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June, 1910 "TAE. MarRINE REVIEW Steel River Barges for the Steel Corporation HERE has been considerable inter- est manifested lately in the im- provements contemplated by the United States government to make the inland rivers, particularly the Ohio and Mis- sissippi, navigable during a longer pe- riod each year. In..order to make these rivers of general benefit to shippers the first essential is continu- ous service and with such service will Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. to tow the barges. It is not unlikely that before these barges are completed the number will be in- creased to 25. These are not the first steel barges to be used in carrying steel,as the fleet of steel coal barges built by the American Bridge Co. for the American Steel & Wire Co., of which 30 are now in commission, has Tee 23% ton ties, wire nails, pipe, etc., have been carried to southern ports by the Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. for the constituent compan- Monongahela ies of the Steel Corporation in wood- en model barges and some of these are still in service. The tonnage handled in this way has been from 40,000 to 65,000 gross tons annually. The maximum tonnage of steel rails. alone has, however, been as much as. 150,000 gross tons in one year. The average number of round trips for a barge at present is two peéf year, J | Steel : Sliding Do br 3"Bounding Angle oe -- 3 -- -- 424" -- ---- = 14/245 ke /4--2'-- ie 2 Oe i LONG/TUDINAL SECTION | 3 | @ Siphon Pest OO 2 See ee So oe pein sese a ooo ) Towing Bits 1 i | fell lee Removable Strut, or ae : HU | ieee | M y oe ee 892" =] 2-57 -/2-. ae = 6-F | ' a 2424" | | 3 I = ¥ | 1 | ! Post x) =| S H ti OS ee S Se i Vfl T > Q=F=F= po he fe = See ot t | ml i a) Removable || tk, Removable ac te wt | hd kK | Beam =) Spee/|Lovar me Wo | 4} 2! I] | J) SI eae os! Soe ee eee) ee A ce | ; | = | SSeS DE CR AD SOR NR | Roi? iE | ER cro ae ere al |! : (Gol | (oo) t $-- i <= t | oo ) HALF PLAN OF DECK Ahd HALF PLAN OF ROOF come the craft in which available car- for several years been carrying coal but with improved river conditions goes can be transported. During the past few years a great many boats and barges of steel construction have been built and these have been suc- cessfully used by shippers of many different products. With practically no exception, such craft have been de- signed and built at the Ambridge plant of the American Bridge Co. Barges have been built for trans- porting coal, oil, sand and other bulk commodities, for service at govern- ment dams and locks, for car ferries and numerous other transportation en- terprises, but to no marked degree have steel barges been used to trans- port steel products. It is therefore of considerable interest to mote that an order has just been placed with the American Bridge Co. for ten steel barges to carry the products of the subsidiary companies of the United States Steel Corporation from the Pittsburg district mills to Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Memphis, Vicks- burg, New Orleans, and other ports on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Ar- Tangements have been made with the to the mills and billets from the Shoenberger Works to Rankin and Braddock on the return trip to the coal mines. For some time past, steel rails, cot- and continuous available water this might be increased so that each barge would make at least five round trips to New Orleans annually, and a cor- respondingly larger number to inter- 44 =-- -- eee ae 4 6 / ire ~ -- 1046 -- --« - 6 | arn & 2 i Ee 7 gE l Ae Loo | : ' L' 0 24 a2 N ' 4-32 trs Peal | #18 Galv 4Ls 2528 | Steel Col Web 8" Yb 12'E Ber we '1% é 7'E 7 Oe ate Girder Each FI. 2-6'*41s /-PI.14 to a Vert &Diag 2-5"*3/2' L's 46 Shell Plating 4"Wood Ceiling aor le-- --/0*6 #-- -- +k -- --_/ =------- MIDSHIP SECTION