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WEEKLY. ] ARINE R AND MARINE RECORD, = €1usi,1970. Eastern Office, as Vol; XXVII '023 Maritime Bidg., New York City. Chicago Office, 373 Dearborn St. CLEVELAND, O., JUNE 25, 1903. Published. every Thursday at:39-41 Wade Bldg. . by the Marine Review Bab. Co. . Subscription $3.00 year. ~ Ption $3.00 y gn $4.50 year. Single Copy to cents. No. 26 [Entered at Cleveland Post Office as second-class matter.] TWIN-SCREW STEEL SUCTION DREDGE. _ Sealed proposals for constructing two large twin-screw suc- tion. dredges for use in government work will be opened by Capt. J. C. Sanford, government engineer at Philadelphia, on June 30. The dredges will be 274 ft. between perpendiculars, 288 ft. over all, 47% ft. molded beam and. 25 ft. molded depth. The hull, as well as the bins, will be of steel. The dredges are to be con- structed so as to conform in every respect to the rules and regu- lations of the American Bureau of Shipping. All plating will be worked "in and out" in longitudinal strakes and the hull will be subdivided by four bulkheads. The dredges will be fitted with two masts of Oregon pine 100 ft. long, the main mast to have three e ~ tS ms 2 "a MAD '2310 Gr spnorgs 8 g % & Guy 134 circ. G.W. Main-sta: "circ. G.W.R. 96 a <--_Water-tight between --> First Longitudinal CAPT. CHARLES W. RAE TO SUCCEED MELVILLE. Capt. Charles W. Rae has been appointed to succeed Rear Admiral. George Wallace Melville as engineer-in-chief of the navy. Capt. Rae was a member of the first class of cadet engi- neers to be graduated from the naval academy. He was in the naval engineer corps until March 3, 1899, when by act of congress all engineer officers were transferred to the line. He has been in the naval service since 1866. In the war with Spain he was chief engineer of the battleship Iowa and was advanced in num- bers for his services in the naval battle off Santiago. Pay Director Henry T. B. Harris has been appointed to suc-. ceed Rear Admiral A. S. Kenny, retired, as paymaster general of ro oo 19 La goog 1.1 ML Oma yeusts <oayo , 286 spnoiys & 1% cire. G.W.R. 68 $ 4 MARINE REVIEW ~ 20 16: 12 - Longitudinal Section of Twin-Screw Suction Dredge. derricks and the foremast one derrick. The dredges will be equipped with Hyde combination steam and hand windlass, Hyde steam capstan and Williamson steam steering engine. Each dredge will have two sand bins. Excellent accommodations are to be provided for the captain and crew and the vessel will be equipped with a machine shop for repair work. The dredges will be self-propelling, being equipped witn two fore-and-aft vertical compound condensing engines, with cvlinders of 22 and 44 in. by 30-in. stroke, supplied with steam from four Scotch boilers 14 ft. in diameter and 12 ft. long, each to have three 42-in. corrugated Portable Rail Portable Kuil 21" Vent.| 8 Locker au'vi Lo wip ee ee __ @_ '18"s } ; Portable Rail 18 Scuttle portable Rail Stand 6° Ventilator Lamp Locker Store Bo. Pipe? oO 18"Seuttle Electrician LOWER DECK PLAN Os: OO: 2 6 © © © O, MAIN DECK PLAN the navy with the rank of rear admiral. Col. George F. Elliott succeeds Maj. Gen. Charles Heywood as commandant of the marine corps. Contracts have been awarded to the Buffalo Dredging Co. for the construction of a $1,000,000 canal, slip and system of docks to be built in connection with the Rogers-Goodyear interests at South Buffalo. Work is to be started without delay and it is hoped to complete the undertaking within fifteen months. The Officers Smoking Room Tobe a 8'Scuttle =) ook ee Ee a Se Scupper Grating 2 Berths Firemén 2 Berths Mess Room 18 Scuttle Roum Sailors Toilet Berths Grating MARINE REVIEW Hoisting Engines Deck Plan of the Twin-Screw Suction Dredge. furnaces. They will be lighted throughout by electricity, the engine and generator being supplied by the government. The pumping engines, two in number, will be vertical, inverted, com- pound condensing engines with cylinders 16 and 32 in. by 18 in. stroke; and the dredging pumps will be of the centrifugal type of extra heavy construction, especially adapted for dredging, with 20-in. suction. canal is being built by the Buffalo & Susquehanna Iron Co., the Buffalo & Susquehanna Railway Co., and the Pennsylvania Rail- way Co. It is to be 3,900 ft. long, 200 ft. wide and 23 ft. deep and will run east into the Buffalo & Susquehanna property from the harbor line. The slip is to be built by the Buffalo & Susquehanna Railway Co, and the Lackawanna Steel Co. It is proposed to make the slip 150 ft. wide and about the same depth as the canal.