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Toledo Y: ud Toledo Shipbuilding Co. Has Almost Completed its First Order for Auxiliary Schooners—Detailed Description of HE Toledo Ship Building Co., ; Toledo, O., has _ practically completed the last of six steel auxiliary schooners contracted for early in.1916 by the Standard Oil Co. of ‘New Jersey. The boats are known as the Lite fleet, their names being - SrartitE, Moon.uite, Twitite, DAWNLITE, SUNLITE and DayLite. STAR- LITE has already reached South Aimer- ica on her maiden voyage while Moon- LITE and TwILite are enroute to Buenos Aires. DAwNLITE is loading at New Mork SUNLITE was launched Oct. 28 and will reach New York within a few days. Con- struction work is” being rushed on DayLitE and _ she will be towed to ine Coast ‘and fitted with an oil- burning engine in- stead of being fully equipped at Toledo. This ac- tion is necessary in order to get the boat to salt water before ice blocks the Great Lakes. The ves- sels differ widely from the canal- size boats for salt water service with which lake build- ers are familiar and which they have been turning out so successfully during the past year. In fact, the auxiliary schooner is still somewhat of a curiosity to many ocean builders. The sister ships of the Lite fleet are duplicates. Each vessel has an overall length of 261 feet and a length between perpendiculars of 252 feet. The molded breadth is 43 feet “6 inches. The molded depth midships is 23 feet 6 inches and the molded depth, lowest point, is 22 feet 8 inches. When loaded, the boats draw 18 feet 6. inches. Fach ‘boat. 4s equipped with a Bolinder oil engine of 320 brake horsepower. Under power and sail, the vessels will make eight to nine knots when light and five to seven knots when loaded, depend- ing upon the strength of the wind. The original contract was placed with the Toledo Ship Building Co. by the Smith. Shipping Co., New York. The boats, while still under construction, were purchased by the Standard: Oil «Co, ot -New Jersey. Some minor changes in design were made to fit the vessels for the sery- ice in which their new owner has placed them. They will be used to carry case oil-.to : the River Plate, picking up miscellaneous cargo for the BOW-ON VIEW OF TWILITE BEFORE LAUNCHING return voyage. The vessels have a deadweight capacity of 3,000 tons each and will carry about 75,000 cases of oil. Their gross tonnage is 1,950 and their net tonnage 1,600. The vessels are fore and aft rig, single deck type with poop and fore- castle. They are built on the trans- verse system with deep stringer, web frames and wide-spaced hold beams. The propelling machinery is located aft, with the fuel oil tank forward of the engine space and extending from side to side. A donkey boiler is located on the upper deck in the forward end of the poop. The cargo hold extends from the collision bulk- head to the forward bulkhead of the oil fuel tank. There are three hatches 408 These Vessels By R. V. Sawhill to the cargo hold, each hatch being commanded by two cargo booms. A water bottom, 3 feet deep at the cen- ter line, extends from the collision bulkhead to the oil fuel -tank.. This design was changed in several of the boats just completed, to provide for storing 60 tons of fuel oil in the after end of the water bottom, the oil serving as ballast or in an emer- gency as fuel. The water bottom is divided by a center girder and transverse watertight floors into a number of com- partments. Each ship has four steel masts, fore, main, mizzen and spank- er. The masts are each 112 feet long and are hollow. auey > ‘extend ” %o the tank top. The booms and_ gaffs are wood. The spanker mast car- ries off the ex- haust from the en- gine. ‘The don- key boiler is equipped with a portable 14-foot stack which dis- charges above the poop deck.” “As the donkey boil- er is used only in port, the stack is taken down and carried in hold- ers while the ship is under way. This arrange- ment was decided upon after consid- erable study. Originally it was planned to have both the engine and the boiler discharge through the mast but it was found that under such con- ditions the mast became heated to too high a temperature. That part of the mast between the tank top and the upper deck is perforated to aid in properly ventilating the hold, Quarters for the officers and engi- neers, together with the galley, store- room, pantry, messrooms and saloon are in the poop. In the forecastle, accommodations for the crew include sleeping quarters, hospital, messroom and washroom. The hospital is well equipped, In both the poop and the