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450 a spacious lounge, library, dining sa- loon and smoking room for each class, will be finished in American walnut and white, in period styles. There will be playrooms for children, gymnasiums both indoors and outdoors, and outdor swimming pools. Novel features in the vessel’s con- struction will embrace large side ports through which automobiles carried by passengers as baggage can be driven on board; staterooms all of the out- PTC HE illustration to the right shows the Italian Atlantic lin- er Conte Biancamano, 655 feet long overall 76 feet wide and 39 feet 6 inches deep of 23,000 gross tons, built and engined by William Beardmore & Co. Ltd., Dalmuir, Scotland, for the Lloyd Sabaudo Co., Genoa, for service between Italy and South America. Suc- ‘cessful trials were run over the ‘measured mile on the Firth of Clyde on Nov. 3, 1925. <A speed of 21 knots was attained. The new vessel is splendidly equipped throughout and will carry 500 first class, 590 second class, 660 third class and some high class cargo. She is an oil burner with twin screws and turbine reduction gear machinery of 12,000 horsepower per each shaft. She was built in record time and in spite of extras was delivered on the contract date. Her keel was laid in June, 1924, she was launched in April, 1925, and completed in November. UTTTOVUULTTSTUOUUOTTTTETODUUTTTTTOGRCUUTTTOUOCUUCUTOCUOUUUOCAeOCUCLUOAOOOOUUUUOTOOOUOULUNGOOOUOOUUNOOOOUOUTTOOOOUOUUTOOOQOCUUOOGOOOOUUUUOOQOUOUUUUULNOOUUUULUOOUUUUUULUOOUULLUDLLLOCOUULULLOSSCUOULLOLoLOLLoKS LoL it MARINE REVIEW side type in both classes; private baths for all the principal first class state- rooms, and deck spaces for promen- ading and sports exceeding in breadth those on the monster transatlantic liners. The principal dimensions of the ves- sel will be: Length 600 feet; breadth 80 feet; depth 52 feet. Her displace- ment when loaded will be 31,000 tons. A power installation embracing turbo- electric engines of 18,000 horsepower, New Italian Liner Runs Successful Trials CO ee LIMA LLL LLL ELLUM UOMO CUU UC UMUC UTNE UU UU UOT UTT UOT TENUMC MOU MTLEULU UIUC LULU DC December, 1925 will furnish electrical current for mo- tors coupled to twin screws. All of this machinery will be supplied by the General Electric Co. There will be 12 water-tube boilers, burning oil. It is expected that the new vessel will be ready for delivery in the fall of 1927, when she will take her place with the other vessels in the Pana- ma Pacific line service between New York, Havana, Panama Canal, San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. UTUUITCTUUUTUUUUUUUUUUULUUUELUULULUULULULULOLULCLLOOUOCUOGOLOGLOLOCOGOOOGOCOGOOOGUOOLOTOOOOGUOGOUOOAOOIORELULLELOUUELOLOQLOOOGCRROOOOOONOOTOTUITUOTITUUOTUOQOOQECOOOOONOOOONOOTOTTITITVTIUUUIOTTUNTONTOOOTTOONTTTTTTTTIIIIT AULUNVUUUUUTALEUTNEUTALUUIIT = h Recent Sales of American Ships HE president of the Emergency i Fleet Corp. has announced a number of recent sales of ton- nage. The sale of six Hog Island type, steel cargo vessels of approximately 7825 deadweight tons each, to the Carolina Steamship Corp., under agreement for maintenance of a regu- lar American flag service for a period of five years between South Atlantic ports and United Kingdom ports and European ports north of Bordeaux, has been duly completed by the de- livery of the S. S. SUNDANCE the last of the six vessels to be delivered un- der the sale. The other vessels are: COLDWATER, MAGMERIC, SHICKSHINNY, TULSA and SCHOHARIE. The price con- sideration for these vessels was $45,- 000 each, accompanied by a guarantee to make a stipulated number of voy- ages per year on the service described, for the five-year period. Details of the sales of other vessels follow: RIPon, cargo, tons, 2689 gross tons, for $45,000 to Edwin = me 1308 F street; N. W., Washington, lake-type 4208 deadweight CHAUTAUQUA, lake-type cargo, 3610 deadweight tons, 23823 gross tons, for $25,000 cash con- sideration and contract supported by bond to perform specified alterations and _ better- ments under approved plans and specifications, to Baltimore & Carolina Steamship Co., Bal- timore, Md. CoRAPEAK, lake-type cargo, 3180 deadweight tons, 2153 gross tons, for $29,000 to Charles F. Webb, 110 State street, Boston. MEMNON, steel cargo 5129 deadweight tons, 3329 gross tons, for $90,000 to Columbia River Packers’ association, Astoria, Ore. PALLAS, steel cargo, 7640 deadweight tons, 4839 gross tons, for $180,000 to James Griffiths & Sons, Ince., Seattle, Wash. : GOLIAH, ocean oil-burning tug, 414 gross tons, for $27,500 to Wood Towing Corp., Nor- folk, Va. It is understood that the board has also approved the sale of nineteen ships, mostly lakers, for a total of $2,147,000. Two of these went to the Oriental Navigation Co., New York, for $401,000; one to Pillsbury & Curtis, San Francisco, for $25,000; four lake-type cargo vessels to the Munson Steamship‘ Line for $100,000 in cash, with the understanding that the company will improve them within 18 months; one to James D. Hallahan, Chicago, for $31,000; four to Finkbins- Guild Transportation Co. for $570,000; one adapted for long voyages to E. P. - Farley & Co. for $240,300; three for lumber carriers to Wm. F. Shupe at $125,000 cash, each; one for $5000 to M. J. Tracey, Inc., New York; one laker to C. A. Massey, Duluth, for $26,000; and another laker to Ernest Leo Jahncke for $36,000. The schooner CARLTON A. SMITH was sold to Thatcher Soule of Free- port, Me., for $10,100 at a federal marchal’s sale held Oct. 19 at Port- land, Me.