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NEW JAPANESE DIESEL-ENGINE DRIVEN PASSENGER STEAMER KURENAI MARU Japanese Build Fast Motorship First Oil Engine Vessel to Carry Passengers Under Japanese Flag Recently Commissioned—Has Speed of 15 Knots—Casries Six Hundred Passengers Te motorship Kurenart Maru is the first Japanese motorship built by the Osaka Iron Works at its Sakurajima yard. It is equipped with original Burmeister & Wain engines, shipped from the works at Copenhagen. This boat is designed for the Osaka Shosen Kaisha’s service on the Beppu route, which has been covered for many years by the Osaka Shosen company. The following are the leading details PROMENADE DECK B= UPPER DECK. 25° DECK. PROMENADE DECK. OUTBOARD PROFILE AND PROMENADE DECK PLAN OF KURENAI MARU SHOWING FIRST CLAS of the Kurenart Maru: Gross tonnage, 1550 tons; length overall, 251° feet; breadth, 38 feet; depth molded, 19 feet 6 inches; mean draft, 11 feet 6 inches. She is built to carry 38 first class passen- gers, 108 second class, and 452 third class. The total is 598. Passenger Accommodation Thanks to the absence of coal dust, the owners have been lavish in the arrange- ment and decoration of the passenger ac- fit cn An eh 000 O00 000 000 000 gon 7.000 och ‘000 ooo 1) 100 187. CLASS GALLERY. 61 commodation, and nothing has been spared in order to achieve success as well from the artistic as from the comfort point of ‘view. The first class quarters are reached by two main stairways from the main deck, being separated from the other classes and situated on the upper deck. These stairways enter on to a main hall, which is also used for smoking and so- cial purposes. The main hall is decorated S ACCOMMODATION