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27 inch stroke. The condenser is built and forms a part of the framing of the engine. A noticeable feature of the design is the reversing engine which acts vertically and is bolted to the fl ages connecting the intermediate and low pressure cylinders. This allows the reversing shaft to be placed at the back of the engine and leaves the front of the engine entirely clear to get at the working parts. The piston rods, connecting rods, valve stems, reversing shaft, crank shaft and line shafting will be of the best quality of mild open-hearth steel. The high pressure valve will be of
the piston type, and the intermediate and low pressure valves will be of the double posted slide type, all to be actuated by the Stephenson double bar link gear, the intermediate eccentrics of which will work off the couplings connecting the two sections of crank shaft. All auxiliary machinery will be independent of the main engine and will consist of a vertical twin air pump, centrifugal circulating pump and engine, duplex main and auxiliary feed pumps, both located in the engine room, duplex fi re pump, general service pump and a bilge pump.
In the Boiler Room. Steam will be furnished by two Scotch
boiler, each 14 feet in diameter by 10 feet 2 inches long. The shell is made in two sheets, and will be 1 3/16 inches thick. The total heating surface will be 4,198 square feet, and the total grate surface 126 square feet, or a ratio of 32.6 to 1; the calorimeter, or ratio of area through tubes to the great surface will be 1 to 5.78. There will be 336 seamless drawn steel tubes, 3 ¾ inches outside diameter, in each boiler, or which eighty-six will be fi tted as stay tubes. The ordinary tubes will be No. 10 B. W. G. in thickness, and the stay tubes No. 6 B. W. G. There will be three Fox’s corrugated furnaces in each boiler, of a diameter of 42 inches inside and a thickness of 9/16 inch. They will be of the latest pattern and so fi tted as to be easily removable if necessary to fi t new furnaces at any time. The boilers are designed for a working pressure of 170 pounds per square inch.
In addition to the apparatus already
described, there will be a steam windlass; a steam steering engine; a steam winch on after deck; an electric generator of 10 kw
214 April 1904 With the Ships
Arrivals and Departures in Port of Bangor Thursday. A New Sixmaster
J. S. Winslow & Co. of Portland Will Have a Big One Built at Percy & Small’s Yard, Bath.
Recent arrivals in Bangor include
the barge MARION from Philadelphia, with 1506 tons of coal; sloop BREEZE from Stonington, with 500 pounds cod for sale; barge EAGLE HILL, coal for John F. Woodman & Co.; schooner LIZZIE LANE, light, to load for Lowell & Engel; schooner MAUD S., light, and REUBEN EASTMAN, with sulphur from Boston for the Eastern Mfg. Co. The schooner ROBERT H. MCCURDY
will be brought up Friday. She is from Brunswick with hard pine for the new schooner AUGUSTUS H. BABCOCK, at the Stetson yard, Brewer. The barge BEAR RIDGE will also come up Friday. The schooner METHEBESEC cleared Thursday afternoon having fi nished her
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capacity, which, in addition to lighting the ship throughout, will be capable of operating a 24-inch searchlight located on a platform just forward of the foremast; an evaporating apparatus, having a capacity of 4000 gallons of potable water in twenty-four hours; a complete system whereby all bilges may be pumped either by steam or hand. Fresh water will be supplied to wash basins and bath tubs in all parts of the ship from a 500-gallon tank located in the engine room. An air compressor working in connection with this tank keeps, by means of an automatic valve, a comstant pressure of ten pounds, which forces the water throughout the ship. The force draft system will be of the
closed fi reroom type, the air being furnished by means of a large centrifugal blower located in the upper part of the fi reroom. The main engine at full power is expected to develop about 1800 I. H. P., which will drive the ship at a speed of from 14 ½ to 15 ½ knots per hour. The hull of this vessel was designed
by First Lieut. J. C. Moore, R. C. S., the superintendent of construction; the steam machinery and all auxiliaries, such as the sanitary system, etc., are designed by Capt. John W. Collins, the engineer-in-chief of the revenue cutter service.
cargo of ice and lumber, for Curacoa, by Pierre McConville. This is the fi rst cargo to leave Bangor this year in a coaster. The schooner JOHN TWOHY was discharged late Thursday afternoon. Sixmaster for Portland.
J. S. Winslow & Co. of Portland have
contracted with Percy & Small of Bath for a sixmaster schooner. The keel has already been laid and the vessel is to be done in the fall.
The schooner will be a little larger
than the fi rm’s present sixmaster ADDIE M. LAWRENCE and will have a carrying capacity of about 5,000 tons. She will therefore be larger than the GEORGE W. WELLS and will rank well up in the scale of sixmasters. No name as yet has been selected for
the new craft. 16 April 1904
Launched in a Snow Storm.
Waldoboro, April 16. Launched amid a thick snow storm in
the middle of April was the unique incident in connection with the going overboard at high noon Saturday of the fi ve-masted schooner SINGLETON PALMER, built for W. F. Palmer of Boston. This is the tenth of the PALMER fl eet, fi ve of which have been constructed in Waldoboro by George L. Welt. She was christened with fl owers by Mrs. George F. S. Palmer, Capt. W. H. Palmer of Orient, L. I., will command the PALMER, which was launched ready for sea. Her offi cial dimensions are Length of keel, 273 feet; breadth of beam, 45.6 feet; depth of hold, 27 feet. Her gross tonnage is 2,859, net 2,537 and she has a coal capacity of 4,000 tons. The PALMER’s keel was laid last June. The PALMER rudder was broken
completely off when she dipped into her native element and evidently struck (?) rock bottom. It was not thought that the keel was damaged.
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Motor Boats Will Be Popular This Summer
Brewer Builders are Turning Out Some Fast Craft.
Mile Course on River
This Will Give Chance for Speed Tests on the Penobscot – Unique Boat for Bucksport Man
Now that the ice has gone out and the
days are becoming warmer preparations are being made for launching the Penobscot pleasure fl eet which has been considerably augmented by purchases or construction during the winter. Within a month the familiar chug-chug of the power launch will be heard all along the river and bay and hundreds of Bangor people will be planning excursions to some of the many beautiful resorts below. The fl eet of sail boats which existed on the river a few years ago has almost disappeared but its place has come a larger fl eet of less picturesque but much more reliable craft. Two years ago there were half a dozen gasoline 20-footers on the river. This year there will be nearly 50 power boats from the little 15-foot launch with its one-horse power engine up to the fast and comfortable cruising launches such as are owned by Fred A. Porter and W. C. Bryant. It is not that the sailboat enthusiast has
lost his love for the pleasures of sailing but the varying conditions of wind and tide on the Penobscot make sailing cruises impracticable for all save the fortunate few to whom it matters not whether they return in one day or six. The busy man who now and then has one or two days at his disposal or perhaps a few hours must plan his trips so that he can be certain of returning at a stated
hour. That is why the power boat is now in the ascendant. The new launches this year diff er little
from those built one or two years ago, except that some of them are of somewhat lighter construction, the ribs being light and placed very close together. As last year all the launches with the exception of those of the dory type will have the torpedo stern in its original or in a modifi ed form. Some improvement in appearance as well as in speed has been accomplished by making the after part of the boats deeper, so that when under way they will not haul down by the stern.
A year ago the largest and fastest launch
on the river was the 38-footer owned by W. C. Bryant. This launch has what is called a hunting cabin and is equipped with a powerful 18-horse power gasoline engine. She is capable of making ten miles an hour or better and has proved to be a comfortable and able cruising launch. This boat will be put into the water before the end of April. It has been rumored that a well known
Bangor business man is to have a 60-foot launch this summer, but nothing has yet been done toward her construction and the queen of the fl eet, so far as size is concerned, will be the JUANITA of Fred A. Porter. Mr. Porter’s boat was in commission last year but during the winter he had had her cut in two and ten feet inserted amidships. The boat is now 42 feet long with a much larger house, handsomely fi nished. The work was done by Cobb Bros. of Brewer and so skillfully have they performed the diffi cult task of enlarging the boat that none, not even an expert, could detect that it was not originally built its present size. Her lines are easy and graceful and as her owner has substituted a twelve horse power Palmer engine for the smaller engine which he had before, the remodeled launch should prove speedy as well as comfortable.
Laid Out Mile Course. In connection with Mr. Porter’s boat
as well as several others which have not yet been tried out, the question of speed is a matter of much interest. Late last season there were a few exciting races among the smaller launches and more or less speculation as to just how fast these little launches were. During the winter Frank C. Plaisted, who owns one of the fastest and most serviceable boats on the river, conceived the idea of laying out a mile course on the river, so with the assistance of Cobb Bros. of Brewer such a course was carefully measured on the ice and permanently marked. The course is a statute mile, 5,280 feet,
and extends from a point off High head up river. In order to ascertain the exact speed of a launch by means of this course one should make the trial at extreme high water when the tide is neither ebbing or fl owing or time his boat at other times both ways of the course and fi nd the average. Information in regard to the course and the marks which determine it can be secured at Cobb Bros. yard in Brewer or from Mr. Plaisted. Lest some yachtsman, who believes his boat is reasonably fast, should be disappointed at the result of the trial, it should be stated that most of the remarkable speed stories which reach here from places at a distance are either exaggerated or apply to freak models which are built with a view to speed alone and are useless for cruising. Mr. Bryant’s Undine is very fast, yet her owner says that she makes but little better than ten miles an hour. A launch, of the smaller type, which shows a speed of eight miles an hour and is built along comfortable lines, ought to be regarded as speedy. In other states there are many mile courses for the benefi t of launch owners
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