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knots, licensed to carry 512 pas. sengers and built especially for serv- ice in the semi tropics. The Governor Coss is a triple screw turbine driven vessel, 289 feet in length, with a beam of 54 feet, speed 17 knots and licensed to carry 448 passengers. The S. S. Miami is a twin screw vessel, 250 feet in length, 40 feet beam, 14 knots speed and is licensed to carry 208 passengers. For service during S. 8. Florida. Upper Left Lower Left the winter tourist season only, the S. S. Norruianp has been chartered to Supplement the other ships. This ves- Sel is 328 feet long, 48 feet in beam, Speed, 17 knots and is licensed to Carry 675 passengers. On each of these ships there is ample space for Cargo, passenger automobiles and MInails. All ships burn oil for fuel and are well found with all modern devices. Motor Driven Boat Winch. Watertight Door and Control. Lower Right—Motor Driven Plan New Atlantic Line For Philadelphia At a luncheon of the Manufactur- ers’ club in Philadelphia on May 12, General W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, an- nounced plans for the establishment within a year of transatlantic pas- senger-freight steamship service from Philadelphia to Liverpool and Man- chester, England, with three seven- day liners. The Pennsylvania already has pledged $500,000, and assurances have been given by the Reading and Baltimore & Ohio railroad companies that each of these will subscribe to $250,000 worth of stock for the steamship company, General Atter- bury said. Philadelphia will be asked MaRINE REeEview—June, 1931 to subscribe to $4,000,000 worth of stock, so as to make the company of a co-operative character, with im- porters and exporters as well as in- dustrialists of Philadelphia vitally interested in its conduct. Under the proposed plan three ships are available for the start, two from the International Mercantile Marine and one from the United States shipping board. The _ ships Upper Right—Motors Drum and Controls for 6000-Pound Elevator. Ventilating Fan and Controls could be purchased and remodeled for $1,600,000 each. The ships would be used in com- bination passenger and freight serv- ice, and a mail contract would have to be obtained to aid the development of the line, General Atterbury said. It would be necessary, in General Atterbury’s opinion, to have the $5,000,000 capital available at the start, so as to eliminate expense. 27