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Name—BRILLIANT Owner—Standard Transportation Co. Builder—Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Naval Architect—John W. Hudson Launched—Nov. 5, 730; comp. Nov. 17, ’30 Classification—American Bureau & Lloyds HULL PARTICULARS Length over all, 497 feet 10 inches; length between perpendiculars, 480 feet 6 inches; breadth molded, 65 feet 9 inches; depth mold- ed, 37 feet; draft, 27 feet 2 inches; displacement loaded, 19,160 tons; gross tonnage, 9078; net tonnage, 5528; deadweight, 13,430 tons; fuel capacity in barrels of oil, 11,632; fuel consump- tion per day, 12.3 tons; radius without refuel- ing, 28,800 nautical miles; speed, 11 knots. MACHINERY PARTICULARS Main Engine—oOne, Sun-Doxford opposed pis- ton oil engine built by Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. This engine is of 4-cylinder 2-cycle type with attached scavenging pump. The cyl- inder diameter is 235 inches and the combined stroke is 91.32 inches. The brake horsepower at the shaft is 2800 at 80 revolutions per minute. Boiler—One, marine water tube type built by the Foster Wheeler Corp. Size, 4000 square feet of heating surface; fitted for burning oil. Auxiliary Generators—Two, 4-cylinder 120 horsepower Cooper Bessemer diesel engines each direct connected to a 75 k.w. General Electric generator, operating at 325 revolutions per min- ute. BRILLIANT—Tanker—Ocean—Single Screw—Diesel DESCRIPTION Two deck type with straight stem and cruiser stern, built on the longitudinal brack- etless system. There are nine main cargo tanks and shelter deck, poop, bridge and fore- castle decks of steel. Machinery, one op- posed piston type - diesel engine located in the stern. AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT Pumps—Dean; Morris; Worthington Windlass—American Engineering Co. Winches—American Engineering Co. Steering Engine—American Engineering Co. Propellers—Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Gyro Compass-Gyro Pilot—Sperry Searchlights-Rudder Ind.—Sperry Refrigeration— Brunswick-Kroeschell Anchors—Baldt Anchor, Chain & Forge Corp. Electric Motors—Diehl Mfg. Co. Anchor Chain—National Malleable Telegraphs—Chas. Cory Corp. Clocks—Chelsea Clock Co. Evaporator—Davis Engineering Corp. Feed Water Heater—Davis Distiller-Coolers—Davis Engineering Corp. Waste Heat Boilers—Foster Wheeler Soot Blowers—Diamond Power Specialty Radio Equipment—Radiomarine Corp. Oil Purifiers—Sharples Specialty Co. Marine Hardware—H. S. Getty & Co. Shaft Sleeves—Shenango-Penn Mold Co. Floor Plates—Alan Wood Steel Co. This vessel, as so many recent tankers, is built on the Isherwood bracketless system of longitudinal ship construction. Protection of the vessel at inaccessible and exposed parts is provided for by the careful use of bituminous solution and bituminous enamel supplied by the W. A. Briggs Bitumen Co. oN i Tee mete fb anty 1 renetg TE! es ' i An RED, MARINE REview—April, 1931