Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-11-27
MANY SHIPS NOW
USING FUEL OIL.
Large Gain Over Position That
Was Held a Year Ago.
CoAL-BURNERs DROP BACK

Use Of Diesel Engines Is Growing and
Large Ships Are Built to Employ
Them-countries in Which the
Great Bulk Of the New Tonnage Is
Being Built Are the United States,
Great Britain and Japan-Large
Percentage Is Steel or Iron.
So rapid has been the adoption Of
oil by merchant shipping that with
In the last year the worlds tonnage
equipped for the use of oil as fuel
for the boilers or in internal combus-
ton engines has increased by half,
according to the annual report Of
Lloyds' Register Of Shipping.
AS result, the proportion of the
worlds tonnage fitted for coal burn
ing has declined from 80 to 76 per
cent, while that equipped for oil burn
ing has risen from Il per cent to IS
per cent There has been no change
in the relative position Of shipping
having sail power only, which still
constitutes 6 per cent of the worlds
shipping of 100 gross tons and over.
New ships classed during the last
year which were fitted for burning
oil fuel numbered 426 vessels of
1895, 900 gross tons as compared with
oil vessels of 1,193,OOO tons during
the previous year.
Since the armistice great develop
ment has taken place IN the use of
internal combustion engines, and dur
ing the last year classification was
made of twenty-eight new vessels fit
ted with such engines as their main
propelling power. At present there
are under construction under the SUI
pervision Of Lloyds' Register more
than $50 sets of Diesel engines and
about the same number Of sets Of oil
engines other than the Diesel type.
half of which are building in the
United Kingdom. The largest Diesel
engines are those for the Glenogle,
Of 9.150 gross tons. The largest oil
engined vessels completed during the
year was the Afrika, Of 8,597 tons.
Turbine Still Largely In Use.
The success of vessels fitted with
geared steam turbines Is indicated by
the fact that in the last year 245 such
vessels. aggregating 1,286,OOO gross
tons, have been classed.
Reviewing conditions during the
year Lloyds' Register points out that
over 4,250,OOO tons Of shipping were
classed, in comparison with 100000
tons in the previous twelve months
and that at the end Of last June the
total of merchant vessels under clas-
sification was 100000 tons.
The countries in which the great
bulk of the new tonnage has been
built, it is pointed out, are the United
States, the United Kingdom and ia
pan. Other countries in which there
Is at present a comparatively large
amount of merchant shipping being
constructed are Holland, Canada,
Italy, Sweden, Spain and Denmark.
Because of the, great amount Of re-
conditioning undertaken by shipbuild-
ers after the war and the conversion
of very large number Of vessels to
burn oil instead Of coal the output Of
new tonnage, 1t is stated, has undoubt-
eddy been limited.
Wooden Ships Share Small.
Vessels classed in Lloyds' Register
Book at the end Of the year closing
with June 80 last aggregate 9,5S7. OF
total tonnage of more than 25,O0O.-
600 gross. The division is shown as
follows:
Iron and steel
Steam .......................o'SV Aslio'1oo
Sail ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $50 ooS,zSz
Wood and composite
steam and sail............ 294 34O,43l
Total 1857 25,01S, 919
More than 90 per cent Of the total
tonnage is composed Of steel or iron