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$.S.Saint John, Express Liner aunched at Newport News HE new steamship SAatnt Joun the first of two express coastal liners being built at the yard of the New- port News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. for the United States-Canadian service of the Eastern Steamship lines, was launched Jan. 9 amid fitting ceremonies and a distinguished gath- ering of persons. As the launching triggers were pulled, Mrs. Robert G. Stone, wife of a director of the lines, cracked on the bow of the $3,500,000 liner a bottle of water from the famous’ Reversible Falls at Saint John, New Brunswick. On the launching platform she was accompanied by Capt. Hugene O’Don- nell, president of the lines, and offi- cials of the Newport News yard. A sister ship, the AcaAprta, will soon be launched from the same yard. Designed by Theodore E. Ferris, well known naval architect, the Sarnr JOHN is a vessel of three-deck com- plete superstructure type, with con- tinuous bridge deck. She has a cruiser stern and a bulbous bow with the stem raked forward, and a complete double bottom. Being an express passenger and freight ship, she has twin screws that will drive her at a speed of 21 knots, about 11,400 maximum shaft horsepower being developed by four Babcock & Wilcox water tube boilers fitted with Todd fuel oil burners; and two sets of single reduction geared compound turbines of the Newport News-Parsons type working under a pressure of 375 pounds and a tem- perature of 650 degrees Fahr. at the boilers. She can accommodate 745 passengers, 87 of which are in free berth travel, and has 159,000 cubic feet of space available for cargo. From these figures it will be seen that the ship has a remarkably high earning capacity. All of the deck auxiliaries and most of the engine room auxiliaries are electrically driven, the exceptions be- ing a number of steam driven engine room pumps. Practically all of the galley equipment is electric also; but steam is used throughout the ship for heating purposes. Based on a total of 10,000 shaft horsepower and 28% inches of-vacuum, the fuel consump- tion rate is expected to be well below .80 Ib. of oil per horsepower per hour for all purposes. Electric power for the auxiliaries is provided by three 250 kilowatt, 240 volt steam turbine Particulars $.S. Saint John Length, overall, feet, inches 402 9 Length, B.P., feet, inches...... 387 0 Beam, molded, feet inches...... 61 0 Depth, molded, feet inches.... 29 9 Maximum load draft, feet, TIONS osicis casein ete unease eae 20 0 Designed service load draft, feet; INCHES ieee ES 18 0 Designed S.H.P. at 168 r.p.m. 9500 Service speed, knots .............. LS Consumption per day, tons, about Displacement at 18 feet, tons 6760 Deadweight ‘capacity on 20 feet, CONS; ADOUMEE .cic.ctvedecsasus 2200 Deadweight capacity on 18 feet; “CONS; A WOU sa wscccsis season on 1200 Gross tonnage, approximately 5500 Net tonnage, approximately.... 3300 Cargo capacity, cubic feet, AD OUE. Serisre ke ee cise caercoeah es 159,000 Bunker capacity, oil, tons...... 784 Eresh water Capacity ...0..2:03... 704 Passenger 1 CaApacity. — isi. Jeeeies 745 Crew, officers and men ......... 178 At the launching - of the 8S. 8. Saint John. Left to right —Mrs. Charles Barnes, Theodore KE. Ferris, Mrs. Eugene H. O’Don- nell, Mrs. Robert G. Stone, sponsor, Capt. Hugene E. O’Donnell and Homer L. Fergu- son Se Bh cB MARINE REview—February, 1932 driven direct current generating sets, supplied by the General Electric Co. The lines of the hull are fine, the waterline block co-efficient at the service draft of 18 feet (cruiser stern) being .538. An interesting feature is for pro’ection egainst ice. Doubling plates have been fitted for about 50 feet aft from the stem on 3 strakes at the 17-foot waterline. Only one grade of passengers will be carried in the 266 rooms which are conveniently arranged. Kearfott all-metal vertical sliding windows are used for the enclosed promenade and in the bridge and promenade deckhouses. As is usual, in all new American ships, the vessel will be rat proofed in accordance with the requirements of the United States public health service. The various stewards’ cold storage rooms will con- tain about 4000 cubic feet to be cooled by the ship’s two motor-driven 6-ton Brunswick-Kroeschell ammonia com- pressors. For fire protection there are com- plete Rich fire detecting and Lux fire extinguishing systems, an automatic fire alarm system in each compart- ment and stateroom, and steam smoth- ering lines for cargo compartment. radio equipment and photophone, com- plete telephone system for passenger use, ship’s intercommunicating sys- tems, mechanical steering gear, a fathometer, and Sperry gyro-compass. Other special equipment of the most modern type will include an R.C.A. radio direction finder, an automatic steam chime whistle, one 18 inch 30,000,000 beam candle power Sperry searchlight, and two Sperry incandes- cent searchlights. Artists draw- ing of the 8. 8. Saint John built by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. for the Eastern Steamship lines and launched Jan. 9. This vessel is the first of two ex- press coastal liners for the United States- Canadian serv- ice of the line 39