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18 Bien THE MARINE Review April, 1909 FROM THE PACIFIC COAST et + Steel Passenger Steamer H. B. Kennedv. Designed for Fast Daylight Service on Puget. Sound. Oe GRADUALLY, of the chaos of prim- -litive and_ rapidly 'changing conditions, there are emerging + on. the, Pacific. 'coast a number of standard types of: vessels adapted to the _ pe- Gauar condition's 'found on the waters lof the far west. In previous articles in the Marine REVIEW, the writer. has tracéd. Fig. 12. 'the development of a standard type in the steam lumber carriers of the Pa- cific coast. The same evolution is going on among the passenger steam- ers. After some. years of ex- periment with designs copied from boats operated in other parts. of the country under.'different. con- ditions, after several trials with old boats imported from the Atlantic Ot the great lakes and after three decades of experience with 'Pacific coast passenger traffic on the inland harbors and_ rivers, there have been evolved standard types of passenger steamers, built on the coast and designed to suit the local conditions. The stern wheel steamer Inland Empire described in the Marine Review, Feb. 4, 1909, illustrates one of these types, Fic. 1--Loneiruprn az SECTION oF Srra out: As an example of an entittely dif- ferent type we present in this article a description, with pla: and illus- trations, of the new Puget Sound passenger steamer. H. B. Kennedy. The description of the Kennedy is worth while, not only because .she is in herself 'an: excellent: craft and a credit to marine engineering, but because she represents the best of a whole fleet of boats, commencing with the old Flyer, still operating between Seattle and Tacoma, designed for fast O48 civice on Puget. Sounds The H. B. Kennedy is thoroughly. typical of her class and will set the pace for some time to come in the design of other steamers intended for similar service. ; Rapid Work of Construction. The steamer was built complete by the Willamette Iron & Steel Works, Portland, Ore., under the di- rection of Wm. H. Corbett, president, and Bert C. Ball, chief engineer, She was designed by Frederick A. Ballin, naval architect, Portland, Ore. She is owned by the Port Orchard Route, Seattle, Wash.' of which H. B. Ken- nedy is president and principal stock- holder. The keel was laid in July, 1908; she was launched Nov. 28, 1908; the builder's trial trip was March 25, 1909; the official trial was March 30, and the steamer was ready for service April 1, 1909, + The new boat will operate most of the time in company with -the other steamers of the Port Orchard Route between Seattle, Bremerton and other Port Orchard Bay Points, a distance of about 16 miles. Several] round trips will be made daily. The traffic:is heavy on this route, specially in the summer. The distance is short; part of the trip is through a crooked and rather narrow channel and part is across the open waters of the Sound. The landings are? frequent, What is required, therefore, in 4 steamer for this service is high speed, ease of manipulation in and out of harbors and up to docks, seaworthi.. ness, attractive appearance and com- plete cabin appointments. The fares #e™TOw and economy of operation '. consequently desirable. The condi- tions on this run are quite similar to those existing on_ several other Puget Sound routes, and are such as to produce avery refined and pure type of steamer. Details of Construction, The hull of the H. B. Kennedy is. built of steel with five steel. arch frames supporting the cabins, which are of wood., The model is very clean and fast. The hull is 190 ft, in length over all, 28 ft. beam on the main deck, 25° ft. water line beam and 12 ft. 6 in. molded depth. The ratio of length to breadth is 68 to 1. She has a torpedo stern, round on 'the main deck. The after lines, as shown in Fig. 6, are very fine and. thin, giving a clean wake, a low stern wave and ample chance for the wa- ter to reach the preneller. The bilges are quite flat and the deadrise amid- ships is rather abrupt. The flat bot- tom gives stability to the narrow, hull lea D2) oe MER H. B. KENNEeEpy.