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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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The Ste©Lm Yeccht Nom©L. 
Noma was built for Mr. William B. Leeds from de- 
signs by Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane, of New 
York City, who also supervised her construction, and 
delivered her to Mr. Leeds complete, ready for sea, in 
March, 1903. 
She was built by the Burlee Dry Dock Co., of Staten 
Island, under the special inspection for highest classi- 
fication in the American Bureau of Shipping. 
Noma is the largest recent addition to the New 
York Y. C. fleet. She comprises many novelties in 
equipment and design which make her of more than 
general interest to the steam yachtsmen of America. 
Her great speed, the comfort and amplitude of her ar- 
rangements, the completeness of her equipment and 
the smoothness with which she runs, even at the high- 
est speed, have appealed to all who have seen her. 
Her dimensions are as follows: Length over all, 
252ft.; length waterline, 226ft.; breadth, 28ft. 6in.; draft, 
14ft. 
Needless to say, her hull is of steel, and she has a 
steel deck; in fact, wherever strength is necessary steel 
has been used; even the deckhouse of polished teak 
though it looks, is built of steel throughout and mere- 
ly clothed with teak, as the modern office building is 
built of steel and clothed with brick or stone. 
For greater safety, she has been fitted with seven 
watertight bulkheads, and three of these, through 
which doors are cut, are fitted with the Long-Arm Sys- 
tem Company's system of watertight doors, with a 
controller on the bridge, so that in case of an emer- 
gency the captain can close all the doors immediately 
on the ship. One of the most interesting features of 
the doors is that after they have been closed by the 
captain they can be opened to allow a man to get 
through and out of danger by pressing a handle, and 
the moment the handle is released the door closes 
again automatically. 
The machinery, which is to a steam yacht what sails 
are to a schooner, would prove of the greatest interest 
to any engineer. A few general figures should interest 
even the sailor. In Noma's engine there 37 different 
steam cylinders, which drive 22 independent engines. 
These engines vary in size from the large propelling en- 
gines of 2,000 horse-power each to the little pump of 
2 horse-power, which keeps the fresh water and plumb- 
ing tank filled. Steam is furnished by 6 Almy water- 
tube boilers. When the yacht is going at full speed 
these boilers burn 8 tons of coal an hour, and are 
fed with 5,000 cubic feet capacity of air from 3 sets of 
steam-driven fans. The use of the bulk of this machin- 
ery is, of course, for moving the vessel, but in addition 
to these machines for moving, there are an ice-making 
and refrigerating machine, fire and plumbing pumps, 
dynamos and ventilating fans, whose main use is to 
increase the comfort of living. 
The contract called for 16 knots under natural 
draft, and 14 under forced draft; but on trial in regular 
service she has largely exceeded these speeds. On trial 
she made 19.06 knots between Sandy Hook Lightship 
and Fire Island Lightship, a distance of 29^ nautical 
miles, and in the race for the Lysistrata Cup, July 24 
last, against the Kanawha, she slightly exceeded this 
speed over a course of 60 nautical miles. 
One of the most notable features of Noma at high 
speed is the entire freedom from vibration. This 
smoothness of running has been especially remarked 
by all who have been on board. 
She has a bunker capacity for 240 tons of coal, and 
carries 13,000 gallons of water in her tanks, in addition 
to which she has an evaporator of 2,000 gallons daily 
capacity, and a distiller capable of making 500 gallons 
a day of drinking water. 
The electric outfit is most complete, consisting of 
two large generators, large storage batteries, electric 
windlass (the motor which drives this electric wind- 
lass is the exact duplicate of one of our usual street 
car motors, which will give one a good idea of the 
power required to hoist and break out one of Noma's 
anchors, which weigh a ton apiece), two electric boat 
hoists and one electric fan for ventilating system, in 
addition to such minor luxuries as electric curling-iron 
heaters, cigar lighters, searchlights, decorating lights, 
etc. 
Noma's ventilation has been most carefully studied. 
In addition to individual skylights for every room, 
there is an exhaust fan situated in the fiddley, which 
sucks air through the air ducts leading from each 
state room. This exhaust fan is large enough to cause 
a lo-minute change of air through the whole of the 
owner's quarters. The running lights, also range. 
Looking Aft from Shade Deck. Looking Forward from Shade Deck. 
THE STEAM YACHT NOMA— DECK VIEWS. 
