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60 meet the heavy traffic encountered in the Reading company’s service. The main deck will be of steel plate planked with Oregon pine. The center house or machinery casing, is of steel and extends from the main deck to above the upper deck. The side houses or cabins, are built en- tirely of steel and are arranged for the accommodation of passengers. All interior finish in these spaces is of fire proof paneling. The outboard bulk- heads are provided with windows with transoms over, according to the Reading company’s standard practice. Windows without transoms are ar- ranged to lift and are fitted with spring balances. The upper deck is of steel and supports two steel pilot houses, one at each end, and also has provision for stowage of life boats, and other life saving gear. There are two rudders, slightly bal- anced, one at each end. The rudders have cast steel frames with steel plates riveted to frames, and are provided with separate stocks. The rudder quadrants are built up of steel plate and angle riveted to forged steel arms and hubs. The center arms of the quadrants are provided with sockets for centering pin. The steering gear consists of two 6 x 6-inch steam steering engines, one for each rudder. One engine is located in a compartment aft of engine room, and one in a compart- ment forward of boiler room. A steer- ing wheel mounted on a brass column in each pilot house is connected to the control valves of the steering engines by means of shafting and gears. An auxiliary hand steering gear is provided and connected ready for immediate use in the event that the steam gear should fail. Description of Machinery There are provided two cylindrical “straight through” type boilers 10 feet 6 inches in diameter by 20 feet 9 inches long, each with two Morrison suspension type furnaces. The boilers are designed to furnish steam at 160 pounds per square inch working pres- sure. The propelling machinery consists of two vertical inverted, direct acting two cylinder compound engines, 17 x 84 inches x 24-inch stroke, arranged one forward of the other, coupled to- gether, making four cranks and four cylinders, namely, two high and two low pressure working on one continu- ous shaft extending from end to end of boat with propeller at each end, designed to develop sufficient power to drive the vessel at a speed of 14 statute miles per hour. There are two four-bladed, cast steel propellers, 8 feet 6 inches diam- MARINE REVIEW eter, the thrust being taken by two horse-shoe type thrust bearings, one bearing forward of the engines and one bearing aft. The auxiliary ma- chinery and apparatus consists of the following: One main surface condenser having east iron heads and shell, brass tubes and rolled bronze tube plates. One vertical twin beam airpump. One centrifugal circulating pump with cast iron shell and bronze im- peller, direct connected to a vertical 7 x 6-inch steam engine. One multicoil revolving type feed water heater of sufficient capacity to supply boiler feed water at 210 de- grees Fahr. One main feed pump, vertical sim- plex, having 9-inch and 6 inch cylin- ders by 12-inch stroke. One fire and donkey pump—horizon- tal duplex, having 12-inch and 8%%- MRS. WILLIAM SHEPPARD Wife of the Mayor of Cape May, N. J. and Sponsor of the New Ferryboat inch cylinders by 12-inch stroke and fitted to serve as auxiliary feed pump. One 2-inch injector—double tube compound. There are provided two 10 kilowatt, 110 volt direct current generating sets to furnish current for the navi- gating circuits and _ ships lighting throughout. The vessel will be heated by steam, and every provision has been made for the safety and comfort of pas- sengers. The construction iscas nearly fire proof as can be made, and the fire fighting and life saving facili- ties are the last word in every re-: spect. ; The Capr May will be completed early in May of this year, and after the usual dock and river trials, will be delivered to the Reading company, at their terminal in Camden, N. J., for service on, the Delaware river be- tween Philadelphia and Camden. May, 1926 French Liner Launched (Continued from Page 13) gency unit but will be used in con- nection with the apparatus of the principal station and will have the same range. The other will receive its energy from a group of accumula- tors and its range will be 150 miles by daylight and 250 miles at night. In addition, there will be one trans- mitting set of one kilowatt-ton, one set combining transmission and reception, a series of amplifiers for transmitting concerts to all parts of the vessel, one radiotelephone station which will enable conversations to be carried on with land stations and ships fitted with similar installations. Such in- stallations already exist on the PARIS and the FRANCE of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique. The ship will be fitted with one Sperry gyroscopic compass, one auto- matic pilot driving the ship in con- nection with the Sperry compass, one radiogoniometer coupled with the re- peaters of the gyroscopic compass which will be the means of taking radiophonic bearings at a distance of about 200 miles with an approxima- tion of less than two degrees. This will permit of landings in the English Channel or Nantucket in the fog. There also will be one sound finding apparatus operating on the echo prin- ciple. Boilers and Main Turbines The boiler rooms will contain 12 cylindrical boilers with double fronts and eight furnaces to each, and eight boilers with single fronts and four furnaces to each. These boilers will operate with Howden forced draft and will be fitted in four water-tight compartments. There will be three funnels. The fuel used will be oil. The storage tanks will con- tain 7500 tons of fuel oil which will be sufficient for a complete return journey Havre—New York. The turbines will be of the Par- sons type and will operate four screws. The total power will be 52.000 shaft horsepower giving the vessel an average speed of 23 knots. Four turbines in triple cascade will be used for going forward, and four turbines in double cascade for going backward. The total weight of the turbines will be 1060 tons. Passenger accomodations will be ar- ranged to provide the utmost in com- fort and_ elegance. The ILE DE FRANCE will embody a style of in- terior decorations and a sumptuous luxury hitherto unknown in the world of steamships, and which will mark a new era in ocean travel.