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26 Name—WHITE FLASH Owner—Atlantic Refining Co. Builder—Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Naval Architect—Atlantic Refining Co. Launched—Sept. 10, ’31; comp., Sept. 16, ’31 Classification—Owner’s requirements HULL PARTICULARS Length over all, 201 feet 2 inches; length between perpendiculars, 190 feet; breadth molded, 34 feet; depth molded, 12 feet; draft, 9 feet 6 inches; displacement loaded, 1330 tons; gross tonnage, 616; net tonnage, 366; cargo capacity, 1000 tons, and in cubic feet, 43,000; bunker diesel fuel capacity in tons, 38; speed, in service, 9 knots. MACHINERY PARTICULARS Main Engines—Three, Cooper Bessemer, 4- cycle, 6-cylinder, diesel engines. Size, 7% by 10% inches; each 165 horsepower at 550 revo- lutions per minute, direct connected to a gen- erator. Main Generators—Three, General Electric, each of 105 kilowatts, 125 volts, each direct connected to one of the 165 horsepower diesel engines described above. Two exciters of 25 kilowatts capacity each, 120 volts, attached to each one of the two main generators. Propelling Motor—One, General Electric, rated at 375 horsepower, at 150 revolutions per min- ute, 375 volts. WHITE FLASH—Tanker—Coastwise—Single Screw—Diesel Electric DESCRIPTION Complete all welded ves:é., built on the longitudinal framing system for coastwise service for the carriage of liquid cargo. There are nine athwartship bulki.eads and one cen- terline oil tight bulk- head extending from the forward engine room bulkhead at the after end of the vessel to the after bulkhead of the dry cargohold in the forward end. AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT Pumps—Northern Pump Co. Windlass—Hyde Windlass Co. Capstan—Hyde Windlass Co. Steering Engine—Hyde Windlass Co. Refrigeration— Brunswick-Kroeschell Co. Electric Motors—(11) General Electric Anchors, Chain—Baldt Anchor Chain Searchlight—Sperry Gyroscope Co. Among the electric motors used on board the one for the cargo oil pump has a rating of 60 horsepower at 1750 revolutions per minute and 115 volts; the fire and bilge pump motor is 25 horsepower at 1140 revolutions per minute and 115 volts; the anchor windlass motor is 15 horsepower at 650 revolutions per minute at 115 volts; the remaining eight motors vary from 1 horsepower to 10 horsepower. The dry cargohold located directly aft of the fore peak extends across the vessel and for 19 feet 6 inches fore and aft to the forward bulk- head of oil tank No. 1. There are five oil tanks, each divided into two parts by a centerline bulkhead. The after bulkhead of tank No. 5 is the forward bulkhead of the fuel oil bunker tank, which extends across the ship, divided by a centerline bulkhead and for four feet in a fore and aft direction. MARINE REviIEw—April, 1932