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"YSwimons-Boardman Pu'jlicstion Editorial and Executive Offices: 30 Church atraef, New York 7, and 79 W. Monroe street, Chicago 3. Branch offices: Terminal Tower, Cleveland 13; 1081 National Press Bldg^ Wash ington 4, D. C.; Terminal Sales Bldg., Portland 5, Ore.; 1127 Wilshira Boulevard, Los Angeles 17, Cat, 244 California street, San Francisco, CaL; 3908 Lemmon avenud. Dallas 19, Tex.; 1810 Ponce deLeon Bhrd., Coral Cables, Fla. Pablbhed monthly by the Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation: James G. Lyne, Presi dent; Samuel 0. Dunn, Chairman Emeritus; |. S. Crane, Vice-Pres. and Sec.; Warner Lumbard, Vice-Pros.; Robert C. Lewis, Vice-Pres.; Arthur J. McGinnis, Exec. Vice-Pres. and Treas.; Michael J. Figs, Jr., Dir. of Production; John Cavora, Asst. Treas. Warner Lumbard....................General Manager Editorial Department L. S. Blodgett............................................. Editor W. E. Oates.............................. Managing Editor L. 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Main, Wittelsbacher Allee 60, West Germany____ Published monthly by Simmons-Boardman Pub lishing Corporation at 1309 Noble St., Phila delphia, Pa. Entered as second-class matter, April 9, 1949, at the Post Office at Philadel phia, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879. Subscrip tions payable in advance. Postage free. United States, U. S. Possessions and Canada, 1 year $4.00; 2 years $6.00; 3 years $8.00. All other countries: 1 year, $10.00; 2 year subscriptions $18.00. Single copies 75 cents. Address: Robert G. Lewis, Vice Pres., 30 Church street, New York 7. Marine Engineering ia a member of the Associated Business Papers (A.B.P.) and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (A.B.C.) and is in dexed by the Industrial Arts Indoc and also by the Engineering Index Service. rmixTto ar psatODicAL mass coar., fuila. 23, pa. November, 1955 Plaintiffs Exhibit ENGINEERING and Shipping Review Vol. LX, No. 11 Contends November, 1955 Moore-McCormack leads the way........................................... 36 llSS Saratoga--souped-up supercarrier ............ .................. 37 Safety meeting stresses education............ .............................. 38 Lead ship in APL building program......................................... 39 Voyage of Cleopatra's needle. C. C. Hanks............................ 43 Are you overlooking stud drivers? .......................................... 44 Ten-ton gantry speeds Army cargoes ............................... ....... 46 USS Forrestal joins fleet........................................................... 47 What's the future for marine steam?..................................... SI Centrifugal boiler-feed pumps. I. J. Karassik.................... 52 Requirements of marine deaerators. J. F. Sebald................ S3 Marine condensate-pump design. W. C. Krutzsch............ 54 Big business for small yard ...................................................... 55 Gotaverken scores two firsts................................................... 57 Scotch-built auto-passenger ferry ........................................... 58 C&O projects will boost Newport News bulk movements. ... 60 Wrought-iron protection for off-shore drill rigs. A. N. Voripaieff....................................................................... ... 61 Subjects of vital importance covered in forums at New Orleans 62 Annual SNAME Meeting will add to shipbuilding know-how 62 Combustion control: How it works. J. H. Bayard............ .. 63 Departments In brief..................................................................................... .: 5 Editorial.............................................................................. 35 Marine engineers' questions and answers............................... 68 Monthly shipbuilding report..................................................... 71 Around the shipyards........................................................ 74 Up and down the Great Lakes........................................................ 76 New books................................................................................. 78 Personnel in the marine industry............................................. 80 Ship construction and repair news.......................................... 102 News of the industry................................................................. 106 Useful information..................................................................... 132 ' 3 USS Forrestal Joins Fleet Overcoming early Congressional adversity, hurricanes and a "bug" in lube system, the world's mightiest warship is commissioned at Portsmouth The USS Forrestal (CVA-59), lead ship of a new class of super aircraft carriers and the world's might iest warship, joined the fleet October 1 in an impressive commissioning ceremony at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va. Built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, the 1036-ft-long, 59,900-ton vessel re flects our military's emphasis on the need for mobile air bases from which retaliatory atomic bombardment can be visited upon the attacking enemy. Three additional Forrestal-class carriers currently are under construction, in cluding the USS Saratoga (see page 37). Bids for a fifth were scheduled to be received last month (October 14). The Navy's projected plans contemplate a total of 12 of these carriers. Current thinking is that one or several will have nuclear propulsion.- Trial Runs The Forrestal completed her acceptance trials Septem ber 23, but had to "prove her salt" the hard way. It re quired two sets of sea trials, 6 days in all, before she got the Navy stamp of approval. She first embarked on her trials August 29 and was scheduled to complete them September 2. After complet ing her 4-hr economv-test runs successfully on August 30. speed was gradually increased in preparation for fullpower speed trials. It is reported that the vessel had at tained 30 knots when the main thrust bearing on the No. 3 engine wiped. The engine was secured, and speed re duced. While running on three engines, similar over heating was discovered on another main thrust and the Main Particulars of Forrestal Length over-all................................ 1036 ft Length between perpendiculars . . 990 ft Beam at main deck.......................... 129 ft 4 in. Beam at flight deck........................ 252 ft Depth at centerline flight deck .... 97 ft 4 in. Standard displacement, tons.......... 59,650 Horsepower..................................... over 200,000 Speed, knots.................................... over 30 Crew................................................ 3500 Cost, including ordnance .............. over $200 million Keel laid...........................................July 14, 1952 Delivery............................................ Oct. 1, 1955 November, J955 47 The vessel is equipped with a 400-line fully automatic dial-telephone system, developed and built by Automatic Electric Company. The system provides rapid, automatic telephone communication between various points on board the vessel. The installation can accommodate 800 telephones* on a two-party line basis (with selective party line ringing) and is equipped with a special "right-ofway" feature so that urgent or high-priority calls can be cut in immediately on any existing conversation. Acoustical properties of the telephones have been further perfected to give higher voice fidelity and other wise make conversation more intelligible in noisy areas. Major Suppliers of Equipment Aboard USS Forrestal American Machine and Foundry--Automatic Central Iron A Steel--Steel plates. v Manning, Maxwell and Moore. Inc.--Pressure dispensers for mess Rear. . Corbin Cabinet Lock Division--Hardware. and vacuum gages and safety valves. American Roller Bearing--Roller bearings. Corbin Craft, Inc.--Boats. Midvale Coapahy--Forgings. American Steriliser--Sterilisers. Cuno Engineering--Strainers. Minneapolis Honeywell Regulator--Air*condi* Andale--Strainers. . Dsyatrom Electric--I.C. equipment tioning controls. Armstrong Cork--Adhesives, linoleums and , Do Laval Separator--Oil purifiers. Lucian Q. Moffitt--Cutless rubber-lined bear* oork pipe covering. Arnot Jamestown--Furniture. , Arrow Hart and Hegeman Electric--Wiring Dcraing Co.--Pumps. , Detroit Controls Corp.--Control apparatus. Davis Engineering--Heat exchangers. mgs. National Tube Division--Steel tubing, flasks. Nelson Stud Welding--Welding studs. devices. v John B. Astell--Steel tubing. Atwood and Morrill--Valves. Aerco Heat exchangers, valves. AUis Chalmers Centrifugal pumps, transform* era. Aluminum Company of America--Aluminum tubing, plates, sheets, shapes, bars, castings, ex trusions and rivets. Amco--Gasoline hose and nozzles. American Brass--Brass, copper and copper- nickel alloy tubing and expansion joints, nuts. American Car and Foundry--Lubricated plug valves, cocks. American Engineering--Pumps for jet-blast de flector. American Locomotive--Springs. Auth Electric--Annunciators. Automatic Electric Bales--Telephones. Automatic Sprinkler--Sprinkler eouipment. Automatic Temperature Control Co.--Regulat ing valves. ( American Chain and Cable--Hoists. , Anaconda Wire and Cabl^-Degau&sing equip ment. Arabol Manufacturing--Adhesive cement. Anna Corp.--Ship control and ordnance equip ment. Armco Steel Corp.--Stainless steel. # Atlas Valve--Pump governors and reducing valves. Bendin Aviation--Electronics equipment. Babcock A Wilcox-Rollers and steel tubing and refractories, Are brick, mortar, cement, etc. Badger .Manufacturing--Expansion fittings. Bailey Meter--Boiler combustion and feed water controls. Baldwin Lima Hamilton--Propellers. M. L. Bayard--Airplane crane, pumps. Bethlehem Steel--Pine, plates, shapes, sheets, L. C. Doane--Lighting fixtures. Okonite Company--Electric wire and cable. Dravo Corporation--Pumps, speed reducers. Owens Coming Fiberglass Corp.--Fiberglas Eastern Stainless Steel Corp.--Stainless sheets. insulation. Elkhart Brass Manufacturing--Hosefitting and Palmer Electric A Manufacturing--Lighting monitors. fixtures and wiring applicances. EIfison Bronze Co.--Balanced doors. Phelps Dodge Copper Products--Electric wire Frie Forge A Steel Corp.--Forgings. and cable. E. I. du Pont De Nemours--Paint for furni* Philadelphia Gear Works--Speed reducers and ture. gears and motor operators for valves. Electric Storage Battery--Storage batteries. Phflco Cemoration--Electronic equipment. Electroline Co.--Marine hardware. Pilot Marine Corp. -- Signal equipment and Federal Telephone A Radio--Electronic equip* switchboards. ment. Parker Appliance--Nozzles. Flexonics Corp.--Exoansion joints. . Penh. Flexible Metallic Tubing--Flexible hose. Fries Instrument Co.--Wind direction and Piezo Manufacturing--Universal joints. speed indicator system. Pitometer Log Corp. -- Revolution indicator Falk Corporation--Gear and speed reducers. system. Stanley G. Flagg A Co.--Flanges, bronze. Radio Corp. of America--Electronic equipment. Fog Nozzle International--Fog nozzles. Raybestos Manhattan--Asbestos cloth. Formica Company--Plastics. Republic Steel--Steel pipe. Foster Engineering -- Temperature regulating Roebling Wire Rope Corp.--Wire rope. and pressure reducing valves. Ruggle>Klingemann--Valves. Fulton Sylphon Divirion--Packless valves. Jos. T. Rverson A Son--Allot) steel. General Electric--Generators, circuit breakers, cable, switchgear equipment, instruments. ., Reliance Electric tors and controls. A Engineering--Electric mo* H. S. Getty A hardware. Co.--Locks, hinges and- door Revere Copper and Brass--Brass, copper and cooper*nickel tubing--aluminum extensions. B. P. Goodrich--Hose. GrinneB Company--Pipe hangers and sprinkler heads. Griscom Russell--Heat exchangers and distill* mg plant C. C. Galbraith A Son--Radiant heaters. Garlock Packing--Packing. Gian Fibers, Inc.--Acoustical blankets. Gould--Storage batteries. Graybar Electric--Electrical fittings. Hays Corp.--Draft gages. Hobart-Food chopping and mixing machines. Reynolds Metals Co.--Aluminum sheets and shapes and vapor*proof insulation. Rockbestoa Products Corp.--Electric wire and cable. Sandusky Foundry A Machine--Shaft sleeves. Sarco Company -- Strainers and stop-check valves. Schotte and Roerting--Heat exchangers and eductors. Sier Bath Gear A Pumn--Rotary pumps. Stow Manufacturing--Flexible shafts. Superdraulic Corporation--Control valves. ibars, forgings, bolts and nuts. Betts and Betts--Lighting fixtures and wiring appliances. Blackmer Pump--Gasoline pumps. Blaw Knox-Steam accumulators. , S. Blickman--Service sinks and galley equip* ment. Bogue Electric--Generators. Borden Metal Products--Gratings. Bridgeport Brass--Copper .and brass tubing. Buffalo Forge--Fans. Buffalo Meter--Oil and water meters. Bumdy Engineering--Electrical connectors. A.M. Byers--Wrought*iron pipe, plate and sheet sines O. Biddle--Electrics! instruments. loston A*tto Gags--Tank gages. Brooks Eouipment--Universal joints. Burgess Manning--Telephone hoods. C O Two Fire Equipment Co!--Fire-fighting equipment Camden Forge--Forgings. ' G.O. Carlson Incorporated--Stainless plate. Carrier Corporation--Air conditioning and re* frigeration equipment. The Chapman Valve Manufacturing Company- Gate valves. Chan Brass and Copper Company, Inc.- Brass, copper and copper-nickel alloy tubing. Cleveland Diesel Engine Division--Generators. The Cleveland Pneumatic Tool--Screw jacks. Cochrane Corporation--Heat exchangers. Colorado Puel and Iron--Wire rope, steel plates. Columbia Machine Works--Pipe blinds, gaskets and parts. Commercial Engineering--Lube-oil purifiers. Control Instrument Co.--Telephones. Copes Vulcan Division--Desuperheaters. Cox A Company--Radiant heaters. Crane Company -- Plumbing fixtures -- valves, main steam, throttling, eataputt steam, miscella neous, gasoline reducing valves, hangar sprinkling vahres, tor foam valves. Crane Packing Co.--Packing, Crucible 8tee! Co. of America--Alloy and stain* less bars and magnets. Hale Fira Pump--Fire-fighting equipment. SKF Industries--Roller bearings. Heints Manufacturing--Stair and ladder treads, Shenango-Penn Mold--Brass castings. and quick*acting watertight doors. Sherwin-Williams--Paint. Hendrick Manufacturing--Perforated sheets and Sig-Trana--Anchor and propeller order systems. gratings. Sima Co.--Lighting fixtures. Hcnschd Corporation--Electrical and mechan* Sperry--Ship control equipment, ical telegraphs. Syntron--Sealing rings. "H"yd*e Windlass- Steering gear control and eon* Taylor Instrument--Thermometers. trol valves. Tcleflex--Rudder angle indicator. I. T.E. Circuit Breaker Co.--Circuit breakers, Thomas Flexible Coupling Co, -- Flexible transformers. couplings. Infers!! Rand--Pumps. Trumbull Components Department--Electrical Ingram Richardson Manufacturing--Porcelain switches. enameled bulkheads, plumbing partitions. U. S. Rubber Company--Rubber packing and Insingcr Machine Co.--Dish-washing machinery gaskets and shaft covering. and potato peelers. U. S. Steel Corporation--Steel pipe and tubing, D. O. James Gear Manufacturing--Speed re* STS plates, plates, shapes, bars and forgings. dueers. Uehling Instrument Co.--Tank level gages. Jamestown Metal--Metal joiner doors. Union Asbestos A Rubber--Insulation. Jenkins Brothers--Control stations, pumps. U. S. Instrument Corp.--Call signal stations, Johns Manvillo Magnesia, packing, asbestoa rotary switches. cloth, gaskets, and asbestos millboard. Vdlumoid Co.--Gaskets. Jones A Laughlin Steel--Steel pipe and shapes. Velan Engineering--Steam traps. Jerguson--Liquid level indicators. Vickers, Inc.--Pumps and hydraulic equipment, Johnson Service--Pneumatic controls. Vulcan Radiator Company--Finned tubing. KSM Products--Welding studs. Walworth Company--Flanges, valves, firemain G. M. Xstcham Manufacturing--Wiring appli* and miscellaneous plug cocks, fittings. ances. Ward Leonard Electric -- Electrical control Kewanee-Rota--Heat exchangers. equipment. King Gage Co.--Tank gages. Waterbury Tool--Pumps for steering gear and Kingsbury Machine Works--Thrust bearings elevators. for propeller shaft Welin Davit and Boat Division--Davits and Leslie Co.--Temperature regulating and pres winches for boats. sure-reducing valves. Westingbouse Electric--Propelling machinery, Llquidomcter Corporation-Tank gages. airplane elevators, motors, transformer fans, blow Loefftlholu Company--Air outlet terminals and ers. and rectifiers, etc. valves. C. H. Wheeler Manufacturing--Anchor wind* J. E. Lonergan--Safety valves. lass, special elevators and sir ejectors for con* Lovell Dresacl--Lighting fixtures and wiring dentert. pumps. appliances. Worthington Corporation -- Pumps and com Lukeni Steel--Steel plates. pressors. Lake Shore Engineering--Fuel at sea winches. Wing Manufacturing, L. T.--Vent fans. ' R. G. Le Tourneau--Crash crane. Alan Wood Steel Co.--Floor plates. Lunkenheimcr--Valves. Wrfght-Auxtln--Steam traps. Mario Coil Co.--Cooling coils, unit coolers, Young Radiator Co.--Convectors. gravity coils. Yale A Towns Manufacturing --Hoists and Madesco Tackle Block--Blocks. winches. McOuay, Inc.--Duct heaters. Youngstown Welding A Engineering--Copper* Cutler Hammer, Inc.--Electrical control equip- Moeller Instrument Co.--Thermometers. nickel alloy tubing.