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Third Steamship for Clyde Line LS Launched at Newport News FRUIT LTEU After Completion of the Mohawk Two New Ships are to ke Laid Down at a Cost of Between Five and Six Million Dollars—They are to be Ready in Summer of 1926 INVUUTULVLUUUAAUL OTWITHSTANDING that fig- ures recently made public by Lloyd’s register indicated a depression during the past four months in shipbuilding throughout the world, an optimistic feeling exists among American shipbuilders and op- erators, especially on the Atlantic coast, which is reflected in the pres- MISS MARGARET DENISON Sponsor at Launching of S. S. Mohawk ent activities at the yard of the New- port News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., where the gigantic program of the Clyde Steamship Co. is being rushed to completion. Within the past seven The S. S. MoHAWK was launched at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Oct. 21.—The picture above shows the MoHAWK as she will look when completed months two merchant ships, each of more than 8000 tons displacement, have been turned out by this yard and placed in commission in the New York-Carolina-Florida coastwise serv- ice. These are the sister ships CHERO- KEE and SEMINOLE of the Clyde line. Steamship Mohawk Full Steel Construction with Double Bottom 402 feet .. 54 feet 20 feet 446 Persons ..272,500 cubic feet 5,300 Tons ....8,140 Tons 16 knots 6,180 barrels Passenger capacity Freight capacity Gross Tonnage Displacement (loaded) Speed (average) Fuel Oil capacity Steaming radius .+1,000 miles Turbine Engines ....4200 shaft horsepower Life Boat Equipment—Metallic life boats, including motor pilot boat. Welin me- chanical davits. Total capacity for 585 people—approved for round-the-world serv- ice. Devices—Automatic fire detect- with steam, salt water extinguishing systems. distilling and Special ing apparatus, and ‘‘Foamite’’ Condensing, evaporating, refrigerating plants. Interior Finishings—White mahogany with golden tones; red mahogany with gray tones; also polished fumed oak. Artistic, leaded glass: domes and windows d'strib- uting uniform natural light throughout public places. Ventilation—Furnished by mechanical de- vices with individual control in each in- s'de stateroom; in corridors, passageways and public places as well as throughout the cargo decks. Electrical Equipment—Fans and_ berth lights in each ‘room. Vacuum cleaning system throughout. Unusually elaborate lighting and cooking equipment. The new MOHAWK left the ways at Newport News Oct. 21 under most favorable conditions and is the last 425 of the first group of sister ships floated under the Clyde line program referred to, an aggregate of about 25,000 tons, at a cost of six million dollars. Immediately following com- pletion of this first trio of coast ves- sels, the Clyde line announced a pro- gram to build a second group especially for the Miami service, the latter ships H. H. RAYMOND President of the Clyde Steamship Co. to attain a speed of about 20 knots and accommodate about 800 passengers on each vessel. These new Miami steamers will eclipse anything hereto- fore planned for coastwise trade and