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Bids for United States Engineers’ Equipment The Wilmington, Del. United States engineer office has issued spe- cifications for construction and de- livery at Wilmington, Del. of one motor launch, 40 feet long, 11 feet wide, and 4.9 feet deep; wooden hull. Referring to specifications issued by the San Francisco United States engineer office, March 7, 1931, for furnishing a 65-foot survey boat, bids were to be opened at 3:00 p.m. March 30, 1931. Sealed bids, in duplicate, were to be received until 3:00 p.m., March 30, 1931, and then publicly opened for drydocking, painting and repairing United States dredge A. MacKenziz. Guarantee will be. re- quired with each bid. Plans and specifications were is- sued early in March for the construc- tion of one 16-inch self-propelled pipe line dredge, complete. The spe- cifications provide that a certified check for $200, made out to the order of ‘‘Disbursing Officer, U. S. Engineer Office, Vicksburg, Miss.’’ shall be deposited to insure the re- turn of the complete set of plans. Additional sets of blueprint plans may be obtained upon request of bid- ders who have deposited the certified check referred to above. These prints will be furnished at a cost of 50 cents per sheet for blueprints, and are not returnable. Bidders desir- ing additional blueprint sheets may obtain same at the above rates by application to this office, accom- panied by a certified check or post office money order for the proper amount, drawn to the order of ‘‘Dis- bursing Officer, U. S. Engineer Of- fice, Vicksburg, Miss.”’ Sealed bids, in duplicate, were to be received at the same office until 2:00 p.m. March 14, 1931, at the United States engineer office, first Chicago district, and then publicly opened, for furnishing all labor and materials and performing all work necessary for the furnishing and de- livering, assembled complete and ready for installation, four lock gates of two leaves each, with an- chorage members, mitre sill plates, valves, upper pintle castings, mitre and quoin timbers and bolt fasten- ings, for LaGrange and Kampsville ~ locks, on the Illinois river. Diesel Electric Equipment Contract for the complete diesel electric equipment for a yacht build- ing at the Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Me. for George M. Pynchon, has been awarded to the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. This yacht was designed by Henry J. Gielow Inc. and is 144 feet 6 inches long: overall, 131 feet 6 inches at the waterline, 24 feet 1014 inches beam and 14 feet 3% inches deep. The diesel electric equipment in- cludes two main generators each of 270 kilowatt, 250 volt direct current shunt wound, 600 revolutions per min- ute which supply power to two 330 horsepower propulsion motors 250 volts, direct current, shunt wound at 300 revolutions per minute. The equipment also includes two 27 kilo- watt 125 volt, compound wound, 600 revolutions per minute generators and other miscellaneous units for excita- tion and auxiliary power. Complete switching and control equipment is also included. Alexander McNab, consulting marine engineer, has been awarded the con- tract for supplying 16 tonsionmeters, four on the U. S. S. New ORLEANS, fourcon the U.S Ss: MINNEAPOLIS, four on the U. S. S. CL38 and four on the U. S. S. Astorta, Prepare Liner for Trials Early in April Already in outward appearance a completed sea-going giant, the new 42,500-ton Canadian Pacific liner Em- PRESS OF BriraIn, largest ship built in Great Britain since before the war will shortly become one in fact. Her interior construction has advanced go rapidly that she will be turned over to her owners in time to make her maiden voyage three weeks earlier than originally planned. She is sched- uled to bow to the seas for the first time on April 5, during her prelim. inary trials. These trials, conducted by pilots of John Brown & Co., buila- ers of the 755-foot liner, will check up compass adjustments, ete. Following the tests the liner will return to Glasgow, sailing thence to Southampton where, at a later date, she will be turned over to the Cana- dian Pacific and will fly the red-and- white checkered houseflag for the first time. The EMPRESS OF BRITAIN is due in Southampton Wednesday, April 15. During the six weeks of her stay at Southampton until her maiden depart- ture for Quebec on May 27, armies of workmen will be engaged on the final touches of her magnificent interior. Diesel Engines Ordered The Kitsap County Transportation Co., Seattle, has ordered from the Washington Iron Works, Seattle, a 560 brake horsepower Washington diesel engine to be installed in the wooden ferry Liserty. This unit is direct reversing, single end and is similar to a contract awarded a month ago to the same manufacturers for an engine to be installed in the wooden ferry LESCHI, whose capacity is to be increased by 20 automobiles. Steam engines are being taken out of both ferries, as greater speed and New Turbo-Electric Furness-Bermuda Liner Is Launched MARINE REview—April, 1931 HOWN in the accompany- S ing illustration is the new Furness-Bermuda liner, Mon- ARCH OF BERMUDA, as she was launched at the Vickers- Armstrong shipyards, New Castle-on-T yne, Tuesday, Mar. 17. This vessel is 576 feet long with a beam of 76 feet 7 inches and will have accommodations for’ 950 first- class passengers. She will have turbo-electric propelling machinery which will give her a speed of 20 knots. She will enter the New York- Bermuda service next fall. The photograph from which the accompanying illustra- tion was made, was received by radio.