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16 TALAMANCA—Passenger—Ocean— Twin Screw—Electric Name—TALAMANCA Owner—United Mail Steamship Co. Builder—Newport News S. B. & D. D. Co. Naval Architect—Newport News S. B. & D. D. Launched—Aug. 15, ’81; comp. Dec. 12, ’31. Sister Ships—SrcoviA, Currigur (at Newport News). Launched respectively, Aug. 15, 31; Nov. 14, ’31; comp., (Srcovia damaged by fire) Cureiqui, March 15, ’32. Antigua, QUIRIGUA, VERAGUA (at Bethlehem Shipbuild- ing Corp.) Launched respectively (first two) Dec. 12; ’31, Feb. 6, ’32. Classification—American Bureau of Shipping. HULL PARTICULARS Length over all, 446 feet 914 inches; length between. perpendiculars, 415 feet; breadth mold- ed, 60 feet; depth molded, to upper deck, 34 feet 9 inches; draft, 24 feet; displacement load- ed, 10,930 tons; gross tonnage, 6963; net ton- nage, 3183; passenger capacity, first class only, 113, cargo capacity, 2000 tons and in cubic feet, 195,700; bunker fuel oil capacity in tons, 1450; speed at sea, 17% knots. MACHINERY PARTICULARS Main Engines—Two, General Electric turbine generating units and two electric motors direct connected to propellers. Total horsepower, 10,- 500 at 125 revolutions per minute. Machinery and vessel described in Marine Review, for January, 1932. The generators are alternating current and are each of 4200 kilowatts capacity. Boilers—Four, Babcock & Wilcox watertube marine boilers with a total heating surface of 22,492 square feet and total superheating sur- DESCRIPTION BPirst. of six fast fruit and passenger, twin screw, electric drive steamships for the Great White fleet. Three of these ordered from the Newport News Ship- building & Dry Dock Co. and three from the Bethlehem Shipbuild- ing Corp. Completely rerrigerated for carry- ing fruit, especially bananas, embodying many advanced ideas in mechanical refriger- ation. Modern Spanish is the dominant note in the design and furnish- ings of public spaces. face of 2248 square feet; working pressure, 350 pounds; 230 degrees Fahr. superheat; fuel, oil. Superheaters, de-superheaters, feed water regu- lators and fire brick supplied by Babcock & Wil- cox Co. Soot blowers, Diamond Power Specialty Auxiliary Generators—Three, geared turbine, direct current, General Electric, each of 500 k. w. AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT Pumps—wWarren Steam Pump Co. Windlass—Hyde Windlass Co. Winches—Lidgerwood Mfg. Co. Steering Engine—American Engineering Co. Propellers—Cramp Brass & Iron Foundries Refrigeration—York Ice Machinery Corp. Oil Burning Equip.—Todd Shipyards Corp. Feed Water Heaters—Alco Products Inc. Gypseys, Hoists—American Engineering Co. Anchors and Chain—Baldt A. C. & Forge Ice Boxes, Coolers—General Electric Co. Revolution Counters—Cummings Mach. Wks. Oil Purifiers—The DeLaval Separator Co. Galley Equipment—-Edison G. E. Appliance; Hobart Mfg. Co.; Cleveland Range Co. Storage Batteries—Edison Storage Battery Windows—Kearfott Engineering Co. Thrust Bearings—Kingsbury Machine Works Conductivity Indicators—Leeds & Northrup Valves—The Lunkenheimer Co. Pipe—Reading Iron Co. Deck Covering—Selby, Battersby & Co. Rubber Flooring—United States Rubber Co. Gyro Compass, Pilot—Sperry Gyroscope Co. Searchlights—Sperry Gyroscope Co. Rudder Indicator—Sperry Gyroscope Co. Wire Rope—Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. ecrme cARco x : | i tet UUTCORET TA ed Tree icei ey TORT ee preset | ea eres Le gs ore eer ly Sp hebld Pe MARINE REvirw—April, 1932