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Name—KNICKERBOCKER Owner—City of New York Builder—United Dry Docks, Staten Island Naval Architect—Robert W. Morrell Launched—Sept. 1, ’31; comp., Oct. 31, ’31 Classification—American Bureau of Shipping HULL PARTICULARS Length over all, 267 feet; length between perpendiculars, 254 feet; breadth molded, 46 feet, (over guards 66 feet); depth molded, 19 feet 9 inches; draft, (light operating) 12 feet 6 inches; displacement (light operating), 1785 tons; gross tonnage, 2045; net tonnage, 1391; passenger capacity, 2300; cargo capacity, 32 vehicles; bunker fuel capacity, in tons, (2240 pounds each) 110; speed, 15% knots. MACHINERY PARTICULARS Main Engines—Two, vertical, direct acting, 2-cylinder compound, surface condensing, cou- pled together, built by the United Dry Docks, Ine., Staten Island plant. Size, 22% by 50 inches and 30-inch stroke; horsepower, 3570 at 136 revolutions per minute. Boilers—Four, Babcock & Wilcox watertube marine boilers with a total heating surface of 14,308 square feet; working pressure, 225 pounds per square inch; oil burning equipment, Todd Shipyards Corp.; fuel, oil. Auxiliary Generators—Two, each of 25 kilo- watts, General Electric. AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT Pumps—Worthington; Dean; United Steering Engine—Hyde Windlass Co. Neal a rs} |} ma), FSP KNICKERBOCKER—Ferry—Double Ended—Single Screw—Steam DESCRIPTION This vessel is a dupli- cate of the DONGAN HILts and ‘'TOMPKINS- VILLE, built by the same company in 1929 and 1930, respectively. She is now in service be- tween Staten Island and Manhattan. <A _ double ended ferry boat with single screw drive at each end by means of a through shaft. The hull is of steel, framed on the transverse system and subdivided by wa- tertight bulkheads. Propellers—Two solid cast steel, 4-bladed, General Steel Castings Co. Revolution Counters—Cummings Mach. Wks. Anchors—General Steel Castings Corp. Stern Bearings—B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co. Valves—The Lunkenheimer Co. On the main deck outboard of the vehicle driveways are steel cabins, for men and women respectively, toilets, restroom and _ stairways leading to the upper deck. On the upper deck is a salon cabin and above this is the boat deck - On which are located the two pilot houses, and officers’ locker room, fidleys and lifeboats. The rudders are of balanced type with cast steel frames filled with wood and fitted with side plates. Steam and hand steering gear is fitted for each end of the boat. Four 24-foot metallic lifeboats are provided on the boat deck and are served by mechanical davits. Interior of the cabins on the main deck is sheathed with plates of Armco iron. The upper and boat decks are of joiner construction and the decks in all cabins are covered with lino- leum. Superstructure decks outside the cabins are covered with canvas. The two main vertical compound engines are coupled together on a through shaft. A thrust bearing of horseshoe type is fitted at each end of the engine. The stern bearings are of the Cutless rubber type. Each boiler is supplied with forced draft by a separate turbine driven blower of Sturtevant make, each having a capacity of 10,700 ecubie feet of free air per minute. ‘a ae aan: PAR GB EEE J aa OGGGGH EERRRRRRGAE 1685 i -l 1 1 ' I 1 ! | 18 qnang-— ol ==~4 a STETTTTPT TTT Trrnre7 5 ob ~ 20 "s 30 fc ARR MURS Aaa aoe (Raper I MARINE REview—April, 1932