The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-25
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Pacific Marine Review Tells Of
'2:2 New Vessel To Be Done 1;
In Year

| navigation Company, bnllding at thu
Union Iron Works, San Francisco, i,
20 he practically n duplicate Of the
steamer MatsOnia, in the matter of hui
and appointments, with a change il
propeling machinery, which, in, this
ease, is to be Of the geared turbine
type, operating twin screws, says the
Pacific Marine Review. The hull di
mensions are the same as the Mat
sonia, being as follows: $50
Length over all, Ave hundred and
one feet two inches; length, between
Perpendicular, four hundred and
eighty.four feet; beam nodded, fifty.
| eight feet; depth nodded to shelter
deck, forty -four feet nine inches, dis
placement to thirty foot draft, , II, $40
long tons; speed loaded, sixteen and
one.half knots.
Entirely Of steel
The vessel will be constructed en-.
tirely of Steel 70 Lloyed's highest
class, 100-A, and will have three com.
Plete steel decks, with upper promenade
deck extending for twO-thirds of her
length. The navigating bridge and of.
fcers' quarters are well forward OF
amidships and the long range of deck.
house containing passenger quar-.
ters will give the vessel a very sub.
stantial appearance. She will be rugged
as three masted schooner, with steel
pole masts and a complete equipment
OF. heavy cargo boOms, suitable for
handling weights up to fifty tons. While
every comfort for passenger travel will
be installed, these accommodations are
made to combine with the best arrange.
ments for handling freight. The hold
and lower tween decks forward of ma.
ehinery space will be divided into -four
compartments each, and in addition
there will be deep tank up to the
height of lower deck, fitted to carry
molasses or other liquid cargo in bulk
Large matches are arranged over each
compartment and cargo ports nine feet
by six feet six inches clear are to be
fitted, one each side of each compart,
meut Of tween decks.
Wing matches will also be fitted in
the tween decks to facilitate feeding
cargo to the lower hold, and there will
be installed at each hatch two Murray
type winehes for the direct handling
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Of cargo.
The hull will he constructed on the
transverse system, with eight water
tight bulkheals extending to the upper
deck and double bottom FIVE feet six
inches deep, extendiag fun length be.
tween forward and after-peak bulk.
heads. that portion under the forward
hold being increased in depth to the
katnht Of
under machinery and boiler space to
six feet no inches in depth.
Double Bottom in Compartments
The double bottom will be divided
into compartments, those under machiu,
cry and boilers being fitted for carry.
ing fresh water and the balance for
carving fuel oil. The after peak will
be fitted to carry capacity for fuel oil
being such that IL will give the vessel
a steaming radius Of $4,000 knots at
thirteen knots speed loaded.
Spacious cold storage chambers are
to be fitted up in the tween decks
forward, for the carrying of refriger,
ated cargoes and the upper tween
decks forward win be specially fitted
and ventilated for carrying bananas.
The propeling machinery will consist
Of twin sets of cross-compound West
ing house Parsons geared turbines Of
the single reduction type of 5000
shaft horsepower to each unit The re
duction gear will be of helical gears
with Northumberland tooth faces
and in order to secure accurate align
ment the pinions are to be carried
in bearings in floating frames of thu
Westinghouse type. The thrust bear
ings win be Of the Kingsburv seq
mental type, enclosed in oil-tight cas-
ings. ...n.. -...
The cOndensate pumps win be of the
tuhine driven navy. horizontal type To-
Gated under the condensers.
Air electors of the Westinghouse lie
Blanc type will be installed rs substi-
tutes for vacuum pumps. and will be
designed to produce vacuum of TWEEN
ty and one-half inches with barometric
pressure of 80 inches, .l 49,
As To Pumps and Condensers
The circulating. pumps will be of the
Westinghouse centrifugal vOlute multi
stage type, driven by Westinghouse
steam-ge ared turbines. go ~
The condensers will be Of circular
form having steel bodies and cast iron
heads, with ample cooling surface for
operating at full power with vacuum
of twehty-eight and one-half inches and
sea water at temperature of seventy
ave degrees r.
The main shafting will be ten per
cent in excess of Lloyd 8 requirements
and the propellers win be of the built
up type, each having three manganese
bronze blades and cast iron hub, and
will turn up to 100 revolutions under
full power. Steam will be generated in
eight BabcOck and Wilcox water tube
boilers of o total heating surface OF
$4,000 square feet, and fitted with su
perheating arrangements of a total OF
$500 square feet of surface. They will
be built for a working pressure of 25C
pounds per square inch and fired
thwartships under natural draft by fue
| oil atomized mechanically.
The smokestack will be divided fore
and aft in the center, each half being
connected to battery of four boilers
| The auxiliary machinery will be du
plicate outfit TO that installed OF
Matsoaia. consisting of main feed
pumps of the vertical simplex type, and
the following pumps of the horizontal
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