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September, 1914 the Panama Pacific International Ex- ' position at San Francisco next year, the new and interesting route through the Panama canal will undoubtedly prove most attractive to many tourists, especially those who desire to avoid railroad travel across the continent. Power Life Bust Lundin The power life boat Lundin left ine «Battery, New York, on July 28, to sail across the Atlantic ocean, but was recalled while enroute to Halifax, owing to the European war. About 15 attempts have been made to cross the Atlantic in small boats and practically all of them succeeded though none of them were as well equipped for the task as is this Lundin boat. There is no good reason why the Lundin boat should not go anywhere with perfect safety. This power boat is built entirely of galvanized sheet steel and is 36 feet long, 12 feet wide and draws 27 inches. The boat is flat bottom and flat sided, though a fender of balsa wood one foot thick on each side of the boat gives her a rounded look. The hull is constructed of No. 12 Birmingham wire gage galvanized steel plates with all seams double riveted with red lead and flannel laid between. The deck house is of No. 18 Birming- ham wire gage steel with athwartship ribs inside and fore and aft ribs out- side that greatly stiffen the structure. The hull is practically an oblong steel box 36 feet by 10 feet by 4 feet deep, flat on the bottom with a_ steel floor or deck 34 inches above the bottom. This 34-inch space forms a double bot- tom which is sub-divided by cross bulk- heads and fore and aft partitions into ten separate airtight compartments. Access into each of these spaces is. possible by circular removable covers © clamped down on hatches in the steel deck. Automatic scuppers drain any water that may get in through . pipes leading down through the bottom. The depth from gunwale to bottom is 4 feet. The total depth from roof to keel is 7 to 8 feet and the head room is 5 feet 10 inches. At gunwale height there are seven cross seats or thwarts and fore and aft seats along each side and along the engine box, seating 85 per- Sons. The interior is lighted through eight specially designed ports, four on 4 side, which may be opened to admit air or may be clamped down water- tight. Just aft of amidships in a metal box Compartment a four-cylinder, 6x 18, 36- horsepower Standard motor is installed equipped with an electric self-starter and belted to a dynamo which furnishes electric light and power for the wire- Tess outfit. The propeller, 27-inch ' THE MARINE REVIEW diameter by 39-inch pitch, turns in a tunnel built in the house bottom aft. Both bow and 'stern are full with a metal rudder hung outboard of the stern fitted with a tiller, and for the trip across a quadrant and steering gear. Two 230-gallon seamless steel tanks for gasoline are supported on leather-lined steel saddles, strapped fast -in the bilge compartments either side of the motor box. A pump on the motor raises this fuel to a small feed tank to the forward port corner of the motor box where it feeds by gravity to the vaporizer. For the trip across extra boxed cans of gasoline will be stowed in the .various air-tight compartments in the boat's double bottom. Fresh water is carried in two cylindrical tanks, 100- gallons capacity each, swung level with the floor just aft of the engine com- 349 ton electric light outfit will furnish electric lights throughout the boat as well as the running lights. Cooking will be done on an electric stove. The wireless equipment is sufficient to trans- mit messages 100 miles and to receive them from 600 to 1,000 miles. The out- fit is the same as that used in the United States submarine boats. Finding Position in Fog Some results of much interest to navigators are likely to be obtained from the tests which are to be con- ducted on the Canadian Northern liner Royal George, which sailed from Avon- mouth recently for Quebec and Mon- treal. She has been fitted with the Marconi- Bellini-Tosi apparatus, which will en- able her in the thickest weather, and ER LIFE BOAT LUNDIN, WHICH. STARTED oe THE ee ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JULY 29 partment. Ventilation is provided by air vents that. automatically close if turned upside down, two forward and two aft, fitted in the roof after main cabin. A cowl on roof feeds air down into the wireless compartment. <A blower belted to pulley on shaft at after end of engine box draws air out and up through a vent over after end of engine box. Two masts 30 feet long are hinged to fold down on cabin top when the boat rests on a steamer's deck. Their butts are stepped into iron sockets built in the hull just outside the house. A double set of shrouds and head stays steady each mast, being set taut with galvanized iron turnbuckles, shackled to chain plates riveted to the plating. A large staysail to hoist to main mast head and a small jib are fitted to help her in a fair breeze. A complete Day- without. ie. aid of the compass. or sex- tant, to find her position when she is within a radius of fifty miles of a fixed wireless station, or one on board a ship whose position is known. Also, should she pick up the wireless distress signal on this apparatus, she will be able to set her course towards its source, even though the ship in distress has not been able to give her position. This is the first time the equipment has been carried on an Atlantic liner, but it has been tested on a_ small steamer plying between Hull and Chris- tiania. The Navy [Department has appro- priated $40,000 for the Pensacola navy yard, the money to be used in im-- provements suggested by President. C. E. Dobson, ef the local Board of. Trade.