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May, 1922 motor is also located in this room. At the level of the main deck in the deck thouse are two single and two double staterooms, one for the chief engineer, one for the engineer, one for deckhand and cook and one for two deck hands. At the after end of the deck house on the port side is the galley, opening into the mess room on the starboard side. Gn the second deck in the house are two staterooms, one for the captain. and one for the mate. On the same level and just forward of these two staterooms is the derrick operating room. Above the operating room is the pilot house, handsomeiy finished in hardwood. The appoint- ments and finish of all the quarters are somewhat above the av- erage practice in harbor work boats. assistant dec:< living Protection Against Fire In addition to the usual fire fighting equipment required by law additional protection against oil fires is pra- vided in the form of a Foamite Firc- foam engine of 80-gallons capacity in- stalled in the forward part of the en- gine room hatch with sufficient hose attached to reach any part of the boat. In case of fire this machine is put into operation simply by open- ‘jing one valve and the 80 gallons ot nuxture will produce 700 gallons of fire smothering foam under sufficiert pressure to project it 50 feet trom the hose nozzle. For heating the boat, an Arcola het water system of the ordinary house heating ‘type is installed, the heating unit being located in the engine rooin During the ‘severe weather of the past winter this system proved effec- tive and some of the radiators from the living quarters were removed iv reduce tthe heating effect. For use in warping the vessel, puil- ing ‘on lines, etc., a warping winch, driven by a 10-horsepower motor is located inside the deck house in the forward end of the engine room hatch, with a through shaft extending outside the deck house on each side and a drum on each end of the shaft. The WortTHINGTON was built by the Vinyard Shipbuilding Co., Milford, Del. from designs prepared by Eads John- son, naval architect, New York. Jn preparing the designs for this vessel, the maval architect collaborated with the Worthington company’s engineers with a view toward achieving the most successful adaption of this new type of power equipment to the special conditions of the service in which the boat was to engage. The derrick was built and installed by the Terry Mfg. Co., New York. The boat was brought from the MARINE REVIEW DIESEL-DRIVEN DERRICK LIGHTER SHOWING ARRANGEMENT OF A-FRAME. THIS FRAME EXTENDS 70 FEET ABOVE DECK AND CARRIES A 90-FOOT BOOM. builders’ yard to deep water in Dela- ware bay ‘through the shallow and tortuous water of Mispillion creek under its own power, a trip requiring six days of almost constant mareu- vering with the main engine. During this time the engine, although new and not run in, met all the require- ments of rapidly repeated manervers in a completely satisfactory manner, the vessel then completed a sea irip in severe winter. ‘weather to New York without ‘the slightest inter- ruption. Obituaries James Tregarthen, head of James Tregarthen & (‘Sons Co., shipwright, with a drydock and yard at the foot of Seventh street, New York, died April 11 at this home in Brooklyn. Mr. Tregarthen was born in the Scilly islands tn 1841 and came to this country in 1861. For more than 50 years he had (been conducting a shipwright ‘business. Charles Lincoln architect and marine April 7 in a New York hospital from a complication of Seabury, naval engineer, died diseases. He was 61 years old. He was the designer or builder of more than 2000 pleasure boats, among them being H. H. Rog- ers’ KANAWHA, George Gould’s NIAG- ARA Iv, Gen. Brayton Ives’ VITESSE and M. C. D. Borden’s steam yacht Sover- EIGN. Mr. Seabury, who was Tiverton, R. I., L. Seabury Co. when he was 22 years born in organized the Charles THE CAPACITY OF THE DERRICK IS 20 TONS old, to engage in shipbuilding at Nyack, N. Y. Later this company -was con- solidated with the General Engine & Power Co. Mr. Seabury invented sev- eral boilers and engines, perfecting the naphtha engine before the internal en- gine came into general use. Seven years ago he became a consulting naval engineer and during the war was an advisor of navy contracts. In 1918 he joined Carlos De Zafra in organizing Seabury & De Zafra, 150 Nassau street, New York, consulting naval architects and marine engineers. Allen J. Wolcott, general superinten- dent of the Iron Steamboat Co., died recently at his home in Grantwood, N. J. He was 48 years old. He started with the company in 1892 as a. fireman, became an oiler in 1900, was made as- sistant engineer in 1902 and chief en- gineer in 1907. In 1920 he became gen- eral superintendent. Dr. L. H. Davis, ship surgeon of the Munson liner PAN-AMeErRICA, died re- cently aboard ship, from apoplexy. John W. Graham, superintendent-en- gineer of the Bull Steamship Co., died recently, aged 50 years. He was a _ na- tive of England and a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Capt. William C. Hodgkins of the Boston office of the United States coast and geodetic survey, died suddenrily, re- cently at Charleston, S. C. Captain Hodgkins was one of the best known geodetic and hydrographic engineers in the country.