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. % : the company's West Indian service. The ATLANTUS was built at Wilmington, N. C., and registers 3000 tons. ae 0 ec ' Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania has 'approved a bill, which carries an appro- priation for $100,000, for a state nauti- _cal schoolship and authorizes the com- missioners of navigation to receive from the secretary of the navy such vessels as may: be assigned for this. purpose. r ee The Baltimore Dry Docks & Ship- building Co., Baltimore, recently se- 'cured a contract for the conversion of the troopship Epwarp LucKENBACH to a cargo carrier, 'done at the company's South plant. The -LUCKENBACH was built at Quincy, Mass., by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. >and, has a, deadweight tonnage of 15,500. xe ok The largest cargo-carrying barge on inland waters has been launched in the Mississin"i river at the yards of the Dubuque Boat & Boiler Works, Du- bugue, Ia. The barge is one of 19 being built for the Mississippi Valley fron Co., St. Louis, and will be utilized * This work will be » THE MARINE REVIEW that the: vessel probably righted herself and sank. ..She suddenly capsized 120 in transvorting iron ore and coal Be- tween St. Louis and St. Paul. The Dubuque Boat & Boiler Works has the contract for building seven of the 19 barges. The barge already launched js known as No. 13, all steel, 300 feet long, 48-foot beam, a depth of 10 feet and will carry 2500 tons of freight... eee Newport News, Va., is to have an- other shipyard which will be built by the Southern Shipyard Corp., recently organized with $200,000 capital. The plant is scheduled to be in operation by the end of the year arid will employ 500 men. Ko, kk The Winnisimmet Shipyard, Inc., Chelsea, Mass., is constructing a 3500- ton railway drydock. The Crandall En- gineering Co., East Boston, Mass., is the designer and constructor. * * * After a fruitless séarch off Cape Hatteras for traces of the capsized Brit- ish steamship CLANGORDON, the coast guard cutters SEMINOLE and YAMACRAW returned to their bases. It is reported empty the dock in one hour. October, 1919 miles southwest. of Hatteras, losing three of her crew. ie * * The Colonna Marine Railway ' Corp., 'Norfolk, : Va.; is constructing' a * 4000- ton' railway' drydock.° 'The® work js under the supervision of the Crandall Engineering Co., East Boston, Mass, ~ ce Contract for the . construction of a 5000-ton drydock at Pensacola, Fla., has been let to the Aberthaw Construction Co., Boston. The dock was designed by the Crandall. Engineering Co., East Boston, Mass., and consists of five float- ing pontoons each 100 x 40 feet x 10 féet deep. The dock will cost ap- proximately $450,000. The construction will call for about 1,500,000 feet of yel- low pine and approximately 250 tons of iron and steel. Each of the pontoons will be equipped with four submerged electric. 'centrifugal. pumps which will The dock is being built for the Emergency Fleet corporation and will be used largely for government work. SPA | Aetivities Along the Gulf C rN HE Foundation Co., New Orleans, is to purchase the yard it has established at that city from the French government, as soon as the company completes construction of the five 9000-ton nonsinkable steel steamers it is now building for France, accord- ing to Hewitt Crosby, works manager for the company. The French govern- ment will not build any more of the nonsinkable Le Parmentiere type ships, inasmuch as the -submarin€é danger is passed. The republic of France has sued in the civil district court at New Orleans for reduction of $500,000 in the assessed valuation of the plant. * * * The Mississippi river commission has allotted nearly $2,000,000 for levee and revetment work to keep the lower chan- nel of the river in shape for naviga- tion from the Red river to the Gulf of Mexico. For the first time in the history of the committee, provision is LAUNCH OF THE ESCAMBIA -- made for the carrying on of experi- mental work in the 'building of revet- ments and levees. ee ke The Pensacola Shipbuilding Co., Pensacola, Fla., launched the Rockport, a 9000-ton steel cargo vessel on Aug. 6. She is the fifth vessel of this class to be launched by the company. The first vessel to take the water on the company's contract for 10 ships was the CusuNnoc, which was launched March 15. She was followed by the Escamsra on May 24, the NoccaLtuLta, June 24, and the Rep Mountain, July 15. Two of these vessels are shown in the accom- panying illustrations. *K 2K * The New Orleans naval station launched Tug. 'No. 50; Aug. 16, the twelfth hull to be launched from the station since the war. Miss Valentine Nelson, daughter of Commandant V. S. Nelson, of this station, christened the tug, which is 88 feet long, and will be used in harbor work by the navy. Ok The Nicaraguan Fruit & Steamship Co., Jay Weil, general manager, with headquarters in New Orleans, announces establishment of freight and passenger service between New Orleans and Blue- fields, Nicatagua.. Weekly. sailings are scheduled and rates for both freight and passengers will be lower than the pre- vailing tariff. Latin-American ports are up in arms over the action of the shipping board in turning down the applications of American shippers for small steamers for use in trade with the republics to the south, according to R. L. Vignes, a large importer and exporter of Rio de Janeiro, who was in New Orleans recently. Latin-American shippers and port authorities feel that these Ameri- can-built ships should have been put into this service under the American flag rather than allowed to go to Eu- ropean owners. oe Seven ships of total tonnage of 24,500 were launched in southern yards for the United States shipping board during the week ending Aug. 14. Five of these are wooden and two composite ships. Of the wooden ships two were sent into the water at Brunswick, Ga., and two at Jacksonville, Fla., while one was launched at Pascagoula, Miss. The composite boats were 'built and launched at Savannah, Ga. #020 Se Northbound freight from Bolivia and other South American countries was transferred at Colon, beginning Sept. 1, according to an agreement' made be- tween the United Fruit Co. and the LAUNCH OF THE NOCCALULA