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May TELESCOPE 100 Grayson. Photo from author's collection. are also poop, bridge and forecastle decks (Note: These are known as the 'Three Island Type.' --Author.) all built of steel. The vessels were built under special survey to Lloyds' highest class and have the following principal dimensions: length over all 261 feet length, between perpendiculars 253 feet beam, molded 43 feet 6 inches depth, molded 28 feet 5 inches loaddraft 24 feet deadweight at load draft 4050 tons." Historical data on these ships are given below: s. s. Bayamon (US 209741), 1912 Ecorse by Great Lakes Engineering Works (#99) for Ocean Freight Line. Converted into a tanker in 1916 and renamed Vacuum. Torpedoed and sunk off Barra Island, Scotland, April 28, 1917. s. s. Borinquen (US 209335), 1912 Ecorse by G.L.E.W. (#97) for Ocean Freight Lines. Sold Spanish in 1912 and later named Jose Estruch and Maria Dalme deR. Drops out of Lloyds' Register in 1933. s. s. Grayson (US 209336), 1911 at Ecorse by G.L.E.W. (#96) for Ocean Freight Lines. Stranded on Stroma Island, Scotland, 7-20-1920, and abandoned. (see illustration.) s. s. A. A. Raven (US 210368), 1912 Ecorse by G.L.E.W. (#102) for American Transportation Co. Lost by enemy action in World War I. Mr. Raven was President of the Ameri-