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December, 1914 Steamer Edward Peirce The sailing of the steamer Edward Peirce from the yard of her builders the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock .©o, adds another, imade™ in America" unit to the not overcrowded merchant marine of the United States. This. is °the third 'steamer for the Crowell & Thurlow Steamship Co. of Boston, Mass., built at Newport News, as the Peter H. Crowell and Lewis K. Thurlow are the products of the same yard. The Edward Peirce while designed primarily for a- collier is fitted with cargo handling gear, cargo battens, etc., so that her usefulness is not confined to carrying coal. The vessel will make a successful carrier for any kind of bulk cargo, lumber or general cargo. The dimensions are as follows: tenet over "all. 002. 375 feet TTT loo > TUT =< 4 Ga KI) 1 + OL] L346) TOP OF FOCP DECK HOUSE oo COAL HATCH K BOILER LU HATE: THE MARINE REVIEW Length Lloyds) 00.003 360 feet Beam moulded: 3.,.75;. 49 feet Depth toulded= =;.3.7., 30 feet D. W. at 23 feet draft.. 6500 tons Sea speed -loaded. .....3, 10 knots Grossatonnage: 0007.4: 4387 Net tonnage <6 clic. 3228 The vessel is single screw with two masts and machinery aft. Accommoda- tions for deck officers are in a short bridge amidship. The crew and en- gineers are accommodated under poop deck and in a deck house on the poop deck. The galley, refrigerating rooms and refrigerating machinery, are aft, and there is a direct connected steam steering gear, with telemotor control from pilot house. A continuous trunk for extent of hatch openings permits the decks to be raised between hatches simplifying drainage and gaining in cubic capacity. There are eight hatches U feat CHART) WHEE} Room Ig 1] Roor 479 19x26 feet fitted with steel hatch cov- ers and rubber gaskets. The propelling machinery consists of a triple expansion engine 23x 39x 66 inches diameter of cylinder by 45-inch stroke, a main and auxiliary condenser, air pump of Edwards type, centrifugal circulating pump, two attached feed pumps, two attached bilge pumps, fire and donkey pump, ballast pump, one 20- ton evaporator Reilley feed water heater and Ebson filter. The boilers are of the single ended scotch type; 15 feet diameter, 11 feet 6 inches long with three 45-inch Morrison furnaces and separate combustion chambers. They are designed for heated forced 'draft, and a working pressure of 180 pounds of steam. The keel, of this vessel was laid June 17, and the vessel was launched Oct. 24, with engines aboard, stack up, boilers ann} U Loree UPPER BRIDGE DECK UHHH} pa FLYING BRIDGE Cm ge HATCH | A HATCH i 19'x26 | UPPER DECK at : 1 7 ! eee eg E ob} ! tf ona ' : ut ore ie Ps bh 1 r = a iF i ip : q if re re CARGG HOLO one | [ Care HaLD ' CURR Siena ror re, t . a ee i + ¢ ie TS Thee 1 Dee L L sy : rE ost ¥ Se Bee | ae hee s WT FLAT. 9 ! Y r - AV0 HOLD fee ee fi | it t it CARGO HOLD 70,3 SECTIONAL PLANS OF THE STEAMER EDWARD PEIRCE