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The Norwegian steamer Eva was recently purchased by A. H. Bull & Co. and is now in dry. dock at the Morse Iron Works & Dry Dock Co.'s plant, Brooklyn, N. Y., where she is receiving a new bottom and other ex- tensive repairs. The' Atlantic: Transport .Co.'s car float D is being partially rebuilt at the yard of Charles Rohde & Sons, Baltimore, and the schooner F. and T.. Lupton, of Newport, R. I., is also being repaired at this yard as well as several barges and tugs. The strike among the: iron workers of San Francisco has given shipbuild- ing at that port a. serious setback. The Union Iron Works has made ap- plication to the government to have the two war vessels California and South Dakota completed at Mare Isl- and. The largest floating dry dock ever built on Staten Island was launched on May 14 by Harry Crossey at Tot- tenville. The dock was built to the order of Tietjen & Lang and is ca- pable of accommodating vessels up to 6,000 tons. It will be operated at Ho- boken. : Three of the older vessels of the navy have been condemned and are 'latter and the Marion are at 'Island. "TAE MarRINE REVIEW to be sold at auction to the highest bidders. They are the wooden bark Marion, the wooden sloop Keystone State, and the transport Lawton. The Mare The work of lengthening the Old Dominion liner Princess Anne 46 ft. was recently completed at the yard of the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, and she departed for Norfolk with much enlarged capacity and improved ap- pearance. : The Craig Shipbuilding Co., former- 25 at the yard of the Newport News Ship- building & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va. She has already been fit- ted with 10 new boilers and two new smokestacks and is being given a very thorough overhauling. The new steamer Machigonne, which was recently completed by the Neafie & Levy Co., Philadelphia, for the Harpswell Steamboat Co., has left for Portland, Me., to enter upon her service between Portland and Casco Bay. She has accommodations for about 500 passengers. The third tug built to the order of VALVE DIAGRAM OF DERELICT DESTROYER, ly of Toledo, O., has asked the trus- tees of the city of San Pedro, Cal., for a franchise to erect a floating dock at East San Pedro to which it is pur- posed to add other large improve- ments, including warehouses and a ' dry dock. The large side wheel steamer Sara- toga, of the Citizens line, which sank in the Hudson river some time ago, has been sent to Newport News to undergo a general overhauling. She is to be employed in the service be- tween Norfolk, Newport News and Jamestown. The repairs on the American liner St. Paul are being made in record time -the quartermaster's department by the' Pusey & Jones Co., Wilmington, Del., was launched recently. The new ves- sel is named Capt. Charles W. Row- ell and is 86 ft. long, 20 ft. wide, and 10 ft. deep. The tug is for service in the vicinity of New London, Conn. It is expected that the new freight steamer Old Colony, which is one of three contracted for by the New Eng- land Navigation Co., with the Quin- tard Iron .Works, and for which the hull is being built by Cramp's, Phila- delphia, will be ready for launching soon. This vessel .is to be fitted with turbine engines. The steamer Schoodic building at