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Marine Review (Cleveland, OH), 3 Jan 1907, p. 45

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castle, arranged with thirteen pipe berths, will be provided. The officer's quarters will follow the forecastle, with three large staterooms. Offficer's mess and toilet will also be arranged. Next aft, the galley is provided, full width of the vessel, complete with all A large stor- modern conveniences. "TAE Marine. REVIEW Aft of these rooms, and opening from after end of main saloon, will be two large staterooms, with brass bedstead in each, and arranged with sliding door, same as in the owner's state- rooms. Following the two staterooms for guests, is a large bath room, com- pletely furnished. Large linen lockers TWIN-SCREW STEEL YACHT FOR CYRUS CURTIS . Building by Gas Engine & Power Co. and Charles L. Seabury & Co., consolidated, Morris Heights, age for extra ice supply will be ar- ranged under the galley floor. The machinery compartment follows galley. This will be provided. with two Seabury triple-expansion marine engines, each with cylinders 11 in., 16% in. and 26 in. diameter by 12-in. stroke. Steam will be supplied by two Seabury patent safety water-tube boil- ers of the latest design. Aft of the machinery compartment, the owner's bath room will be arranged, provided with large bath tub, marble wash basin, patent marine water closet, and all the necessary toilet fixtures. All _ of the plumbing to be of the open pat- tern. The bulkhead between bath room and engine room to be arranged, so as to.. eliminate the passage of: sound and heat. Aft of the bath room, and connecting with same, will be ar- ranged the owner's staterooms, two, in number, side by side. Sliding door arranged between these rooms, having full length mirrors on each _ side. Brass bedstead, dressing case, uphol- stered divan and other conveniences arranged in each room, The saloon is next aft of the owner's staterooms, extending part of the width of the vessel, fitted with upholstered tran- som seat. On the starboard side, op- posite main saloon, will be arranged one stateroom, for use of guests, fitted with single bed. Aft of this stateroom, will be fitted a lavatory and _ toilet room, with entrance from the saloon. the: NY, and other closets will be provided. Lazarette is aft, with entrance from main deck, Light and ventilation throughout the vessel has been very carefully pro- , 45 GASOLINE MOTOR SCHOONER NORTHLAND. The average New Yorker haunting the vicinity of the North river becomes so ac- customed to seeing all that is biggest and best in the shipping world, that it is only the appearance of some extraordinarily- built vessel can arouse in him more than a passing interest. There arrived in New. York on Dec. 14, the latest type of sea- going craft--the gasoline motor freight schooner Northland, belonging to the Northern Paper Co. . The Northland, hailing from Rockland, Me., where she was built by the Cobb-Butler Co., is a wooden-hulled vessel of 2,047 gross tons, 246 ft. in length, beam 44 ft. 6 in., depth of hold 26 ft. 6 in. and is the largest -motor schooner in the world. Her aux- iliary propelling apparatus consists of a six-cylinder double-acting Standard mo- tor of 500 H.P., driving a wheel 7 ft. diameter and 4-ft. pitch, the engine room -being large and roomy and located in 'the stern of the vessel. At the sides of the engine room are the two gasoline tanks, with a capacity of 6,000 gallons. She is lighted throughout by electricity, the power being supplied by two gasoline- driven dynamos. The cargo is raised to the deck by electric elevators, thereby dispensing with the usual winches and derricks on the deck. The platform of the elevator acts as hatch cover when not in use. In the forward engine-room is installed the windlass and steam winch, wrecking pumps and donkey boiler, built 'GASOLINE MOTOR FREIGHT SCHOONER NORTHLAND. vided for. throughout with electricity, and heated with steam. Naphtha launch and full equipment of small boats will be car- ried in the davits. The delivery of the vessel will be made to the owner, May I, 1907. The yacht will be lighted by the Hyde Windlass Co., of Bath, Me. Unlike the usual order of things, con- siderable attention has been given to the accommodation of the crew, from . the captain to the cabin boy, the ship being fitted out to the point of luxuriousness. The captain's room is finished off in syca-

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