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outstanding ship repair and_ ship- building plant at New Orleans is the Jahneke Dry Docks Inc. Then there is the Johnson Iron Works, Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co. Ine, which is equipped as the name indicates both for the building and repair of ships. As far as our records show this plant has three floating drydocks, maximum capacity of which is 7000 tons. This company is in a position to do prac- tically any kind of marine repairs. The Todd Shipyards Corp. as_ indi- cated above also has a plant at New Orleans for general ship repairs. With the two new sections of the floating drydock which were towed from New York this plant will have a drydocking capacity of 4000 tons. The largest and most fully equipped ship repair plant at New Orleans is the Jahncke Dry. Docks Ine. This yard is equipped to service ships and for .drydocking and general marine repairs to all classes of vessels. It is a modern plant covering 14 acres of land located within the limits of the port on the banks of the Missis- sippi river. The water frontage is approximately one-half mile in length. The buildings are of modern steel and brick construction and are fire- proof. Shop tools and machinery are of the latest type suitable for ma- rine repairs. The tools are all elec- trically driven for maximum flexibility. One of the features of the plant is a wharf 1500 feet long fitted for the use of compressed air, filtered water, IN DRY DOCK AT THE JAHNCKE DRY DOCKS PLANT, NEW ORLEANS steam, oil and oxygen. It also has a standard gage double railroad track connecting with the regular rail sys- tems. There are two drydocks, one of 10,000 tons lifting capacity, 525 feet on the keel blocks, capable of docking steamers up to a draft of 26 feet; and the other of 8000 tons lifting capacity, 450 feet on the keel blocks and capable of docking steamers up to a draft of 20: feet. The machine and plate shops cover a city block in area and are of steel fireproof construction. The shops are served by two 25-ton overhead elec- tric cranes with two 400-foot steel runways reaching into storage yard. All machines are electric motor drive to permit individual operation. Lo- cated between the plate and machine shops are the sheet metal shop, pipe shop, blacksmith shop and _ brass foundry and these are also fitted with new equipment, electrically operated. Both oxygen and acetylene are piped to the drydocks and wharf for both — repairs and to service ships. Two shifts are worked throughout the year on straight time, thereby re- ducing to a minimum overtime charges on jobs that are in a hurry. The slogan of the company is “service for ships” and it is the policy of the com- pany reflected by the entire organi- zation to operate the plant on a clear cut business basis in competition at all times on all work with other plants in the country. It is this policy, strictly adhered to, which impresses the ship- owner with the reality of the slogan. Waterways Are Feeders for Gulf Ports By Major General T. Q. Ashburn, U. S. A. HE total amount of tonnage i carried by the Mississippi-War- rier service during three months of 1918 was 338,728 tons, while the total carried by the same service in 1928 was 1,872,597 tons. This shows BARGES OF THE MISSISSIPPI WARRIOR PLANT AT MOBILE, GAPACITY 500 58 a remarkable cent. Most of this tonnage passed through New Orleans and Mobile, and due to this great increase, the terminal fa- cilities at each of these ports have increase of 1288 per MARINE REVIEW—July, 1929 been increased and bettered to a great extent. The Mississippi-Warrior service, op- erated by the Inland Waterways Corp. draws its freight from, and distributes it to, forty odd states of the Union, > sea ea Soh SERVICE OF THE INLAND WATERWAYS CORP. AT GOVERNMENT ORE AND COAL HANDLING TONS PER HOUR. SUCH EQUIPMENT NECESSARY FOR PROPER USE OF WATERWAYS 3 ; 4 : a 3 ‘ a 4 re