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108 Recent Sales of Ships The Maine Coast & Canada Steamship Co. has bought the steamer VAN to re- lieve the Massasorr on the Boston-Maine Coast run, while the Massasorr under- goes repairs. Sale of the Matson freight steamer Hyapes to Frank B. Peterson, presi- dent of the Red Salmon Canning Co., for the firm’s Alaska business has been ennounced by the Matson Navigation Co. The Hyapes will make regular trips from San Francisco, taking up cannery supplies and employes to the north and returning in August with the pack and the cannery workers. The Hyanpes carries 5500 tons of cargo and _ will replace several sailing ships. The Mat- son Line has laid up the ship for the last year and a half. For many years she was operated in the Matson Line’s San Francisco-Hawaiian Island service. President Palmer of the Emergency Fleet Corp. has announced the fol- lowing sales of vessel tonnage: EastERN GALE, steel cargo, 6631 deadweight tons, 4669 gross tons, for $145,000 to the Booth Fisheries Co., Chicago. Lake Harminia, lake-type cargo, 4230 dead- weight tons, 2686 gross tons, for $33,500, to the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilming- ton, Del. This is the first sale made under the recently adopted revised schedule for lake-type vessels, namely basic price of $50,000 less esti- mated cost of repairs. M. J. Scanuon, steel cargo, 8597 deadweight tons, 5602 gross tons, for $97,500, to the Ham- mond Lumber Co., San Francisco. Berterton, steel tanker, 10,254 deadweight tons, 7866 gross tons, for $800,000, to Frank W. Seth, New York. The sale was made for a. cash consideration and with the obligation on the part of the purchaser to substitute a re- ‘ciprocating engine for the present turbine equip- ment. San PasquaL, concrete tonker, 7500 deadweight tons, 6486 gross tons, for $16,000 cash to the Old Time Molasses Co., Havana, Cuba. Moosirauka, steel ocean going tug, coal burn- ing, 429 gross tons, for $46,000 cash to the Matson Navigation Co., San Francisco. The steamer Avausta, formerly in the New York-Boston freight service of the Coastal Steamship Corp., has been sold in New York to Capt. J. P. McAllister for $8000 at public auction. BuRNWELL, cylindrical tanker, 8981 deadweight tons, 5771 gross tons, for $61,000 to the Alpha Steamship Corp., New York. To Sell Lakers? Spurred to further action by revela- tions of inefficiency, the shipping board has announced plans for selling its lake- built vessels. be sold remains to be seen. Instead of offering these ships to all comers for anything they will bring, a reserve of price of $50,000 has been fixed, which will probably interfere with negotiations in a good many cases. The board has approximately 325 lake built vessels, divided into three gen- eral classes, namely, 64 coal-burning single-deck ships of from 2875 to 3300 deadweight tons each, ranging in draft Whether they will really - MARINE REVIEW from 17 feet, 914 inches to 19 feet 1 inch; next, 86 coal-burning single-deck ves- sels of about 3500 deadweight tons each, loaded draft 21 feet; and last, 162 of from 4050 to 4361 deadweight tons each, 110 of the latter being oil burners and all of this group having beams on which *tween decks can be laid, some of them having such decks. The board will offer any of these types for sale to American buyers at a price of $50,000 each, less the sum esti- mated by the board to be necessary for reconditioning for service, so that a ship requiring repairs estimated at $13,000 would be available for purchase at $37,- 000. Recently the New York Central rail- road opened bids for the construction of a steel tow boat and ten steel gaso- line-engine driven hoisting barges. There were nine bidders on the, towboat, whose cuotations ranged from $98,750 and six months to $139,500 and 5%4 months. There were 10 bidders for the steel hoisting barges whose proposals were based on three different propositions. The - contract for these barges was awarded to the Atlantic Works, East Boston, Mass., and for the tow boat to the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., New- port News, Va. The details of the various bids are as follows: Bids for One Steel Tow Boat for the New York ; Central Railroad Co. Time Bidder Price monthly Newport News Shipbuilding Co. $98,750 6 Atlantic” | Works 9. 40 0.. sece 99,500 8 Todd Shipyards, Inc. ....:.;. 112,500 11 Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. .. 115,800 9 Staten Island Shipbuilding Co. 118,900 Federal Shipbuilding Co........ 116,500 7 pin “Shipbuilding ~Co.. sa... 139,500 5% Pletcher: -D. oD. Con 6 es ee No bid Cramps: (Shipyard: ke es 135,000 9 Bids for Ten Steel Gasoline Hoisting Barges for New York Central Railroad Proposal Proposal Proposal Bidder A B c New York S. B. Co.$248,000 $258,200 $243,100 Alternate (Isherwood System) 205,125 214,500 199,555 Delivery 2 barges in 4% months and 1 every 10 days (alternate bid, 2 in 4 months, 2 every 10 days.) 283,150 297,890 283,050 Three barges in 4 months and seven in five months and 10 in 6 months. Staten Island S. B. Co. could not submit price on Ellis System but bases on Isherwood construction. Without machinery, WiO:: barzes-s oesnn VISITE. Tah a as en te a gee Machinery extra, GACH Gc steno es 6,335 7,260 6,300 Newport News S. B. (COs ea Oh ok a arcssetele 21,200 22,600 20,600 Delivery 4 in 4 months and one per month thereafter. Federal: S,.B. .Go,, CaO eS ater 32,000 33,000 31,000 Alternate (Isher- wood), each .... 27,500 28,000 27,000 March, 1925 ‘Delivery one in 3% months and two per month, Atlantic Works . 199,780 209,280 194,390 Three in 10 weeks, three in 18 weeks, four in 28 weeks. Maryland D. D. Co., GACH So dines sees 32,700 33,600 32,000 One in 5% months and one each month thereafter. Bethlehem S. B. Co., CAC ooo ce bos ee eee 28,100 27,440 Alternate using Lidg- erwood Machinery, CAC Ss awes cous 27,820 28,985 27,540 One in 4%4 months and one every two weeks thereafter. Union S. B. Co., each 54,384 55,510 53,704 Five in 6 months and second five in 9 months. Cramps S. B. Co... 370,000 371,000 362,000 Delivery approximately 5 months. < Hote Great Lakes Engineering Works of Detroit recently received an order for a six hundred-foot freighter from the Columbia Steamship Co. This makes the second steamer of this type for the same company for 1925 delivery. The new steamer will be 618 feet overall, 592 feet on the keel, 62 feet beam and 32 feet deep. The motive power will be a triple expansion engine of cylinders 24, 41 and 68 inches, with a 42-inch stroke. She will be equipped with ‘water tube boilers of- Babcock & Wilcox make. The Frantz and the new steamer will take the place of three older steamers which were sold by the Columbia Steamship Co. to A. E. R. Schneider a year ago. The capacity of the fleet will be increased by this addi- tion. When the S. S. Mowawxk of the Clyde Line became a total loss by burning at sea it was, of course, expected that as - soon as the formal arrangements could be attended to, that the Clyde Line need- ing the services of this ship, would im- mediately place an order to duplicate it. Such an order has now been given to the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va. The new MoHAWK which is to be built, will of course, be an improvement on the old in every respect. Pusey & Jones, Wilmington, Del., re- cently received an order for a ferry boat from the Chesapeake Ferry Co., Norfolk, Va. It is reported that the Gulf Refining Co. is in the market for a_ tanker. The Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., is building a new Passenger steamer for the Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket service to replace the SANKATY, de- troyed by fire last June, The Coney Island Co., Cincinnati, has awarded a contract for an all-steel wharfboat to the Midland Barge Co. Midland, Pa. The new craft will cost $60,000 and will consist of 18 sections.