Page 10: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (October 15, 1973)

This view of the lower engine room is taken looking aft between the two Colt Diesels. Looking to port on the upper engine room level shows one of the auxiliary generators.

The Fully Automated

Sugar Islander— (Continued from page 11) long cargo holds located along the center of the ship with wing tanks port and starboard for ballast. The cargo holds are smooth sided and have corrugated bulkheads. Each hold is served (by mechanically operated folding hatch covers. The hatch for No. 1 hold meas- ures 46 feet 10J4 inches long by 42 feet wide.

All the other hatch covers are 56 feet 3 inches long by 42 feet wide. The stern section con- tains the engine room, after peak tank and the steering-gear room.

All accommodations and the bridge are lo- cated in the after house. On the Main Deck are all storerooms, refrigerated spaces, galley, crew's mess, officers' mess, crew and officers' laundry, ship office, slop chest, CO-2 room and linen lockers. On the "A" Deck are state- rooms for the able-bodied seamen, messmen and the crew recreation room.

Located on the "B" Deck are staterooms for the boatswain, chief steward, deck/engine mechanics, wiper, and electrician, plus the emergency-generator room and treatment room. On the "C" Deck are staterooms for the relief mate, third assistant engineer, second assistant engineer, first assistant engineer, re- lief engineer, and the chief engineer together with an office for the first assistant engineer, the chief engineer's day room and the officer lounge. The "D" Deck contains staterooms for the radio officer, the third, second and first mates and the captain, plus the captain's day room and the radio room.

The entire crew of 22 officers and men have individual, air-conditioned staterooms with the officers having individual bath rooms and the crew having adjoining bath rooms.

The total capacity of the six cargo holds, including the hatch coamings, is 1,185,444 cubic feet or 28,045 tons. The total ballast capacity including the forepeak and after peak tanks, the wing tanks and the double bottom tanks is 409,793 cubic feet or 11,699 tons. The total fresh water capacity of the ship is 142 tons.

Fuel oil and diesel oil are carried in deep tanks, wing tanks, service tanks, settling tanks and the double bottom, having a total capacity of 144 tons.

The ship is classed by the American Bureau of Shipping.

MACHINERY PLANT

The two unidirectional, 6,000-bhp 'Colt-Piel- stick diesel engines drive the single control- lable-pitch propeller through a twin-pinion ma- rine reduction gear and flexible couplings. The reduction gear has two output quill shafts, each fitted with a clutch for engagement with pinion shafts. The starboard pinion shaft con- nects through a speed increaser to a 450-kw electrical generator. The port pinion shaft connects to the propeller drive shaft.

The engines are Colt S.E.M.T. Pielstick,

Model 12BC2V, uni-directional marine diesels.

Each engine is a 12-cylinder, 45°-V configu- ration, with a 6,000-ibhp rating at 520 rpm. The engines are turbocharged and operate on a four-stroke principle. Either diesel or heavy oil may be used as fuel. Three attached en- gine-driven pumps supply lubricating oil, to the engine, lubricating oil to the rocker-arm assembly, and cooling water to the engine jacket.

Each engine output shaft is equipped with a Geislinger, Model B90/20/3/2, flexible-drive coupling for connection to the reduction-gear input quill shafts. The flexible coupling has a radial leaf-spring design and is oil->filled via the engine crankshaft.

A Lufkin, Model CSQ 16222S, dual-input, single-reduction (ratio 5.192:1), double-helical unit is used as the reduction gear. An integral pressurized lube-oil system includes filters, motor-driven lube-oil pump, one gear-driven lube-oil pump, a lube-oil cooler and a salt- water cooling regulator valve.

The reduction gear may be driven by one or both engines. (continued on next page)

A close-up view of the starboard Waukesha-driven auxiliary generator for ship service. The bow-thruster diesel engine with Lufkin reduction gear arjd Philadelphia drive gears. 12 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News