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May, 1926 MARINE REVIE W. 2 SUNN TT IAAT _River,Harbor,Lake and Ocean Vessels | nas Are Illustrated and Described requirements for transportation by water is constantly growing and cannot help but continue to grow. The number and diversity of specialized craft needed to meet the peculiar problems of widely varied localities and services call for the application of naval archi- tecture and marine engineering in many interesting and novel ways. On the great inland waterways of the country, serving large and prosperous industrial sections, there is an awakening to the vast pos- sibilities of cheap transportation by means of modern vessels. For new vessels, steel has replaced wood for nonpropelled barges, for tow- boats and for passenger vessels. The problem of shallow draft must be solved. Propulsion by paddle or stern wheels, as old as the history of river navigation, is still univer- sally the accepted mode; but ex- periments have been made and a ie THE United States domestic number of successful: boats with screw propellers working in tunnel sterns have been built. There is a constantly growjng tendency to de- part from the uneconomical single and compound steam engine and to adopt the diesel and diesel elec- tric for propulsive power. Further education, and successful experi- ence with boats now so engined will have a powerful effect in bring- ing about a complete transforma- a of river boat types along this ine. With steadily increasing over- seas, intercoastal and _ coastwise commerce there will be need of a corresponding increase in harbor craft, in tugboats, lighters and floats. Many communities are so separated by water that the easiest and most economical if not the only . means of communication is by boat. It is very noticeable that passenger and vehicle and car ferries are be- ing built in greater numbers today than ever before. More vessels are needed and are being built to carry the growing commerce of the Great Lakes. On account of the great fleet of cargo carriers built during the emergency of war little or no new building of this type has yet been called for but there is a steady if slow tendency toward economy of operation by converting existing steam vessels to diesel drive. On this and accompanying pages the following new and converted ves- sels are illustrated and _ concisely described, river passenger boat Is- land Queen, river towboat Geor- gia, harbor tugboat Stroudsburg, passenger ferries American Legion and York, self unloading lake freighter Charles C. West, tanker Lio and ocean freighter East In- dian both of the latter converted from steam to diesel drive. ISLAND QUEEN--River Passenger--Side Paddle Wheel--Steam Name—ISLAND QUEEN. _ Boilers—Six, Western river type, DESCRIPTION The side paddle wheel river passenger steam- er, ISLAND QUEEN, built for the Coney Island Amusement Co. by the Midland Barge Co., is one of the finest vessels for her service on_ the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The passenger capacity is 5502 as ar excursion vessel and a crew of 70 is car- ried. She is mainly an excursion boat. with 10 SANNA LULU Owner—Coney Island Amusement Co. Builder—Midland Barge Co. Naval Architect—Thomas Dunbar. Launched—1924. Completed—April, 1925. Classification—River excursion. HULL PARTICULARS Length overall, 300 feet; length between per- pendiculars, 290 feet; breadth molded of hull, 45 feet 6 inches; breadth overall, 83 feet; depth molded, 12 feet; draft, 5 feet; deadweight tonnage, 1000; gross tonnage, 1000; net ton- nage, 800; passenger capacity, for excursions, 5500; crew, 70; speed, 20 statute miles per hour. MACHINERY PARTICULARS Main Engines—Two, Tandem compound Wes- tern river type, built by Charles Barnes Co.; size 22 x 40 inches and 9 feet stroke; connected directly to the paddle wheel shaft. flues; size, 44 inches x 24 feet; built by the Acme Boiler Works; fuel, oil. AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT Manufacturers of: Oil Burning Equipment—Hagen. Electric Generators—Westinghouse. The day of the palatial river steamers on the Ohio and Mississippi seems to be return- ing. The ISLAND QUEEN, similar in dimensions, machinery and general arrangement to the steamer CINCINNATI, has the distinction of being the only all-steel fuel oil burning ves- sel on western rivers, according to the owners. The passenger capacity as an excursion boat is the largest on board of any vessel regis- tered under the American flag. This boat is in use on excursions and may also be used on the longer runs from Cincinnati down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans and way ports. Sal IL =a AUNT QAR