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New Clyde Liner Shawnee on Vacation Cruise In response to an extraordinary de- mand for accommodations for its sum- mer vacation cruises to Halifax, Que- bec and the Saguenay river, the Clyde line has announced that another new ship, the SHAWNEE, just completed at Newport News, will be inducted into this service, sailing on her maiden trip from New York July 27, and from Boston July 28. She will repeat the cruise sailing from New York August 10 and 24, and from Boston the fol- lowing day. The SHAWNEE is identical in construc- tion, equipment and furnishings with the IROQUOIS now in this service. She has superb accommodations for 675 passengers, and affords a luxurious and unusual service. She is of three deck. transatlantic type, double steel bottom equipped with salt water ballast tanks, complete electric light and power, refrigeration and ventilation plants. The SHAWNEE is 408 feet long, 62 feet beam, and her draft is 201% feet when laden. She is an oil burner and her twin reduction geared turbine engines develop 10,200 horsepower, driving her at 22 knots. Contract for Cutters The Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. has been awarded the contract by the United States coast guard for build- ing five coast guard cutters at $634,- 500 each, bids for which were received on June 21. This same corporation put in an alternate bid for $634,800. The only other bid received by the coast guard was from the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock com- pany, at $739,000 and an alternate of $749,000. The alternate bid being for other machinery than that specified in the first three. Ask Bids on New Ships The Matson Navigation Co. has asked bids on a _ small passenger steamer and on two colliers. When completed these vessels will be turned over to the Inter-Island Steamship Co. for operation among the Hawaiian Islands. Is Given Promotion J. L. Crone, for 30 years attached to the United States steamboat in- spection service and for many years local inspector of boilers in the New York district has been appointed su- pervising inspector to succeed the late captain H. M. Seeley. Mr. Crone began his service as assistant inspec- tor of boilers and later became in- spector of boilers. He is recognized for his authoritative knowledge of boilers, machinery and vessel construc- tion and shipping men feel that he well deserved his promotion. New Tanker Ordered Crew, Levick and Co. has awarded the contract for a small tank steamer to the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. She will be built at the Fore River plant of the corporation and will when completed be used in the coastal trade out of Philadelphia. Diesel-Electric Tanker Enters Service The Point BREEZE, first of the three new diesel electric tankers for the Atlantic Refining Co., will be placed in operation July 25. This boat, which was originally called the J. M. Con- NALLY, was reconditioned by the At- lantic. Refining Co. at its Point Breeze plant and, together with -two others, was purchased from the United States shipping board. The remaining boats, the SHARON and the BESSEMER, are being reconditioned by the Alabama Drydock & Shipbuilding Co. at Mobile, Ala., and are expected to go in serv- ice on September 15. With the addition of these three boats, the Atlantic Refining Co. fleet of diesel-electric vessels will total nine, eight built or reconditioned in this country and the other abroad by the Scott Shipbuilding Co., the latter utilizing electrical equipment supplied by the British Thomson-Houston Co. The three new boats will probably cperate in coastwise service, but may occasionally be used in foreign serv- ice between American ports’ and South Africa or Europe. The PoINT BREEZE is expected to carry lubricating oil while the other two will probably carry gasoline or possibly some crude oil. Each of the boats has a dead weight of 7,000 tons. They were formerly op- erated by steam, but the new power plants each consist of Ingersoll-Rand diesel engines and electric equipment furnished by the General Electric Co. Each tanker is equipped with three 850-horsepower, 225 revolutions per minute, diesel engines, each driving a 525-kilowatt, 250-volt generator for propulsion and a_ 50-kilowatt, 250- volt auxiliary generator for excitation and ship’s auxiliary power. The pro- pulsion generators will supply power to an 1800-horsepower, 90 revolutions per minute, 750-volt, double motor on each boat, direct connected to the propeller shaft. MARINE REVIEW—August, 1927 Build New Type Burner for Powdered Coal Coincident with the announcement that the United States shipping board has approved a plan to install appar- atus in the steamer MERCER for burn- ing pulverized coal, the Research En- gineering Corp., 25 Beaver street, New York, announced the successful de- velopment of a burner for marine and general use that consumes powdered coal, oil or gas either separately or in combination. The new device, which has under- gone a year’s test, is the invention of D. J. Irish, a well-known combustion engineer who is connected with the Combustion Service Corp., a subsid- iary of the Research Engineering Corp. He was formerly combustion engineer for Babcock & Wilcox, and is a graduate engineer of Cambridge University. Fire Damages Steamer On July 12 shortly before she was to leave the Lorain yard of the Amer- ican Shipbuilding Co. fire seriously damaged the forward passenger quar- ters of the new steamer Harry CouLBy. She was shortly to have had her trial trip and to be delivered to the owners. All of the work will have to be renewed and she _ will probably not be delivered until about the middle of August. The CouLBy which is the largest American ore car- rier on the lakes will be the latest addition to the Interlake Steamship Co.’s_ fleet managed by Pickands, Mather & Co., Cleveland and will be used in the ore and coal trade. Package Freight Grows The steamer Epwarp E. Loomis sailed from Buffalo July 17, for Lake Michigan ports with 4449 tons of package freight. This is the largest west bound cargo of package freight that has ever left the port of Buffalo it is said. Sugar from a fleet of five barges of the Dispatch Shippers Corp. was transferred to the Loomis and in addition she took on board all of the freight which filled the barge canal terminal warehouse. Within ten days before the shipment the warehouse had been filled three times, which indicates the increasing importance of the package freight movement. More coal has been moved on the Great Lakes this year up to July 1 than in either of the previous two years. Shipments up to July 1 were 13,982,892 tons as compared with 9,- 518,496 tons in 1926 and 7,731,546 tons in 1925 for the same period. 45