Perhaps the most Important individual Improvement designed for the comfort of passengers is the' installation of a Thermotank system; which supplies air currents to all parts of the ship and replaces the old-fashioned electric fans. In the more northerly latitudes, this air can be heated and the cabins and common-rooms Kept thoroughly warm against weather vicissitudes.
The dining-saloon and lounge are gaily Gnished and fitted throughout with modernistic furniture, 'The vessel's propelling machinery consists of one set of inverted, direct acting, surface condensing engines of reheat design, driving a single screw and supplied' with steam frm two multitubular marine boilers, Atted with "Nemenco super-heaters and working under Howden's system of forced draught.—Reuter.
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