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Mn TAE Marine REVIEW 23 WORK IN COAST YARDS. Cobb, Butler & Co., Rockland, Me., will launch the three-masted schooner, Wawanee in June. The Old Bay line steamer Gaston is undergoing repairs at the yard of James Clark & Co., Baltimore, Md. The United States engineers' dredge Manhattan is at the yard of Theo. A. Crane's Sons, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, N. Y., for extensive repairs. The army cable steamer Cyrus W. Ww Ai S 81x 8 x 0.6%. oX 39' 18" Px 28% 13"aT ENDS 4 hi 3x 3% 7% x 3x 12. STEM B.A ey, 4M 8K 2%, POST px 4% f/ 1 aw RUDDER POST '7hx 34 . y ie 84X83 3x 3¥.P. 6. 10% tf / ose ax 18x 12% Ki ax 3x 7.2% DOUBLE RIVETED OL. ; 8 Hon 3)x 3hx 8.5% 1 90° 18 oe 24x 14AT 42 : oa S66" Sy ist ey IB REA 15 X15 X10 s Ws 4 y 1 5 5 BigX 345X 37,Xx 1 Z BAR 15°PL ries Pe Xi SOXe7. joi KT. RIVETED "x 3x 9.4, 20" PL. F. RD. ! 1 8.5% LINE DOUBLE RIVETED ' SECTION THROUGH MACHINERY SPACE OF DERELICT DESTROYER, to 115 volts, full load. The electric night-signaling apparatus will consist in general of a keyboard, cable connections, and four double signal lanterns, secured on a ladder suspended from an outrig- ger located on the foremast, and one 18- in. searchlight. A wireless telegraphy equipment will also be installed. Two of the six pair of lifeboat davits will be of the quadrant type, the lower blocks in all being fitted with the Ray- mond releasing hook. She will have a full equipment for destroying derelicts, wreckage, and other obstructions, and have a steaming radius of 5,000 miles. {ee Plans have been drawn for a new' ice breaker for the city of Philadel- phia, to be somewhat smaller than the John Weaver. The cost is esti- mated to be $250,000. Field was recently sent to the Morse yard, Brooklyn, N. Y., where she will be given a general overhaul. The United States scout cruiser Birmingham is to be launched at the yard of the Fore River Ship Building Co., Quincy, Mass., May 29. The Norwegian steamer Hippolyte Dumois has been cleaned and painted at the yard of the Skinner Ship Build- ing & Dry Dock Co., Baltimore, Md. The steamer John Rodgers, of the United States lighthouse service, has been sent to the Shooter's Island ship yard for a general overhauling. J. S. Beacham & Bro., Baltimore, Md., have recently repaired and painted the steel steamer Joppa, owned by the Baltimore, Chesapeake & At- lantic Railway Co. The three-masted schooner Antoin- ette, which was built to the order of the Rufus Deering Co., Portland, Me., by F. S. Bowker & Son, Phippsburg, Me., was launched May 14. The Merchants' & Miners' liner Chatham has recently been: given a general overhauling at the yard of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va. Tarr & James, Essex, Mass.,' are building a fishing schooner for Capt. L. Spinney which will be ready for launching in a few weeks. She is to be named John Hays Hammond. The steamer Powhatan, of the Mer- chants' & Miners' line, will be given a general overhauling soon at the yard of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va. The steamer Eva, owned by Gus An- derson, Moss Point, Miss., was recent- ly sent to the yard of the Morse Iron Works & Dry Dock Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., for extensive repairs throughout. _ A 550-ton barge was launched May 18 by Kelley, Spear & Co., Bath, Me., for the Sagadahoc Towing Co., which is to be known as S. T. Co. No. 2. Work on No. 3 was immediately be- gun. x Charles Rohde & Sons, Baltimore, Md., recently launched an _ endless bucket dredging machine for the Poto- mac Dredging Co., Washington, D. C. It is 90 ft. in length, 30 ft. beam and 914 ft. deep. The United States cable ship 'Burn- side is to be given a thorough over- hauling and repairing at the yard of the Heffernan Engine Works, Seat- tle, Wash. The work will cost ap- proximately $40,000. - The. Kellogg: Transportation: Co., Portland, Ore., has laid the keel for a stern-wheel steamboat 140 ft. long and 26 ft. beam. She is to be capable of - carrying about 400 tons of freight and 200 passengers. The steamer Creole, which was built by the Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass., for the Morgan line, the vessel end of the Southern Pa-. cific Co., underwent a successful build- ers' trial trip recently. ' The freight steamer New Haven was launched at the Roach Ship Yard, Chester, Pa,,.on May 11). She is for the Consolidated Railroad. Co., and -when completed will ply between New York and New Haven. The Hudson river steamer Chrys-. tenah has been entirely rebuilt and is now on her former run _ between Peekskill and New York. She has a new boiler, which was installed by P. Delany & Co.,' Newburgh, N. Y. .