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VOL. 42 CLEVELAND NOVEMBER, 1912 NEW YORK No. 11 Bulk Freighter Keybell Description of the First Vessel Which the Key- stone Transportation Co. Has Built in Canada HE Collingwood Shipbuilding These arches, being connected to the canaling. The. frames for 40 ft, Co., Collingwood, Ont., has re- main deck plating by large brackets, from stem are spaced 18 in. centers, cently completed the bulk also support the main deck beams, which, with the numerous panting freighter Keybell for the Keystone making ample provision for heavy beams and the panting stringers, af- Transportation Co., of Montreal. Con- deck loads of pulpwood. The regu- ford additional protection to the hull sidering the great difficulty which the shipbuilding company had in obtain- ing material, owing to the crowded condition of the mills, the steamer was built in remarkably short time. The contract was signed April 4, the launch took place Sept. 17, and tiie vessel was turned over to the owners on Oct. 15. She is built to the classi- fication of the British Corporation for the Survey and Registry of Ship- ping, of which Capt. James B. Foote, of Toronto, is the Canadian represen- tative. The steamer's dimensions are: Length -over allo. oo. 8 ee as 258 ft Renoth: BrP eo a ee or, 244 ft ; Breadth, moulded 3.7.0 355 sa re 42 ft. 6in. Depth: smouldéd. 1... ee 20 ft The vessel is built on the arch and web frame system, dispensing with hold pillars, leaving the holds unob- structed, facilitating the handling of _ bulk cargoes. of coal and ore with -clam-shell unloaders. The arches and webs are spaced 24 ft. centers, the arch plate being 30 in. deep. of 15 Ibs. plate, connected to web frame of same weight, 22 in. deep, with large bracket at tank margin, these with the deep floor plate in double bottom forming a belt frame around the ship. lar framing, between the webs, con- THE KeEyBELL, LookKING AFT sists of solid 13-lb. plate floors in double bottom, space 4 ft., with in- termediate angle floor frame and re- verse frames, side frames 7 in. and 18-lb. channel spaced 2 ft., well brack- eted to tank margin and to main deck beams of same section and spac- ing, to take the strains incident to against ice damage. The bottom framing is supported longitudinally by three lines of 13-lb. plate intercostals and the side framing by three lines of side stringers, composed of chan- nel bars intercostalled to shell. The bottom shell and the tank top plating is exceptionally heavy for a vessel of this size, as a margin against bottom damage on full canal draught and dam- age to the double bottom plating by the heavy grab buckets now in use. The tank margin at its junction with the shell is below the level of the tank top, providing a-capacious bilge well, into which the bilge suctions are fitted, as a precaution against leakage through damage to side shell in locks finding its way into the cargo holds, the bilge ceiling being fitted water- tight. The forward hold, which is most liable to this sort of damage, has been fitted with grain ceiling as a protection against moisture, this being fitted in hatches and arranged, by an ingenious system of bolting, to be easily removed for inspection and painting of the adjacent steel work. Five bulkheads are fitted, three wat- ertight and three screen, the cargo hold being divided into three com- partments. An additional partition