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proposed by the London Conference for safety at sea. This equipment includes 36 life boats, two whale boats and two power boats which are fitted with wireless apparatus and are de- signed to tow the life boats. The wireless apparatus on the new liner is of the latest type and is complete in every detail. Messages can be sent over 550 miles in day- light and about 900 miles at night. Besides the regular ship’s wireless there are two emergency sets, one receiving its energy from an emer- gency unit, but so arranged that it may be used in connection with the apparatus of the principal station and over the same range; the other receives its energy from a group of accumulators and will have a range of 150 miles by daylight and 250 miles to burn fuel oil and operate with Howden forced draft. The twenty boilers are fitted in four water tight compartments. The capacity of the storage tanks is 7500 tons of fuel oil, sufficient for a voyage from Havre to New York and return. Parsons type turbines drive four propellers with a total shaft horse- power of 52,000 sufficient to give the ILE DE FRANCE an average speed of 23 knots. Four triple expansion tur- bines are used for going forward and four double expansion turbines are used for backing. The total weight of the turbines is 1060 tons. Passenger Accommodations Though the ILE DE FRANCE is a large ship and her machinery and engineering features are of the most modern in marine engineering prac- CONTROL BOARD IN THE ENGINE ROOM OF THE ILE DE FRANCE at night. There is also in addition a transmitting set and one set com- bining transmission and_ reception. There are a series of amplifiers for transmitting concerts all over the vessel, and one radio telephone station by which conversation may be carried on with land stations and other ships. The ILE DE FRANCE is fitted with the Sperry gyro compass and auto- matic pilot operating in conjunction with the compass. There is also a radiogoniometer connected with re- peaters of the gyroscopic compass by means of which it is possible to take radiophonic bearings at a distance of 200 miles with an error of less than two degrees. Boilers and Main Turbines Steam is supplied by 12 cylindrical boilers with double fronts and 8 furnaces for each boiler, and 8 boil- ers with single fronts and 4 furnaces to each. These boilers are arranged 16 tice, it is not her size or engineering features alone that make her an out- standing example of shipbuilding and applied art. Passenger accommoda- tions have been arranged to provide the utmost in comfort and elegance. She embodies a style of interior decora- tions and sumptuous luxury hitherto unknown even in her French sister- ships and those other floating palaces of the Atlantic. It is felt that the discriminating traveller will appreciate the sureness of taste exhibited in all the beautiful interior decorations on the ILE DE FRANCE. In general the style of adornment is of the modern French school. Certain individual distinctive features are of interest as for instance a chapel seating 80 worshippers, several private dining rooms for the use of passengers wishing to give dinner parties, children’s gymnasium includ- ing merry-go-round, and a_ shooting MARINE REVIEW—July, 1927 gallery of fixed and moving targets. The most extraordinary public room on the ILE DE FRANCE is the huge grand salon. It compares with the main reception hall of the famous palaces of Versailles or Fontaine- bleau. It is harmonious and of grace- ful proportions. The decorations of the grand salon is the work of Sue et Mare. It is done entirely in lacquer.. Around its walls are forty columns 16 feet 4 inches in height. These columns frame the four doors of art crystal two at each end and the six windows three on each side which rise to the full height of the ceil- ing. Between the windows stand 9 foot statues by Pommier, two on each side covered with gold and set on pedestals of marble. These statues put in relief by a luminous _back- ground symbolize the rivers of ILE DE FRANCE, the Seine, the Marne, the Oise and the Aisne. All light- ing is indirect. There are many decorations including paintings and works in wrought iron. The carpet is an Aubusson and the furniture is of rich and_ graceful design. There are ten deep divans covered with especially made tapestry and needlepoint representing ten cities of France, arm chairs upholstered in green velvet or embroidered tapestry and dozens of tables. There is a 1000-square-foot dancing floor of inlaid mosaic of varied colored woods. The Tea Room is_ Different The decorations of the tea room are quite different. The forward end of this room forms a landing at the head of the grand staircase from which it is separated by a hand wrought iron railing done by a famous artist. The general tone of this room is gay and bright. The walls are of obliquely cut ash and divided into small panels by silver frames. Bright red columns and red lacquer doors lend to the richness of the tea room. It is lighted in day time by ten windows 16 feet 4 inches tall. These windows are draped with printed silk curtains. A heavy woolen rug covers most of the floor. This is but an incomplete description. Aft of the tea room and its two smaller rest rooms is the smoking room which is 75 feet 4 inches wide and 47 feet 5 inches deep and 26 feet 2 inches high. It is in fact instead of one smoking room a series of smok- ing rooms, since it is broken up into a central part and two more secluded sections by two staircases leading up to two balcony smoking rooms both of which open on the (Continued on Page 48)