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Ze PROGRESS ON BATTLESHIP NORTH DAKOTA. The Fore River Ship Building Co., Quincy, Mass., has evidently set out THe Marine REVIEw SHIP YARD NOTES. Bids received at the U. S. engineer's office, Portland, Ore., opened Dec. 23, for constructing one 18-in. hydraulic BATTLESHIP NORTH DAKOTA ON DEC. 24. to make a record in the construction of the battleship North Dakota. The company hopes to launch this vessel m ©ctober next and. to deliver her complete well within the contract time of 3414 months, which dates from Aug. 6 last. This time is the shortest for any battleship yet contracted in the country. The accompanying photo- graphs, taken on Dec. 24, Dec. 31 and Jan. 6, show the progress of work. At the present time the work com- prises the frame and floors of inner bottom, nearly all of the vertical and flat keels, longitudinals and some pro- tective deck beams together with a portion of strakes of inner and bot- tom shell plating. Considerable work has also been done on bulkheads, deck beams, frames and plating which has not yet been assembled but which is nearly ready to go into the ship. The work on miscellaneous hull fittings is also well advanced, a large percentage of steel material is either in the ship yard or shipped, and it is expected that all steel schedules will have been rolled by the middle of this month. The work on the turrets is also pro- ceeding and plans and patterns of machinery are well advanced. Fire broke out on the package freighter New York at Abram Smith & Son's ship yard at Algonac last week and did about $5,000 worth of damage. The New York is owned by the Port Huron & Duluth Steamship Coneor Porte anon: dredge for use in dredging in the coast waters of Oregon and Washington, were as follows: John Wood Iron Works Co., Portland, TOMA Pa etek sao ans heey Soap nats ,605 North American Dredging Co., San Iprenaeisoo;- (Coil og sop oos bd auocueouns 96,608 Portland Iron Works, Portland, Ore.... 80,174 Willamette Iron & Steel Works, Port- Nctracleaee Osnep peru ty cca a at. tcl onsite ee 85,140 The Moran Co., Seattle, Wash.......... 98,427 The Harlan & Hollingsworth Corp., Wilmington, Del., has been awarded AS ate We has begun work on the two torpedo boats which it is to build for the Uni- ted States navy. The Matthews Ship Building Co, Hoquiam, Wash., recently launched nine pontoons in two days. These are for dredger piping and are 20 x 6 x Grant. Robert Palmer & Sons, Noank, Conn., launched the tug John J. Tim- This vessel is owned by the Mutual Towing & Lighterage Co., New York. The Lawley Corp., South Boston, Mass., has been awarded a contract for the construction of a three-masted steel schooner yacht for W- Harry Brown, of Pittsburg. She will be 200 ft. long and 32 ft. beam, and will be fitted with a 600-H. P. engine. The Union Iron Works, San Fran- cisco, Cal., has been awarded contract for effecting the repairs to the ship Erskine M. Phelps, owned by Arthur Sewall & C€o., Bath, Me. The con- tract price is $4,270. The ferryboat Wave, which was built at the Herreshoff yards at Bris- (OM ho ee ton the mayy department, and which is to take the place of the old 'boat of the same name, is ready for delivery. The Skinner Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Baltimore, Md., recently re- paired the five-masted schooner FEliz- abeth Palmer, owned by W. F. Pal- mer, Dorchester, Mass. The damages were sustained in a collision in which the schooner Estelle Phinney was sunk. BATTLESHIP NORTH DAKOTA ON DEC. 31. contract for overhauling the Wilson line steamships Brandywine and City of Chester. The Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me, contract Theodore Knudsen, the Portland, Ore., ship builder, has been awarded for repairing the British bark Walden Abbey, his bid being