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Marine Review September1927 Smoking Room of the S. S. Yarmouth—A Striking Example of Good Design and Workmanship New Passenger Liner Yarmouth Enters Boston-Nova Scotia Run O POPULAR has Nova Scotia become as a summer vacation country that the Eastern Steamship lines some time ago contracted for the building of two new ships especially for that trade. The first of the two, the YARMOUTH, was completed and put in service the first week in July to ply regu- larly between Boston and Yarmouth under the flag of the Boston and Yarmouth Steamship Co. The sister ship, EVANGELINE, will be finished at the builder’s yard, the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., in September and next summer she will inaugurate an entirely new service of two round trips per week between New York and Yarmouth, there connecting with special Yarmouth-Halifax passenger trains to achieve a through schedule of 33 hours between New York and Halifax—a time never before attained between these two cities by land or sea. While these two new ships have been built par- ticularly for the Nova Scotian holiday trade, they are staunch ocean going ships holding high- est classification in the American Bureau of Shipping, are certified for any service, and are capable of steaming 12 days with one fueling. The Eastern lines have invested over four mil- lion dollars in this new property. These ships were designed by Theodore E. Ferris, naval architect and marine engineer of New York, after personally looking into condi- tions at both the Boston and Yarmouth terminals. Mr. Ferris has spent his entire life in ship designing and construction and is responsible for most of the coastwise ships in service today. In the standardization runs off Delaware Breakwater at the time of the trial trip of the S. S. YARMOUTH the ship made a speed of 18.6 knots, developing 7600 shaft horsepower with 2834, inches of vacuum, at 163 revolutions per minute of the propellers. Following the custom in many transatlantic liners, the various decks of these vessels are de- signed by letters; for instance, the boat deck is known as A deck, the promenade deck as B deck, the upper deck as C deck, the main deck as D deck, the lower deck as E deck. The upper deck is the strength deck, is continuous for the full length of the ship, and is completely plated over. The subdivision of spaces in the hull has been worked out to insure as far as practicable the MARINE REVIEW—September, 1927 i