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Ship Repairing Facilities Are Enlarged and Improved ITH its program of expansion W improvement completed this fall the Todd Shipyards Corp. will have increased the facilities of each of its seven ship construction and repair yards. Additional and larger dry docks, new and _ longer piers, greater berthing space and mod- ern machines have been provided to care for any size or type of ship re- pair work. The improvements now nearing com- pletion have been made not only in th2 four yards in New York but those in Mobile, New Orleans and Seattle. The Todd corporation owns the largest dry dock in New York and th2 only private graving docks in the port. To complete the service in these docks it is installing a 20-ton travelling gentry crane, tracks for which are being laid between Nos. 1 and 2 grav- ing docks at its Robins Dry Dock and Repair Co.’s plant at Erie basin, Brooklyn. Other additions to the equipment include a new shop for tur- bine work, with dynamic balancing ways for turbine rotors and a large stock of blading for any type of tur- bine driven vessel entering the port. An extension of the main machine shop provides 16,509 square feet of additional floor space. Special equip- ment is available for all classes of diesel engine repair and maintenance. A new slip extending inshore 555 feet between piers Nos. 4 and 5 has been provided with a width of 158 feet and a depth of 40 feet at mean high water. Pier 1 has been rebuilt and Pier 2 rebuilt and widened. Designed to meet the requirements of the best medical practice, a new emergency hospital has been estab- lished in this plant. It contains a Tietjen & Lang Plant of the Todd 8 44 MARINE REVIEw—September, sion of pier A. The slip between piers B and C has been dredged for the re ception of a new 6000 ton floating docs and other improvements made for the convenience of the big yachts that make this yard their home port. The activities of the Todd oil burner and the Todd unit system of burning S. 8. Nidareid on the Todd Dock at New Orleans with Heavy Damage as a Result of a Collision with the S. 8. Delight modern operating room, first aid emergency room, X-ray laboratory, eye treatment room, a gymnasium with machines for corrective exercises, showers, baths, staff room and offices. To the Clinton street plant of the Todd Dry Dock, Engineering and Re- pair Corp. has been added a floating dry dock with an overall length of 265 feet, 84 feet 4 inches width and a lifting capacity of 3000 tons. A _ sec- ond story has been added to the office building and the yard lay-out re- arranged to expedite the handling of repair work. The berthing facilities at the Tebo plant of the Todd Dry Dock, Engineer- ing and Repair Corp., have been in- creased by a 300 foot inshore exten- hipyards Corp. at Hoboken, N. J. 1930 pulverized fuel divisions of the Todd corporation are also centered at this yard, where a testing plant is main- tained for research purposes in the development of equipment for the burning of pulverized fuel. At the Hoboken plant of the Tietjen and Lang Dry Dock Co., floating docks No. 2 and 5 have been given a greater and faster lifting capacity by the in- stallation in each of four new centri- fugal pumps. The wings of floating dock No. 6 have been raised to enable the dock to accommodate vessels of greater draft and the efficiency of this dock has been increased by the re- arrangement and installation of new machinery. For further expedition in the han- dling of vessels at this plant a new 25-ton floating crane with latest cquip- ment and powered by a Mundy engine has been placed in service. The re building and concrete surfacing of Pier F is practically completed and other improvements carried out in the machine, blacksmiths and joiner shops. Each of the other six floating docks at this plant have been overhauled. The Todd yard at Mobile, Ala., is the largest ship repair plant on the Gulf and with the completion of two new piers it has berthing capacity for more than fourteen vessels. Each pier has a standard gage railroad track running its full length with connections t0 shore tracks. Besides complete shop equipment this plant has two floating docks of 12,000 and 8,500 tons lift- ing capacity respectively. At New Orleans the Todd corpora- tion operates two plants. One for han- (Continued on Page 66)