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34 City OF MILWAUKEE—Carferry—Great Lakes—Twin Screw—Steam Name—City oF MILWAUKEE Owner—Grand Trunk Railway Co. Builder—Manitowoe Shipbuilding Corp. Naval Arch.—Manitowoec Shipbuilding Corp. Launched—Nov. 25, ’30; comp. Jan. 15, ’31 Classification—American Bureau of Shipping HULL PARTICULARS 360 feet; length between perpendiculars, 348 feet; breadth molded, 56 feet; depth molded, 21 feet 6 inches; draft, mean, designed, 16 feet; displacement loaded, (designed), 6300 short tons; 2942; net tonnage, 1488; passenger capacity, 100; cargo capacity, 26 to 380 loaded freight ears; bunker fuel capacity, in tons of coal, 375 (short tons); speed, 14 statute miles per hour. MACHINERY PARTICULARS Main Engines—Two, 3-cylinder triple expan- sion steam engines, built by Manitowoc Ship- building Corp. Size, 20% x 84 x 56 inches and 36 inches stroke; indicated horsepower each engine, 1400 at 96 revolutions per minute. Boilers—Four, scotch marine type, built by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corp. Size, 14 feet 6 inches in diameter by 12 feet in length; work- ing pressure, 190 pounds per square inch; fuel, coal hand fired. Auxiliary Generators—Two, Engberg, recipro- Length over all, gross tonnage, a DESCRIPTION For service on Lake Michigan between Mil- waukee and Muskegon. Can carry 30 loaded 42-foot freight cars and 100 passengers. Propelled by two triple expansion marine en- gines of 1400 horse- power each at a service speed of 15 miles. Similar to the Crry or MADISON and CrtTy oF GRAND Rapips. Total cost of this carferry is about $1,000,000. cating engine driven, 20 kilowatts each. by Troy Engine and Machine Co. Built AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT Pumps—Union; Dean; Kingsford Windlass—Manitowoe Shipbuilding Corp. Steering Engine—Manitowoce Shipbuild. Corp. Propellers—Manitowoe Shipbuilding Corp. Refrigeration—Copeland Radio Compass—MacKay (Kolster) Telegraphs—Chas. Cory Corp. Marine Hardware—The Dayton Mfg. Co. Oil Purifiers—De Laval Deck Covering—Selby, Battersby & Co. Shaft Sleeves—Shenango-Penn Mold Co. Generator (Emergency )—One 5 k.w. Kohler The Crry oF MILwavKeEe is the latest of a long series of carferries built by the Manitowoc Ship- building Corp. for service on the Great Lakes. She is now in use by the Grand Trunk system for ferrying cars across Lake Michigan. Of orthodox design throughout, the new vessel is practically a duplicate of two recently con- structed carferries for the same company and is heavily constructed for severe winter operating conditions. Construction began early in 1930 and was carried out under the supervision of Capt. C. E. McLaren, marine superintendent in charge of carferry operation. \ 5 cera io. ~ ail hom ; t oa = . ait eee a Tee tans Z Reh igen es Stee aa, BES Eeett i eb ee ot Genera SaecLls ieee FJ OUR Iap RNa ae PABA END OURO UNOUBOGNAANUEAUOGRNaNaeanNaNcAt MARINE REVIEw—April, 1931