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July, 1910 telegraph for docking and telegraphs and whistle pulls to engine room. The engineers are accommodated aft, where also the dining saloon, pantry, galley, mess-room, and ice house are placed. The vessel is propelled by machinery of the triple-expansion, single-screw type, having cylinders 20%, 33 and 54 by 36-in. stroke, supplied with steam from two boilers 14 ft. by 10 ft. 6 in., working at a pressure of 190 lbs. The TAE Marine REVIEW . main engines are controlled by steam and hydraulic starting and reversing gear, and have also steam turning gear; Weir's special feed pump is fit- ted, also feed heater, Crompton's at- mospheric self-tipping ash hoist, and the whole engine room equipment is thoroughly up-to-date. The Drummond will be principally engaged in carrying steel rails from Sault Ste. Marie to Fort William and Georgian Bay ports. Steel Screw Colliers Coastwise and Transportation ap WO steel single screw colliers were recently completed by the New York Ship Building Co., Camden, New Jersey, for the Coastwise Coal Co, trade between Baltimore and Boston; both are of the following dimensions: Length between perpendiculars.... 360 ft. Beam molded... 6) a6 ae sees 49 ft. Depth molded to upper deck...... 30 ft. Woad 'drauphtery. secre oa 22 tt. 61m. Deadweight at this draught....... 6,400 tons ross tonnage' 35 0. Se ee ee 4,015 Speed, -loaded;.-at sear.ccn isc be.. 11 knots The vessels are of steel, built in ac- cordance with the rules of the Amer- ican Bureau of Shipping, single deck, ers are steel, hinged in two pieces, water-tight and provided with special lifting gear and posts for supporting same when open. Two steam winch- es from. which leads are taken for operating hatch covers, are placed on top of trunk at each end of the ves- sel. ' Accommodation for captain's saloon, spare stateroom, officers, etc., is pro- vided in a large steel deckhouse on bridge deck, with a pilot house on top of bridgehouse. Quartermasters, 271 the forecastle immediately above. A capstan is also provided' on the poop deck with engine on upper deck be- low. Steam steering gear is fitted on the upper deck in the poop abaft the engine. casing, with 'connection to pilot house. Auxiliary hand steering gear with right and left hand screw is attached directly to crosshead on the rudder stock. Two metallic life-_ boats are provided and fitted under Mallory davits on the poop deckhouse, a wooden working boat being also provided on the bridge deck. Ves- sels are. well provided with all the necessary bitts, cleats, etc., for moor- ing purposes, and a special towing bitt and chock is fitted aft. An extra deep double bottom is fitted for the carriage of water ballast, with feed water under the boilers.- The fore and after peaks are arranged for wa- ter ballast. Coal bunkers ate a0 ranged. at side of 'boilers ana i *tweendecks alongside boiler -- casing, with pockets to fire-room. The pro- pelling machinery is placed aft and consists of two single 'ended Scotch boilers 17 ft. diameter by IT ft. 4 in. long, with a working pressure of 175 with poop 76 ft. bridge 17 ft. and top boys, toilet and lamp room are ar- 1lb.; triple-expansion engines of 1,700 i we i DO EATER TS oN we Ee aorta An WEA \ Ary Le Toa Ste Soca ; Wo Ost ONS =a ee === ~ === ---- =sSS=> - --- Se ee eee ee Pine ee he fa ely == =aagae Se ae =. ei oars <= yee ------ St Ar eae ' if ° ' Tank _ 2 4 | | ' ' I 1 ' totter SST TTT La Te rot i 8 8 x Bold Lno2 Enola SNe! 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The engineers are berthed in a deckhouse on poop deck along- side engine casing; the galley, mess- es, ice-room and galley stores being arranged abaft the same. Entrance to crew and firemen accommodation in poop is provided in the after} deckhouse, and the seamen, firemen, oilers, assistant cooks, - toilets, etc., are berthed in poop alongside' engine casing.. There is a steam windlass forward, the engine being located on the upper deck in the forecastle; the wild cats and warping drums are on cs) i oo PLANS oF STEAM COLLIERS COASTWISE AND TRANSPORTATION. I. H. P., with cylinders 2414, 38%, 64 in. diameter by 45 in. stroke, with a surface condenser attached; propeller 16 ft. diameter, The trial trips were run on the Del- aware fiver course at Deep Water point in fully ballasted conditions, during which a mean speed of 13 knots per hour was obtained, with somewhat more than the normal horse power mentioned above. In loaded condition the vessels have maintained an .average speed between Baltimore and Boston of slightly in excess of 11 knots, carrying a full coal cargo.