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Launch Floating Derrick HE floating derrick Los AN- ( GELES for the Merritt, Chapman & Scott Corp. was launched Feb. 1 at the Union plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., San Francisco. With a lifting capacity of 90 tons wd LAUNCHING OF FLOATING DERRICK T.0S ANGELES AT UNION PILLANT BETHLEHEM versa at combination rate. The Los ANGELES is one of the largest floating derricks in Pacific coast service and will be based at San Pedro, Calif., headquarters of the Merritt, Chapman & Scott fleet in those waters. SHIPBUILDING CORP., SAN FRANCISCO, FEB. 1—FOR MERRITT, CHAPMAN & SCOTT. overside, the Los ANGELES will round- out “Black Horse” heavy equipment service on the Pacific coast, and will make possible loading at New York, unloading at Los Angeles and vice HREE of the six motor tankers each of 10,000 tons deadweight, ordered some time ago by the Anglo Persian Oil Co., are to be constructed on the Clyde and three on the Tyne. Of those to be built on the Clyde, two will be by Lithgows of Port Glasgow and one by the Greenock Dockyard Co. All three will have Harland- Kincaid B. & W. engines made by John G. Kincaid & Co. of Greenock. Another oil tanker of about 11,250 tons deadweight is being built by the Blythswood Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. Scotland and supplied by Kincaid with similar engines of 3300 brake horsepower for the Bermuth, Lan- bekeland Shipping Co. Inc., New York. Of the launches in January, the Greenock Dockyard Co. Ltd. were responsible for a cargo steamer of about 7000 tons built for the Clan 42 The hull is steel throughout, in- cluding guards and deck rails, bottom rounded at ends with vertical sides. It is 125 feet extreme length and 124 feet, 54% inches molded length. Ex- What the British Are Doing Line Steamers Ltd. of Glasgow and there was also launched the PRINCESS ELIZABETH, a twin-screw turbine steamer of 5000 tons, built and en- gined by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd. Govan for the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. of Vancouver. A DOUBLE launch took place re- cently from the shipbuilding yard of Smiths Dock Co. Ltd., South Bank on Tees when two finely mod- eled steel screw steam trawlers LUNE and FANE, which have been built to the order of the Wyre Steam Traw- ling Co. Ltd. of Fleetwood, took the water. The vessels are over 140 feet long and are built to the highest class of British corporation require- ments. The machinery was- con- structed by Smiths at their River Ce le MARINE REVIEW—March, 1930 treme width outside fenders js 45 feet, 6 inches, and 45 feet molded width. At the midships the Log ANGELES has a depth of 12 feet and from ends to base line is 13 feet, The deck house is 51 feet, 10 inches long, 32 feet, 4 inches wide and is feet, 6 inches high. boiler compartments occupy the foy. ward part of the house to the roof of the structure. An _ intermediate deck is located aft of the engine room in which galley, mess room and crew quarters are found, there being quarters for a crew of ten. Officers’ quarters are in four rooms with pro- vision for two men in each. * Hoisting engines were built by the Lambert Hoisting Engine Co., oper- ated on multiple sheave locks and can. swing 90 tons over side. The main engine has four drums while auxiliary engines have eight drums and four mooring drums. The boiler is of vertical type and burns oil as fuel. The derrick has a _ 95-foot steel boom with a steel A frame, 98 feet above deck. With the addition of this derrick, Merritt, Chapman & Scott will have at the San Pedro base every type of service vessel operating in sal- vage work, lightering, heavy towing, special dredging and _ general con- struction ashore and afloat. Increased facilities on the Pacific coast was prompted by rapidly growing traffic at the Port of Los Angeles. Tees Dockyard. Smith’s first launch of the year was the steel screw steamer KYLor built to the order of the Sharp Steamship Co. Ltd. New- castle on Tyne. The vessel is over 315 feet long, is designed to carry about 4600 tons on a light draught and is to be classed 100 Al. She has been specially designed as a_ self trimming collier with large hatches and clear holds. In 1929 the launches from Smiths Dockyard averaged one per week. * * * WiiiaM Gray & Co. Lid. of West Hartlepool have launched the steel screw steamer WELCOMBE, built to the order of Pyman Brothers Ltd. London. The vessel is of the open shelter deck type taking the highest class in Lloyds Register and is 434 feet 9 inches long and 55 feet Engine and