The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-13
NEW HAVEN STEAMERS.
BOATS ARE MODELS FOR CAR-
 RYING FREIGHT.

Two Have Already Been Launched and
 Third VIII Follow Next Month
 Will be Fitted With All the Modern
 Appliances.
 Ever since the announcement was made that the New England Naviga- tion Co. would put a fleet of freight steamships on the outside route between New York and Boston, in opposition to the old established Metropolitan Line, interest among those watching develop ment of steam navigation has been rife to know the style of vessel which the company controlled by the New Haven railroad interests would place in this service, inasmuch as the new venture would be more or less in the nature of an experiment.
 The plans show vessels of decidedly different characteristics from those of the Metropolitan Line, either in the type of old style freighter, as used by that company, or in the plans of the new Yale and Harvard, which are in the course of the next few months to inaugurate a fast passenger and ex- press freight line between the Empire City and the Hub.
 The designers of the new steamers for the New England Navigation Co., the Qulntard Iron Works Co.-had a rather peculiar problem to solve in planning the three new boats which are at pre- sent intended for the new outside line, inasmuch as 1t was stipulated that they would be able to operate with equal facility on any of the Sound routes, i. e., to run into New Haven, New Lon don, Providence, Fall River, or even New Bedford, in the event of their be- ing needed to perform such service. It will thus be seen that the naval archi- tects were obliged to incorporate in the design of these vessels many of the characteristics of the steamers which ply to those ports. Notwithstanding this fact, however, the hulls of the vessels are of the heaviest construction, and will be able to withstand the ar duous work of coastwise sea service, says the National Gazette,
 Two of these new steamers have been launched, and the third will be put overheard in the course of a month or so. Each has very spacious main deck, with officers quarters and few state rooms for passengers on the second deck. The entire main deck, except in the case of the machinery en- closures, is set aside for the stowage of freight there being room for no less thpn 1,500 tons on this deck alone. On the Upper deck there is wooden deck Aouse, and in this officers and crew swill have their qurater. Beginning at sthe forward end of this house, there are two commodious state rooms, one for the commander of the vessel and the other for the use of the president of the line, whenever he may choose to go over the line. Tn part of the deck house divided from that occupied by the officers of the vessels, are four large staterooms and a dining saloon. There is a very large promenade deck aft Four 24-foot lifeboats are carried on this deck. The pilot house Is placed on the third deck. The vessel will be equipped with wireless telegraphy, the fagpole at the rear of the pilot house being used for that purpose.
 The new boats have been designed by the Quintard Iron Works company of New York, and are being built at the shipyard of the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building company at Philadelphia
 The first two ships of the fleet bear the names of Massachusetts and Bunk CT Hill and these vessels will be equip ped with engines of the reciprocating type. The third vessel, to be named the Old Colony, will be identical as to size and design of hull will be supplied with three Parsons marine turbines driving triple screws.
 The general dimensions of each of thees steamers are as follows: Length on water line, 375 feet; length over all, 396 feet inches; breadth nodded, 52 feet, and depth molded 22 feet, The de- tails of construction of the steel hulls of these boats will be found in our con- structional plans, shown in this issue. The Massachusetts and Bunker Hill will each be equipped with two four cylinder triple-expansion engines, with cylinders 26, 43, 51 and 51 inches in diameter, by 42-inch stroke, steam be- ing supplied by eight cylindrical boil- CTS, each IA feet, g inches by II feet, fitted with forced draft. It is ex- pected that the engines will have an indicated horsepower of 7,500, which will drive the vessels through the wa ter at the rate of IS knots per hour, and enable them to make very rapid trips on the 322-mile run between New York and Boston.
 In the case of the Old Colony, the boiler installation will be similar to that of the Massachusetts and Bunker Hill. The reciprocating engines are being built in the Cramp shops, Phil adelphia, while the building of the tur- pines has been entrusted to the Quin- tard Iron Works company, which firm is making a speciality of turning out this modern type of marine engine. The installation of engines, etc., will be made at the Cramp yard in Philadel- phia in all three cases.
 The vessels will be fitted with all mo- dern marine appliances, including Williamson Bros. company's steam steering gear, the Nicholson Ship Log company's ship log, etc, etc The new route to Boston will probably be opened early in June.
 
 ARRIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO.