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28 G. HARRISON SMITH—Ocean Tanker—Single Screw—Steam DESCRIPTION This vessel is an outstanding example of modern marine en- gineering. A steam pressure of 400 pounds per square inch with superheat to 750 de- grees Fahr. is used for a compound steam tur- bine with double reduc- tion gearing. The steam is supplied by two watertube boilers equipped with econ- omizers and_ guper- heaters and fitted to burn fuel oil. Name—G,. HARRISON SMITH AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT Owner—Standard Shipping Co. Pumps—Worthington Pump & Mach. Corp. Builder—Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Pumps (Cargo)—-Four North’n Rotary Pumps Launched—July 12, ’30; completed Oct. 3, ’30 Windlass—Allan Cunningham Classification—American Bureau of Shipping Winches—Allan Cunningham Sister Ship—wW. S. Farisu; launched Oct. 11, Steering Engine—Hydro Electric, Hyde 30: completed, Nov. 26, °30 Refrigeration—Brunswick-Kroeschell Oil Burning Equipment——Todd HULL PARTICULARS : Life Saving Equip.—wWelin Davit & Boat Corp. . Rudder—Oertz Streamline Type Length over all, 544 feet; length between Clocks “Cholsed Clock? Co. perpendiculars, 525 feet; breadth molded, 74 feet; depth molded, 40 feet 6 inches; draft, 30 Telegraphs (Engine)—Chas. Cory Corp. feet 754 inches; displacement loaded, 27,240 . Whistle—Allan Cunningham tons; gross tonnage, 11,752; net tonnage, 7328; Evaporator—Distiller—Davis Engineer. Corp. cargo capacity, 6,473,000 galluns or 865,400 Feed Water Heaters—Davis Engineer. Corp. cubic feet; bunker fuel oil capacity in tons, Condensers—Foster Wheeler; Worthington 2360; speed, 11 knots. Condensers (after)—Davis Engineer. Corp. Soot Blowers—Diamond Power Specialty MACHINERY PARTICULARS Reducing Valves—Foster Engineering Co. Main Engine—One cross compound double re- Motors—G. E., Westinghouse, Diehl duction geared De Laval steam turbine with high Electric Refrigerator—General Electric Co. and low pressure stages. Horsepower normal, Valves—Lunkenheimer Co. 4000 at 75 revolutions per minute; maximum, Revolution Counters—Alexander McNab 4400 at 77.5 revolutions per minute. Single Radio Equipment—Radio Marine Corp. screw; machinery located aft. Radio Direction Finders—Radio Marine Corp. Boilers—Two, Babcock & Wilcox marine type Throttle Valves, Injectors—Schutte Koerting water tube boilers with a total heating surface Oil Purifiers—Sharples Specialty Co. of 10,160 square feet; total superheating sur- Fathometer—Submarine Signal Co. face, 1806 square feet; total air heating sur- Marine Hardware—H. S. Getty & Co. face, 6920 square feet; working pressure, 400 Gyro Compass—Gyro Pilot—Sperry pounds per square inch; total steam tempera- Rudder Indicator—Sperry ture, 750 degrees Fahr.; fuel, oil. Superheaters, air heaters, feed water regulators and desuper- This vessel and sister ship W. S. FarisH were heaters and fire brick for furnaces were sup- built on the Isherwood longitudinal bracketless plied by the Babcock & Wilcox Co. system of framing under special survey of the Electric Generators—Two turbine driven gen- American Bureau of Shipping and to meet the erators; De Laval steam turbines and Westing- requirements of the United States steamboat in- house generators. spection service. JJ ¢ oo Lx! eo {| f : on = Il aE FP ug, Nt a Sl a tad ees 3, - Miler Blchtds =I =r oa ‘ak é { 5g Maik Tank | Main Tank Be at No. II | No. 10 TS, | 1. ' ' alone Le LS | Fore Peak | | Ballast Main Tank | Main Tank | No.9 No.8 i Main Tank | Main Tank | Main Tank | Main Tank | Main Tank No.5 | N04 No. 3 No.2 | Not ome at t 1 , 1 ! 1 a Herre Pena ear ays beaert ie seas amie abate ror we Gn) %6 Ja When eng towed a a a eaed 60 30 100 110 120 1 aes ! MARINE REVIEw—April, 1931 5 4 z 4 3