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£2 MARINE REVIEW. [February 7, Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington, Del. HE Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington, Del., has enjoyed a season of unusual prosperity during the past year and can contemplate the future with considerable complacency. The company has been so rushed with work that it has been forced to assign some parts of it to other ship yards. The character of this company’s works is largely merchant vessels of a very high class. One of the best vessels carrying the American flag is the James S. Whitney, which was recently turned out for the Metropolitan Steamship Co., and which is described in detail below. She is the latest vessel turned out by the company. The company has now on hand the following vessels: Torpedo boat Stringham for the United States navy; torpedo boat destroyers Hopkins and Hull for the United States navy; steam yacht Alvina for Charles Fletcher, Providence, R. I.; two ferry boats for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, 207 ft. long each: vessel for C. H. Mallory & Co., 400 ft. long; tramp steamer for Henry T. Knowlton and Amos D. Carver, 3821 ft. long; side-wheel ferry boat for the Philadel- phia & Reading Railroad Co., 169 ft. long; dredge hull for H. T. Dunbar of Port Colborne, Ont., 100 ft. long. The company completed in the year just past the following vessels: San Juan, for the New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co., 3,503 gross tons; Grecian, for the Boston & Philadelphia Steamship Co., 2,827 gross tons; James S. Whitney, for Metropolitan Steamship Co., 2,707 gross tons; The dimensions of the Chesapeake are as follows: Length over all, 219 ft.; length between perpendiculars, 205 ft.; beam, molded, 32 ft.; depth to upper deck at center, 23 ft. 83 in. Her motive power consists of one triple expansion, three-crank, surface condensing engine of the open front type, with cylinders of 18, 28 and 45 in. diameter, and a stroke of 30 in., sup- plied with steam by two Scotch boilers of 11 ft. diameter and 10 ft. length. She is built of steel throughout and has two decks and three side ports on each side; is designed to carry about 900 net tons of cargo, and will develop a speed, when fully loaded, of about 12 knots, There are no pas- senger accommodations on this vessel. She is built for freight only. The San Juan, built for the New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co., is designed to carry a maximum amount of freight with small coal capacity and is of the following dimensions: Length over all, 335 ft.; length be- tween perpendiculars, 317 ft.; length on water line, 322 ft.; beam, molded, 42 ft.; depth at center to main deck, 19 ft. 10 in.; depth to spar deck, 27 ft. 8 in.; depth at side to spar deck, 26 ft. 914 in.; depth to main deck at side, molded, 19 ft.; draught, loaded, 19 ft.; gross tonnage, 3,503; net tonnage, 2,819. COASTING STEAMER JAMES S. WHITNEY. The steel coasting steamship James S. Whitney, which has recently been completed for the Metropolitan Steamship Co. of New York, for The James S. Whitney. Built by the Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington, Del. Chesapeake, for New York & Baltimore Transportation Co., 1;101 gross tons; Mannahata, for New York & Baltimore Transportation Co., 1,103 gross tons; Harrisburg, Johnston and Wilmington, tug boats for Pennsyl- vania Railroad ‘Co., 225 gross tons; five barges for Rockland-Rockport Lime Co., 1,120 gross tons each. DESCRIPTION OF THE GRECIAN, CHESAPEAKE AND SAN JUAN. The following is a brief description of the Grecian: She is a three- deck freight and passenger steamer, built to rate under the United States Standard Register for seventeen years; tonnage of 2,483.08; length over all,.290 ft.; between perpendiculars, 263 ft. 214 in.; beam, molded, 42 ft.; depth, 36 ft.; draught, loaded, of 18 to 20 ft.; carrying capacity, about 2,500 tons. In the hull there are four water tight bulkheads, four hatches, four side ports on each side, four single-cylinder Williamson winches, Hyde steam windlass capstan forward and aft, two steel masts, steel deck house with accommodations for about 100 passengers. Machinery and auxiliaries are: Two electric light plants, 200 lights each; 18-in. searchlight; inverted triple expansion engines, with cylinders of 25, 41% and 66*in. diameter and 45 in. stroke; four 12-ft. by 10%-ft. boilers, each with-two furnaces ‘of 40 in. inside diameter, built to sustain a working pressure of 170 lbs.; built- up cast iron wheel of 15 ft. diameter; Ellis & Eaves induced draft. The bunker capacity is 275 tons and the vessel is to make a speed of 1534 knots on eight hours’ trial. There is also a Scotch donkey boiler of 8 ft. by 10 ft. The Chesapeake was one of the first vessels to leave the ways during the year.. Her sister ship, the Mannahata, followed a few weeks later. These vessels are running between New York and Baltimore on what ‘is known as the Shriver line. The Chesapeake was christened by Miss Olivia Brengle Shriver, daughter of Clarence Shriver, president of the company. freight service between New York and Boston, is an excellent example of a coast freighter. While intended for the transportation of freight ex- clusively she could readily be transformed into a passenger steamship by adding staterooms on her upper deck. In finish, appointments and general design the Whitney is equal to any of the better class of passenger steam- ships plying on our coasts. She carries a very high funnel, which serves to give a good natural draft to her furnace fires. Her freight holds are unusually capacious, and every facility is had for the rapid loading and unloading of the vessel. General dimensions of the vessel are: Length over all, 288 ft. 834 in.; length from inside stem to fore side rudder post, 278 ft. 5 in.; length between stem and inner stern post, at 10 ft. water line, 270 ft. 534 in.; beam, molded, 48 ft.; depth of floors to top of main deck beams at lowest part of sheer, 19 ft.; depth of floors from top of awn- ing deck beams at lowest part of sheer, 29 ft.; depth from lower deck beams to top of floors, 10 ft. yy The stern frame forging is in one piece, the head of post being firmly connected»to main deck beams, the section between shaft boss and keel being 10 in. by 5 in. and the*section over propeller arch. 10. in. by 434 in. The rudder is of one forging, about 5% ft. wide. The steel frames of-the hull are spaced 24 in. centers. . They are 5x3x8-16 in. in thickness for about three-fifths mid-length of the vessel, the balance reduced to 7-16 in. in thickness. They are all in one length from center of keel to spar deck stringers. At all bulkheads, under engines, and at belts, they are doubled according to the classification association requirements. Double frames are carried to or between deck stringers each side of all side ports. The reverse frames are 3x3x7-16 in., extending alternately to top of lower deck, water-way angle iron tops and the spar deck beam knees, and pass over all the beam knees of lower and main decks at forward and after ends of