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THE MarRINE REVIEW Sections or BLADING From TURBINES OF CRUISER SALEM SHOWING Epcres oF Buckets TURNED OVER: dropped into the turbine during the installation. The maximum speed of the Chester was 25.08 knots. The Salem . 24.54 knots. for 24 hours and for the first 8 hours made 25 knots: The speed of the Birmingham is not given out. Repairs' to the Salem were com- pleted' early in June and on June 10 she left for the Azores to join the Chester -and Birmingham which had left previously. ATLANTIC TRANSPORT LINER MINNEWASKA. The Atlantic Transport Line will this month place the new steamship Minnewaska in regular service between New York and London. The Minne- waska was built at the yards of Har- land & Wolff, Belfast, and is a twin- sctew vessel 615 ft. 34% in. long by 65 ft. 3% in. beam, with a gross tonnage of about 14,500. She is equipped with quadruple-expansion engines and made an average speed of 17 knots on her trials. As is the case with the' other vessels of the Atlantic Transport Line the Minnewaska will carry first class pas- sengers exclusively. The staterooms are located on the bridge and shelter decks and are fitted with every mod- ern convenience. They are excep- tionally well situated for light and ventilation, the windows 'being of large size and superior pattern. The suites on the bridge deck are unusually fine rooms, having toilet rooms and lava- tories attached. The dining saloon is situated nearly amidships' on the shelter deck, extends the full width of 'the vessel, and ac- commodates 'all of the passengers at ATLANTIC TRANSporT LINER MINNEWASKA. June, 1909 one sitting. It is framed and paneled in oak relieved with pokerwork, the dado and furniture being also in oak. The lounge is situated on the boat deck, forward, the reading room on the boat deck amidships and the smok- ing room on the boat deck aft. There is the usual barber shop, surgery and other rooms, the accommodations throughout being very elaborate and comfortable. The Minnewaska has eight steel decks, six of which are plated through- out. The double 'bottom extends the ful length of the vessel, while the hyll is divided into eleven water-tight com- partments. Submarine signaling appar- atus is installed, as is also the latest arrangement of wireless telegraphy. There are accommodations for 326 first-class passengers. THE NEW WHITE STAR LINERS. The progress being made with the construction of the gigantic liners Olym- pic and Titanic, at Belfast, is now be- coming more evident. The work on the Olympic is the further advanced, the slip on which she is laid down hay- ing been the first ready for the build- ers. The framing of the cellular double bottom is already complete, and the bottom shell plates and tank intercos--- tals are being fitted and 'hydraulic riv- eted. The tank top plating is also be- ing proceeded with. A notable feature in the construction of these vessels is that the whole of the shell plates to the upper turn of bilge will be riveted by hydraulic power. . The work at the Titanic on the ad-. joining slip is also making interesting progress, the hydraulic riveting of the keel center plate (or vertical keel) nearing completion, and the erection of the floors in the double bottom having been commenced. The _ gan- tries and hhydraulic riveters suspend- ed from frames _ per- form a very important part in the work of construction; each _ riveter (weighing over séven tons) can be moved to any desired position over the entire length of the structure with the greatest facility. Amongst other inter- esting appliances on the building berths are the portable oil furnaces for heat- ing the rivets. The liquid fuel is sprayed into the furnace by compressed air, great heat being generated in a very short time and well distributed over the furnace. These oil furnaces are a great improvement on the old type--in fact, everything that ingenu- ity can devise has been called into requisition in their construction. It 1s claimed that the strength-of the struc- tures will greatly exceed anything at present afloat. the traveling