rudder Frames Ever Forged. Mention of the size of the rudder of the French iron clad Brennus in the last issue of the REvrEw brings to attention the fact that a larger frame was recently forged by the Cleveland City Forge and Iron Company. It was for cruiser No. 2, the New York, building by William Cramp & Sons. It was of solid wrought iron, the dimensions being as follows: Extreme height, 20 feet 5% inches; extreme width, 14 feet 7 inches: thick- ness of blade, 44 inches; diameter of rudder stock, 19 inches; shipping weight of frame, 26,640 pounds. 'The French rudder was built up while this one was cast solid. In addition to this the same company forged four other large rudders recently fe Cramp & Sons--one for cruiser No. 12,: formerly known as the Pirate, and now officially named the Columbia; one for cruiser No. 13, being a duplicate of the Pirate, not yet named, and one each for battleships Nos. 1 and 2, which are known as the Mas- sachusetts and Indiana. Rudders forthe battleships have not as yet been shipped but are about completed. Rudders for Nos. 12 and 13 are practically alike, the chief dimensions being height over all, 23 feet 3%4 inches; extreme width, 12 feet 8 in- ches, extreme thickness of the blade, 19% inches; diameter of rudder stock, 19% inches; shipping weight of the frame, 27,270 pounds. The rudders for the battleships are also duplicates 'and are practically of the dimensions mentioned, except in thick- ness of blade and diameter of stock, which dimensions are less by about 3 inches, the weights being correspondingly less. It is quite certain that these are the largest rudders ever made in | this country and it is doubtful if any wrought iron rudders have ever been made in any couutry of greater proportions. Built to be Used as Cruisers. It will be remembered that it was the object of the Cockran bill, which.was passed a couple of months ago, and which granted American registry to steamships of over a certain ton- nage, to grant American registry to two ships ofthe Inman line, the City of New York and the City of Paris. _ According to the description of these two vessels given by Senator Frye in report- ing the billin the senate, they were specially designed and built to be not only the finest passenger ships afloat and the safest, but also to be the most efficient commerce destroyers and cruisers. Besides their great speed they have a remarkable coal endurance, being capable of keeping at sea for seventy-two days and steaming ten knots, which are valuble qualifications for cruisers. They are already fitted for sixteen rifled cannon, and they were built under the inspection and according to the design of the British admiralty, to the end that they might be efficient cruisers. 'Their boilers and engines are divided into separate compartments, so that the steamers could never be disabled by the flooding of one or more-compartments; their boilers are protected from ramming or from shot by the coal-bunkers on either side, in water-tight compartments, and their engines are protected in the same manner by water-tight compartments, which can be filled with any suitable material when being fitted - as cruisers. Their rudders and stearing gear are under water and thus protected from shot. Senator Frye, said that at the time they were the only merchantmen afloat designed to meet all the above described important qualifications as cruisers, and they could escape from any war vessel, and could overtake and destroy any merchant ship afloat.--Bradstreets. In being enabled to land iron ore from vessels onto the dock at its furnace doors the new company of Cleveland iron men who are about to rebuild the old Union Iron Works at Buffalo will. have an advantage over competitors. Preparations are now be- - ing made for cutting a channel go feet wide and 15 feet deep from the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's dock in Buffalo creek to the iron works. | >