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Marine Review | July 1927 S. S. MAtoto safe in New York harbor, three fede after being badly rammed. Her seaworthiness given extreme test proving value of building for utmost safety Ma o Severely Damaged Renae! Afloat and Stable > By E. C. Kreutzberg N MAY 25 occurred the most remarkable trial test of a passenger vessel within the memory of the present generation of American shipbuilders. The MALOLO, largest and swiftest passenger ship ever built in the United States, had, 32 hours before, left Cramp’s shipyard at Philadelphia on her builder’s trial trip and was on her way to the United States navy measured mile course, off Rockland, Me. In foggy weather, 26 miles off Nantucket light, she was rammed full a-beam by the Norwe- gian freighter, JACOB CHRISTENSEN. This col- lision, of a type that heretofore has proved fatal in every case as far as the records reveal, was sustained successfully by the MALOLO. Examina- tion of the tell-tales revealed that the ship’s maxi- mum list during and after the accident at no time exceeded 2 per cent from the perpendicular. She was towed to the plant of the Morse Dry Dock & Repair Co., South Brooklyn, and is expected again to be ready for operation about the middle of September. William Francis ‘Gibbs, president of Gibbs Bros. Inc., New York, who designed the MALOLO and supervised her construction, described the effects of the collision as follows: “The MALOLO was struck almost exactly on the boiler room bulkhead dividing the forward from the after boiler room. Eight plates, including the sheerstrake of the MALOLO were punctured. Seven frames were badly bent and distorted and two frames broken. The plate just above the bilge in the after boiler room was completely stove in with its lower line of rivets sheared and the whole plate distorted and fractured. After the MALOLO compartments were pumped S. S. Jacos CHRISTENSEN, the Norwegian freighter that rammed the MALOLO, delivered her cargo dry at Philadelphia MARINE REVIEW—July, 1927 ii.