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330 producing two Scotch type boilers per week. All other machinery and appa- ratus, including pumps, winches, tur- bines, etc., are temporarily obtained from outside sources. However, when all the shop buildings have been completed and equipped, it is proposed to make all of the propelling and auxiliary equipment at the plant. Eight of the 10 shipbuilding ways are capable of accommodating vessels up to 425 feet long. The remaining two will THE MARINE REVIEW was discharged on various low lying parts of the shipbuilding site in order to make the entire tract available. The fitting-out basin is large enough to ac- commodate four vessels along the docks, and four in the middle of the basin. It is provided with a 100-ton derrick of the swinging arm type, mounted on a fixed base. This is believed to be the largest crane of this kind in the world. The height of the base is 46 feet and the boom extends 97 feet above the i man FIG. 6--LAUNCHING OF LIBERTY, FIRST FABRICATED STEEL VESSEL OF ISHERWOOD TYPE, AT FEDERAL SHIPBUILDING CO'S YARD, KEARNY, N.-J., JUNE 19 take vessels up to 400 feet long. Be- tween each pair of ways operates a traveling gantry crane, which is pro- ' vided with two 15-ton booms, one com- manding each way. These gantry cranes -- may be provided with four booms each if desired. The gantries are sufficiently high to afford clearance for carloads of shipbuilding material which are delivered between the ways as required. In front of the ways and extending the full length of the plate and angle shop is a 35-ton, 80-foot span, traveling crane mounted on a. 1000-foot runway. The material for shipbuilding is sorted with the aid of this crane and placed in. front of the various ways. In front of the ways, and at the ends of the spaces between each pair of ways are spaces devoted to assembling bulkheads, shaft tunnels, counters, deck houses, etc., so that they may be introduced into the hulls as units, thus reducing the time of con- struction. The fitting-out basin is 240x 1000 feet and the material which was removed by wet dredging during its construction, base, giving the derrick an _ overall height of 104% feet. The Federal Shipbuilding Co. is a sub- sidiary of the United States Steel Corp. Its president is Elbert H. Gary, chair- man of. the finance committee of the Steel corporation, and its vice president and. general manager is Robert Mc- 'Gregor. The Federal company initially received a contract to build ten 9600-ton steel Cargo carriers for. the Emergency Fleet corporation. Since then the order has been increased to 30 vessels of this size. The second vessel is to be launched the latter half of July. Sub- sequent launchings will be at the rate of one every 20 days, and later the intervals are to be reduced to 14 days. For the next few months about five weeks will be required for fitting out the vessels after they are launched. Later the fitting out time will be re- duced to three weeks. With a length of 170 feet and a beam of only 20 feet, the United States tor- August, 1918 . pedo boat destroyer Rowan, recently sold to a San Francisco junk concern for $14,000, is to be. used as a water barge on the bay. Her extreme length and narrow beam militate against her use in freight service. Soo Canal Report Freight shipments through the Soo canal in 1918 continue to exceed those of 1917. The greatest g@in is to be found in shipments of ikon ore, east- bound. To: July 1,- 1918, ayon ore ship- ments have totaled 18,816,263 net tons, an advance of 3,861,445 net tons over the 1917 shipments of 14,994,818 tict tons 'for the same period. No stone was shipped either east or west in 1917, while this year 7790 net tons have already passed through the canal east bound. and 156,155 net tons have been sent west. . Soft coal shipments also show an increase in 1918. In 1917 3,160,853 net tons passed up through the canal, as compared with 3,615,079 tons in 1918, a gain of 454,256 net tons. On the other hand grain shipments for 1918 continue to lag far behind those of 1917. To July 1, 1918, 22,115,531 bushels of grain, including wheat, have been sent down through the canal. This is 77,651,906 bushels less than was sent through in the same period last year. Detailed figures follow showing com- parative shipments for 1917 and 1918: EASTBOUND To July 1, To July 1, : 1917 1918 umber, I. ft. -Bo. MM. 75,188 87,777 Blourn= bartels, =... .=.3). 2,150,188 2,144,730 Wheat, "bushels! cer... 67,574,955 11,107,550 Grain, bushels 75:..0: 32,192,482 11,007,981 Coppers, Net. tons. 2..." 35,809 25,698 Iron ore, net tons.... 14,954,818 18,816,263 Eig iron, "net tons: 2 oi ee i eee Stone. net (tons... a ee 7,790 Gen. merch., net tons 51,716 15,665 Passengers, number.... 2,592 2,114 WESTBOUND Coal, soft, net tons... 3,160,853. 3,615,079 Coal, hard, -net tons.. 661,948 435,102 Iron: ore, "net tons... 20,145 26,632 Mfctd. iron and steel, ; Met tonseax, 6.2... 28,850 11,051 alt met tonsa cs: 7... 220,792 25,990 Qube net tons... 5 Sn 80,425 stone; net "tons... .... ae 156,155 Gen. merch., net tons. 51,716 121,907 Passengers, number .. 2,590 2,027 SUMMARY Vessel. passages, No... 5,980 6,052 Registered ton., net... 17,635,878 18,831,416 Freight: Eastbound, net tons.. 18,002,968 19,776,612 Westbound, net tons:. 4,288,377 4,471,941 Total frgt., net tons 22,291,345 24,248,553 The racing yacht GerManNta, which belonged to Herr Krupp von Bohlen and which was seized by the British authorities four years ago, has been placed by its present owner, Christopher Hannevig, at the disposal of the United States shipping board. The vessel was designed under the personal supervision of the kaiser and is now being used by student officers of the United States navy.