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44 AMERICAN LEGION—Ferry—Double Ended—Screw Steamer Name—AMERICAN LEGION Owner—City of New York Builder—Staten Island Shipbuilding Co. Naval Architect—R. W. Morrell Launched—Sept. 29, 1926 Completed—Feb. 11, 1927 Classification—American Bureau of Shipping, A-1 (E) ferry service HULL PARTICULARS Length overall, 264 feet; length between per- pendiculars, 251 feet; breadth molded, 66 feet; depth molded, 17 feet 9 inches; draft, 12 feet 6 inches; displacement loaded, 1728 tons; gross tonnage, 2089; net tonnage, 1421; passenger ca- pacity is 2500; automobile capacity is 32; bunk- er fuel oil capacity in gallons, 18,000; speed, 15 knots. MACHINERY PARTICULARS Main Engines—Two double compound con- densing 22% x 50 inches diameter of cylinders and 30-inch stroke; about 4000 indicated horse- power; built by Staten Island Shipbuilding Co. Boilers—Four, built by Babcock & Wilcox Co.; marine water tube type of 14,308 square feet of total heating surface; working pressure, 225 pounds per square inch; fuel, oil; forced draft by means of two turbine-driven blowers; oil DESCRIPTION A double decked dou- ble ended ferry boat with two team gang- ways and two passen- ger cabins, one on each side of the main deck. Recently com- pleted, this vessel is the latest ferryboat for the city of New York. This boat is designed to maintain the regular schedule between Manhattan and Staten Island, but will have more power than the others. burners are fitted with a variable control system to regulate the steaming while in the slip. AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT Manufacturers of: Pumps—Worthington; Davidson; Staten I. S. B. Co. Heaters, Feed Water—Davis Eng. Corp. Fire Extinguishers—Bethlehem S. B. Corp. Blowers—B. F. Sturtevant Co. Steering Engine—Hyde Windlass Co. Propellers—American Steel Foundries Oil Burning—Todd O. B. & Eng. Corp. Generators—General Electric Valves—Lunkenheimer-Leslie Soot Blowers—Diamond Power Spec. Co. Telegraph & Signals—Chas. Cory The propelling machinery consists of two ver- tical compound steam engines coupled together and driving a cast steel propeller at each end. The team gangways are divided by a center house enclosing the machinery. There is an upper saloon deck with accommodations for passengers only. The hull and the superstructure up to the saloon deck are built of steel. The hull is divid- ed into six watertight compartments, compris- ing an engine room, boiler room, two peak com- partments and two hold compartments. me ¥ jo0000000C 4 eo A 10 TOOROOG0 00H, = », CO (01 ae i =i oe ANE PEER 2 ERR GR Bei sania ee IL eal J AAT ET EBEHECE: MARINE REVIEW—April, 1927