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EUUTMU UNTIL UAHA LOUUATLCPRUACEAAITA COATT CUCHTOCCCGAALUHAAI CCEA LEAT UUOATAICUOATLIOOTIOUORAUUCATIUUUATUCUITAATUOAAILOORIOUGHICUOAALULOOAIULOOUUUGOALUOIOILUGAAUUHADILUOAILOOUOLOARUOLOGA CLE LUOCALLUGALOUE ULC MOCO PUEUORRO UCU LHOGAe LCE EAR ADMIRAL F. T. BOWLES, U.S.N., retired, died at his home in Barnstable, Mass., on Aug. 3 at the age of 69. He had been ill for several months. Known as one of the great naval constructors, Ad- miral Bowles had a remarkably rapid rise in the navy becoming rear ad- miral in 1901 at the age of 43, the ah See . see pees seers a8 * o Ske youngest man ever to be given this high rank. He left the naval service in 1903 to become president of the Fore River Shipbuilding Co. and in eleven years built up this organizatioin to world fame. It was he that obtained the order from the Argentinian govern- ment for the two battleships Morena and RIVADAVIA recent'y rebuilt at the same yard. Jn 1914 Admiral Bowles 28 1 Francis T. Bowles 1858-1927 | MMMM MMM INF retired from business but continued active in public affairs, for six years being president of the Cape Cod cham- ber of commerce. He was born in Springfield, Mass. Oct. 7, 1858 the son of Benjamin F. and Mary E. (Bailey) Bowles. At Annapolis he distinquished himself in mathematics and was sent to study naval architecture at the Royal naval college. Shortly after his graduation he returned to the Norfolk navy yard where he began working on the plans for the new American navy that was then in the making. He is credited with proposing the first twin screw installation on an American war vessel. He was made chief constructor and given the rank of admiral under the McKinley administration and continued MARINE REVIEW—September, 1927 in this position under Roosevelt. Ad- miral Bowles was one of the prime movers in the organization of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and was its first secretary and for four years its presi- dent. Always taking an active interest in the merchant marine and the build- ing up of American personnel he acted for a time as chairman of the com- mission of the Massachusetts Nautical school. When the world war came he was called back into active work as assist- ant general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corp. and early in 1918 he was given personal charge of the three government ship-building yards, at Hog Island, the Submarine Boat Corp, at Newark, N.. J. and the Merchants Shipbuilding Co. at Bristol, Pa. After the war Bowles again retired, this time to his estate at Barnstable. He was always a strong supporter of naval preparedness and he favored the encouragement of the merchant. marine in every way possible. Ship Repair Yard Is Reorganized A new company known as_ the Calumet Shipyard and Drydock Co. has been organized to carry on work of ship repairs and boat and yacht storage at south Chicago on the same site formerly occupied by the Kraft Shipyard and Drydock Co. at Ninety- fourth street and the Calumet river. An entire new line of machinery has been installed in the plate shop, ma- chine shop and carpenter shop. An electric welding outfit and air com- pressor, afloat, is also part of the equipment. The new plant is now ready and in operation. Members of the firm are, James A. Rogan, formerly su- perintendent of the Kraft Shipyard who has been identified with ship- building all his life, his father be- ing one of the pioneer shipbuilders of Buffalo and Chicago, and August Hausler, in charge of the machine shop, who held a similar position in the Kraft organization and is well experienced in marine engine practice. The new firm will do larger ship repair work of all kinds as well as local trade. Work will be attended to at all hours of the day and night at either south Chicago, Indiana Har- bor, Gary and Chicago harbor. The drydock will be available at all times for scows, tugs, yachts etc. William H. Powers has been ap- pointed local inspector of boilers suc- ceeding John L. Crone recently made supervising inspector,