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60 THE Marine REVIEW During the year 1908 there was turned: out at the yard of E. James Tull, Pogo. moke City, Md., the fishing steamer Peter C. Struven, schooner Sada, sloop Angler and yacht Comrade, aggregating 490 tons and of a total value of $27,000, Crawford & Reid, Tacoma, Wash,, and E. W. Heath, of the same city, have each been awarded a contract by the Tacoma Tug & Barge Co. for the construction of duplicate barges. The craft ane to be 83 ft. long, 30 beam and 7 ft. deep. The Kelly-Spear Co., Bath, Me., ex- pects to begin work soon on a schoon: er for stock in order to give employ- ment to its workmen. A fine tug is at present under construction for the Commercial Towboat Co., of Boston, the machinery for which is being built by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me. The Clifton Motor Works, Cincin- nati, O., is busily engaged in getting out its line of marine gas. and gasoline engines for mext spring's business, having under way about 2,000 H. P. in the aggregate, of various sizes, in- cluding 14,- 21; 28 45 and 60 -H. FB sizes. Charles P. Willard & Co., Winthrop Harbor, Ill., aside from ocean-going work, supplied the fishing tug Nep- tune, owned by C. 'Carlson, of Racine, Wiis., with a boiler of the submerged type, 54 by 72 in, and a high pres- sure high speed engine 7 by 8 in. Brown's Transportation line, Syra- LOWERING THE MAIN ENGINE OF THE H. B. KENNEDY INTO THE STEAMER AT THE YARD cyse, N. Y., is contemplating the con- OF THE WILLAMFTTE IRON & STEEL WORKS, PORTLAND, ORE. struction of a twin-screw passenger For description see Marine Review, Dec. 17. 4 steamer in its yard at Syracuse. The vesel, if built, will be 130 ft. long and of the Scotch type, 66 in. in diameter OT PE hear by 10 ft. long and fitted with one Adamson furnace, while that for the tug Ciscoe is of the dog house type, 48 in. wide by 7 ft. long. The Portland Ship Building Co., South Portland, Me., is engaged in making extensive repairs to 'the threesmasted schooner Annie _ B. Mitchell, owned by W. E. Crockett & Co., New. York. W. F. Downs, Bayshore, L. I., N. Y., is building an auxiliary sloop yacht for E. F. Hutton, of New York. The yacht is 63. ft. over all and is from designs by Henry J. Gielow, 50 Broad- way, New York City. The Meyer Ship Building Co., Na- tional City, Cal, is a comparatively new establishment which is making a specialty of steel shallow draught steamers of the tunnel type, fitted for the navigation of shallow bays and other similar waters of the Pacihce. The company has every prospect of THE STEAMER H. B. KENNEDY AFTER LAUNCHING. success with this type of construction. For description see Marine Review, Dec. 17.