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- spector. ' were driven. 560 $250,000 with John A. Kling, president of the Kelly Island Lime & Transport Co., Cleveland, president; Kern Gill, of the John Gill Sons Co., Cleveland, is vice president. W. J. Rossiter, presi- dent of the Cleveland Builders Supply Co., is secretary. John Mahoney, of the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., is general manager, and Wilber J. Wat- son, of the Watson Engineering Co., is the chief engineer. All of these are test HE new Eagle submarine chasers under construction at the Ford plant, Detroit, are a complete success, according to a _ recent official announcement made by Lieut. Commander Ogden T. McClurg, chief of staff of the ninth, tenth and eleventh naval districts. Eacte No. 1 has been launched and will be in commission soon. Several others have ~ been launched, but the official tests were made on the first vessel. Fk Augusta, Me., is to have a_ new. ship- yard, the Rockport Shipbuilding Co., which was recently organized with a capital of $40,000. E. M. Leavitt is president and treasurer and the direc- tors: are: _E. M. Leavitt, Ernest Mc- Lean ond DD: L. Pogs.: It-is the inten- tion. of the company. to. carry on a general shipbuilding business. * ok x A. Portland, Oreg.,. yard . recently launched a vessel 98 per cent complete the CappoPEcK, a 3800-ton vessel. The Lampa Dock Co... Tampa, Fla., recently launched the wooden steamer Courter, a vessel of 3500 tons. She: is a Ferris-type vessel and the third to be launched by the company. She took the water 98 per cent complete. xk ok xk A tiveting gang employed in the Union plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuild- ing Corp., San Francisco, recently drove 12,579 half-inch rivets in eight hours. This is claimed: by the yard to be a world's record. The riveting was done under the supervision of a naval in- In the first hour, 1504 sivets According to the record as compiled the number of rivets driven in each of the seven remaining hours were: 1877, 1555, 1408, 1621, 1588, 1526 and 1490. Es K ok The second seagoing tug on a con- tract for seven was recently launched by the Savannah Engineering & Con- struction Co., Savannah, Ga. The vessels are building for the United States ship- ping board. The vessel was christened the Laporer. She is built to standard design and is constructed of wood, 150 feet overall, and is valued at $200,000. Construction work on the five remaining craft is being expedited as rapidly as possible. oy ee The plant and equipment of the Hess Iron Works, Inc., Sturgeon Bay, Wis., has been taken over by the Universal Shipbuilding Co. of the same city. , The men of practical experience in the handling of construction problems. In the construction of these barges approximately 17814 gross tons of steel and about 700 cubic yards of con- crete are being used, the total con- tract for the six barges therefore re- quiring over 1000 tons of steel and 4200 'cubic yards of conerete. A completed barge, it is estimated, will weigh approximately 1340 gross tons transaction will enable the Universal company to accept contracts for steel vessels. At present, this company is building tugs. -- W.? J.- Hess, general manager of the Hess Iron Works, will act as superintendent of fabrication and boiler construction for the Univer- sal company. ; we Ths new 8800-ton steamship WeEstT- PoRT, recently built by the Ames Ship- building & Dry Dock Co., Seattle, aver- aged 14 knots'an hour on her trial trip. ' The vessel is a Seattle product through- out, as her hull, engines, boilers and other equipment were all made by the Ames company. Following the vessel's trial trip and speed tests, she was turned over to officers of the shipping board, who delivered her to the navy for service as an auxiliary vessel. ok K ok The northwest will contribute 45 wooden steamers in 1918 to the Emer- gency Picet corporation. .. In: addition, yards in the Columbia river 'district will have launched 105 more which will not De equipped until. jan. 1 19190. - This means a total contribution by this sec- tion of the Pacific coast of 540,000 tons to the government's merchant' fleet. x kx The largest hotel in the world, it is claimed, is being operated at Philadel- phia. It was built under the direction of the government for the use of single men employed at the Hog.Island ship- yard. It is known as the Emergency Fleet hotel. It covers 18 acres and is within a mile of the shipyard gates, di- rectly across the street from the new park of the Hog Island Athletic associa- tion. It is connected with the yard by a steam railroad line with frequent train service in the morning and evening rush hours. The hotel contains 2175 single sleeping rooms which is: said to be the world's record in this regard. * ok * _ Continuance of the wooden shipbuild- Ing program is indicated in the shipping board's _estimates of $454,000,000 for new ships and shipbuilding facilities. The total asked for new ships includes $210,000,000_ for steel and $244,000,000 for wooden ships, Concrete vessels are not included in this estimate. These estimates were submitted to the house appropriations committee by Chairman Hurley and General Manager Piez of the shipping -- board. For increasing shipyard facilities, $34,000,000 is asked, The Clarke-Martin Shipbuilding Corp. Carta NV. and New York ety. haz THE MARINE REVIEW CTE i \merican Shipy 000000 o December, 1918 | after the concrete has been poured. The steel will constitute about two-- fifteenths of the total structure, but this is exclusive of the fittings. The ribs, stanchions, stringers and skeleton are l-inch steel bars. These are the most substantial of the re- inforcements. The main bars are %- inch in diameter while the transverse bars in the shell are but %-inch diam- | CECE, been formed with $100,000 capital. The corporation will build concrete boats for the government and also for private firms. F. Toomey is president of the firm and George W. Clarke is treas- urer. The yards will be located in Catskill and the offices in New York. BO ok A new west coast record in framing a wooden vessel for the Emergency Fleet corporation is claimed by the Grant-Smith-Porter Co., Aberdeen, Wash. In 66 hours a crew of 43 men put 75 frames in place. xk K * M. M. Davis. & Son, Inc., Solomons, Md., launched recently the first wooden hull in the old third district of the Emergency Fleet corporation which. comprises Delaware, Maryland an& Virginia. It is one of 20 complete sea- going tugs under contract with the shipping board for construction in the Davis yard. Oko oe Construction of the first of five 2500- ton wooden barges ordered by _ the Emergency Fleet corporation was re- cently begun by the Elliott Bay Ship- building Co., Seattle. This concern re- ceived the first contract for craft of this type placed by the government on the Pacific coast. It was at first re- ported that these were to be sailing ships but the 'shipping board. has an- nounced that the vessels will be used as barges in the Atlantic coal trade. * * * With the object of reducing shipyard accidents to a minimum, the Emergency Fleet corporation has begun a campaign for the education of 400,000 shipworkers of the yards engaged on government work. * * * The Ames Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Seattle, recently launched the West Cape, an 8800-ton carrier. The vessel -- was originally designed for the com- pany's own account, but was included in the commandeering order isstied in August, last year. She will be powered with 3000 horsepower engines of the reciprocating type and will have water- tube boilers. Her full equipment is to be made by the Ames company. Oe The Kelley-Spear yard at Bath, Me., has been purchased by Boston capital- ists, according to report, -and will be incorporated under the laws of Maine ~ as the Kelley-Spear Co., Inc.