The Biggest Coal Ship in the World 



There Is Nothing Romantic About the "Milazzo." She Is Built for the Brutally Practical 

 Purpose of Carrying Coal. By Means of Twenty Cranes on Her Decks 14,000 Tons of 

 Coal Can Be Unloaded in Forty-eight Hours. Shovels Are Unnecessary on the "Milazzo" 



IOOK at the "Milazzo" aiui watch 

 her unload 14,000 long tons of 

 . coal and 4,500 tons of oil, and you 

 say at once: "An American designed 

 her — she is practical." In truth, tlieri- 

 is nothing quite like her in the whole 

 world, as shi[)s go. On the other hand, 

 she was designed not by an AnnTican, 

 but by an Italian, Captain luiiilio 

 Menada, who has I'arni'd a reputation 

 for himself as an iiuciilm- of transjiorting 

 maciiinery. 



The "Milazzo" was built to Ii.ukIIc 

 Ijulk cargoes, such as gr.iin .md coal 

 built, moreo\er, to handle iheni with tlu- 

 least possible human effort. Acconling- 

 ly, she is simply an engine-dri\en hull 

 and a mass of i'le\ators and chutes. 



Might water-tight bulkhead>, extend- 

 ing to the main deck, dividi' the hull of 

 the "Milazzo" into nip'.- compartments. 

 The central com[)ar.ment contains the 

 engines and .boiler fuel. Salt water 

 ballast i^ carried in the extreme forward 

 and extreuK- after < (pinparlimiilv. Tli.il 



leaves six compartments for the coal. 



If you will stud\' the sectional view of 

 the "Milazzo," which appears on the 

 opposite page, you will sec that the com- 

 partments are merely coal-pockets, sim- 

 ilar to those built on wharves. Beneath 

 the coal-pockets, little cars run on rails. 

 When tloors, cut in the slanting planes 

 forming the bottoms of the coal pockets, 

 .ire opened, tin- coal runs down into these 

 cars by its own wi-ight. \\ hen a car is 

 full, it is lifted boilily through vertical 

 elevating shafts up to the main deck 

 to an unloading platfomi, adjustable in 

 lu'ight. Phen it is tilted, and the coal 

 runs into chutes. Shovels and grab- 

 i>uckets ari' unknown on the "Milazzo." 



The 4,500 tons of oil are carrietl in 

 side tanks iorniing a double bottom. 



With her gross tonnage of 11,477, the 

 "Milazzo" is the- largest steamer thu> 

 far built for cargo carrying. She is four 

 hundred and ninety-two feet long and 

 draws twenty-six feet of water. Her 

 di>pl.iccincni i> JO, 040 tons. 



•MH 



