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a, ee eae ~ Ocean Going Yacht Launched at Maine Shipyard , building for Eldridge R. John- son of Moorestown, N. J., was launched from the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., July 18. She will take her place as the largest diesel vessel built in this coun- try since 1926 and the largest yacht launched from an American yard this year. The new vessel, designed by Henry J. Gielow Inc., is a clipper-stem, white hulled boat with a water line length of 235 feet, a beam of 38 feet and a draft of 15 feet. She carries a pair of 1500-horsepower Cooper-Bessemer dies- NEW ocean-going yacht, the A CAROLINE, 270 feet in length _el engines operating on twin screws to develop a cruising speed of 16 miles an hour. Accommodations include quarters for a crew of 40 men, rooms for two maids and two valets and seven guest staterooms. The owner’s quarters are unusually large and are situated amid- ship. The single room extends the full beam of the yacht and has a depth of 14 feet 6 inches. Two baths and two wardrobes adjoin. Aft are the guests’ rooms, with all starboard and port quarters connected - by 7-foot sliding doors so that any two units may be linked together as veri- table apartments. Each room has its private bath and wardrobe. On the main deck, there is an excep- tionally large living room 36 feet wide and 26 feet deep. The forward part has a fireplace flanked by bookshelves and the after end leads out to a semi- p | Sheltered quarter deck. Between the living room and the smoking room is a small lobby leading to a passenger ele- vator which runs from the owner’s quarters, through the main deck to a laboratory on the upper deck. Between the smoking room and the dining saloon there is a dressing and shower room so that the owner’s party may change clothes after swimming without going directly to their quar- ters. Accommodations for the chief engineer also have been arranged on this deck. The dining room is 29 feet wide and 26 feet deep and connects with a pan- try and galley forward. The maids have a private dining room on the starboard side. On the upper deck is a lounge and observation room. The wireless room is immediately forward, with adjoining quarters for the operators.and the cap- tain. <A full-view observation room completes the foremost part of the up- per deck. On the bridge deck is the chart room and the pilot house. Deep in the hold of the yacht will be one of the largest stabilizers ever built. for a private vessel. It has a rotor 8 feet in diameter and the whole unit weighs 105,000 pounds. The stabilizer was supplied by the Sperry Gyroscope Co. The diesel engines used in the boat weigh more than 300,000 pounds and the whole yacht will be heated, cooled and ventilated by a single ther- mostatic installation. The boat will carry its own laundry, its own refrig- PELE Ce te ‘ Yacht Oaroline—Twin Screw Diesel 3000 H. P. Cooper-Bessemer—279 Feet Long. Launched July 18, at Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Me. for Eldridge R. Johnson MARINE Review—September, 1931 erating plant and will have capacity for enough fuel and oil so that she may cruise 25,000 miles. Capt. Andrew Peterson, in command of the present 171-foot Caronine, will assume command of the new yacht, which will be used this fall for an exploration cruise through southern Pacific waters. Makes Record Voyage One of the fastest transatlantic voy- ages ever made by a private vessel was accomplished in June when the tur- bine electric yacht Corsam, owned by J. P. Morgan, made the run from New- port Reef to Needles, Isle of Wight, in seven days and seven hours for an average speed of 18.35 miles per hour. The Corsair, designed by Henry J. Gielow Inc., and built by the Bath Iron Works, has been in commission slightly more than a year. In that time she has made three crossings from Glen Cove, L. I., to the Thames. Three All-W ater Shipments in Week Set New Record Two Canadian steamers bringing fine ball and china clays from Corn- wall, England, to the Kohler company, and an American motorship carrying finished Kohler enameled and vitre- ous china plumbing fixtures over an all-water route to the Atlantic coast were docked at Sheboygan, Wis., be- tween July 29 and Aug. 2. The steamers were the FARRANDOC with a 2550-ton cargo of clays, and the LACHINEDOC, with 2500 tons of clays, both owned by the Paterson Steam- ships, Ltd., Fort William, Ont., and the motorship Empire State, owned by the Federal Motorship Corp., Buf- falo. The shipments of finished ware carried by the EMPIRE STATE were deés- tined for the Kohler company’s Long Island City, N. Y., warehouse. While the Kohler company has been importing clays by the all-water route from England for more than three years and within three months had sent two previous motorship cargoes by water to New York, it was the first time that three shipments were made during a single week. The ocean-going steamer DUNAFF HEAD carried the clays across the At- lantic and up the St. Lawrence river to Sorel, Que., where it was reloaded into the FarrRANDOC and LACHINEDOC. The Empire State, which initiated the motorship service for the Kohler company last May, requires approxi- mately nine days to journey through the Great Lakes, the Welland canal, the New York state barge canal and the Hudson river. The Kohler company is one of the earliest shippers in the Middle West to take advantage of the new Wel- land canal, both for importing raw materials and for sending finished products to the eastern coast. 21