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Convert Three Tankers to Diesel Electric Diesel-electric machinery is now being installed in three tankers for the Atlantic Refining Co. These boats, were purchased last year from the shipping board. The three vessels, the SHARON, J. M. CoNNELLY and BESSEMER, each having a deadweight of 7000 tons, were originally steam driven and con- verted to diesel-electric, will be used in transatlantic service. The J. M. CONNELLY is being outfitted at the Point Breeze plant of the Atlantic Refining Co., Philadelphia, and will probably go into service by the lat- ter part of June. The other two boats are being reconditioned by the Ala- bama Drydock & Shipbuilding Co., Mobile, Ala., and will probably be com- _ pleted in August. The power plants for each boat will consist of Ingersoll-Rand oil engines and electric equipment fur- nished by the General Electric Co. Each tanker will be equipped with three &850-horsepower, 225-revolution per-minute, oil engines, each driving a 525-kilowatt, 250-volt generator for propulsion and a_ 50-kilowatt, 250- volt auxiliary generator for excita- tion and ship’s auxiliary power. The propulsion generators will supply pow- er to an 1800-horsepower, 90-revolu- tion-per-minute, 750-volt double ar- mature motor on each boat, direct connected to the propeller shaft. The eontrol will be of the Ward-Leonard — type arranged for operation either from the pilot house or the engine room, the panels being of the dead- front type throughout. The tankers will be fitted with electric auxiliaries, all of which will be driven by General Electric mo- tors. These auxiliaries will include two 80-horsepower cargo pumps, one 45-horsepower windlass, one 30-horse- power mooring winch, one 30-horse- power fire and bilge pump, two 15- horsepower air compressors, a_ balan- cer set and numerous small pumps as well as a 25-kilowatt auxiliary generator driven by a small oil engine which will be used for emergency and in port. Inspectors Wanted Open competitive examinations are to be held for the positions of local and assistant inspector of boilers and local and assistant inspector of hulls. Applications for these _ positions must be on file with the civil service commission at Washington, D. C., not later than June 11. Full information 34 may be obtained from the civil service commission or from the secretary of United States civil service examiners at the postoffice or customs house in any city. The examinations are to fill vacancies in the steamboat inspec- tion service, and in positions requir- ing similar qualifications. The en- trance salary in the steamboat in- spection service is $2700 a year. Malolo Near Completion At a recent meeting in San Fran- cisco, E. D. Tenney, who has been president of the Matson Navigation Co., was elected chairman and Wil- liam P. Roth, president. A, C. Diericx, formerly assistant manager, was appointed vice president. The completion of the new Matson liner MALOLO is. anticipated so that her first trip is scheduled from New York for San Francisco via Havana, Colon and Cristobal on July 7. She will arrive in San Francisco on July 22 and sails from there four days later for her first regular run to Honolulu. The commodore captain of the company, Capt. Peter Johnson, commander of the Maul, will take command of the MALOLO. An official trial trip of the new vessel built by Wm. Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co. under the supervision of William F. Gibbs, naval architect is to be held off Marblehead, Mass., during the ten days beginning May 25. Contract to furnish 60,000 tons of fuel oil for the United States liner LEVIATHAN at Southampton during the year beginning May 1, has_ been awarded to the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. by the shipping board on the basis of 67s 6d per ton. Naval Architects Meet A summer meeting of the Institu- tion of Naval Architects will be held at Cambridge university, Cambridge, England, on July 12-15. The presi- dent of the institution, His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K. G., C. B. Bi M.: Vv. 0., will preside and a reception will be accorded mem- bers by the vice chancellor of the university. Besides reading of papers. visits will be made to nearby engineering works and places of general interest including the historic colleges of the university. The banquet of the in- stitution will be held on the evening of July 14 in the hall of Trinity college. MARINE REVIEW—June, 1927 Lloyd Sabaudo Earnings Increase 50 per cent. The annual report of the Lloyd Sabaudo, operating lines between Italy and New York, South America and Australia recently received, shows a growth in business and earn- ings of 50 per cent over the pre- vious year. After payment of all charges, provision was made for a 10 per cent dividend on the 150,- 000,000 lire capital stock. Full in- terest charges are shown as having been earned over four times. A comparison of balance sheets for 1925 and 1926 indicates that there was charged off during the year ap- proximately 10 per cent of the 1925 value of the company’s fleet. The company in 1926 started construction of a sister ship to the popular CoNTE BIANCAMANO, which started in service on the New York-Genoa run at the end of 1925. This new vessel, the CONTE GRANDE, is slightly larger than the CONTE BIANCAMANO. City of Rayville Trial Sea trials of the converted shipping board motorship CITY OF RAYVILLE were held April 27 off Hampton roads. The conversion using a Busch-Sulzer diesel engine was car- ried out by the Newport News Ship- building & Drydock Co. She is of the usual three island type freight ship of 416 feet length between per- pendiculars, 54 feet beam, with a deadweight capacity of 9125 tons on a draft of 26 feet 10% inches. There are accommodations for 15 passengers. The fuel capacity is 760 tons and normal speed is 11.6 knots. The main engine is a Busch-Sulzer, six-cylinder, single-acting, two-cycle, air-injection unit of 3000 brake horse- power at 90 revolutions per minute. Auxiliaries are of the Worthington single-acting, two-cycle, air-injection type. The propeller is of the four- blade, built-up type, with a diameter of 17 feet 9 inches and a pitch of 14 feet. Pumps, winches and wind- lass are electrically operated. The cost of the conversion is as follows: Installation, $227,150; spe- cial alterations, $132,800; main en- gine, including spare, $247,330; deck machinery, including steering gear motors, control and cable, $29,320; engine-room auxiliaries, including engines, generators, pumps, coolers, switchboard and cable, $94,000; re- pairs, $26,000; equipment and outfit, $25,000; engineering, purchasing, in- spection, traveling, freight, extras, trial trip and incidentals, $38,000. To- tal, $819,600.