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MARINE REVIEW -- WEEKLY. ] AND MARINE RECORD. LE ey ARLENE Te 7e Vol. XXVI Published every Thursday ep nen ve O., OCT. 23, $902. Subscription $3.00 year : ol. 39-41 ade g by the astern Office, 1023 Maritime Bldg., N i : i Marine Review Pub. Co. Chicago Office, 373 Deadborn 8a oo Single Cog MS is No. $7 [Entered at Cleveland Post Office as second-class matter.] UNITED STATES LIGHTHOUSE TENDER MAGNOLIA. 'In the course of a few days bids will be opened for a new tender for the inspector of the eighth lighthouse district. This district extends from Mobile, Ala., to'the Rio Grande river and up the Mississippi river 400 or 500 miles. Besides covering all the navigation along the coast between the points mentioned, this district embraces all the inland sounds, inlets and the rivers emptying into them. 'To enable the inspector to perform all the duties which this territory covers a departure has been made in the design for the tender for this district. The tender, the name of which will be Magnolia, will be 173 ft. 2 in. over all; length between perpendiculars, 165 ft.; beam molded, 30 ft.°3 The departure in design will be in.; depth of hold, 13 ft. 1 in. Owing to the necessity of operating at sea and in the shallow bays and rivers which abound in this district, a large ballast tank is provided abaft of the cargo space and just forward of the boiler room. 'The capacity of this tank is about 90 tons and pumps and equipment will be fitted for emptying the same in about one and one-half hours. The tank will be filled from the sea and also by the pumps. The capacity of the forward trimming tank is about 7 tons. A large trimming tank will be built in the stern of about 31 tons capacity to trim the vessel by the stern when at sea. The two engines will be of the vertical, inverted, direct-act- ing, open-front, surface-condensing, fore-and-aft compound type with cylinders 18 in. and 34 in. in diameter and a common stroke in the type of boat. She will be of the bridge-deck type, minus the forecastle and poop decks, but the bridge deck will extend to the stern over a deckhouse on the main deck. By carrying up the sides amidship very cool and commodious quarters are pro- vided, whereas in the open-deckhouse type, the quarters in this locality have to be located over the boilers. The latter would never do for a tender working in this district where the tempera- ture is nearly always above summer heat. The tender will be schooner rigged. 'The foremast will bé of sufficient size to carry a very large cargo boom. The bulwarks will fair into the superstructure sides and extend to the stem and to the stern. A passageway is provided all around the after deckhouse on the main deck. The crew are quartered forward, Ja spectors State Room * f i | y! itt t \ " "of 26 in. Outboard View of the Lighthouse Tender Magnolia Solid cast iron propellers about 7 ft. in diameter will be fitted. Steam will be furnished by two boilers of the Scotch type, designed for a working pressure of 120 lbs. per square inch. The boilers will have a mean diameter of 12 ft. 6 in. and a length of 2 ff. The inspector's quarters will be principally located in the main deckhouse with a suite of private quarters in the after deck- house on the spar deck. The latter will consist of a chart room and state room combined, a bath room, with large linen closet and a lobby or smoking room at the head of the stairway leading to his quarters on the main deck. The main-deck quarters will contain two large state rooms in the after end; a pantry on the port side forward with a bath room in the same position on the Slastecs Deck Plan of the Lighthouse Tender Magnolia. below the main deck, and separate compartments are provided for the crew proper and the machinists and oilers. Considerable attention has been given to the comfortable quartering of these men and they are well provided for. The usual trimming tank in the peak and the chain lockers: just abaft it are provided. Abaft the crew space is located the main cargo hold, extending the full width and depth of the vessel. The capacity of this space is about 7,500 cu. ft. sy 7 starboard side; and the remaining space given over to the saloon, which is a comfortable, well-furnished and neatly finished room. The officers are provided with a mess room below on the after lower deck; two state-rcoms, a pantry and a bread room complete these quarters. A trunk stairway leads to the main deck through the upper engine room, and gangway is also provided by a booby hatch located just abaft the after deck- house. The ladder of this hatch leads to the after store room,