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October, 1913 THE MARINE REVIEW SUITE ROOM, BIRD'S EYE MAPLE, SHELIER DECK ture given of the forward deck lounge gives a good idea of the character of these rooms which are in quartered oak with upholstery in red plush. ei very.attractive. feature of the fonmeress, especially «on .that part of her run south of Point Conception where the water is smooth and the evenings balmy, is the ball room on the after. end of the boat deck. The roof of this room was designed so as to need no pillars so that the entire floor space is available for dancing. "There is just one other feature of this interesting vessel which we wish to show, and that is the arrangement o> boats and life rafts on.the. boat deck. There are 14 large life boats to carry 42 persons each and 14 life faits with a capacity of 19 each stowed under them. All these are handled by the Norton patent sheathed screw davit and the picture shows the design of these davits and the ar- tangement of the boats. "Whatever the success of this ves- sel may be, she illustrates the efforts being made to produce ships that are not only seaworthy and safe but are of such a character as to discount all the discomforts of coastwise travel on the ocean." Navigates Vessel 15,000 Miles Unaided The Liverpool ship Harold, 1,299 tons, with a cargo of wheat, arrived at Queenstown July 15 from Decru bay, Australia, in command of Capt. Charles Charleton, who performed the feat of Navigating his vessel a distance of 15,000 miles to Queenstown with-. Out the aid of a single officer. The Peyage occupied 108 days. Capt Charles Charleton endeavored to get Officers for his ship at Adelaide, Mel- bourne and Sidney, but without avail, and had no alternative bit to set out on his voyage with a crew, none of whom knew anything of navigation. He went for stretches of six weeks without removing his clothes and slept on the poop of the ship on a cabin chair during most of the 108 days. Only: two' men of the crew were Britishers.. An Interesting Technicality Realizing how slight . a: conception is entertained by the general reading public of the heavy draft made upon the effective horsepower of the big transatlantic liners to meet the resist- ance due to wind pressure alone, the Scientific American recently propounded the following problem: « "The largest transatlantic liner now under construction will present to a head wind a cross-sectional area above water, including smokestacks, _masts, tc., of about 9,500 sq. ft. If the ship were steaming at a reduced speed of 15 knots against a head wind' of 65 miles velocity, how much horsepower ' would be necessary to overcome the wind pressure alone?" The various answers rec showed' results generally from 50 to 75 per cent less than the actual fig- ures, this" "discrepancy being due to the fact that too low a unit wind pressure was used in 'making the cal- culations. Investigation of this prob- lem by the Scientific American shows that in a transatlantic liner of, say 950 ft. long, - by. 100 ft. beam, driven by 60,000 h-.p., no less than 20 per cent or* about ~ 12,000 fis p., would" be: con-" | sumed in overcoming headwind re- sistance in a 65-mile gale when steam- ing at 15 knots. In other words, there is found to be under the above named conditions, a total of 275,000 Ibs. of atmospheric resistance due to the wind and the speed of the ship, and to overcome this at a speed of 15 knots ould require from 12,000 to 13,000 effective horsepower, or about 20 per received > 353 FIRST CLASS LOUNGE, LOOKING FORWARD cent of the total horsepower of. the ship. New Dry Dock at Port Huron The Reid Wrecking Co. is dev slop- - ing its plant at Port Huron into" a modern shipyard. The company's new dry dock is capable of taking in a 400-ft. vessel. At present the Colonial is in dry dock and is being practically rebuilt. The steamer E. M. Peck, which was wrecked by the explosion of her starboard boiler at Racine, Wis., last June, is at the yard and will be converted into a canal vessel by taking 4 ft. out of her. A number of other repairs are under way, and with the- building of 'two additional derrick barges, the company is assured of plenty of work until next spring. Mr. H. L. Tims, who has been with the. American Ship Building Co. for the past 20 years and is well known along. the lakes, is in charge of the plant. A bill has Been introduced in con- ~gress appropriating $100,000 for doub- ling the capacity of the government torpedo factory at Newport. This plant can turn out 100 torpedoes per annum, while the E. W. Bliss Co., of. Brooklyn, has a capacity of 200, mak- ing a total supply of 300, which is re- garded as inadequate. A provisional agreement for the construction of.a dry dock at South Boston, Mass.,.has been reached be- tween the Hamburg-American Line and the International Mercantile Ma- rine Co. and the directors of the. Port of Boston. It is understood that the Hamburg- American Line is soliciting bids from: American ship builders for three. steamers for service through the Pan-. ama canal. ;