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deck house, to relieve the structure. Transportation of passengers is the principal service of the vessel and at certain seasons of the year the passenger traffic is heavy. The usu- al run will be between Key West and Havana and is therefore a compar- atively short one, which requires a steamship having a large amount of open deck space in addition to sleeping accommodation for a con- siderable number of passengers. The passenger staterooms are located on four different decks and provide ac- commodations for 612 first class in 222 rooms. Of the latter 22 are on the main deck, 63 on the upper deck, 78 on the promenade and 59 on the saloon deck. Several of the rooms on the upper, promenade and saloon decks each have a private toilet and shower or bath, there being 22 suites and two special rooms of that type. Of the suite rooms 16 have double beds and six have two single beds. In all of these rooms there is also a sofa berth, and some roomg also have Pullman berths. Of the entire number of passenger staterooms only 16 are inside rooms and of these, two have natural light and air from a skylight directly over them. All other rooms have either windows or airports; the suite rooms have not less than two in each room, and some have three. Only in the amidships part of the upper deck are the staterooms two. deep, and these are of the “‘Bibby”’ type, with an al- ie Twin Screw Steamship Florida—Avuxiliaries and Equipment Boilers and Auxiliaries Four Babcock & Wilcox watertube boilers in one fire room—Steam supplied at 250 pounds working pressure and saturated steam. ‘Total heating surface, 28,760 square feet. Boilers arranged facing a common fore and aft firing aisle. Amount of feed and level of water in boilers controlled by Babeock & Wilcox float type _feed water regulators. Furnaces lines with No. 80 B. & W. firebrick and special insulation to permit operation at continued high ratings. Oil Fired—Each boiler fitted with 6 Todd oil burners for operation under forced draft. Oil heated in Todd fuel oil heaters. Forced Draft—Two Sturtevant steam engine driven fans, each with a capacity of 35,000 cubic feet of air per minute. : Soot Blowers—Diamond Power Specialty, au- tomatic valve in head type soot blowers consisting of 4—1%4-inch calorized and 6— 11%4 plain units. 2 Feed Water Heater—Reilly, two-pass, for sin- gle stage feed heating. Evaporator—Reilly—30 tons capacity. Gages—Consolidated Ashcroft Hancock Co., Ine. pressure and vacuum gages. Ten 8%- inch dial; seven 414-inch dial; one stand- “ard test gage from zero to 500 pounds for main boilers. Ejectors—Two—No. 3 model C,H-D Hancock ejectors. Reducing Valves—For steam pressure reduc- tion and pump regulators by Leslie Co. Drainer—Cochrane multiport drainer No. 3, handling 20,000 pounds of condensate per hour. Engine Room Auxiliaries Auxiliary Turbo Generators—Three Westing- house 75 kilowatts, lighting sets. Auxiliary Generator, Emergency—One 5 K.W. Kilby gasoline driven generating set. Motor Generator—One 10 K.W. Diehl Mfg. Co. Cutler-Hammer controls. Electric Motors—Diehl Mfg. Co. Batteries—One 60-cell Exide marine battery for radio and emergency lighting. Two sets of 12-cell Exide batteries used for inter- communication system. Batteries furnished by The Electric Storage Battery Co. Fresh Water Heater—One, Davis Engineering Corp. Pumps and Services Two Main Air, 12 x 30 x 21 inches, vertical twin. Cne Main Feed, 18 x 12 x 24 inches, vertical single. One Auxiliary Feed, 18 x 12 x 24 inches, ver- tical single. One Auxiliary Air, 714% x 14 x 12 inches, ver- tical single. One Fire and General Service, 14 x 11 x 12 inches, vertical duplex. One Ballast Pump, 12 x 14 x 12 inches, ver- tical single. One Bilge Pump, 12 x 14 x 12 inches, vertical single. One Fuel Oil Transfer, 12 x 8 x 12 inches, vertical single. Two Fuel Oil Service, 10 x 5.x 12 inches, vertical single. ; Three Lubricating Oil, 8 x 10 x 12 inches, vertical single. Two Fresh Water, 6 x 7 x 8 inches, vertical single. One Hot Fresh Water, 6 x 7 x 8 inches, ver- tical single. One Drinking Water, 4144 x 5 x 6 inches, vertical single. One Evaporator Feed, 5144 x 4% x 5 inches, horizontal duplex. One Ice Machine Circulating, 6 x 7 x 12 inches, vertical single. One Brine Circulating, 6 x 7 x 12 inches, vertical single. Two Circulating, 83-inch single stage centri- fugal. Three Lubricating Oil Pumps, 3 x 2 b Gear | jnches horizontal duplex, supplied with the turbo generating units. All the foregoing pumps were furnished by the Warren Steam Pump Co. Ventilation and Refrigeration Ventilating Fans—Twelve for supply air and 4 for exhaust supplied by Diehl Mfg. Co. Sturtevant fans driven by Diehl motors, with Cutler-Hammer controls. Each state- room is also -fitted, as are other public spaces, with electric oscillating fans with Diehl motors. Refrigeration—Ammonia compression system, supplied by I. P. Morris & De LaVergne, Inc. Refrigeration is provided for the fol- lowing spaces, Meat box, 690 cubic feet; fruit and vegetable box, 250 cubic feet; fish box, 60 cubie feet; chill room, 360 cu- bic feet; ice storage, 233 cubic feet; dairy, 88 cubic feet; pantry box, 60 cubic feet; beverage box, 50 cubic feet; also to cool drinking water in a 160 gallon scuttle butt and to make 400 pounds of ice per day. Safety Equipment Fire Protection—Cargo spaces equipped with Lux CO. system, 52 cylinders. tery is also used to provide gas for ex- tinguishing in the two automobile spaces and in boiler room. A Lux hose reel with two separate cylinders of gas is also in- stalled in boiler room. Fire Alarm—Garrison Fire Detecting System. Navigating Outfit—T. S. & J. D. Negus. Anchor Chain—Cast steel stud link, 270 fa- thoms, 24-inch wire diameter. National Malleable & Steel Castings Co. Life Boats—Seventeen, 26-foot, 50-person steel keel, copper bearing galvanized steel, met- allic lifeboats; and one 26-foot 40-person, motor lifeboat with 10-12 H.P. Palmer en- gine. All supplied by Welin Davit & Boat orp. Mechanical Davits—Twelve sets of Steward mechanical davits for handling lifeboats re- ferred to above, to have clear outreach of seven feet and high enough to allow boats to be stowed nested. Supplied by Steward _Davit & Equipment Corp. Signalling—Mechanical engine and docking telegraph system; electric rudder indicator system ; loud speaking telephone system. Ey furnished by Chas. J. Henschel & Co., ne. Revolution Counters—Two combination count- er and telltale, Cummings Machine Works. Search Lights—One 18-inch pilot house in- candescent and one 18-inch pedestal type high intensity arc. Both supplied by Sper- ry Gyroscope Co. Watertight Door System—Horizontal and ver- tical watertight bulkhead doors below decks operated by Newport News-Cutler-Hammer controls. Quick and positive action of the doors in any crisis. Boat Winches—Two, American Engineering Co., each driven by one 10 horsepower, 115 volt, waterproof Diehl motor with Cutler- Hammer brakes and controls. Engine Direction & Rev. Indicators—Alexan- der McNab. This bat-. Miscellaneous Equipment Reduction Gears—Two sets for main tur- bines, rated at 4750 H.P. maximum; pitch diameter of pinions, 9.2 inches, pitch diam- eter of the gear, 105 inches; width of work- ing face, 38 inches; helical angle, 45 de- grees. A Kingsbury thrust bearing is lo- cated at the forward end of each gear. Windlass—Horizontal spur gear, steam, Amer- ican Engineering Co. Two wildcats for 2% inch stud link chain; two 20-inch warp- ing heads. Chain stoppers. Steering Gear—Steam, 10 x 10 inches, right and left hand screws; American Engineer- ing Co. Steering stand and hand steering gear on the promenade deck aft, also sup- plied by the same company. Steam Gypsies—Two, 20-inch diameter, driv- en by an 8 x 8 inches double cylinder rever- sible horizontal steam engines. American Engineering Co. Elevators—Two for handling cargo, one for handling automobiles and cargo, supplied by M. L. Bayard & Co. The two general cargo and stores elevator, each have a ca- pacity of 3000 pounds at 90 feet per minute. The car for No. 1 elevator is 6 x 7 feet and the other 7 x 7 feet. Each elevator is operated by 25 H.P., 115 volt, totally en closed, Diehl motors with Cutler-Hammer control equipment. The remaining elevator has a capacity of 6000 pounds at 90 feet per minute with a car 18 feet by 9 feet 6 inches for handling automobiles and general cargo, This elevator also furnished by M. L. Bay- ard & Co. is driven through worm gear reduction by two 45 H.P. Diehl motors, one on either side, one being for regular use and one for standby. The controls for these motors are Cutler-Hammer. Machine Shop—tLine shafting, driven by 5 H.P. Diehl motor with Cutler-Hammer control. Marine Clock—Brass case, 814-inch dial— Ashcroft American. Clock Equipment—Generally throughout the Ship, eight-day clocks, Chelsea Clock Co. Lighting Fixtures—Furnished in part by Cox, Nostrand & Gunnison. Tank Gages—Eleven, Pneumercator gages for the fuel oil tanks indicating the amount of oil in each tank in feet and inches and in gallons. Condenser Tubes—Admiralty metal, 84 inch o.d. No. 16 B.w.g. In quantities 6670, 10 feet 3 inches long for the main condensers and 100 for spares; 950 5 feet eight long for auxiliary condenser and 25 for spares; 215, 2 feet 8 inches long for augmentor con- denser and 25 for spares. These tubes were supplied by Scovill Mfg. Co. Wire Rigging—Supplied by Wickwire Spen- cer Steel Co. Deck Covering—Over 50,000 square feet of wood and steel deck covered by Asbestolith. Staterooms are laid in a French ochre color; passage ways with a black base and border and French ochre floor with filled in joints of black laid in diagonal squares. The smoking room has a blue-black base and border, the floor, being a dark French grey with one-half inch blue-black joints, giving a tile effect. Buff floors, black base and border and black joints are generally used in lobbies. .The main foyer has a_three- inch base, black borders and buff floor with green joints and 14-inch squares. Stateroom Bulkheads—Metal faced plywood panel known as Plymetal, made by Haskel- ite Mfg. Co. is used for stateroom bulk- heads and engineers quarters. Ceilings and Panels—Something over 30,000 square feet of manufactured board known = Vehtadte was supplied by The Pantasote Yo., Inc. nen re enarannereeeceeerererenereerenernmeeneneneeeeee— 22 MARINE REVIEwW—June, 1931