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From bowsprit to stern, the Sea Cloud measures 310 ft. She has a bulk of 2,323 gross tons, carries 36,000 sq. ft. of canvas on her four towering masts. Below decks are four diesel engines which can boost her along at 14 knots. Under sail, she can step up her speed to 16 knots. But it was not such figures that awed the roustabouts in Baltimore; it was the fantastic elegance of her fittings...
...rely on its training centers, which are supposed to turn out 10,500 salts a year, will have to do much better than that. Last week the Commission was busy refitting as training ships two 5,000-ton liners chartered from the Eastern Steamship Lines and a 115-ft. Diesel yacht donated by Mrs. Jessie Ball du Pont. With these, the Commission has 18 training vessels in all, ranging from the square-rigged Joseph Conrad to the 10,000-ton Liberty ship American Mariner...
Some of the specific requests already received, besides the blanket appeal of the Red Cross for volunteers at 18 Brattle Street, Include a call for someone to instruct sailors in marine Diesel engines of the Cooper-Bessemen type; a tutor in fine arts for a member of the Coast Guard; and students with a knowledge of shorthand, radio, mathematics or physics
...Commission ships are powered with steam turbines or diesel engines, cost from $2,000,000 to $2,800,000 apiece...
...Hill is a railroader who can see beyond his own switching towers. Two years ago he began grooming L. & N. for the defense rush. In the past year alone he has spent $15,000,000-almost equal to all profits in 1937-39-for 14 diesel switchers, eight diesel passenger engines, 14 regular engines, 500 all-steel hopper cars, large amounts of road and shop equipment. Meanwhile, L. & N. mechanics worked overtime to reduce "bad order" cars to only 1.8% of the total against 32.3% three years...