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April, 1914 THE MARINE REVIEW 131 RECONSTRUCTING THE STEAMER CAROLINA AT THE NEWPORT NEWS YARD stern about the propeller wheels. This being eliminated and due to change to single screw, makes her propulsive efficiency high and the necessary horsepower to obtain the desired speed vastly less than was originally re- quired for the ship. The Carolina is of the following di- mensions: By bse ete Kength' 'over. allwave.s careers 405 0 Length between perpendiculars...... 3795.0 Depth to: hurricane. deck.4s 1.52.24. 365-7 Beam, moldede2j. ose eee se ees 47 8 Total dead weight at maximum load draught, including cargo, coal, wa- tere and «Stores tOns: 4 vee a ste 5,100 Cargo cubic capacity; cu. ft.0662. 260,000 Hirst. class'. passen@ers....00 03s. coe 190 Second class passengers....:-..+--.+- 50 Ciew, shout... pera dey ee 100 There are a number of suite rooms and private baths, public spaces about the ship, such as smoking room, so- cial hall, observatory, deck shelter, ladies' parlor, etc., which are elaborate- ly finished. The dining saloon is a spacious and luxurious room, with the modern arrangement of individual seating tables. The catering willbe of the popular hotel service. Additional shade decks and awnings have been fitted. The ship is equipped with boats with capacity for every person on board. The Carolina has complete new pro- Pelling machinery of the very best, a thoroughly staunch hull with com- plete double bottom, numerous wa- ter-tight bulkheads and other safety devices, all combine to guarantee the Carolina a high position among steam craft. The. ship «is -commanded by Capt. J-.O. Foss, commodore: of. the Porto. Rico' Line. :..Stewart Holmes, who for several months has been at Newport News with the ship, acting as inspecting engineer, will be chief engineer of the Carolina. ® Ivor Knudsen, general manager ot the shipbuilding firm of Baumeister & Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark, who is now in this country, has sold the. patent rights of the Diesel engine, as manufactured by his firm, for the ter- 'ritory west of the Mississippi to the Union Tool Co., of Los Angeles. The company will for the present manu- facture only the stationary type. Because oil ranges are much cheap- er and cleanlier than coal ranges, the navy department is having them in- stalled in the galleys of the Pennsyl- vania and Battleship No. 39, now under construction, for cooking pur- poses. The department announced to- day. that it had decided on' the: oil range after it had experimented with various other types. This step is in line with the department's policy of using oil instead of coal for fuel on its latest ships. The cost of cooking by the different methods was found to be about as follows per day: With an-electric range, $22.50; with a coal range, $16, and with an oil range, $5.65. A novel use has been found for one of the big locks of the Panama canal at Gatun, which has tempor- arily been converted into a regular drydock for the overhauling of five of the naval submarines, C-1 to C-5, which have been stationed at the At- lantic entrance of the canal since Dec. 12 last. As the lock chambers are arranged in pairs it is possible thus to use one of them as a drydock without interfering with the passage of vessels through the other. The steamer Australia, of the Cor- rigan fleet, is at the Cleveland yard of the American Ship Building Co., having her wooden deck houses re- placed with steel ones,