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MARINE Lorain Plant of Cleveland Ship Building Co. The Review of Feb. 10 contained a description of the large dry dock --560 feet long--that is an important feature in the new plant of the Cleveland Ship Building Co. at Lorain, O. In the same issue the power house of the Lorain works (there is one central station for ship yard In this issue a plan show- and dry dock) was illustrated and described. Hse co Roe? Anchorage =-- Spring _-- --- a dnchorage, Piles -------Wire Rove Sheer Leqs . River ie C Slip Not 555x125 Black Slip No.2 500x125 a Present Line of Dredged Slip Dec.3| 1697. FIG. 1.--PLAN OF OLEVELAND SHJP ' ing the dry dock, berths for new ships, various buildings and connections between cranes and railway spurs, is presented, together with views of the main shop. ; This latter building, in which plates and shapes are prepared for new ships, is 125 by 250 feet, and is so constructed as to provide on an upper Overhead , Crane Overhead -- es extend into the yard at the rear of the shop, and the traveler is thus used for unloading plates and other material cars and transferring it to the tools for bending, punching, etc. At the other end of the shop, after the plates have passed through the various operations, 1n order, from the flanging rolls and punches to the planers, they are deposited on low cars, which need to be pushed but a few feet into the yard to come underneath the high electric cranes which command the building berths. There are ine Shop , 30x40 : Sewer 36x56, |ENgine Room g 17x37' Or eae SF Sener N ; 2 Joiner Shop fic € 40x100 Ls W. Paint is Shop 5-50 Jolore (2x30 Roord patiekee ith Shop =" Mould Loft - 2nd. Floor 48'x 250 Main Shop - \st. Floor > 125'x 250° Crane te Fu Slabs Orig! Timber Trest Furnace Oil Tanks BUILDING CO.'S PLANT AT LORAIN, 0. two of these, of 10 tons capacity and 58 feet span, built by the Brown Hoisting & Conveying Machine Co. The unusual extent to which pneumatic hoists and electric motors are used in these works is indicated by the illustrations. There are twenty- four Pedrick & Ayer (Philadelphia) air lifts, each mounted on a jib- FIG. 2.--VIEW OF MAIN SHOP--CRANE SPAN, 40 FEET floor a mold loft 250 feet long and 48 feet wide. in the shop, as it is open at both ends, 'sides: are large. The traveling cr two electric cranes, built by the each of 7 tons lift and 40 feet s There is ample light and windows in the wings and ane equipment in this shop consists of Morgan Engineering Co. of Alliance, OF pan. Girders on which these cranes run crane runway, the cranes being so disposed that all the tools are readily served with a minimum of hand labor. The compressor air supply, a ferred to in a previous issue when the power station was describe Fe furnished by a compressor of the Rand duplex" type, having a capacity of 1,600 cubic feet, The steam cylinders are 14 inches by 22 inches, ai