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302 on all air ports in shell plating. In the bridge and deck houses all air ports, except those in the dining saloon, will be 12 inches diameter without shutters. The air ports in the dining saloon will be 14 inches diameter without shutters. 49. Deck Scuppers and Drains Galvanized-iron pipe scuppers will be fitted for draining the forecastle, bridge, and poop decks, top of bridge deck houses, upper bridge deck, flying bridge, windlass bed, and such floor spaces as require special drains. In general these scuppers will drain over- board, excepting that those for the erections above the bridge will drain to the deck below. Pipe scuppers will have strainers fitted of standard pattern. The main deck will have galvanized pipe scuppers draining to bilge. The scuppers for the upper deck will be cut in the stringer bar which will be properly reinforced for the openings cut. Brass drain plugs will be fitted in the peaks and in each compartment of the double bottom for use when the vessel is in dry dock. 50;-Sinks and Hand Pumps A galvanized-iron sink will be pro- vided in the galley and a sheet-lead sink in the pantry, each with connec- tion from gravity fresh-water tank. 51. Rudder The rudder will be of the single- plate type with a cast-steel frame having arms opposite each pintle and connected to a separate forged-steel rudder stock through a_ horizontal flanged coupling by six body-bound bolts. The rudder plate will be of required thickness. There will be six steel pintles, 5 inches diameter, with composition casings working in lig- num-vitae bushings in the gudgeons. The rudder stock will be 10 inches diameter and will extend above the upper deck to suit the steering gear. The weight of the rudder will be sup- ported by a heavy cast-iron collar in halves working on a flat brass bearing ring, the latter fitted in a cast-iron bearing on the upper deck at the top of the rudder trunk. The bearing will be made in halves and will be lined with white metal. 52. Cement The bottom of the vessel, except in fuel-oil compartments, will be well coated with Portland cement covering all the rivet heads and dished up over the frames, the cement being carried well up the turn of the bilge. The tank top in the boiler room will be covered with cement about 2 inches thick. At the ends of the vessel all the inaccessible places will be filled in with cement so as to give a free flow of water to the limber holes. The fresh-water tanks and all double- bottom compartments not used for fuel oil will be given two coats of cement wash. All cement will be composed of one part of Portland cement and two parts of sharp sand. 53. Wood Decks Yellow-pine calked deck 3 inches thick will be laid on the forecastle deck only. 54. Ceiling and Sparring Yellow-pine ceiling, 3 inches thick, THE will be laid athwartship on battens throughout the cargo hold. Similar ceiling will be laid fore and aft on the bilge brackets and fitted with portable sections to give access to bilges. : Cargo battens will be fitted in cleats at the sides of the vessel, in the hold, and between decks and the bridge and poop. Sparring will also be fitted on the cargo side of such portions of the bulkheads at the ends of the machinery space as form part of the oil bunkers. A portable slat bulkhead will be fitted around the steering-gear space in the poop. 55. Miscellaneous Carpenter Work The cargo hatches and the hatch to the storeroom forward will have covers of 234-inch spruce fitted with lifting rings and suitably marked. Wooden boxing, or steel where more suitable, will be fitted for bilge, air, and sounding pipes where necessary in the cargo holds.. Under the wind- lass there will be a separate founda- tion of 4-inch yellow pine. Suitable wooden brows faced with steel will be: fitted:at: all: cargo. ports,..at the bulkhead doors in between decks, and at between deck hatches. Slat gratings will be fitted forward and aft for stowage of lines. Necessary shelves, etc., will be fitted for boatswain’s and general ship stores. 56. Joiner Decks The upper bridge deck will be 134- inch tongued and grooved cypress laid on beam caps fitted in the bosoms of the angle beams and -covered with No. 2 canvas. with No. 2 canvas will be laid on the top of the afterdeck house. The tops of the wheel house and wireless house and the flying bridge will have 134- inch tongued and grooved cypress deck laid on 4 x 3-inch yellow-pine carlins and covered with No. 2 can- vas. No felt will be fitted under the canvas in way of these decks. 57. Joiner Work—General In the forecastle, the inside bulk- heads around the staterooms will be of steel. The seats and drop leaf desks in these rooms will be ash. No ceiling will be fitted at the ‘sides of the vessel in these quarters. The doors to the living quarters will be wood. In the bridge deck houses, the bulkheads inclosing the staterooms, etc., will be plain tongued-and-grooved oak, and the sides of the houses will be ceiled in all staterooms, saloon, and officers’ mess room. The sides of the houses in way of bathrooms, pantry, and storerooms will not be ceiled. The dining saloon will be finished in plain tongued-and-grooved oak wainscoting with oak paneling above. The beams in the dining saloon, officers’ mess room, and in deck house staterooms, will be incased with cypress. Built-in berths, lockers, etc., in the captain’s spare, officers’, engineers’, and steward’s rooms will be plain oak. In the oilers’ and cook’s rooms all wood furniture will be ash. Slat doors with copper netting. will be fitted in chart room, first officer’s room, wireless, hospital, and to all staterooms and mess rooms in after- deck house. Screen doors will be fitted in the galley and at the Passages MARINE REVIEW A similar deck covered. ‘%-inch October, 1917 in the forward deck house. mesh will be fitted in all spaces pro- tected by screen doors. The wheelhouse and wireless house will be built of wood with yellow-pine sill, studding and plates, sheathed with cypress and the wheelhouse ceiled with oak. Windows with drop sash will be fitted in this house. The front and forward sides of the upper bridge deck will be inclosed with tongued-and-grooved yellow pine to the rail height and capped with . 5 x. 2%-inch yellow-pine rail. 58. Miscellaneous Joiner Work Hinged wood covers with glass sash will be fitted over the skylights to galley and crew’s mess rooms. Ash ladders 24 inches wide, with galvan- ized iron handrails, will be fitted on each side for access to the upper bridge. deck, top of after deck house, and to the flying bridge. All necessary dish racks, dressers, etc., will be fitted in the pantry, and dressers in the galley; all dressers will have ash tops covered with lead. Shelving and bins will be fitted in the steward’s and other storerooms, as required. Hard- ware, name plates, etc., will be of the same class as that fitted by the build- ers on general cargo vessels. Built-in berths, seats, etc. will be fitted as specified under “Furniture”. Frames for notices and licenses will be sup- plied as required. Bucket racks and other miscellaneous joiner work will be fitted as on general cargo vessels. 59. Refrigerating Room The refrigerating room will be built as follows: Walls and Ceiling—One thickness of tongued-and-grooved yellow pine, one layer of waterproof paper, two thicknesses of 2-inch cork with waterproof between the layers, one layer of waterproof paper, and one thickness of 7-inch spruce. Floor—Bituminous composition on deck, one layer of waterproof paper, one layer 2-inch cork, one layer %- inch tongued-and-grooved yellow pine, one layer of waterproof paper, one layer 2-inch cork with a layer of waterproof paper and a layer of %- inch tongued-and-grooved spruce. The floor will be covered with 5- pound lead flashed 12 inches up on the sides and covered with ash grat- ings. No other metal lining will be fitted. Necessary metal shelves, bars and meat hooks will be provided. Partition——One thickness of 7-inch tongued-and-grooved spruce, one layer of waterproof paper, 2-inch cork, one layer of waterproof paper, and one thickness of 77-inch tongued-and- grooved spruce. 60. Painting The steel hull will be given one priming coat inside and outside during construction. In addition, the interior of the vessel will be given one coat of red lead and the outside above the water line one coat of red lead and one coat of an approved finishing color. (This water line is a line at a draft of about 19 feet forward and 21 feet aft. There will be no boot-top paint, and the war color top-sides paint will be carried down to this line.) Below the water line the outside of the vessel- will be given one coat of approved anticorrosive and one coat of ap- Window — or air port screens of copper-wire