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Normandie on Trial at Sea Prepares for First Trip The NorMANDI£, French superliner, was scheduled to leave the Penhoet shipyard at St. Nazaire on April 20 for atrial run at sea. Representing half a hundred trades and crafts, 6179 arti- sans were at work preparing her for the trials. Two-thirds of the workmen were employed on or within the ship and the others on land in the work- shops of the shipyards. Capt. Rene Pugnet, master of the vessel, has been stationed at the ship- yard several months observing opera- tions, and was recently joined by the chief steward, chef, doctor, barman and others, who are supervising the installation of equipment that will go under their jurisdiction. Many of the cabins of the vessel are 100 per cent complete; and work is well forward on the swimming pools and night clubs. In the galley, which is 107 feet by 195 feet, final installa- tions of ovens and stoves have been made. An electric range, 55 feet 3 inches long, carrying 17 hot plates and 48 ovens, is almost ready for use. A steam table as long as the range, hav- ing 18 hot water containers and 20 distribution booths, is installed. A second table, equally long, is available for tourist and third-class passengers. In the steward’s department there will be 72 cooks and 76 assistants, 12 pastry cooks and confectioners, 3 ice- handlers, 12 bakers and 8 butchers, who will work under the direction of a head chef and an assistant and two sub-chefs. The course of the sea trials has not yet been arranged, as this is written, but will probably include Brest, the former base port of the American ex- peditionary forces. It is expected that the ship will encircle the Azores, with- out stopping, and will be subjected to the severest tests possible. She will probably be away ten days, and on her return to St. Nazaire, will be pre- pared for her first sailing to New York, May 29. Capt. Rene Pugnet, former com- mandant of the Paris, will command the NoRMANDIE when she Sails from Havre for New York in the latter part of May. Formerly chief purser of the ILE DE FRANCE, Henri Villar, has been named chief purser of the new vessel, and Jean Henry, former chief purser of the CHAMPLAIN, will be associate chief purser with Henry Villar. Diesel Engines Ordered Contract has been awarded by the United States engineer office, Louis- ville, Ky.. to the Busch-Sulzer Bros. Diesel Engine Co. for furnishing two 750-horsepower diesel propelling en- gines, one 575-kilowatts diesel driven generating set, and one 1600-horse- power diesel engine for pump drive. Busch-Sulzer Bros. Diesel Engine Co., St. Louis, submitted the lowest total evaluated bid for all of this equipment in the amount of $157,- 600. The contract provides for fur- nishing electrical equipment manu- factured by the Elliott Co., Jean- nette, Pa. Electrical Equipment The Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. late in March received a contract from the United States navy depart- ment amounting to approximately $1,750,000 for electric equipment for eighteen 1500-ton destroyers. This equipment consists of turbo generator _ sets, regulators, and switch-boards, which are to be in- stalled in these new vessels now under construction in United States navy yards throughout the country. All of this apparatus will be man- ufactured at the Westinghouse plants at East Pittsburgh, South Philadel- phia and Newark, N. J. As of April 20, no final action had been taken by the United States ship- ping board bureau with reference to the application of the American South African Line Inc. for a loan, from the construction loan fund, to aid in financing the construction of a new vessel similar to the Ciry or NEW YoRK, now owned and operated by that company. Lines of the Queen Mary Based on Model Tests Although the _ so-called bulbous bow has been widely adopted in the design of big ships in the last few years, the QUEEN Mary will have the knife-edge type of bow characteristic of the famous MAURETANIA, speed queen among all merchant ships for so many years. It is likely that this decision on the part of the British designers will arouse a controversy of which much will probably be heard in the next few years. It is true that the adopt’on of the knife-edge bow, with its long sleek lines which in themselves suggest speed, was decided upon only after exhaustive tests with no less than 16 different model forms, each one about 17 feet long and accurately shaped in wax. With these models over 7000 trial runs were made and the results carefully checked in the special model testing tank, Although the form of the new Cunard White Star liner was quite definitely established some years ago, careful study has been given to the newest developments in _ design. From time to time tests have been made of all the various expedients put forward by those who claimed to have discovered special means for minimizing wave resistance, fric- tional resistance, eddy-making, pitch- ing, and many other factors which combine to offer resistance to the movement of a ship at sea. The tank in which John Brown & Co. conducted these experiments is equipped with machinery for creating wave conditions similar to those met with in all weathers up to a gale of 60 miles an hour velocity, which would produce waves 1000 feet long and 50 feet from crest to trough. In such miniature storms, the models were tested under conditions re- sembling those which the ship her- self will encounter in mid Atlantic in bad weather. 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See ees 5.63@5.48 1.35 4.79 Valve 1 Ores oe 4.93@4.78 1.35 4.76 COM, asda ners —s -d une 19.. 5.63@5.48 1.35 4.79 A i 0 —tep 2 eae es mc va 4.93@4.78 1.35 4.76 British ports, Fuel oil... —s —d May 18, 1934....5.63@5.48 1.35 4.79 May 18, 1934....4.93@4.78 1.35 4.76 British ports, Diesel oil.—s —d MARINE REVIEW—May, 1935 23