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Contract for Reconditioning The Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. was low on bids sub- mitted to the Mississippi Shipping Co. for reconditioning the _ vessels CASEY and CLAVARACK. Contract is to be awarded that company subject to the approval of the shipping board. The bids submitted do not include the total cost of reconditioning and equipping the vessels as the company is buying a large quantity of machin- ery and other equipment direct from manufacturers and dealers. The total cost of the work is estimated as be- ing in excess of $500,000. The follow- ing is a summary of the companies and their bids on the two vessels. The Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., $173,960 for the Casry, time 45 days, the CLavARacK $177,840 and 60 days; the Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co., Mobile, Ala., $201,602 for the Casry, 95 days, the CLAVARACK $206,280 and 115 days; Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Balti- more $237,796 for the Casry, 95 days, CLAVARACK $247,603 and 95 days; Todd Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Mobile, Ala., $238,000 for the Casry, 125 days; the New Orleans plant of Todd Ship- building & Dry Dock Co., $243,882 and 125 days for the CLAVARACK; Johnson Iron Works, Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co., New Orleans, $244,540 for the Casey and 100 days, $248,138 for the CLAVARACK and 120 days; United Dry Docks Inc., New York, $255,596 for the Casry in 90 days and $260,731 for the CLAVARACK in 90 days. Last United Fruiter Launched Miss Patricia Winifred Preston, granddaughter of the late Andrew W. Preston, one of the founders of the United Fruit Co. and its first presi- dent, acted as sponsor of the com- pany’s new turbo-electric liner VrERA- GuA, which was launched April 23 from the Fore River yard of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. The VeRAGcua, which is the last ves- sel in the United Fruit Co. program, is of about 11,000 tons displacement, with a length of 450 feet and a beam of 60 feet. The vessel is equipped with General Electric turbine electric propulsion machinery of 10,500 horse- power, which will drive the ship at a normal speed of 18 knots. Like all other vessels in the United Fruit Co.’s fleet the Vreracua is paint- ed white and has been especially de- signed for the trade in which she will be employed. Luxurious accommoda- tions are provided, all in outside state- rooms. All accommodations are first class. The VERAGUA will enter service this summer and will operate between New York, the West Indies and Central American ports. The United Fruit Co.’s new turbo- electric liner ANTIGUA sailed from New York on April 3 on her maiden voyage for San Francisco via Havana, Costa Rica, the Panama canal and Los Angeles in command of Capt. Wilbert Andrew Card, popular American skipper. Launched on Dec. 12 last at the Fore River plant of the Bethlehem Ship- building Corp., the ANtTIGUA is the third of six sisterships to be com- pleted for the United Fruit Co. un- der terms of the Jones-White act. Granted Construction Loan The shipping board April 6 approved the application of the Gulf Pacific Mail Line, Ltd., for loans from the construction loan fund, to be used in the reconditioning and reconstruction of the vessel Pornrtr ANCHA and a sister ship possibly the OSSINING. Both vessels will be used in the service between Seattle and Tampico, Mexico via Puerto Colombia, Colombia and Kingston, Jamica. There will be a separate loan for each vessel not to exceed three-fourths of the cost of re- conditioning and reconstruction and not to exceed $150,000 for each vessel. The proposed work, which will be per- formed in a United States shipyard, will consist of the addition of passen- ger accommodations for approximately 12 passengers for each vessel and in- creasing the power of the vessels’ propelling machinery and lengthening the vessels by remodeling the sterns. These. vessels will be operated under the United States flag and will be em- ployed in an essential trade route from the North Pacific coast ports. Bunker Prices At New York At Philadelphia Coal Fuel oil Diesel engine _ Coal Fuel oil alongside alongside oil alongside trim in bunk alongside per ton per barrel per gallon per ton per os April 18, 1932.4.50@5.00 .70 ae April 18, 1932.4.50@5.00 a5 far. 18, a ae 45005, 0 .65 35 Marc lS. ee 4.50@5.00 .65 Beeb. 4822... 4.50@5.00 65 $225 Feb; 46 sc 05 3 4.50@5.90 225 oo 18. ..4.50@5.00 .65 3° ifs 18 ..4.50@5.00 75 EC) AG e Gackos 4.50@5.00 65 3.25 EC LB ees 4.50@5.00 75 Nov. 18 2.3<. 4.50@5.00 .65 525 Novi I8i5sc6: 4.50@5.00 i75 Oct TS ices 4.75@5.00 -65 3.25 Octo 18.5..65% 4.75@5.00 15 Sept. 18). 335; 4.75@5.00 75 3.47% Sept. 18,.....4.75@5.00 315 Aug. 18...... 4.75 @5.00 S7ée) 3.47% Aug: 1Sis.isc< 4.75@5.00 215 “ aly-18 0% é6 4.75@5.00 85 3.72% July: 48. 3 eee 4.75 @5.00 85 eee 1 Se .85@5.25 .90 3.841% June 18...... 4.85@5.25 .90 MARINE ReEviEw—May, 1932 Diesel engine oil alongside Hydrographic Survey Vessel The new ship for the Dominion hy- drographic survey was launched at the Collingwood, Ont., shipyards on April 14. She has an overall length of 228 feet. Her molded breadth is 36 feet, and depth. 23 feet 6 inches. Power is supplied by two triple ex- pansion reciprocating engines, also built by the Collingwood ship yards, giving the ship a speed capacity of 12 knots. The new ship will be used by the department of marine in hy- drographic work on the British Co- lumbia coast, and will make the trip by way of the Panama canal. Saint John Enters Service Sea trials of the new $3,500,000 liner Sarnt JOHN, built by the New- ports News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. for the Eastern Steamship Lines, “Ine., were successfully held off the Virginia Capes April 14. The liner made an average speed of 21% knots and developed 12,500 horsepower in her twin screw geared turbine ma- chinery. According to Capt. E. E. O’Donnell, president of the Eastern Steamship lines, who attended the trials, the vessel proved satisfactory in every way. On arrival in Boston April 25, the SAINT JOHN was given a rousing wel- come. She was scheduled to sail on her maiden trip from Boston to Saint John, N. B., on May 2 with a passenger list of 700. After her in- itial sailing the Saint JoHN’s sched- ule calls for leaving Boston every Monday and Thursday at 5 p. m. daylight saving time and leaving Saint John every Tuesday and Fri- day at 7:30 p.m. until; June 42, after which there will be three round trips a week. The Saint JOHN and her sister ship the AcapIA were designed by Theodore E. Ferris, noted New York naval architect. Construction is going ahead at the Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. on the two vessels building for Sea Train Lines Inc., for the carriage of loaded freight cars. These vessels are sin- gle screw 460 feet long. Other Ports April 18, 1932 Boston, coal, per ton.. $7.80 per gallon Boston, oil, f. a. s., per 3.21 DANrelccpsnes Peoria 0.60 322k Hampton Roads,coal,per 3.45 ton, f.o.b.,piers....... $4.25 3.45 Cardiff, coal, per ton... 138 3d 3.45 London, coal, per ton... —s —d 3.45 Antwerp, coal, per ton..18s 9d 3.45 Antwerp, Fuel oil, per ton, 678 6d 3.45 Antwerp, Diesel oil, per 3.45 LONG oe Ns cu pies aia 82s 3.70 British ports, Fuel oil...678 6d 3.80 British ports, Diesel oil.828 6d