The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 9, 1919, Page 9

Pacific Construction and Engineering sompany of Seattle Rated as One of the | Foremost Marine Engineering Plants. Barty tn 1917, Mr. Robert C. Monteagie, at that tim Construction & Dry Dock Company of felt nent of this great Northwest as a manufact r . bility for Marine construction, and the necessity, as a practicable Were to be constructed on any large scale here, of Plant capable of supplying even the heaviest forgings required for ship Mr. Monteagie’s eminence as a Marine Engineer, and his years of experience in shipbuilding, brought him face to face with the fact that @ependent upon Eastern concerns for such im which are essential to its construction, would, in reality, militate seriously shipbuilding on the Coast. The outcome of his determination was the or of the Pacific Construction & Engineering Company, whose plant at 2917 m Avenue, is a credit to industrial Seattle, and marks an epoch in its history ‘The great raw steel ingots, weighing from 15 to 5 from which a ship's and other forgings, such as stern frames, rudder stocks and posta, ete., Manufactured, are handled by the equipment in the company's plant with an Which bestirs wonderment. The three big hydraulic steam preswes In the main f the forge shop, under which these ingots are wrought into the shapes desired, out, the emergent period of ship construction, were kept in continual action three shifts per day; and let it be said now that, had this plant not been in ce on the Coast to fill the breach, the name this Northwest won in shipbuild could not have been so easily attained. There are twenty-one heating furnaces, tm these the ingots are heated to a white heat before going to the press. There ften overhead cranes in the forge shop, and these, with the big slings and turning take the ingots from the furnaces to (he presses and hold them in place while are being forged. The forger, whose duty it is to direct the forging is a highly Mechanic, for his eye must be true and his senses keen. When the heat is ito go into the press, the forger is a spectacular figure, as he directs his gang crane operator in the proper placement of the hot ingot. Then there n finest team work, and his directions to the cranemen, if two are with heavy forging. is usual, as well as to the press operator and of the turning rig, are followed without any lost motion whatever, ever ; and, in a very little time, the hot metal is transformed from its original Into a shaft forging, or a rudder stock, or a rudder post, or a conneating rod. specifications to which he is working may call for. "When the forging operation is completed, the forging is carried down and laid floor at the end of the forge shop, where each forging must be Inspected’ and d by the inspector of the American Bureau of Shipping or Licyd's Register ping, as the case may be, and then, in their turn, they must be annealed big annealing furnaces, after which they go on to the machine shop. The yy has eight big bogging lathes for rough turning shaft forgings, and even big and capable as they are, cannot keep pace with the forgers. These shaft vary tn weight, from six to eight tons, binck forged, and after being rough are delivered or shipped to the shipyards for finishing and installation inte creating on this Coast a nt parts of a vessel as the Pacific Construction & Engineering Company, with its organization and it, is able to, and has, undertaken and completed, the most exacting kind work, especially heavy forge work. Practically al is on the We realized the boon to the Industry which the fac ic Con na & Engineering Company render, and P. C. & E. forging and their F into all the yards. The company’s organization {s complete the one d thousand pound capacity testing machine in its own laboratory, there is no attending the testing of forgings. recent incident iMlustrating the company's efficiency, is worthy of note. The . d ton steamship “Yomei Maru,” with a broken stern frame, was towed the Skinner & Eddy yard to be dry-docked and repaired. and the job quickly. Mr. David Rogers, of the Skinner & Eddy plant, hurr! th with the superintendent of the Pacific Construction & Pngineering Co [asked how soon a forged stern frame to replace the broken cast steel frame vessel could be gotten out. When he received the astonishing reply, “In two i he immediately placed an order for the forging, and the four parts of it Gelivered to the Skinner Eddy plant within the time epecified. This is except for the fact, and hopelessly shatters all records for a forging of and nature. company’s plant, located at 2917 Whatcom Avenue, abuts on the Past , thus affording water facilities in addition to the two spur tracks off the kee’s main line into their shops, '. N. GAITHER, FRANK T. HUNTER, FRANK P. HAUSER, Vice President. President. Sec, and Treas. R V. NEWSHAM, Manager Liability Department Frank T. Hunter Co. Fire, Marine, Liability, Surety Bonds and Automobile Insurance i 410 Railway Exchange Building, Second Avenue a¢ Cherry Street ‘Tdephence—Main 271, Main 699 SEATTLE, WASH. GALBRAITH & Co. BUILDING MATERIALS OF EVERY KIND AND DESCRIPTION Office Galbraith Dock—Foot of Madison St. Efficient Service—Telephone Main 7000—Prompt Delivery Established 1892 M. Furuya Co. Importers and Exporters Manufacturers and Packers Furuya Building 216-220 Second Ave. So. SEATTLE, U. 8, A. 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