Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-05-21
CONTRACT SECURED FOR
BIG TANK STEAMSHIP
Shipyard Will Build Vessel { lsllng
About $4,000, For Asso-
Z claled Oil Company.
FIFTH JOB LANDED IN FEW WEEKS
Officials and Employees of Plant, Al
ready Eiated Over Receipt of Con-
tracts for Pacific and Savannah
Companies' Four Steamers, Receive
Latest News With Enthusiasm.

A contract was received by the
Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Dock Company yesterday for
the construction of a large steel
oil-lurning, tank steamship Tor
the Associated Oil Company, of
San Francisco. The new vessel
is to be completed within a year,
and will cost about s750,000.
This is the fifth contract Sc
cured bv the yard within the past
three weeks. First came con-
tracts for two freight and pas
senger steamers for the San
Francisco and Portland Steam
ship Company, at about $750,00O
each. and on Wednesday contracts
for two liners for the Ocean
Steamship Company, of Savan-
nah, Ga, also to cost approx
mately $75O,0OO each, were re-
ceived.
AS all five of these vessels are
to be completed within year, it
il will he necessary for the yard
to make a great increase in its
working force. Preliminary work
on the jobs already is in progress,
and it will be only short time
before the actual construction OF
all FIVE will be underway.
Officially Announced.
Official news of the receipt of thi'
latest contract was given out by the
shipyard Office yesterday The Off
cials end employees of the company
as well as the community in general
already were highly elated over the
new work secured recently, and the
announcement that still another con
tract had been landed was received
with enthusiasm.
Five Of the seven shipways at the
shipyard are occupied at this time
but two of them will be vacated in
few months when the torpedo boa
destroyers under construction for thu
government are launched, and twt
more will be available soon after
ward, when three Standard Oil barge:
are put overheard from one set, ans
a steamer for the A. II. Bull Compan.
from another This will make room
for all five of the new ships. and leav'
one set of WAYS unocclpied, unles
another contract is secured befor'
that time rolls around. II is conf
IDENTITY expected, however, that va
rious Jobs will have been secured be
fore the summer is over.
Dimensions of New Ship.
The new taBk ship will be Of thu
same general description as the W
s. Porter. lrilt for the Associated
Oil Company about two years ago o
course she will be more up-to-jat'
than the Porter, and she probably will
cost q little more than that vessel.
Her principal dimensions will be a
follows:
Length between perpendicuIars. 80
feet: beam. 40 feet; depth, 80 feet
capacity OF main oil tank, 1,945.00
gallons: capacity OF summer oil tanks
10000 gallons.
The above figures are estimated, a
the yard has not given out official in
formation concerning the dimensions
The ship viii be an oil burner
end will be propelled BY threc-cylin
der triple expansion engine. drivin
a single screw, designed To send tn
ship through the water at an averag
rate Of speed Of about ten knoss
Thee will be three Scotch boilers.
The machinery will be located aft
there will be a bridge amidship an
a raised forccastlc. Accommodation
for the captain and deck officers wi
he located on the fridge deck. amid
ships. and above these will be a vince
housc and chart room.
The ship is TO he delivered al Sa
Francisco. cut Of which port she wi
Ms, 4, The parifc roaSf oil trade