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40 MARINE REVIEW MAR.NE REVIEW OUTBOARD VIEW OF REVENUE CUTIER FOR THE MAINE COAST NEW REVENUE CUTTER FOR THE MAINE COAST. it has been decided to construct the vessel of wood. The bow, At the last session of the fifty-seventh congress, through the instead of being ram shaped, as has been customary on other efforts of Senator Frye of Maine, an appropriation of $200,000 cutters, is cut away under water to facilitate getting through was made for the construction of a revenue cutter of the first- the ice by crushing it down rather than cutting through it. class for duty on the coast of Maine. The design of this The stern is on the order of those used for the double-end vessel has now been practically completed and in a short time | gunboats during the civil war. Although wood is used for * -- r | : -- Blower Distiller Engine | --t -- | 4) Dypamd (4 (ees aes] : a pails | es 4 E i man x i Ee one Sanitary Pump >< _[] -- Ash ae = ----- 62 } 50 2 32 40 Looking Aft Looking Aft Looking Aft Ot Looking Forward Aux.Feed ees Water Heater Cir.Pump Feed Pump : 8 y Air Compressor Tarning Pump Water Tanks \ a ri Rent a = See Sees Engine 1 Water Tanks ee es Pump mm Dynamo Dist. Air. 65 62 8 Fy 50 46 42 38 34 30 5 22 oo = GENERAL ARRANGEMENT OF MACHINERY IN HULL, OF REVENUE CUTTER FOR THE MAINE COAST. os proposals will be asked from ship builders for her construc- tion. In design of the hull the new vessel will present a rad- 73 Tt 70 the greater portion of the vessel, metal has been worked in wherever it will add to the lightness and strength of the ves- ical departure from other cutters of her class, owing to the sel without detracting from the object for which the wooden peculiar duties assigned to vessels on this station. In the aan as was adopted. As a consequence, all deck beams long winter season frequent calls for assistance come from lea Age as will also ie hanging knees, deck stringer ice-bound sailing vessels, and to perfor é ; » hatch coamings, etc. he stern post, rudder post and : m this duty efciently rudder are to be of manganese bronze. The vessel will have