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Reviews of Late Books The Speed and Power of Ships, by Rear Admiral D. W. Taylor, C. C., U. S. N. (ret.), cloth, 350 pages 12 x 9 inches, 266 illustrations, published by Randell Inc., Washington, under au- spices of the United States Shipping Board, Bureau of Construction and Finance, price $2.50. Supplied by Ma- RINE REVIEW. The author has recently completed a revision of his book, The Speed and Power of Ships, and it is the revised edition that this review deals with. The author served for many years as head of the United States experimental model basin at the Washington navy yard, and later during and after the World war as chief constructor of the navy. He gained world wide renown for his original work in model basin experiments and analysis of results and their practical application to hull and propeller design. Originally published in 1910, this work proved a monumental landmark in the field of ship design based on propulsive consideration. Since the original publication, a vast amount of experimental research on ship propul- sion has been carried out both in this country and abroad. In addition there- to, extensive investigations have been undertaken by the United States ex- perimental model basin under the supervision of Admiral Taylor, acting for the United States shipping board. Therefore, the United States shipping board has undertaken the publication of the revised edition. The revised volume possesses the same schematic arrangement as the original volume. Whereas the original work was bound into two volumes, one for text and one for plates, the re- vised work is bound into one volume, the plates being interspersed through- out the text. All of the design plates have been gathered into definite sec- tions within the volume for conveni- ence of study and establishing com- parative analyses. The revised edition has been cast into five “books” and five appendices. The subject matter of book I, dealing with fundamental considerations has been radically revised. The revision of book II, on resistance, incorporates the latest researches in the fields of frictional and residuary resistance together with additional studies on form characteristics such as bulbous bow, parallel middle body, etc. The whole question of propellers and pro- pulsion is dealt with in book III. This division presents the derivation and method of use of the new basic series diagrams for propeller design. In ad- dition there are presented conclusions from closed channel tests on cavita- 36 tion. Book IV is a new discussion on the subject of trials and their analyses. Book V, on the powering of ships, is presented with but minor modifica- tions over that of the original volume. The revised volume contains five ap- pendices. The first deals with the work of Osborne Reynolds—his clas- sical experiments with flow through pipes—and the application of a simi- lar analysis to the flow around planes and ship models in water. The re- maining four appendices contain con- tours of residuary resistance from the standard series, contours of residuary resistance for bulbous bow character- istics, curves of resistance for parallel middle body series, and basic series diagram for propeller design, respec- tively. The revised edition is anticipated in January, inquiries for which may be sent to MARINE REVIEW, or may be directed to the United States Shipping Board, Bureau of Construction and Finance, Navy building, Nineteenth and Constitution avenue, N. W., Wash- ington. Checks or money orders should be made payable to Treasurer, United States Shipping Board, Mer- chant Fleet Corp. Refrigeration in Ships, by A. D. Gray, cloth, 113 pages 614 x 334 inches, published by J. B. Lippincott Co., sup- plied by Marine Review for $1.50 plus 15 cents postage, and in Europe by the Penton Publishing Co., Caxton House, London. The author of this book has the grade of first class engineer of the British board of trade. A number of textbooks have been published on re- frigeration. but this little book is in- tended to serve in clearing up the prac- tical side of the subject. For instance, the difficulties met with in service by young sea going engineers are as a rule due to an insufficient grasp of first principles and lack of knowledge of the properties of the various chemi- cals and gases used. It sets out to supply this information in an easily understandable manner. Section one deals with definition es- sential to an understanding of refrig- eration, such, for instance, as sensible heat, latent heat, total heat, specific heat, ete. Section two deals with the chemical properties of the gases commonly used. Section three deals with the elemen- tary principles of refrigeration includ- ing the laws of thermodynamics, ma- rine refrigerating plant and the com- pression principle. Section four deals with refrigerated cargo, and section MARINE REVIEW—February, 1933 five, with running and upkeep. In the back part of the book several pages are devoted to useful data and to properties of the gases carbon di- oxide and ammonia. This book will be, we feel sure, of great usefulness to every sea going engineer, and also to all others inter- ested in the transport of refrigerated produce. A Count in the Fo’C’Sle by Count Jean Louis D’Esque (“Chips”); cloth, 298 pages 8% x 5% inches, published by Brentano’s, New York; supplied by MARINE ReEvIEW, for $2.75, plus 15 cents postage; and in Europe by the Penton Publishing Co., Ltd., Caxton House, London. Because the author of this book, in his years at sea as ship’s carpenter had become familiar with MARINE REVIEW and therefore requested the publisher to send us a copy we are glad to again depart from the usual custom of con- fining book reviews in these columns to those heavy and stodgy tomes gen- erally referred to as technical books. Nothing could be livelier or of more intriguing interest from beginning to end than this stirring and amusing record of a long life at sea. The au- thor has a most remarkable back- ground. He was born in Virginia and is a descendant of French nobility. His grandfather, Count Jean Alphonse D’Esque served as an officer under Marshall Ney. He is 47 years old and as recently as Oct. 10, 1929 was honor- ably discharged as ship’s carpenter on the motorship Drriancre. His career at sea, covering a period of 35 years, goes back to the latter days of the sailing ship. He is an artist and a poet, but is universally known by his many friends as “Chips.” He is now retired from active service and occupies him- self with his writing and wood carving and his memories of a crowded past. In this book he lives again in the days of tall sailing ships and rusty freighters and visits strange ports in forgotten corners of the world. From the day when still a youth in his teens he was discharged from the navy and found himself shanghaied aboard a windjammer bound for the Horn, life became a series of amazing hazardous and often ludicrous adven- ture. In attractive easy style, he recounts an astonishing variety of adventures comparable to any of those associated with the sea in older times. He tells of attacks by river pirates on the Yangtze and by natives in the South seas; of hell-ships that even the rats abandoned and of the part he played in the World war on troop ships and freighters, having had the luck of be- ing torpedoed and still living to tell the tale. This book is a simple straight-forward, vivid and_ factual tale; it will delight every lover of ad- venture and the sea.