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Southern Pacific Liner Is Launched at Kearny Sponsored by Mrs. Lewis J. Spence wife of the executive officer of the Southern Pacific Co., a new passen- ger and freight steamer, latest addi- tion to the company’s fleet, was chris- tened DiIxim and was launched July 29 at the yard of the Federal Ship- building & Drydock Co., Kearny, N. J. This vessel was designed for the coast-wise service by A. S. Hebble, superintending engineer of the line and is an oil burning steamer driven by De Laval compound turbines with double reduction gears designed for 7100 normal shaft horsepower, with 10 per cent maximum overload, at 90 revolutions per minute. The an- ticipated speed is 16 knots. Accommodations will be provided for 379 passengers and a crew of 114. The total cost is about $2,400,- 000. She is built on the Isherwood system of longitudinal construction. General characteristics are: length overall, 445 feet; length between per- pendiculars 427 feet; beam molded, 60 feet; depth molded, to saloon deck 87 feet; designed load draft 25 feet, 6 inches; deadweight capacity about 6900 tons; displacement 12,160 tons; and cubic capacity about 420,000 cubic feet. The. vessel, of hurricane deck type, is fitted with three complete decks extending fore and aft with an orlop deck in the foreward hold for strength and stiffness. Around the super-structure the promenade deck is approximately 8 feet wide. There are to be two pole masts and one smokestack. Passenger quarters will be located on the boat, promenade, and saloon decks. The decks and division bulk- heads in way of accommodations will be of steel making them fire proof. On the boat deck will be located deck and engine officers quarters as well as mess rooms and_ wireless rooms. These quarters will be at the forward end. Accommodations for waiters and cooks will be on the main deck aft and for the firemen and oilers on the main deck amid- ship. Seamen will be accommodated in a deck house on the forward saloon deck. American colonial design will be used for the interior of passenger quarters. Public rooms will consist of, lounge, library, music room, ‘social hall, writing room, smoking room, cafe and barber shop and an enclosed sun parlor and dance room. First cabin accommodations will be of out- side rooms well ventilated. There will also be suites, including sitting room, bedroom, toilet and bathroom. Passenger quarters wi!l have hot and cold water and cooled drinking water. In addition to a Sperry gyro pilot control and helm angle indicator the steering gear will be controlled from the pilot house by wire rope trans- mission. The vessel will also have a Sperry gyro master compass with re- peaters. Boiler equipment will be made up of four Babcock and Wilcox marine type, watertube boilers operat- ing at a working pressure of 350 pounds per square inch and with 200 degrees superheat. Arranged fore and aft with a center athwartship fire room the boilers will have air heaters, forced and induced draft and_ will burn oil. Standard Oil Subsidiary It is interesting to note that the shipping interests of the Standard Oil Co. (N. J.) are to be segregated from the other activities of the company. It is said that papers of incorpora- tion for the new company, which is to be known as the Standard Ship- ping Co., has been filed in Delaware. The capitalization called for is $40,- 000,000 consisting of 400,000 shares at $100 par value. It is understood that Robert L. Hague, present man- ager of the marine department is to be the chief executive officer of the new subsidiary, which will be one of the largest shipping companies of the country. New Colliers Discaca Berwind-White Coal Co. it is re- ported are having specifications pre- pared for two new colliers. The new vessels are to have a carrying ca- pacity of 6500 tons each and will be driven by steam turbines and re- duction gears at a speed of about 12 knots. It is planned to go further in high steam pressures than for the §. S. Drxtm now building for the Southern Pacific lines. About 400 pounds per square inch is the pres- sure talked about and if adopted it will be the highest so far used in this country. Accept Bethlehem's Bid The shipping board, on Aug. 16, authorized the acceptance of the bid of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. of $416,000 for the conversion of the S. S. WiLscox into a modern motor- ship. The propulsive power will be furnished by the recently completed and tested double acting diesel en- gine of 3680 brake horsepower, at 110 revolutions per minute, built by the New London Ship & Engine Co. Groton, Conn. MARINE REVIEW—September, 1927 Midland Has Completed Canal F reighters The program of four canal size freighters which the Midland Ship- building Co., Midland, Ont., has been engaged in since early last fall is now completed with the going into commission of the last of the four in July. These four freighters are the City oF HAMILTON, CITY oF Mon- TREAL, SASKATOON and WEYBURN. The keel for the first two were laid in October, 1626, the vessels were launched . January, 1927, and went into commission in May. The keels for the latter two were laid in January last, they were launched in June and went into commission in July of the present year. ° The City oF HAMILTON and City OF MONTREAL are identical package freight steamers of the following di- mensions: Length overall, 238 feet; length between perpendiculars, 230 feet; breadth, 38 feet; depth, 23 feet; deadweight on 14 feet draft, 1700 tons; gross tonnage, 1665; net tonnage, 972. The WEYBURN and SASKATOON are also sister package freight steamers but are of some- what larger dimensions though quite similar in every other respect to the first two. Their dimensions are: Length overall, 258 feet; breadth, 42 feet 9 inches, depth, 26 feet; dead- weight on 14 feet draft, 2400 tons; the SASKATOON is of 1455.99 net tons and 2411.94 gross tonnage while the corresponding tonnages for the Wry- BURN are 1452.86 and 2407.60. All four vessels are built of steel throughout to highest class in the British corporation. There is a com- plete double bottom, 3 feet deep which is divided into four compartments with a total water ballast capacity for the two small vessels of 460 tons and of about 800 tons for the two larger vessels. There are three com- partments in the cargo hold each served by two hatches on the spar and ’tween decks with line shafting running under spar deck for the rapid handling of package freight. All freight of a heavy nature is handled by booms on main and fore masts. The propelling machinery consists of one triple expansion engine with cylinders 18x30x50 inches and 386 inch stroke. The engines were built to order in England and imported knocked down. two scotch marine boilers of 13 feet 6 inches diameter by 11 feet long, burning coal. Accommodation on these vessels is of usual layout for service through the Welland ‘canal. 37 Steam is supplied by