CHAPTER 68 UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION 1. Mission The corporation is the fleet operating agency of the United States Shipping Board. By its article of incorporation its object was stated to be purchase, construct, equip, lease, charter, maintain, and operate vessels in the commerce of the United States. 2. History The corporation was incorporated April 16, 1917, under the authority conferred upon the United States Shipping Board by the Shipping Act of 1916.1 3. Organization and Distribution of Functions A. President of the Corporation.-Has general supervision over all of the affairs of the corporation. B. Vice President and General Manager.-Co-ordinates the various depart ments. (a) United States Lines.-Maintains combination passenger and freight services between New York and Queenstown, Plymouth, Cher bourg, Southhampton, and Bremen. (b) Legal Department. (c) Investigation Division. (d) Statistical Division. (e) Secretary. (el) Chief Clerk. (e2) File Section. (e3) Library Section. (e4) Duplicating and Typing Section. (e5) Service Section. (e6) Telegraph and Cable Section. (e7) Mail Section. (e8) Stenographic Reporting Section. (f) Personnel Division. (g) Foreign Agencies. (gl) London. (g2) Liverpool. (g4) Barcelona. (g5) Genoa. (g6) Piraeus. 139 Stat. 728 (Comp. St. §§ 8146a-8146r). See, under "History," United States Shipping Board. (g7) Copenhagen. (g8) Hamburg. (g9) Bremen. (g10) Antwerp. (g12) Le Havre. (g13) Buenos Aires. (g14) Balboa. (g15) Freeton. (g16) Hong Kong. (g17) Honolulu. (g18) Kobe. (g19) Lagas. (g20) Manila. (g21) Rio de Janeiro. (g22) Santos. (g23) Shanghai. (g24) St. Thomas. (g25) Yokohama. C. Vice President in Charge of Operations. (a) Executive. (b) Operations. (1) Revenue and Expense Section. (2) Vessel Disability and Personnel Section (Inventories). (3) Radio Section.-Is charged with duties in connection with radio communication, radio and gyro compasses, and automatic steering devices. (c) Purchases and Supplies Division. (1) Executive. (2) Fuel Section. (3) Purchasing Section. (4) Voyage Supplies Section. (6) Inland Traffic Section. (7) Office Supply Section. (d) Contract Division. (e) Stevedoring and Terminal Division. (f) Maintenance and Repair Division (New York). (1) Executive-Repair Section. (2) Turbine Section. (3) Branch Office Section. (4) Passenger Ship Equipment Section. (5) Technical Section-Diesel Branch. (6) Material Section. (7) Contract Section. (8) Specifications and Estimating Section. (9) Inspection Section. (10) Fuel Conservation Section. (11) Local Manager's Section. D. Vice President in Charge of Finance.-Handles all financial matters of the corporation supervising activities of Treasurer's and General Comptroller's Departments. Also supervises the activities of the Marine Insurance Department and the Construction Department. (a) Treasurer's Department.-This department handles the collec tion and disbursement of all funds of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation and the United States. Lines and is in charge of all securities. (b) General Comptroller's Department.-This department is responsible for the installation, supervision, and maintenance of the accounting records essential to a proper reflection of the assets and liabilities, and earnings and expenses of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation; the certification and approval of all receipts and disbursements; the preparation of current financial reports and statements. (c) Marine Insurance Department. This department supervises and administers the marine insurance fund which is maintained by the Fleet Corporation; all steamers in operation, as well as all freight moneys at risk, being entered in this fund. (d) Construction Department.-Investigating and furnishing data pertaining to settlement of claims, lawsuits, etc., arising out of the construction program of the Fleet Corporation. E. Vice President in Charge of the Traffic Department.-Exercises admin- (a) The department functions through the following divisions: (2) South American and West Indies Trades Division. (3) Far East and Long Voyage Trades Division, covering all ports of China, Japan, Philippine Islands, Dutch East In dies, Straits Settlements, Australia, India, and West, South, and East African ports. (4) Passenger and Mails Division, dealing with the corporation's passenger services, including booking of passengers; maintaining contact with the Post Office Department in the interest of procurement of mails for the corporation's vessels. (5) Claims Division, for the handling and settlement of traffic (6) District offices at Boston, New York, Baltimore, Savannah, (7) Inland Offices Division, charged with the promotion of con- (b) Advertising Department.-Charged with supervision of all advertising of the Fleet Corporation services. Offices maintained at New York and London. (c) Chartering Department.-Charters tankers available for commercial business after the requirements of the Fuel Department have been met, and negotiates bulk cargoes moving in general cargo steamers under charter parties. Offices located at New York. F. Department of Ship Sales.-Manager.-Has cognizance of negotiations for the sale of all vessel property under the jurisdiction of the Shipping Board, and is charged with responsibility for the custody and preservation of laid up vessels. The Department consists of the Department of Ship Sales proper, attending to matters relating to the sale of vessels, and a unit within the Department known as Laid-Up Fleet Division, having supervisory charge over the maintenance of the Laid-Up Fleets in accordance with rules and regulations established by the Department of Ship Sales. The Laid-Up Fleet Division has district administrative headquarters at New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Under the supervision of such district headquarters are the actual fleet organizations, aboard the Laid-Up Fleets, executing the duties allotted them. Sales are governed by sections 5, 6, and 7 of the Merchant Marine Act. Annual Omnibus Advertisement is usually published in the spring of each year, soliciting bids for the purchase of any vessels in the Board's Fleet. 4. Rules of Practice See under Shipping Board, chapter 67, section 5. 2 Act June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 988 [Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, §§ 81464aaa-81464d]). See Eighth Annual Report of United States Shipping Board, p. 94. 1. Mission CHAPTER 69 NATIONAL SCREW THREAD COMMISSION To ascertain and establish standards for screw threads, to be submitted to the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of Commerce for their acceptance and approval.1 2. History "The initial accomplishment in the standardization of screw threads in the United States was the report, under date of December 15, 1864, of the special committee appointed by the Franklin Institute on April 21, 1861, for the investigation of a proper system of screw threads, bolt heads, and nuts, to be recommended by the institute for adoption and general use by American engineers. "In its report this committee recommended a thread system designed by William Sellers. This thread system specified a single series of pitches for certain diameters from one-fourth inch to six inches, inclusive. The threads had an included angle of 60 degrees and a flat at the crest and root equal to oneeighth of the pitch. This system came into general use and was known as the Franklin Institute thread, the Sellers thread, and commonly as the United States thread. "The accomplishments realized in the adoption of the Franklin Institute, or United States standard thread, in 1864, were brought about largely by the great need of standard threads by American railroads for the development of their lines and equipment. In May, 1868, this thread was adopted by the United States Navy. "In recent years numerous organizations have carried forward the standardization of screw threads. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Bureau of Standards, and prominent manufacturers of specialized threaded products have been the chief influences in standardization of screw threads in this country. In England the standardization of screw threads began with the efforts of Sir Joseph Whitworth in ascertaining shop practice in the manufacture of screw threads, resulting in the standardization and adoption of the Whitworth thread system, which found extensive use in England. This work has been carried forward by the British Engineering Standards Association, an organization formed in 1901. "While the United States standard thread system fulfilled a great need in the period of the development of our great railway systems, it did not fully meet. the requirements of modern manufacture, because of the need for additional standard sizes and pitches developed in other industries, and especially because of the need for definitely specified limiting sizes of threaded parts. To fulfill the first of these needs, a thread system having finer pitches than the United 1 Act July 18, 1918 (40 Stat. 912). |