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sel is 178 ft. long over all, 34 ft. 7 in. beam and 12 ft. depth of hold, with a gross'tonnage of 498 tons. She has an auxiliary engine which can be used for hoisting sails and cargo, working pumps and raising anchor. 2 The repairs. to the Pacific Mail steamship Manchuria have been de- layed by a strike of the employes at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco. The repairs would have been com- pleted in 15 days and the steamer again put in service. Unless some ar- -rangement is made, the insurance peo- ple who are paying for the repairs on the Manchuria will be under heavy expense for each day that the steam- er remains in dry dock. The repairs constitute one of the largest jobs on record. The contract for a new 379-ft. steel steamship for the Clyde line has been awarded to the Cramps. No details regarding the vessel have been given out, but it ix known that it will be the largest of the Clyde boats and will be a freight carrier. Up to the time when the Morse syndicate' took over the Clyde line all of its new steamers were built by Cramps, but since then two new vessels, the. Delaware and the Pawnee,. have been constructed by the Harlan & Hollingsworth Cao; ot Wil- mington, Del. A new steam lighter for S. B. Grea- can has been launched at Rodermond's yard, Tompkins Cove, N. Y. The ves- sel 'is 115 ft. over. all, 30 {t.. beam, and 9 ft. depth of hold. Her engine was designed by her owner and is being constructed by Schantz & Eckert, Perth Amboy, N. J.; it is to have 13 and 31.in. cylinder diameters by 21 in. stroke. The boiler is of the ver- tical type and is 6 ft. 10 in. in diame- ter by 15 ft. high and is being built by the Kingsford Foundry & Machine Works, Oswego, Ne. The Neafie & Levy Ship & tueiee Building Co., Philadelphia, recently launched the large ocean-going tug Gwalia for the Baltimore & Boston Barge Co. Her dimensions are as fol- lows: Length 150 ft., beam 27 ft. 6 in., depth 16 ft. 10 in., draught, loaded, 17, ft. Her engine cylinders will be 161%4,.24 and 40 in. diameter by 30 in. stroke. Steam will be supplied by two Scotch boilers, each 11 ft. 6 in. by 11 ft., allowed 175 lbs. steam pressure. She will have one 11 ft. 6 in. propeller wheel, with 12 ft. 3 in. pitch. The opening of the second bids for the construction of the ocean-going tug for Neah Bay, Washington, reveal the fact that Pusey & Jones, Wilming- ton, Del., are the lowest bidders, and as their bid comes within the appro- priation, it is likely that the tug will ten? 3 absence. "TAE. MARINE. REVIEW be constructed at their yard, No..Fa- cific coast ship yard came within the appropriation when the former bids | were opened. The tug is for revenue ser- vice and if built on the Atlantic coast will be obliged to make the trip to the Pacific for delivery. Pusey & Jones, Wilmington, Del. are installing the machinery in the revenue cutter Androscoggin. The United States revenue cutter + Hudson was recently extensively re- paired at the yard of the Brown Dry Dock 'Co., Jersey, Gity, N., J. The Old Dominion liner Hamilton is having her engines and boilers giv- general overhauling by Quintard Iron Works, New York. The Fire Island lightship No. 68 is undergoing an overhauling at the Brooklyn navy yard. A:* relief ship is on her~ station: during her enforced McIntyre & Henderson, 'alienoe. Md., recently began the construction of a 105-ft. sea-going tug for stock. The tug will have a fore-and-aft com- pound engine and a Scotch boiler. The Scully Towing & Transporta- tion Co., New York, has recently pur- chased the ship F. I. Chapman and she has been sent to the yard of the Brooklyn Warehouse & Dry Dock Co., foot of : Twenty-sixth street, Brooklyn, N. Y., where she is to be converted into a barge. The same owners recently converted the bark Francis S. Hampshire into a barge. A. C. Brown," Tottenville, N.Y. has nearly completed the tug building to the order of Robert Rogers, and she will be named Thomas W. Rog- ers, after the owner's brother. The tug is 65 ft. long. Her engine, which is. to be supplied by Schantz & Eck- ert, Perth. Amboy, N. J.,.is 17. x 20 in., and steam will be supplied by a Kingsford boiler, allowed a pressure of, TSC. Tbs. The new steamers Yale and Har- vard, recently built for the Metropoli- tan Steamship.Co., New-York, are to be fitted with bronze propeller wheels the made by the Fox Hill Foundry, Ho-. boken, N. J.. The Yale was recently dry docked at. the yard of Tietjen & Lang, Hoboken, to have her wheels put on ands he Harvard is to follow soon, - The army tug Capt. A. M. Wether- gill was launched recently at the yard of the T. S. Marvel Shipbuilding Co., Newburgh, N. Y. The Wethergill is 86 ft. over all, 20 ft. beam, and 10 ft. deep. "She is to be equipped with two engines, size 7% in. and 15 in. cylinder diameters by 1f% ft. long, and one boiler, built by 'P. Delany & Co., -Newburgh, N: Y., size 10% ft. diameter by 11% ft. long. The boat 7 27 is to be used in connection with the U. S. quartermaster's department, and also for the purpose of laying mines in harbors. All the prominent ship builders on the Atlantic coast are in receipt of communications from the revenue cut- ter service asking if it be possible by omitting some of-'the smaller de- tails of the equipment of the new derelict destroyer and substituting de- signs of engines which can be sup- plied at a lower cost than those which it was at first designed to use, and this without impairing in any way the efficiency of the vessel, that - they. submit bids coming within the oe appropriation of $250,000 available for her construction. The-department is - of the opinion that an additional ap- propriation can be secured later to es provide for the 'equipment thus omitted. The steamer: Governor, pbuilding for the: Pacific Steamship Co., San Fran- _ - a cisco, by the New York Ship Building ne Co.7 Camden, N. J., was launched May 25. This vessel is: for use on the San Francisco and Puget Sound route and is 391 ft. long, 48 ft. in breadth and 19.7 ft. deep, being of the same di- i mensions as the new steamer Presi- oe dent which recently made the trip to the Pacific coast, after her comple- tion, and which is;owned' by the same company. The Governor is equipped with twin screws and two smoke. stacks, thus differing in ap- pearance from her sister ship al- though possessing no more actual power. The Governor will sail on her long voyage to the Pacific on ~~ ae July 10. : 4 RECEPTION ON LA VELOCE. A dinner and inspection took place on board the new steamship Europa of La Veloce steamship line to cele- brate the arrival in the port of New yn York of this, the latest and largest Italian trans-Atlantic liner. Alexander Bolognesi, head of the firm of Bolog- nesi, Hartfield & Co., agents for the line, presided, and addresses were de- livered by several American and Ital- ian friends of the company. © The Europa is 450 ft. long, and 55 ft. wide, with a gross tonnage of 7,000, displace- ment of 10,400 tons, and an average speed of 17 knots an hour. Capt. R. H.. Hathaway who was in command of the 'steamship Mongolia when she went aground' near Japan a few weeks ago has-been entirely: ex- onerated by the steamboat inspection service. It was shown that the ves- sel was at the time in complete charge of the pilot.