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_—— 1901.] MARINE REVIEW. 15 ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC COAST BUILDERS. A NUMBER OF NEW CONTRAOTS ARE TO BE NOTED—FORE RIVER ENGINE CO, MOVES ITS PLANT-SHIP YARD ITEMS. The wooden schooner George C. Thomas, launched recently, is the third which McKay & Dix have built at Bucksport, ‘Me., during the past year. The Thomas is an exact counterpart, except in a few details, of the schooner Edward T. Stotesbury which was launched from the yard on Oct. 11, and is now about duein Liverpool with a cargo of naphtha from Philadelphia. Her frames were got out on the same molds as the Stotes- bury and the difference in measurement is very slight. Her dimensions are: Length, 210; beam, 41.6; depth 21.6; gross tonnage, 1,447; net ton- nage 1,280. Her masts are handsome sticks of Oregon pine 108 ft. long, shipped in the rough across the continent by rail from Seattle to. Bucks- port. Her standing rigging is of steel, surprisingly small but of great strength, and set up by ponderous iron turn-buckles, and double spring stays between all the masts. She carries her head gear on an immense “spike” bowsprit and is painted a bright bottle green. A feature of her construction is the use of a heavy wrought iron hanging knee and strap combined under every beam on both decks. Extending well down the bilge, this arrangement not only adds great strength but is a vast economy of room over the old wooden knee. The steam steering gear, pumps, windlass, etc., are in a forward house of large dimensions. The Thomas is owned principally by George C. Thomas of Philadelphia and her builder, Capt. ‘Chas. B. Dix of New York. She will hail from New York. Her cost will foot up not far from $70,000. Her fine cabin finish comes from Morse & Co., Bangor: her wheel, blocks, etc., from Knowlton of Camden. Her anchors are of Camden forging, and machinery from the Bath Iron Works of Bath. The Thomas will be commanded by the well ‘known ship- master, Capt. Alberto L. Kent of Brewer, late of the schooners Edward Stewart and Thallium, the first craft launched at Bucksport by McKay & ‘Dix. She will load box shooks for the Mediterranean. Work will be re- sumed at the yard about ‘March 20, when a keel about 206 ft. long will be laid for a four-master, the largest that has been built so far, also a 160-ft. keel for a four-master which will measure some 800 tons, The frames are being got out this winter in Nova Scotia. ‘Messrs. C. & R. Poillon, at their yard at the foot of Clinton street, New York, have partly framed out a fine modelled auxiliary schooner yacht, designed by Messrs. A. Cary Smith & Barbey for Mr.-Wm. H. Alley of Chicago. Her dimensions are: Length over all, 96 ft.; length on water line, 68 ft.; breadth of beam, 20 ft. 4 in.; draught, 10 ft. 6 in. Her frame is of oak and the planking of yellow pine. The deck will be of white pine. All the timber employed in her construction is of long length and selected. Her masts will be of Oregon pine. She has a lead keel of 32 tons. She will be ready by May 1. This yacht is a fine example of the expert work in ship building for which the firm of C. & R. Poillon are noted. A contract was awarded recently by the Philadelphia & Reading Rail- way Co. to the Neafie & Levy Ship i& Engine Building Co. of Philadel- phia for the construction of a steel sea-going tug, to be named the Carlisle. She will be similar to the Lykens, delivered a year ago, 170 ft. in length, 29 ft. beam and 15 ft. draught, loaded. The ‘Carlisle is intended for service on the Philadelphia & Reading Transportation line, operating between Port Richmond and New England ports. It is said that the Staples Coal Co. of Taunton, Mass., has about de- cided to build another river and harbor tug. It will replace the J. P. White, but the latter’s machinery, which is in excellent shape, will be used in the new tug. The White’s engines are very powerful, too much so for the old hull they drive. The lines of the new boat have not been drawn, as the exact size has not yet been decided upon. At the Kelley-Spear Co. yard at Bath, five sea-going wooden vessels are in course of construction, three 3,000-ton barges for the Staples Coal Co., a four-masted schooner for Chas. Hirsch of New York and a 900-ton spruce barge. The Staples Coal Co. barges will be named Havana, Matan- zas and Cardenas and the smaller barge Sagua. : L. M. Hatch & Sons have contracted to do the inboard and outboard work on the new schooner now building at W. S. Currier & Co.’s yards at Newburyport, Mass. The work of the ‘Messrs. Hatch on the Edith H. Symington was so satisfactory to all concerned that they had no difficulty in securing the new contract. Wilson Bros., mill men, Aberdeen, Wash., have closed a deal with the Lindstrom Brothers to build them a steamer 180 ft. long at a cost of $70,000. The contract calls for the completion by July 1 next. She will have a capacity of 700,000 ft. and will be put into commission here. A contract has been awarded to Robert Palmer, Noank, Conn., for ten sea-going steel barges. Their dimensions are 200 ft. length, 35 ft. beam and 1,600 tons capacity. There are two contracts aggregating over $300,000. The torpedo boat Macdonough, launched from the yards of the Fore River Engine Co. last week, is the last vessel to be launched at the East Braintree plant. Ship building operations in the future will be at Quincy point. CLEVELAND BREAKWATER. Senator Hanna has been represented as being opposed to the ex- tension of the breakwater at ‘Cleveland as far as Gordon park by govern- ment appropriation. Discussing the subject he said: “I am not particu- larly opposed to the extension of the arm of the breakwater, but it does appear to me as none of the functions of government to do more than create a harbor of refuge for lake shipping making. the port of Cleve- land. It is a question whether extension as far east as is contemplated— Gordon park, isn’t it?-—would be exceeding the government design. True, it would permit vessels loaded with freight for the factories along the lake shore to unload at piers constructed-within its protecting arm, and that would effect a saving in the freight haul from the river and present docks. Then again comes the question as to whether the government is going into the business of saving freight for individual owners ol plants?” TWO IMMENSE FLOATING DOCKS. Mr. Joseph Beale of Washington, D. C., agent in the United States for Clark & Standfield, dock engineers of Youn England, favors the Review with particulars of a floating dock for Bermuda, for which the British admiralty a short time ago accepted the tender of Messrs. Swan & Hunter of Wallsend-on-Tyne. Mr. Beale also sends data comparing the Bermuda dock with the dock which is being built at Sparrow’s Point, Md., for the United States government, and which is to be located at Algiers, La. Messrs. Clark & Standfield are the designers of both docks. The Bermuda dock is to be finished in twelve months, tested and then | ane ====== 100-0 (30°480)- stale waneenenccesets . ITITIITITTIT ft = = =, Gia: ooo —S~&Y , i es ene PLANS OF BERMUDA AND ALGIERS FLOATING DOCKS. towed to her destination. These two docks are similar in most respects, the main difference being-in the manner of shoring the ships on the dock. The American plan is to depend upon keel blocks in conjunction with docking keels; the English plan is to support the armor belt on a large number of more or less vertical shores inserted under an angle iron firmly attached to the belt. Sections of the Algiers and Bermuda docks, shown herewith, illustrate this point. The following data is given by way of comparison: ‘ BERMUDA DOCK. ALGIERS DOCK. FMRe sci oe ia Self docking. Self docking. Materigh:.: oo. 23s Steel. Steel. Length over keel blocks..... 545. ft. 525 ft. Width of entrance..... rac 100 it. 100 ft. Depth om-sills. 2 25 ges cs 33 ft. 28 ft. Height of keel blocks........ 4 ft. 4 ft. Depth of pontoon............ 1534 it. 17% ft. Weight: of bull:45245 ca 6,500 tons 5,850 tons Maximum power.....a.,..... 17,500 tons 20,000 tons COstie 3 ee ee ee . $900,000 $810,000 The Monongahela River (Consolidated Coal & Coke Co., Pittsburg, will build a powerful steel hull towboat, larger and stronger than any other towboat running on the rivers in the vicinity of Pittsburg. The boat will be about 275 ft. long, 53 ft. wide and 7 or 8 ft. deep in the hold. The machinery will be compound with 60-in. cylinders and a 12-ft. stroke. The boat will be furnished with a battery of ten boilers, the engine driving a wheel 10 ft. in diameter. It is expected such a steamer will be able to tow 1,500,000 bushels of coal in a single tow. The steamer will cost about $150,000.