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268 the steam would pass from the impulse stage to the second stage in the reaction part of the turbine. One point which is strongly enforced 'is that there is no obstacle to the appli- cation of the Parsons type as an inde- pendent unit on each shaft; indeed, such an application is at present in course of The system of working in four construction. series with Parsons turbines on shafts lends itself to high economy; and it is pointed out that in the new Span- THE MarRINE REVIEW ish ships, as well as in the French trans- Atlantic liner France, the turbines in all four ships may be worked in series. There is one high-pressure, one interme- diate, and two low-pressure turbines, the last on the wing shafts. The high-pres- sure turbine on the port inboard shaft exhausts into the intermediate-pressure turbine on the starboard inboard shaft, and the steam passes thence to both low- pressure turbines. It will be interesting to note the effect on steam consumption of this arrangement. Rosert H. LAverier. Mr. Robert H. Laverie OBERT H. Laverie has been ap- pointed to the, office of chief sur- veyor of Bureau Veritas for the United States to succeed the late Henri Wilkin- son. This appointment will be well re- garded throughout the whole ship build- ing and engineering industry, as Mr. Laverie's experience has been of an international character. He was born in Glasgow and began his' training 21 years ago in B. & W. Henderson's yard in that city, following which he concluded a five years' course of train- ing with G. T. Davie & Sons, Que- bec, Canada, under his father, who had been superintendent at that plant for 24 years. After leaving Quebec Mr. Laverie spent a year and a quarter July, 1910 with the American Steel Barge Co. at West Superior, Wis., and became gen- erally well known throughout the lake region. He then went for nine months to the Cramp ship yard at Philadelphia, following this with a similar period at the Newport News ship yard. He was for two and one-half years with the Herreshoff Co., at. Bristol, R. f. one year with the Fore River Ship Building Co., Quincy, Mass., and one and one-quarter years with the Cres- cent ship yard at Elizabeth, N. J. For the past nine years he has been with the Townsend & Downey Ship Build- ing Co., now the Shooter Island Ship Varad. Co... at Mariner..Harbor, NY. During his career at Shooter Island, a large number of vessels of all types were constructed under his superin- the large tank tendence, including -vessels for the Standard Oil Co., sev- eral vessels for the United States gov- ernment service, and among the cup winning yachts the famous Meteor for the Emperor of Germany, andthe Atlantic, Elmina, Thistle and Neola. Mr. Laverie is a member of the So- ciety of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and of the Maritime Asso- ciation of the Port of New. York. He is one of the directors of the Mariner Harbor National Bank, and vice presi- dent of the Mariner Harbor Building & Loan Association. He is also a member of the Canadian Society of New York. A NEW GOVERNMENT STEAMER. The contract for the building of the United States steamer Woodbine has been awarded to the Waters-Col- ver Co., West New Brighton, Staten The Woodbine will be a single screw, wooden steamer, to be used by the United States government, as a lighthouse tender; length over all 91 ft. 1 in., length on water line 86 it., beam molded 16 ft., depth of hold 7 tt 234 in; andiaidraught of 4 ft. 5im The Woodbine will be about 62 tons displacement and will be equipped with an Almy water boiler, 200 Ib. pressure, a_ triple-expansion engine with cylinders, 8 x 13 x: 21 x 16 in, swinging a wheel 4 ft. 7 in. diameter. She is designed for harbor and river work by the department of commerce and labor, and will be built by the Waters-Colver thoroughly first-class construction of the now under two Island. tube Co. in a The Woodbine is the new city steamers, Riker's Island and manner. hull of the way and will follow Hart's Island, which are being con- structed at the same ship yards.