FRESH WATER 

10gals per person, per day, 9 September 1927 BB35 newspaper "The TEXAS Toreador"

Storage Capacity

268,847 gallons or 35,944 cubic feet below main deck (hold and inner bottom).

  •   43,062 - Hold:  
  • 225,785 - Inner bottom:  

Evaporator Capacity (gallons)

1914 - 1925: quantity unknown

1926 - 1948:  36,000

  • Primary:  24,000 gal in 24 hours (per TEXAS "Unit and Description" form)  9 Sep 1927 "The TEXAS Toreador", lists 30,000 gal per 24 hour period.  From 1914 to 1925, the Lucky Bag and Post Office were located here.
  • Emergency:  12,000 gal in 24 hours (The capacity is listed in the title of several drawings of the emergency evaporator system.  The compartment was a coal bunker until the 1925-1926 modernization).