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Builds Ship for Foreign Buyer Chester Yard Is Completing Large Freighter for Dutch Company--First Foreign Contract Placed Since Armistice HE vessel shown in the accom- I panying illustration is a 11,590 deadweight ton freighter, the SaLaATIGA, being built by the Sun Ship- building Co., Chester, Pa. for the Rot- terdam Lloyd's, Rotterdam, Holland. She is one of the first foreign contracts let in this country since the armistice. This ship is designed for use in trade with the East and was launched dur- ing April. Being for foreign reg- ister, the boat will be classified by Lloyd's. The vessel will be of the closed shelter deck, single screw type, with transverse framing. She _ will have three complete decks, and will have an inner bottom for fuel oil running the full length of the ship between the peak bulkheads. The boat will have eight transverse watertight bulkheads, four cargo 'holds, a deep tank and a cable tank, at the after end of No. 2 hold. A forecastle deck will be fitted. The measurements of the vessel are 435 feet between perpendiculars, 451 feet overall, 57 feet 6 inches molded beam, 38 feet molded depth to shelter deck, and 28 feet 1% inches loaded draft. Her contract speed is 11 knots. Provides Large Hatches Five large hatches have been planned, all being 20 feet wide, and varying in length from 15 feet 114 inches to 36 feet 3 inches. The vessel will have a fore and main mast, each fitted with five 7-ton steel booms with a 30-ton boom at the foremast. There will be four derrick posts, each fitted with one 2-ton boom. The foremast will be served by five winches, including two of the compound geared type. In addition, there will be five winches at the main mast and one at each derrick post. Accommodations for the captain and deck officers will be in a house amidships between No. 2 and No. 3 hatches at the shelter deck level. This house will contain the main saloon and accommodations for three pas- Sengers. The captain, pilot and radio room will be located in a_ separate house on the bridge deck with a Wheelhouse and chart room above. Abreast of the engine and __ boiler Casing between No. 3 and No. 4 hatches in wing houses on the shelter deck will be located the engineers, doctors, surgeon's examination room, Stewards, cooks, etc. The ship's gal- ley and storeroom, with ship's office, will be located immediately aft of the engine casing on the shelter deck. Immediately below on the upper deck will be located the cold storage and galley storerooms. Firemen, sailors and petty officers will be berthed in the forecastle forward. As the boat, when east of Suez, will frequently carry pilgrims, special arrangements for their accommodation have been provided. These are car- ried between the upper and _ shelter decks aft.. Aft of No. 5 hatch on the shelter deck will be a house contain- ing two galleys, male and female hospital, with water closets and wash- room in wing houses abreast of these. The ship will depend upon natural ventilation throughout, special care hav- ing been taken in its construction to provide air for the pilgrim space on the upper deck and for the crew in the forecastle. Eight 30-foot lifeboats to be carried in Welin davits on the midship wing and after deckhouses will 'be equipped according to Dutch daw. The SaLaTica's power wit will con- sist of a vertical, inverted triple ex- pansion engine 'with cylinders 27 x 4514 x 76 inches diameter and 51-inch stroke. The engine will be equipped with an independent condenser and air pump. The ship will have three single-ended Scotch boilers, the inside diameter measuring 15 feet 10 inches by 11 feet 11% inches between heads. Three furnaces will be installed. The working steam pressure will be 190 pounds. The boat will be oil burning with forced draft system of the hot air type. The steering gear will be placed aft on the upper deck. It will be of the right-and-left hand screw type with telemotor control and hand emergency steering wheels. The electric plant will consist of two 15-kilowatt, direct-connected, 110- voli machines. Steam heating will be provided for all quarters. A 2-ton ammonia ice machine with a tank of - 200 tons of ice per day capacity will be installed. In connection with the report that a 9600-ton vessel launched recently at New Orleans was the largest ship ever built south of Newport News, Va., the George A. Fuller Go., Wilmington, N. C., advises that it is building ships 413 of the same size. One ship had been completed and delivered and four others sent into the water prior to the launch- ing at the Louisiana port. Test Big Submarine What is said to be one of the finest submarines ever delivered to the navy is the A.A.-1_ which recently proved up under government tests in the New London, Conn., harbor. The vessel was built by the Electric Boat Co., and 46 by far the largest and fastest United States submarine. She is 270 fect i overall length with a surface displace- ment of 1150 tons. The A.A.-1 is known as a fleet submarine because she de- velops a speed great enough to accom- pany the battle fleet. In her trials a speed uf 20.92 knots was made. Fear has been expressed by naval experts that the increased size and speed of the submarine would mean a loss of the excellent submerged qualities posseseed by the smaller boats. been realized in the case of the K. class of submarine of the British gov- ernment, which developed a speed in the neighborhood of 23 knots on the surface but have an inferior submerged quality and an exceedingly short radius of action. The demonstration of the A.A.-1 shows that this is not necessarily the case in a large and high-speed sub- marine, for nothing has been sacrificed in the matter of underwater qualities or radius of action. The vessel is equipped with diesel engines built by the New London Ship & Engine Co., Groton, Conn., which develop 4400. horsepower. ----. New Danu be Yard Ship repair and construction work will be undertaken by a new Ruman- ian company just organized. This firm will be known as the Shipyard "Braila" and has begun the _ con- struction of a plant at Braila, Ru- mania, on the Danube river. The company is capitalized at $3,000,000, of which $600,000 has been issued. Founders of the company include the bank of Messrs. Marmorosch, Blank & Co., Dunarka River Navigation Co., Maritima Steamship Co., Cometa oil refinery and the Cantacuzino Port- land cement works. The officers are Gen. G. Cantacuzino, president, and Consul Victor B. Mendl, vice presi- dent. This fear has -~