What is in the forward engine room?
The forward engine room includes:
- Two more Fairbanks-Morse (or General Motors) main engine-generator combinations that also extend to the lower level.
- Two Kleinschmidt stills for fresh water.
- Air conditioning on the lower level. This has been described as functioning more as a dehumidifier rather than actual air conditioning. In other words, in WW2 it removed some moisture but didn’t cool the air very well.
- Clean fuel tank.
- Normal lube oil tank.
- Associated fuel and oil pumps and filters.