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Wiuscox handled beautifully. The rapid swing in negotiating figure eights was particularly noticeable to all. The boat’s equipment is featured by modern gyro compass room, mod- ern signal devices and unusually com- fortable quarters for officers and seamen. The galley is provided with an oil burning range, electric refriger- ator, electric water heaters and many other electric appliances. A visit to the crew’s quarters is a study in contrast to any one familiar with similar quarters in vessels built even ten or twelve years ago. The Coal—Direct unloads coal directly A NEW from ocean-going vessels into that the power generating stations of the New York Edison Co. located on the East river at Thirty-eighth to For- tieth streets, has recently been put into operation with the unloading of the Pocahontas Steamship Co. collier BristoL from Norfolk. The effect of the new coal hoist- ing system, an official of the New York Edison Co. said, is to broaden coal hoisting system seamen’s staterooms compare favor- ably with some of the passenger ac- commodations on many liners. Each TABLE IV Oil Consumption and Speed M. S. Wilscox Propeller -RigP. Me unexacueu nis Main ‘engine .B. 2H. Pe accckaukha Fuel per B. H. P. per hour Lubricating oil per 24 hours, in gallons _—O—OCOOOe———— stateroom accommodates two men and is provided with steam heat, running hot and cold water, lockers and two comfortable bunks. In a central space among the seamen’s quarters is a small club room with table and com- fortable seats for lounging and smok- ing or writing. A feature of unusual convenience on the WILSCcox is an interior stair- way leading directly from the captain’s quarters to the chart room which connects with the compass room and the bridge. Although the main engine is sim- ilar to that in the SEMINOLE it is still the chief feature of the WILSCOX be- cause these two engines are the enly (Continued on Page 54) from Ship to Shore Bins the company’s coal market, so that now coal may be obtained either by ocean-going. colliers or by rail. Also, the new system can unload coal from moored colliers into barges for transport to the other power generating plants of the company, as required. In the new system the bucket hoist is only 60 feet. The clamshell buckets place the coal on belt con- veyors, one of which is 395 feet long, for the remaining elevation of 100 or more feet to the bunkers. These long conveyors reach out to 30-foot deep water, where ocean- going vessels can be moored. Two steel towers for hoisting the grab buckets travel on rails, permitting the buckets to be dropped into the various hatches without moving the vessel. The two buckets have a ca- pacity of 350 tons an hour each. The BristTou, the first collier to be unloaded by the new system, carried 6600 tons. S. S. Bristol of the Pocahontas S. S. Co. Discharging at Edison Co.’s New Coal Dock—East River, N. Y. MARINE REVIEW—May, 1928 39