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182 The share which the Pacific coast yards will have in the Cunard ship building program is attracting consid- erable interest. Steel ship building in the west has been of more recent development than along the Atlantic coast, where several long established yards are now in operation, and the fact that the west is receiving so many contracts is regarded as indi- cating the extent of the progress that has been made during the war. The award of the British contracts to some of these yards is considered as making certain their establishment on a firm basis. It is reported that the Cunard line has purchased the con- tracts of two, ships building at the Northwest Steel Co.’s yard, Portland, Ore., from L.. Kloster, a Norwegian owner, and that the purchase of four others at the Northwest Steel Co.’s plant, two building at the yard of the Columbia River Ship Building Co., and two at the F. J. Duthie plant at Seattle, contracts for all of which are held by Mr. Kloster, is contemplated. The price which the Cunard line is said to have paid for the contracts is said to range as high as $200 to $205 a ton. The vessels purchased are freighters of 8,800 tons deadweight each, Oil Burning Freighter Jutta LuckxensacH, launched Dec. 23, 1916, is the second of a fleet of five oil-burning freighters, now under con- struction by the Fore River Ship Build- ing Corporation, Quincy, Mass., for the Luckenbach line of New York, to en- gage in the general carrying trade. Epwarp LucKENBACH, the first vessel built under the contract, left the Fore River yards some weeks ago having fulfilled every requirement in her trials. Jura Luckensacu, like the other ves- sels of the fleet, was constructed to THE MARINE REVIEW May, 1917 HER DESIGN IS DISTINCTIVE for the Luckenbach Steamship Co. for its coast to coast and overseas’ trade. Her length is 456 feet over all and she has a deadweight carrying capacity of 10,000 tons. In the adoption of the modified cruiser stern, the novel arrangement of bridge and deckhouse bulwarks, one large smoke stack amidships, she is a handsome vessel, as the illustrations show. Her wide spaced frames are specially de- signed for the economical carriage and rapid handling of general freight. The vessel is driven by a single Cur- tis turbine, with high and low speed reduction gears designed to deliver 4,000 horsepower at 90 revolutions, the turbine being so arranged that the ahead and special designs reverse turbines are carried on one shaft and contained in one case. Steam is furnished by three boilers of the Scotch marine type, the fuel oil being carried in the double bottom compart- ments and in the forward and after peak tanks. Will Build Wooden Ships President John T. Donohue, of the Northern Transportation Co., Balti- ENTERING THE WATER AT QUINCY, MASS. more, has announced that his concern has purchased the plant of the Manistee Iron Works, Manistee, Mich., which will be fitted at once to build six wooden barges for his company for use on the Atlantic coast. The property has a water front of 2,200 feet, and much machinery included in the purchase can be adapted to the proposed work. The barges will be driven by a type of oil engines which will make them independent of tugs. They are to carry 3,000 tons each of deadweight cargo. Canada Plans Big Fleet The imperial munitions board at Ottawa, Ontario, acting on behalf of the British government, has arranged for constructing vessels on a _ large scale at Canadian plants already in operation, and others which will be estab- lished shortly. J. W. Norcross, vice president and managing director of the Canada Steamship Lines, Ltd., has been appointed director of ship building in Canada, with full charge of the undertaking and power to or- ganize a staff and place contracts. Orders to the amount of $25,000,000 have already been placed, among the companies embraced in the plan _ be- ing the Canadian Vickers Co., Mon- treal; Canada Steamship Co.; Polson Iron Works and Thor Works, Toron- to; Collingwood Ship Building Co., Collingwood; Port Arthur Graving Dock & Ship- Buildings Ca; Part Arthur; and the ship building com- panies at Vancouver and- Victoria, B. C. Ships under construction by the Canadian Vickers Co., at Mon- treal, for Norway, have been taken over, as have also three steel vessels in course of construction by the Nova scotia Steel & Coal Co., at New Glasgow. It is understood that or- ders will be limited only by the capacity of the Canadian yards to fill them. The preparations seem now under way to assure the establishment of