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Teak Deck™ Sealant in Chubs

Executive." ATLANTIC BASIN LOW ON

U.8.A.T. "CHATEAU THIERRY"

The Atlantic Basin Iron Works, of Brook- lyn, N. Y„ submitted the low biU to the Office of the Superintendent, 58th St. and 1st Ave- nue. Brooklyn, N. Y., last Monday, November 27th, for the installation of additional troop accommodations and for other work in accord- ance with specifications.

The bids as received were as follows:

Atlantic Baain ft Iron Works 1. Troop Berths $ 6S92 2. Access to Troop Compartments— 3.9S0 3. Lifelxiat Davits and Falls 85

Total $11,792

ALABAMA AWARDED CONTRACT

The Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding

Company announce that they have entered into a contract with National Bulk Carriers,

Inc.. of New York, to build at their Pinto

Island Plant, a steel oil tank ship 360 feet long, 47.5 (eet beam. 28 feet depth of hold, to be equip|>ed with twin Diesel motors of 1.200 h p. each, and built to Lloyd's highest Classi- fication

Construction will be started immediately' and «ill be carried on by their present force.

Due to the volume of building under con- tract now consisting of tunnel sections and a number of steel barges, it will be necessary to extend the building ways now in use at the

TANKER DRYDOCKED AFTER

EXPLOSION

The tanker J. A Mowinckel, of the Panama

Transportation Company, a subsidiary of the

Standard Oil, which was damaged by ait ex- plosion a week ago Saturday while at her pier in Countable Hook. N. J., *as towed to the

Robins Dry Duck and Repair Company plant, in Erie Ba.-iu. Brooklyn. N. Y.

An examination of the J. A. Mowinckel-will have to be made !>efore it can be determined how long it will take to make repairs, it was announced by the Robins yard.

The officials of the Robins Dry Dock and

Repair Company are as follows;

Officials — Frank V Gilbridge, President;

Maritime Meanings

Snottie

Snottie is naval slang for a midshipman, an apprentice officer. In the early days of fighting sail, midshipmen went to sea at a very early age, often as youngsters barely newly breeched, and their nickname is said to come from thier habit of wiping their noses on their sleeves. Tradition has it that Nelson ordered three buttons to be sewn on the sleeves of midshipmen to prevent this unseemly practice. To be snotty is to be angry, querulous, easily irritated; fiom the fact that the extreme youth of the nautical snottie made him susceptible to temper and tears — until the unerring hand of naval discipline showed him the value of accept- ing all things to do with nautical life.

Source: An Ocean of Words: A Dictionary of Nautical Words and Phrases, by Peter D. Jeans; Birch Lane Press , 1998

Recycling of ships is again top news. See Dennis

Bryant's Government Update starting on page 18.

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