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S.S. Yarmouth, New Eastern Steamship Liner Now in Service Between Eoston and Yarmouth N. S. safety of the ship and its passengers. This condition has been obtained by means of transverse bulkheads con- tinued to the upper deck or the main deck, and by making such por- tions of deck plating watertight where bulkheads are stepped. Where these bulkheads are pierced by doorways, below upper deck, such doors are hinged watertight doors, worked from the door itself, except shaft tunnel doors, and the doors in the bulk- head between engine room and fire room, the door in bulkhead dividing the firerooms, the two doors in the forward fire room bulkhead, fitted for coal burning in case ships go to coal burning at a future date. All of these doors are geared doors oper- ated from the platform in the engine room, in fire room, and for the for- ward doors from the deck over. General Structural Description General particulars of the Yar- MOUTH and EVANGELINE are: length cn deck over stem and stern, 377 feet 8 inches; length for displacement on 18-foot water line, 3878 feet; length between perpendiculars on 1$- foot waterline, 365 feet; beam molded, | 55 feet 6 inches; depth molded to upper deck at side, 29 feet 6 inches; maximum load draft molded (scant- ling draft), 20 feet; designed load draft molded, 18 feet. The displace- ment in sea water at 18 feet molded draft is 5880 long tons. Block coeffi- cient on displacement length of 3878 feet is .545. Designed shaft horse- power at 157 revolutions per minute is 7500 plus an excess of 10 per cent overload. Steaming radius, burn- ing oil at 18 knots speed with 940 tons of oil is 11% days, or 4950 nauti- cal miles. Speed at 18-foot mean load draft (oil burning) is 18 knots. Deadweight capacity on maximum load draft, including freight, fuel oil, stores, water, passengers, crew and effects, is about 1800 tons. These vessels are of the three deck express passenger and freight type, with continuous lower promenade deck, twin screws, cruiser stern, bulbous bow, with stem raked for- ward and are fitted with a complete double bottom. They have _ lower, main, upper, promenade, and_ boat decks; the lower, main and upper decks are fully steel plated; the promenade deck is partially plated. Upper deck at after end, promenade $4 ee eee t¢eoeceee ec deck outside of house, and boat deck eutside of house have calked wood decks. The forward lower and main decks in freight space, are steel decks, except in sailors’ quarters where magnesite floor covering is laid. The lower deck aft in berth travel space is covered with a magnesite floor. In chilled freight spaces insulation is fitted. The main deck midships in living rooms, mess rooms, etc., and aft in stateroom spaces have magne- site floor covering on the steel deck which serves where required as a finishing tile. The freight spaces aft, baggage and mail room, and _ steer- ing engine room have bare steel decks. The upper deck all fore and aft has a magnesite floor laid on the steel deck and this floor is scored and laid in different colors to serve as a fin- ishing tile. Electric Freight Elevators On the promenade deck and the boat deck inside of house a joiner deck is laid and covered with canvas. Deck forming top of houses on boat deck, also the bridge, top of wheel and chart house and top of wire- less house is a joiner deck cov- 66 08 Outboard Profile of the S. S. Yarmouth Recently Completed at Wm. Cramp & Sons S. & E. Building Co. MARINE REVIEW—September, 1927 13