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30 minutes fire wrecked the steel house on this Truss- Weld Barge, but— “bottle-tight” hull rire... Superstructure Destroyed... Truss-Weld Hull and Cargo Safe! Truss-Weld construction recently gave remarkable proof of its "bottle-tightness'’ when the Richtield Oil Company's Floating Filling Station, anchored off City Island, New York, caught fire in the house and burned furiously for more than thirty minutes. This novel craft, familiar to all who attended the principal regattas last year and to yachtsmen of the eastern seaboard, carried 20,000 gallons of gasoline and 10,000. gallons of Diesel oil in her tanks and, though the fire wrecked the steel superstructure so badly that it will have to be removed and built anew, the tank cargo was perfectly protected and there was no fire or explosion of any kind from that source. What would have been the result had this conflagration occurred on an ordinary barge is, Of Course, open to conjecture, but it is apparent that the arc-welded lap joints of the Truss-Weld system add still another proved qualification, perfect tightness, to the long Truss-Weld list. Since the first Truss-Weld barges were built, about three years ago, more than a dozen hulls, ranging in length up to 160 feet, have been placed in various types of strenuous service as oil barges, derrick barges, pile drivers, sand scows, deck scows and the like. These have been battered by dredge buckets, squeezed against wharves by larger vessels, have withstood collisions, groundings while loaded, and nearly every kind of marine mishap, without a single instance of hull fracture. Truss-Weld barges not only meet every sort of service test, ordinary or extraordinary, but in comparison with the usual construction, although lighter, they are stronger; although they draw less water, they hold more cargo. Why not let us show you how you will save on repair and maintenance costs, with Truss-Weld barges? ¥Y¥.Y ae ag Morse-Fletcher Be 4.0500 K S Staten Island ig - 20,000 gallons of gasoline and 10,000 gallons of Diesel Oil were perfectly protected by the Crane Plants INCORPORATED Sole Licensee, Atlantic Seaboard, Kjekstad Patent Truss-Weld and Reverse-Channel Systems. MARINE REVIEw—August, 1931