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34 Name—RICHMOND Owner—Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. Builder—The Pusey and Jones Corp. Naval Architect—W. T. Newell Launched—May 5, ’31; comp., July 29, ’31 Classification—American Bureau of Shipping HULL PARTICULARS Length over all, 109 feet; length between perpendiculars, 102 feet 6 inches; breadth molded, 28 feet; depth molded, 14 feet 6 inches; draft mean, 12 feet 2% inches; displacement loaded, 505 tons in fresh water; gross tonnage, 266.79; net tonnage, 132; bunker fuel capacity in tons of coal, 85; speed, 14 miles per hour. MACHINERY PARTICULARS Main Engine—One, compound inverted, built by The Pusey and Jones Corp. Size, 20-44 inches by 30 inches stroke; 1000 horsepower at 100 revolutions per minute. A 4-bladed, solid type semisteel propeller is used, 10 feet in diam- eter and 11 feet 6 inches in pitch. Boiler—One, scotch marine type, built by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Size, 16 feet diameter x 12 feet long; working pressure, 170 pounds per square inch. Fuel, coal, hand fired. The boiler has 3200 square feet of heating surface and 96 square feet of grate surface; and four 48-inch diameter fur- \ RICHMOND—Tug—Harbors—Single Screw—Steam naces, [— DESCRIPTION A powerful steel tug for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for use in shifting lighters, car- floats and barges and to handle ships at the railroad’s terminal at Newport News, Va. The hull is built of steel on the transverse system with heavy framing and shell plating. Three watertight bulkheads divide the hull into four compartments. Coal is used as fuel. 8 feet 758 inches long and with each two combustion chambers. Soot Blowers—Diamond Power Specialty Corp. Auxiliary Generators—Two Westinghouse tur- bine generators, each of 7% kilowatts AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT Pumps—Worthington Pump & Mach. Corp. Gypseys—(Two) Hyde Windlass Co. Steering Engine—Hyde Windlass Co. Propellers—The Pusey and Jones Corp. Feed Water Heater—Davis Engineering Corp. Searchlight—Sperry Gyroscope Co. Circulating Pump—Newport News S. B. Valves—Crane Co. Anchors—Baldt Anchor Chain & Forge Corp. Deck Covering—Selby, Battersby & Co. Safety Valves—Hancock-Ashcroft Reducing Valves—Leslie, Gold In addition to her service as a powerful tug, the Ricumonp is also equipped for fire fighting. The fire pump has a capacity of 2000 gallons per minute at 100 pounds per square inch noz- zle pressure. Invincible fire monitors with 1%, 1% and 1% inches tip sizes are located, one on top of the pilot house and one on the raised platform aft. There are several hose connections on each side of the main deck house and also one at each end of the main deck house. MARINE REview—April, 1932