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26 : MARINE REVIEW. [September 275 ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC COAST. A FEW NEW SHIP YARD CONTRAOTS ARE TO BE NOTED--VESSELS FAST LEAVING PHE STOCKS. The New England Co., Bath, Me., launched the new four-masted schooner J. Edward Drake, a few days ago. The Drake is one of the finest schooners ever built in a Bath ship yard. She is of the fol- lowing dimensions: Length, 182.6 ft., breadth, 37.3 ft., and depth, 17.5 ft. Her gross tonnage is 910.64, and net tonnage 789.32. The carrying capacity is about 1,400 tons. She was built for the general coastwise trade. She will be commanded by Levi S. Wiley, formerly of the schooner Cactus. This vessel has been constructed of selected material and put together in the substantial manner characteristic of the New Eng- land company's methods of building vessels. The Drake has an oak keel, hard wood and hackmatac frame and yellow pine planking 4% in. thick from garboard to gunwale, all composition fastened. The masts are Ore- gon pine, all 94 ft. long and 26 in. in diameter. The rigging is wire. The cabin is finished in quartered oak and sycamore, and the staterooms are in white wood. The vessel has a Hyde windlass outfit. She was rigged and ready for sea when launched. She is owned by James B. Drake and others of Bath. Mr. 'Drake is managing owner. ~ Wilson Rickenbach, at his ship yard in North Camden, N: J., launched lately a new barge of large size, which is intended for the North Carolina and eastern coast lumber trade. - She is 180 ft. long, 28 ft. 6 in. beam, and 12 ft. depth of hold. The new boat can carry 500,000 ft. of yellow pine, or 1,000 tons of coal. Mr. Rickenbach is now getting out the frame for a new wooden tugboat which will be a duplicate of the Curtin, launched two years ago, and which is accounted one of the finest on the Delaware river. The new boat, which will be named 'Minnie, is to be 90 ft. long, 19 ft. 6 in. beam, and 9 ft. depth of hold. She will be used in towing barges between North Carolina and Philadelphia. The engine and boiler and a large wrecking pump will be placed in her by the Neafie & Levy Ship & Engine Building Co. at Philadelphia. William E, Palmer of Boston has contracted with George L. Welt of Waldoboro, -Me., for the construction of another five-masted schooner of 4,000 tons coal capacity, to be named the Baker Palmer. The keel for the vessel will be laid as soon as the Fannie Palmer, now on the stocks, is launched next month. The William R. Trigg Co., Richmond, Va., has been awarded the contract for the construction of the new steamship for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. The vessel will be named Virginia and when com- pleted will give the Chesapeake & Ohio two steamships on the Norfolk and Newport News route. The new tug Osgar G. 'Murray for the Baltimore '& Ohio railroad was launched a few days ago from the yards of the Spedden Ship Building Co., Baltimore, Md., in the presence of a large number of invited guests. It was-also the occasion of Capt. R. M. Spedden's birth, and the event was duly celebrated by a luncheon in the ship loft after the launch. The tug is 105 ft. long, 22 ft. beam and 12 ft. 6 in. depth of hold. - The new ship building plant of the Risdon Iron Works of San Fran- cisco will be built by the American Bridge Co. of New York, and will consist of a boiler shop, machine shop and foundry, all of the latest design and most modern description. The New York Ship Building Co., Camden, N. J., began last week to punch plates for its first ship and will within a few days lay its first keel. The contract for this vessel was secured some time ago from M. S. Dollar )& Co., San Francisco. A large six-masted schooner building at Percy & Small's yard, Bath, Me., will be named Eleanor A. Percy in honor of the daughter of S. R. Percy of the firm of Percy )& Small. The vessel will be launched about Oct-10. The United Engineering & Contracting Co., New York, has secured the contract for furnishing a pumping plant for dry dock No. 8 at the Brooklyn navy yard. The contract price is $79,485. Charles White at Everett, Wash., will lay the keel for a four-masted schooner 208 ft. over all, 39 ft. beam and 14 ft. 4 in. depth of hold. She will be managed by Capt. John Peterson and others. 'Matthew Turner, at Benecia, Cal., has launched the new four-masted schooner Ariel. She is 190 ft. long, 40 ft. beam, and 14 ft. depth of hold. She has a capacity of 900,000 ft. of lumber. The new schooner Edith H. Symington of 1,000 tons burden was launched from the ship yard of W. S. Currier & 'Co., Newburyport, Mass., this week. The Harlan }& Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington, Del., has just launched the second of the steel barges for the Rockport & Rocklana Lime. Co. Messrs. McKay '& Dix have decided to build two vessels at their yards at Bucksport, Me., next season. Plans for the League island electrical workshop for the new equip- ment building, to cost $84,000, have been sent to Washington. The offi- cials at the navy department are in possession of plans for an $18,000 boiler house to complete the storehouse alongside the reserve basin. Bids for the $100,000 new marine barracks have been opened. The drawing of plans for the $113,400 combustible shed and cooper, block and spar house and the $500,000 steam engineering plant is now under way. Plans for the other work that is to be done under the $2,000,000 appropriation now available, not including the $1,175,000 for the concrete and granite dry dock, sees be rapidly turned out, so that the work can soon be com- menced. 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