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. §. ANGELINA, New American Freighter Enters Service BY GEO. R. MASSENBURG HE two general cargo ships AN- GELINA and MANUELA, which have just been completed at the plant of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., for the A. H. Bull Steamship Co., New York, are the first general cargo ships to be built in this country since 1921. These vessels, although classified as freight ships, have accommodations for 12 passengers in six staterooms, and the extent of midship house, to- gether with the straight raked stem and cruiser stern, give them some- thing of the appearance of passenger vessels. The ships are finely formed for speed and have a suggestion of a bulbous bow, but this is a natural consequence of the raking of the stem, and there is no actual bulbing of the bow lines. To further reduce resistnce the rudder is of the stream line type; with fair- water fitted on the forward side of the stern post, meeting and extending the fair-water from the hub of the propeller. Also the shell plating is lapped forward and the exposed edges are slightly rounded. The form is such as to give remarkably good shape and capacity of holds for a hull of such fineness. Classed in American Bureau Gibbs & Cox Inc., naval architects, 1 Broadway, New York, were employed by the owners as consulting naval architects, and designed the vessels in collaboration with the designing staff of the Newport News Shipbuild- ing & Dry Dock Co. A representative of Gibbs & Cox, who also acted as Owners’ representatives and resident inspector at the works of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., 10 approved the working plans and super- vised the construction of the vessels. The vessels were also built to the highest class and under the survey of the American Bureau of Shipping, and built and equipped in all respects to pass the applicable rules of the steamboat inspection service, and United States public health service. The mchinery is amidships, with the rather unusual arrangement of the turbines forward of the boilers, and the boilers fitted on top of deep tank at a height a few feet above the inter- mediate platform in the engine room, where the working platform is situ- ated. The house for the accommoda- tions is also amidships surrounding the engine and boiler casings. Principal dimensions and character- istics of the vessels are given in the table on page 11. The passenger accommodations con- ® Smoking room of the S. S. An- gelina. Paneled in oak. Fitted with four large casement win- dows AZ MARINE REVIEW—June, 1934 ® S .S. ANGELINA first of two freighters re- cently completed by the Newport News . Ship- building & Dry Dock Co. for the A. H. Bull Steam- ship Co. Sailed on her maiden voyage from New York to Puerto Rico, April 28 ® sist of six large staterooms on the port side of the deck above the bridge deck, with a dining saloon at the after end of the same deck, and a smoking room on the after end of the navigat- ing bridge deck above. The passen- gers’ principal open deck space COv- ered by an awning is a broad expanse of deck for the full width of the ship, over the top of the wheel house and deck officers’ rooms. Each passenger stateroom is quite as large as usually found on the largest passenger liners, and has twin beds, a bureau dresser, a lavatory, large wardrobe, and chairs. The two forward rooms have private toilet and shower. The other four rooms have connecting toilet and shower. Each room has two 16-inch airports. The floor covering is fin- ished magnesite, covered with rugs. The bulkheads are plywood, painted finish, in light cream color. The pas-