The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-02-23

Venezuela was launched on November
6 from the Venezuela navy yard at
Puerto Cabellc. This vessel is 70 feet
long, Is 1-2 feet beam. and Z feet deep
and will have a speed of IL knots. She
is intended for coast defense and cost
$14,105.
The four-mas. schooner of 1000
tons. in frame and partially ceiled, now
on the stocks at the New England
Shipyard IN Bath, Me, has been pur-
chased by the Gardner G. Deering Co..
who will have her ready for sea oy
July.
The Shenango Steamship Company.
Of Pittsburg, has contracted with the
Great Lakes Engineering Works, De-
troit, for two freight steamers, GIT ov
g. by "a feet, and to have a carrying
capacity of $4,000 gross tons of ore,
The Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Dock Company's yard at Newport
News was closed out Of respect to the
memory Of it's late esteemed president.
Calvin B. Circuit, on February End, thu.
day that his funeral took place m
Elizabeth. N. J. Quite a number IF
the yard officials and a committee of
the Chamber OF Commerce Of Newport
News attended the funeral.
William T. Donnelly, the we'll known
dry dock designer OF New York, lett
for the Pacific coast via the Southern
Pacific on the 18th of this month.
stopping over at New Orleans and
Galveston. Mr.. Donnelly will combine
business with pleasure by visiting the
shipbuilding and repair plants of the
Pacific coast, and expects to return
east before the END Of March
More Funds Needed to Raise Mains.
The work Of raising the Maine, so
tarily undertaken, against threatens tn
be delayed unless congress acts
promptly by making an additional ap-
preparation to the original one Of $780,
900. which 1t il stated Is about ex-
hausted. One Of the most serious con-
siderations in the matter is the fact
that unless Unnecessary money is
promptly provided for, not only will
the ultimate result be indefinitely de-
layed. but the large sum already ex-
pended will go for naught. There are
three reasons why this werck should
be raised; namely, to determine how
the catastrophe was precipitated. to
give decent burial to any human re
mains that are to be found in 1t, and
to remove an obstruction to navigation
in Havana harbor. To accomplish the
first two of these objects makes tn.
raising OF this vessel SO expensive and
difficult. The scheme adopted by the
United States army engineers is 70
surround the wreck, 325 feet long and
lying in 81 feet of water. with a Golfer
dam which shall be water tight and
strong enough to enable work to be
carried on safely under its protection
To this end the engineers purpose 20
sink around the battleship a series O.
cylinders. numbering over three thou
sand, Of interiocking steel sheet piling.
Those at the bow and stern to be 10
feet, and those along the side to be 50
feet in diameter. To make these hold
it is intended to have them penetrate
about 80 feet into the soft bottom, and
to make them about 10 feet in height
altogether. These cylinders are then &c
be filled with clay dug from shoals in
the harbor. This dam will not onl,
have to resist the pressure of the wa
| ter. but must be able to support loads
and upon 1t must be built platform
| from which can be carried on the un
| watering of the territory 1t encloses
and from which the work on the wrecE
/ can be carried on.
Were this merely a matter Of re
moving the wreck. it would be infinite
| ~ much simplif1ed, but 1t IL not; and
now that work has been started, II