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26 the yard of the Portland Ship Building Co., Portland, Me., for the Winter Harbor Co., was launched recently. She is 90 ft. over all, 20 ft. beam and 8 ft. deep and is to be operated be- tween Winter Harbor, and Bar Harbor. The machinery will.be installed ea the Portland company. The largest schooner in the warld is to be built by Percy & Small, Bath, Me., for J. S. Winslow & Co., Boston, Mass..-She is to-be $20. it. on. the keel. The framing was cut on the Pamunkey river and has been loaded onto two schooners. at West Point, Va., for transportation to the ship 'yard. The Pennsylvania 'Railroad Co. has let a contract for two large grain barges to J. H. Mathis & Co., Camden, N. J. Smith & Robinson, naval archi- tects, will have charge of the work. 'The batges are to be of oak, 150 ft. long, Zo ft. beam:.and 13 ft. draught. They will have a eapaciy of 30,000 bushels each. The Merchants' & Miners' steamer Itasca, after having her triple-expan- sion engines almost entirely rebuilt by the Maryland Steel Co., Sparrows Point, Md., has been docked at the yard of the Skinner Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Baltimore, where she will be given a new tail-end shaft, stern bearing and propeller. The turbine steamer Camden, build- ing by the Bath Tron Works, Bath, Me., for the Eastern Steamship Co. is almost completed and ready for commission. This is the second tur- bine steamer to be operated by the Eastern Steamship Co., and her con- struction has been accomplished in re- markably good time. In the construction of the new na- val collier Prometheus, which is to be built at the Mare Island navy yard, San Francisco, the mechanics will in- dulge in a bit of good-natured rivalry with their Brooklyn fellow artisans who are constructing the collier Ves- tal. A record job would mean much for the future of Mare Island. J. V. Paterson, manager of the Mo- ran Co., Seattle, has announced that hereafter the company's plant will be strictly non-union. Sixty of the ma- chinists in the shipyard went on a sym- pathetic strike, although Mr. Paterson declared that they were receiving more than the union scale. This-led to the decision to declare the plant non- union. The four submarine boats of the Holland type, which are building by the Electric Boat Co., for the govern: ment at the yard of the Fore River Ship Building Co., Quincy, Mass., are nearing completion and will soon be TRE MaRINE REVIEW subjected to their trials in Narragan- sett bay, which will be conducted by the naval board of inspection and survey. The Portland Steel Shipbuilding Co. proposes to remove its plant from St. Johns; a suburb of Portland, Ore., to Seattle, Wash., and with this purpose in view has acquired a tract of land at Richmond Beach, near Seattle. The property consists of 10 acres of land with a water frontage. It is expected that the plant will be ready for opera- tion within two months. 'The cutting in two of the Mer: -chants' & Miners' freight and passen- ger steamer Juniata will begin next month. The vessel is to be lengthened 46 ft. and will also have new boilers installed, the alterations involving an expenditure of $100,000. The work will be done at the yard of the New- port News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va. There were launched recently at the yard of Alexander Miller & Bro., New- burg, N. Y., the hulls for two new fire boats for the city of New York. These vessels embody something new in the way of fire boat construction in that they are to be fitted with turbine en- gines. They are to be named Thomas Willett and James Duane, after two former mayors of the city of New York. 'The steamer J. N. Teal, built by the Supple Ship Yard, Portland, Ore., for the Open River Transportation Co., was launched May 11. She is designed for operation between Portland and State Portage Road. Her launching marks the beginning of an effort to open to navigation the Willamette, Co- lumbia and Snake rivers as far as Lew- iston, Idaho, a distance of over 300 miles. The quartermaster general of the army is soon to ask for bids for the construction of some 25 or 30 new boats for planting harbor defense mines. and other services of the coast artillery. The plans for these new boats call for some improvements over the existing type for this. service. Some of the boats will be electrically driven and are to be charged from the 'electric plants at the coast artil- lery forts. The steamer River Queen, which was recently purchased from the In- dependent Steamboat &° Barge Co., Washington, D. C., by a company of Norfolk and Washington men, has undergone a considerable amount of repair to her hull @ Baltimore, and will nesume her service on the Poto- mac shortly. The River Queen was used by President Lincoln to travel between Washington and points on the bay, during the civil war. Commdr. Peary's Arctic steamer Roosevelt has been sent to the yard of the Shooter's Island' Shipbuilding Co., New York, to undergo altera- tions. 'Two Scotch boilers have been fitted, and the forecastle is to be car- ried further aft for the purpose of accommodating an additional number of Esquimaux. Some: other altera- tions, which have been decided upon as the result of experiences on the Arctic trip, are also to be made. The British steamship Barnstable, which was recently in collision with the schooner Singleton Palmer, of Boston, returned to Baltimore with a large hole in her side and will be re- paired by the Skinner Ship Building & Dry Dock Co. of that city, at a cost of $7,625. The Barnstable had only just completed repairs sustained in a collision with the steamer Old Point Comfort, near the Capes, in April. W. & A. Fletcher Co., Hoboken, N. J., have been awarded a contract for a new steel 'steamboat for the Citizens line to Troy. The Fletcher company will build the machinery only, having let the contract for the building of the hull to the T. S. Mar- vel Co., Newburgh, N. Y., and the joiner work to John Englis & Son, Greenpoint. This steamer is to be the largest ever built for Hudson river service. Christened with roses by the young daughter of the owner, William F. Pal- mer, of Boston, the five masted schoon- er. Fannie Palmer was launched today from the yard of Percy & Small. She is intended for the general coastwise trade and will be ready for sea on Monday. The schooner cost $117,000 and her measurements are: Length, Z03./ {t., beam, 45. ft depta, 213 it. tonnage, 2,233. is 3,700 tons. The new submarine boat Cuttlefish, which was recently completed by the Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass., for the Electric Boat Co., New York, was subjected to a submergence test recently off Boston harbor. A depth of 200 ft. was reached without damage or strain of any kind. The Cuttlefish is of the same type as the Octopus, which has just undergone such satisfactory government trials at Newport. The Sharptown Marine Railway Co. has recently completed the four- masted schooner Albert W. Robinson. She is built for the southern coastwise trade requirements for' lumber, rock, etc., and has been given careful atten- tion with regard to strength. The ves- Her carrying capacity Sg SES See ee sie