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Building a Giant Oil Carrier T he WORLD'S FLEET of oil carriers aggregates approximately 10,000,000 gross tons. Tankers con- stitute about one-third of American merchant ma- rine tonage. Petroleum and its products provide nearly one-third of all water-borne tonnage in American world trade. Day and night American oil tank ships trans- port petroleum products on all the seas touching our coasts and on all our navigable rivers. During a single month tankers have unloaded as much as 45,000,000 barrels of crude oil, gasoline and other petroleum products at United States ports. FROM THE DOCKS of what is now The Atlantic Refining Company the first ship to carry a cargo of oil on the high seas sailed for England from Phila- delphia in 1861. The ship was the 224-ton brig the \Elizabeth Watts\ and she carried her cargo in bar- rels. The remarkable development that has since taken place in the construction of oil carriers is graphically illustrated by a new Atlantic Refining Company tanker, the S.S. J. W. Van Dyke, which went into ser- vice in February. The new 18,500-ton tanker is the world's largest welded .ship and the first American- built turbo-electric tanker. THE J. W. VAN DYKE has a capacity of 6,552,000 gdlons of gasoline—enough gasoline to supply the average requirements of 10,000 motorists for a full year. On one trip she will be able to carry more oil than was produced in any one day from 1878 to 1909. The turb^lectric engines, developing 5000 horse- power, give her a speed of 13.25 knots, enabling her to make the trip between Philadelphia and Texas Gulf ports in six days. Three 300-horsepower discharge pumps, driven by 2300-volt eiiplosion proof motors, make possible the discharge of cargo at the rate of 630,000 gallons an hour. THE NEW ATLANTIC TANKER is the first vessel of the U. S. merchant marine to be warranted to fly the merchant marine naval reserve flag prior to her maiden voyage. Presented to the captain of the J. W. Van Dyke following successful completion of the trial trip, the flag marks the vessel's acceptability by the navy as a naval auxiliary in time of war, and the fact that the captain and fifty per cent of the other officers are members of the commissioned personnel of the naval reserve. The J. W. Van Dyke on the 4;on»truclion wavu six weekn before ihe launching. Main awitrlilMianl, looking down from above. Horaepower mftcr, tail shaft unci ihruot iHSiiriiig.
