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FLORIDA—Passenger—Ocean—TIwin Screw—Turbine DESCRIPTION Fast, over-night, passenger and freight, twin screw steamship engaged in service between Florida ports and Havana. Of complete ’ superstructure type, with three decks in hull proper and seven. watertight transverse bulkheads extending to upper deck; in excess of re- quirements of 1929 convention for safe- ty of life at sea. Par- ticular care taken to provide efficient ven- tilation. Name—F'LorRIDA Owner—Peninsular & Occidental S. S. Co. Builder—Newport News S. B. & D. D. Co. Naval Architect—Carroll S. Smith Launched—March 7, ’31; comp., May 20, ’31 Classification—American Bureau of Shipping HULL PARTICULARS Length over all, 387 feet 8 inches; length be- tween perpendiculars, 365 feet; breadth mold- ed, 56 feet 6 inches; depth molded, 28 feet 6 inches; draft, 18 feet; displacement loaded, 5886 tons; gross tonnage, 4923; net tonnage, 2698; passenger capacity, first class, 612; second class, 130; eargo capacity, 1000 tons and in cubic feet, 83,700; bunker fuel oil capacity in tons, 700; speed at sea, 19% knots. MACHINERY PARTICULARS Main Engines—Two, geared turbines, by New- port News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. and gears by DeLaval Steam Turbine Co. Type, Par- sons cross-compound, single reduction gears; to- tal horsepower, 9500 at 163 revolutions per min- ute. For complete description of this vessel, see MARINE Review for June, 1931. Boilers—Four, Babcock & Wilcox watertube marine boilers with a total heating surface of 28,760 square feet; working pressure, 250 : * rs pounds; fuel, oil; feed water regulators and fur- nace brick supplied by Babcock & Wilcox Co. Soot blowers, Diamond Power Specialty Corp. Auxiliary Generators—Three, turbine, West- inghouse, each 75 kilowatts. AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT Pumps—wWarren Steam Pump Co. Windlass—American Engineering Co. Freight Elevator—M. L. Bayard & Co. Steering Engine—American Engineering Co. Refrigeration—I. P. Morris & De La Vergne Oil Burning Equip.—Todd Shipyards Corp. Electric Motors—Diehl Mfg. Co. Motor Generator—Diehl Mfg. Co. Storage Batteries—Electric Storage Battery Fresh Water Heater—Davis Engineering Corp. Steam Gypsey—American Engineering Co. Deck Covering—Asbestolith Mfg. Co. Revolution Counters—Cummings Mach. Works Oil Purifiers—The DeLaval Separator Co. Anchors——General Steel Castings Corp. Anchor Chain—National Malleable Co. Rubber Flooring—Goodyear Tire & Rub. Co. Thrust Bearings—Kingsbury Mach. Works Searchlights—Sperry Gyroscope Co. Plumbing Fixtures—Standard Sanitary Mfg. Ventilating Fans—Sturtevant, Diehl Lifeboats, Davits—-Welin Davit & Boat Corp. Wire Rope—Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. \. eee 2 HT | Tot Ree etsy POT ole terd Me a ‘é is lh. a | mh ¥ ee | + SCL Ect MA BG DORE SBOGRE BE DCSES TS =0 3-5 < ME ORU OOM SUNMED}sacacuccaccanell MaRINE REview—April, 1932