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396 TWO NEW TURBINE STEAMERS. An important development in the Peruvian mercantile marine service is about to be inaugurated by the Com- pania Peruana de Vapores of Dique del Callao, with two new _ turbine steamers which have just been com- THe Marine REVIEW beautiful and unique type, and a gen- eral air of brightness is given to the exterior and interior of the saloons, cabins and deck houses 'by the use of Robbialic white enamel. The ac- commodation for the 112 first, and 95 second class passengers is ranged along the center line of the ship on PERUVIAN TURBINE STEAMER HULLAGO. pleted by Messrs. Cammell, Laird & Co., of Birkenhead, Liverpool. The Peruvian steamship company just named is subsidized, as far as ships are concerned, by the Peruvian gov- ernment, and its purpose is to push forward the trading and mercantile marine. interests of the republic, and to maintain fast mail, passenger and freight services. It possesses other interests, too. At Callao the company owns one of the largest floating docks in the world. With the approval of the Peruvian government, the com- pany placed in the hands of Messrs. Cammell, Laird & Co. a contract to build the first two liners, and these --the Ucayali and Hullaga--just com- pleted, although having a_ contract speed of 18 knots, have both estab- lished their capacity for exceeding 19 knots. They are also unique in be- ing the first oil-driven turbine steam- ers on the South American coast. They have palatial passenger accom- modation, and unique cargo facilities specially adapted to the trade of the coast, including on the upper deck a 'covered area 60 ft. in length, to be used as a market for merchants at the coastal ports of call. These steamers in general appear- ance possess the graceful lines of a yacht. Their dimensions are: Length over all, 375 ft.; beam, 46 ft.; giving a gross tonnage measurement of 3,300, and a loaded displacement of over 6,000 tons. The fittings -and the de- sign of tthe public rooms are of a the shade and spar decks. There are four decks in all, and the accommodu- tion houses, commencing just abaft the breakwater forward and extend- ing aft .to the stern of the vessel afford an exceptionally long and shelt- October, 1909 turbine cases are of cast iron, and the motors are built up with cast steel wheels and forged steel drums; all revolving parts are accurately al- 'anced, the glands of tthe turbines are steam packed, and generally the con- struction conforms throughout to Messrs. Parsons' latest designs. The boilers are four in number, two double-ended. and two single-ended of the cylindrical return tube type, constructed for a working pressure of 160 lb. per sq. in. They are worked on the closed stokehold system, of forced draught, four fans being fitted for supplying air to the fires. An oil fuel arrangement is supplied and fitted, which can be put in opera- tion at any time after removing fur- nace bars, bearers and bbridges for coal burning and replacing these by the special furnace fronts, burners, etc. Both vessels go out to South Amer- ica with coal fuel, but there they will be adapted for the regular use of oil fuel. NEW SHIPYARD FOR SEATTLE E. W. Heath of Tacoma, who has constructed some 60 of the wooden vessels now plying the waters of the Pacific coast, has purchased a tract of land on the Duwamish river in South Seattle to which point he expects to remove his ship building PERUVIAN TURBINE ered promenade on both passenger decks, whilst numerous deck seats add materially to the comfort of the tray- eller. The propelling machinery construct- ed by the builders of the ships con- sist of a set of Parson's compound steam turbines driving three shafts; the high-pressure turbine drives the center shaft, and each wing shaft is driven by a low-pressure turbine, the reversing turbines (being incorporated on the low pressure turbine. The STEAMER UCAYAH. plant in the near future. The plant is now Jocated at Tacoma. He will construct new docks and "buildings and add new equipment, spending in all about $25,000 in new facilities at the Seattle plant. Charles M. Power, secretary and general manager of the Seneca Chain Co., Kent, O:, has resigned his position and went to Pittsburg Oct. 1, to assume his new duties as general sales manager of. the Standard Chain Co. i : . < 3 P ' 5 % ao ae a BE a oe as