Show AMBULANCE ON WATER steam launch added to the london hoa pital tho managers of the metropolitan asylums board london have just passed upon plans for an ambulance launch for river service iier dimensions says the philadelphia record are as follows length between perpendiculars dic ulars CO feet breadth 12 feet 6 inches depth four feet draught of water when fully equipped two feet eight inches the hull is built of sie mens martin mild steel throughout to board of trade requirements for passenger certificate she is built in five compartments part ments in the forepaw fore pai t of the vessel is a cabin for the accommodation of the staff and for visitors proceeding to visit patients patient 2 in the hospital ships in long reach dartford and is capable of accommodating about 20 persons in the after part there is a cabin fitted up as a hospital with four berths two being fixed and two portable and with all the necessary requirements for carrying four recumbent patients both of these cabins are heated with steam and are provided with suitable skylights and all the necessary fittings for a boat of its class the machinery is fixed amidships and is of the tricie type with surface condenser and capable of driving the vessel at a speed of ten knots A watertight water tight trimming tank is built at the fore end of the vessel of sufficient capacity that when filled with water it will bring the vessel to an even keel ol 01 two feet eight inches |