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November, 1921 Isherwood numerous type SCALARIA, one of the oil tank ships built by Messrs. Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Lids Wallsend, Eng- land, for this owner. The overall length of the ScaLarta is 427 feet while she has an extreme breadth of 53 feet 4 inches and a molded depth of 31 feet to the wup- per deck. :On a.draft. of 24 fear 2 inches the deadweight carrying ca- pacity is 8500 tons. The triple expansion reciprocating engines driving a single screw and the oil fired boilers have been built by the Wallsend Slipway & -;Engi- neering Co. During a series of runs on the measured mile, the ship, when fully loaded, worked up to and main- tained a speed of over 12 knots. There are nine oiltight holds each of which is subdivided by an_ oiltight ° center bulkhead and built to carry benzine. The cargo hold in the fore end, of the ship and the machinery and boiler space aft are separated by cof- ferdams from the range of oil holds. The pump room is forward of the bridge and between the sixth and seventh oil holds. Hayward Tyler's horizontal duplex benzine pumps have been fitted and in: such: away that oil can be pumped into any of the oil compartments or from one com- partment into another on the op- posite side of the ship. They 'can also discharge oil from the holds simultane- ously over each side of the ship. ee SCHEME for creating a permanent "imperial shipping board has been promulgated by the British imperial shipping committee to take the place of the latter body on its dissolution. The functions suggested for such a body by the committee include: Inquiry into complaints in regard to ocean freights and conditions in inter-imperial trade, or questions of a smiliar nature referred to them by any of the governments of the empire; conciliation between the interests concerned in inter-imperial shipping, and the promotion of. co-ordina- tion in regard to harbors and other facilities necessary for inter-imperial shipping. The board should not be to any appreciable extent greater than that of the present imperial shipping com- mittee. Be ale Poe HE contracts -for the four super- Hoods the laying down of which forms part of this year's naval program of the British government, have not vet heen placed. One will probably be built by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. at the Walker yard on the Tyne. This will provide employment for 500 men for at least three years. This firm Is also reported to have secured a con- MARINE REV{ie @ 491 ~ CAPTAIN FRYATT'S FAMOUS SHIP BRUSSELS RETURNS TO SERVICE Salvaged by the Belgians she is shown in the Thames river. The Belgian government presented her to Great Britain and despite protests she was later sold at auction, the money going for charitable purposes. This month she resumed commercial service. Part of the ship will be used in a memorial to Captain Fryatt tract running into millions of pounds sterling for armament for the new bat- tleships. The firms likely to build the other three super-Hoods are Cammell, Laird (Birkenhead), John Brown & Co., (Clyde Bank) and the Fairfield Ship- building Co. (Clyde). These ships are to take the place of the canceled sister ships of the Hoop and it is believed that each of these ships will cost 714 million pounds. Deliver Indian Liner The City oF Parts built at the Wall- send, England, shipyard of Messrs. Swan, Hunter, & Wigham Richardson, Ltd., for Ellerman's City line, has just left the works of the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co. where the engines and boilers were constructed. The ship has a single screw driven by double reduction geared turbines of the impulse reaction type. Both the ahead and the astern turbines have one high pressure and one low pressure tur- bine working in series. Superheated steam is supplied from five single- ended boilers working under forced draft at a pressure of 225 pounds per square inch. ' The leading dimensions of the Curry oF Paris are 504 feet overall with a molded breadth of 59 feet and a depth to the upper deck of 35 feet. She has been designed to carry 10,500 tons dead- weight on a draft of 28 feet 2 inches. As. the ship is to run to India most careful attention has been' paid to the ventilation of all living accommodations. There are comfortable staterooms ia deckhouses on the promenade and shelter decks for 230 first class and 100 ses- ond class passengers. In the upper *tween decks of two af the holds pro- vision is made for third-class passengers when required. The first-class dining room is on the shelter deck forward, while that for the second-class passengers together with a lounge is in a deckhouse on the shelter deck above the after hold. The first-class smokeroom is at the after end of the central promenade deck and be- iow it is a nursery for children. For perishable provisions refrigerated rooms are provided.