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Car Ferry Parrott Leaving Cramp Yard on Maiden Voyage HEN building the Florida East Coast railway, it was the dream of the late Henry M. Flagler to carry this road through to Key West and incorporate a direct freight service between the United States and Cuba. . To do this, it would be necessary to transfer the loaded freight cars from Key West to Havana. As there is a strip of some 96 miles of ocean between the two points, the only possible way would be by means of a carferry line. This dream became a realization when in 1914 the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadel- phia, delivered the carferry Henry M. FLAGLER, which has since proved most successful in this service. The second vessel, Jos—EpH R. Parrort, has: recently been constructed by the Cramp company to augment the carferry service between Key West and Havana. Henry M. FLaAcLer was described in The Marine Review, November, 1914, g lew Car Ferry for Ocean Service and the new carferry is greatly similar. Jos—EpH R. Parrott has a capacity for 30 of the largest freight cars loaded, and will make the trip between Key West and Havana in eight hours. Her general dimensions are: ength overalls: feet. 3. ois tas och ies 350 Length between perpendiculars, feet... SOF Beam, molded; feet svc ys va cok sees tes 57 Depth, tector oh ae ciy vies oo salon eas 22 Speed, loaded with 2,300 tons’ deadweight, MERIOES Soaicce caskets siete sae cog Bice Bw ase Neale ees 12 | Mess” ple re 53 pees WA CrEWS oe 71017; oe chuer ores “EHS| Et Lgr pare Ke carr | Ass 00177 ane Mare Lig = 4: LL Biers Wa iy aM [TI ih hl) Het maar 22 atthe Tarr No.2 /70/AS5C5 on ice ) Uc ZZUNS Peay Ten Nal¥k? Hill Tarr No.3 /70/055€5 PROFILE AND CROSS-SECTION .OF CAR FERRY JOSEPH R, PARROTT 2 °