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Rebuild Wrecked Tanker (Continued from Page 21) are carried under Welin quadrant da- vits. The motive power is furnished by a triple expansion three-cylinder recipro- cating steam engine 38000 indicated horsepower, with a piston speed of 560 feet per minute. Steam is provided by three scotch boilers, fitted for burning oil, although coal may be used should the occasion demand. Cur- rent for the ship’s lighting is sup- plied by two steam-driven generators, of 13.75 kilowatts each and one of 6 killowatts. The ship’s propeller is 17 feet 9 inches in diameter. The engine room auxiliaries include two steam driven fuel oil service pumps, a centrifugal salt water circu- lating pump, two sanitary pumps, a fire and ballast pump, a Metropolitan double tube injector, an_ horizontal duplex steam driven bilge pump, a Weir distilling set, and a_ steam whistle. The engineer’s workshop is COMPLETED fice, and tile bath, is elaborately fin- ished in oak and mahogany, with teak- wood used on the doors and other ex- posed parts. Mahogany was used in the officers’ dining saloon. Upholstered couches and bowl lights as well as high class swivel chairs were fitted in this room, making it comfortable and fine in appearance. The suite of the chief engineer is hardly less elaborate than that of the captain, and in the engineers’ saloon, too, there are beau- TANKER (EX SILVANUS) LEAVING THE REPAIR YARD, MAY 31, 1927, SHORTLY AFTER HAVING BEEN RECHRISTENED PAPOOSE equipped with an 18-inch lathe, a 16- inch shaper, a 21-inch drill press, and a one-horse-power double emery wheel. The first job that confronted the repair yard workmen in rebuilding the damaged tanker was the replacement of the steel plates on the port side forward, whole sections having been torn away by the collision with the THOMAS H. WHEELER. At the same time work began on the reconstruction of the officers’, engin- eers’, and crew’s quarters, and all of these deck structures are now fine examples of modern shipbuilding. The captain’s suite, including bedroom, of- 50 tiful sideboards, mirrors and _ lights. The crew’s quarters, in the fore- castle, are fitted out with conven- iences never dreamed of by old A. B.’s of other days. Running water, steam heat, electric lights, fans, and ample space in which to move about give the layman the impression that the seamen aboard the PAPOOSE are going to be far more comfortably sit- uated than those on the average tank- er or freighter. These rooms are fin- ished in oak and teakwood, while the doorknobs are of brass and the other incidentals of equally high quality. The engine and boilers of the SIL- MARINE REVIEW—July, 1927 VANUS were not damaged in the col- lision which destroyed so much of her equipment, and comparatively little had to be done in the way of over- hauling them. However, an auxiliary condenser has been added, and all machinery was thoroughly overhauled. The cost of remodeling the tanker aggregated approximately $500,000 and today her valuation is conserva- tively placed at twice that sum. Immediately after the christening WRECKED TANKER SILVANUS UNDER RECONSTRUCTION AT THE PENNSYL- VANIA SHIPYARDS, INC., BEAUMONT, TEXAS, JAN. 3, 1927 ceremonies at the Pennsylvania plant, the PAPOOSE began taking on a ca- pacity cargo of 67,000 barrels of gaso- line at the Magnolia Refinery at Beau- mont, whose docks are located hardly a mile down the Neches from the ship- building concern. From Beaumont the Papoose sailed for New York. Audible Smoke Detector The Rich system of detecting fire by means of smoke appearing at the end of pipes in a cabinet conven- iently located in the pilot house is quite well known. Walter Kidde and Co. is now bringing out an improve- ment on this system by which smoke of invisible quantity will operate an alarm gong. The presence of smoke not only actuates the alarm gong but at the same time causes the de- tector to automatically release the extinguishing system and to close fire doors. The new device consists of a de- tecting cabinet and a pipe system connecting this cabinet with the spaces protected. Samples of air are con- tinuously drawn through these pipes from each space. The presence of smoke in this air operates the alarm.