The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27 00:00:00

"IRON DUKE."

'RE

etorily

1 Monday's Times.)
. caused the greatest alaohape
and fear
eear.
ter Majesty'sship IronD
bout ten o'clock the ship steamed out
bato the Sound, and at once proceeded
for a trial cf her machinery. When
outside the breakwater, and
inndtilehe,
• to run over the mere
volume of
Acur or five knots,
alto the stoke-hole athlraoruggeohn thneotmyainet
from some reason Iti-No: the
calls/
ee)rplained, had becom,eii_owpne.b. At the
Informa-
nt Wka at , Ot the inrush was nrlic e if3hlNri ii-o.nce sent to the officer of thaenwdactcahptaanind
4,l4eQeld, o.ileY, Commander I'. A Y
the steam Reserve, in whose charge
the time, were speedily on the lower
cre,,,
.400n-rece
orcie w, who were wat dinner at the time, re
p and close watertight
,111„,141i),,414
menont,Vigthpplim- 3 left their messes with
'"'• re ' /'cres i• --- occurred in consequence
Alot aey of „B ight confusion
..
% a 4etb
~,,ie crew having just joined and the sta-
minutes or
Tikte eing thorou hi known. In ten
,_
umps
tl, be nt t‘lf an hour,g however, all the hand -pumps
,
onth indeek, the lower deck, and Zeedii,r'e,locra flats, main
watertight doors were ',,t-'iletr,likd" 41:•aes_d ; they ° worked easily, having b
, the f,Ahipa i2;?hanaon with the watprcteigthhtedsoinorskinogfeaoll
beti!eng,l44 na.r:bour and doctkesirun
tai4'eeiici tile d'oult
e. Directly after h
bouft ptzta on it
eze 3rcingine was
eworked,w
The ork i n 0_,,, of wtthhaeet_ewhr a_ant was
edr-
Il ttt 4: ti AB4 ereZZ(lfteo have little effect, and by this time
bf th;:lt the
eL'vr the stoke-hole plates,
th
, and
nd
detoheloitln
lower
Irne. So alarming w
ike..lPlap,s',
,ol?e time that the .
Vis4l Le,.1.1114,1ng '' to the BlackPnlnrcoel,l
8/.441 'PI "4, 'John Hay, second
in
clmnaand
the uffkaeg shmipadoef
,ok IV- 'Ret, which was lying in the Sound.
of the
ifee,./Ite ittnweae.r_cPeated. the signal to Mount Wise,
Vh.ggirea ~,,!tmlinrupicated to the dockyard officials.
'617,4t hetid:fe sPeedily taken to send out relief that
111/41`, revoke.Pii, befpre the tugs had started the Iron
ikti,'l thi, v't tce signal The cause of the accident
to
nlcer ,s_" rce been discovered, and an engineroom
ktoutitlt' N. 794 UP to his waist in :wf aant_ehrao,numdr,apnuamgepda
tlifeTell voYrE,‘l.ve. This was after the h
the 41 bee 4thg about a quarter odi
,Irkive 11 delayed but a very few minutes laonndgeifr
tevie4ll dowenclutido ()TY have been
would
dd
hbayrdsloymehoanvee
of ttiatteriapted i , . and this the e Rood,_ • With the discovelrynnof
uetahseedcabuuset
waterrietke3,:eciag
il,al, the ship all area
hte,i betietql threge ' l had
d the ship of
not cleared
y whicheatime the Iron Duke
liet:ll4,):74:girtti,:eticlualt. ae\(oltkeihtStohu;
time
Of course, the
e the signal "Sink-
totrial
ell L. ett it
.01 rs were givenctorfierewdasistress guns,
no powder
ell -I;o}4rd do'!_olscovered that h Oki iWder aud',B% Before a ship goes ienrt.o the harbour
ell are taken out ofh
'lZl„l,Bllll:aivsjilliig,t,,he Port she does not take powder
her; and when a
he"' 1' ialto tl'ics Sound, and as le e
_th Iron Duke went ti.ll°t )te.l ,!! Channel, the taking in of her powder
4 day. ill after her return into the Sound later
Ilaval circles it is
believed that
a hat
ship
ead to a rule being issued for
_re
die.
I board sufficient powder to ii
le Birrck Prince and Besistance had not
the Iron Duke would have found
Acult, if not impossible, to have
41" i known to the dockyard authorities.
a
. es.
s .tron Duke had its "Sinking
"flying
Black
.` !111 hour before it was seen by
remembered that the crte he
w of the
ra"Ouard was turned over to the IronDuke,o
r
when the alarm was raised,
,me u e
wr
-no had only been served out with
raorning, and learning experience from the
put on their new clothes and placed
..• When the accident first htFedporde°lr
pa ki,i,e..; Were speedily stopped, and when
breakwater
0:44 ff,,_'_,; rnove the ship in towards the
e. 4 ve,,:140L that the port engine could not be started
t'e consider bl t. On the
he: --;9llainted.
'Ad ~,-'e crew w a e time.
' quarters, and were
e!-e ordeFed to q way into the
When the water
kat tit, Le.
.with their_stations.
to ki:fillpt.: a was noticed that the Iron Duke be-
cirsely aathe Vanguard did when she began
No,
litatorot
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Qf Tuesday, referring to the above, says :-
14,t which hm been published with respect to
Iler Majesty's ship the Iron Duke was
(IsY last was so extraordinary that further
the' been Made, and it has been found that there
weLlst, doubt that the Iron Duke, from causes
' great danger, that for a quarter of An
t1,"4 for assistance, and that the people on
orsome time know the cause of the overflow
4 the extent of the danger to which they were
,I,Dears that the condensers got heated in c0n-
,21 said of the improper fitting of the slides
'u„,,Cyder to cool them the bilge injection was
ti)ls caused an overflow Into the overflow
r course, admitted the water into the bilge.
b one of the escape valves gave way through
ecg weak, and also admitted a considerable
?titer. An order was then given to close the
Which, of course, necessitated the stopping of
le Water had by this time reached the stoke-
• the signal was hoisted "in want of inarne-
,
4 clilatter:e." The 40-horse pump was then set to work,
ot an hour succeeded in reducing the
e'neaPe and the e 1 e valves were then rectified,
vrcould---"°n be again opened, and the
isn now said that the hand pumrs,
water, and that it was after the
1,• would not work for the purpose of clearing
the hands were engines were
m called to an them in order that
(cy might be tested.
and the engines stoWppheedn,
d i •• t was in consequence of this that the signal for
ilassistance was made It is t
the ship will
the Klrtnongsten Dukevalviv valves
W&3
qt? thought dock at Keyharn in order that the valves may
eXamined.

t of the Standard, writing from
Monday, says:
of circumstances connected with the
_ on Duke on .a.turday, when ur.dergoing
" Plsmouth Sound, has been exaggerated.
the commander-in-chief at Davenr.,,rt,
lies to be made into the nature of the
facts are as follows :—During the trial it
surface zondensers of the Iron Duke's
woi king properly, and an in j e ct,r was
Ay more water. The result of this extra
tpring of the hot well, which was defec-
and hence a quantity of water-issued into
Was increased by an Overflow from the
,Water which then entered the bilges-
such a flat-bottomed vessel to rise to
Stokehole, and on this being seen the
(idl but three of whom are new to the
led the engine, and cut of all the out-
'
lhe stoppage of the engines naturally
One result of this was that the water
anct another that a signal was made
stance at once," This of oourse, as the
'no means justified, and perhaps the
that the distress signal is one easily
on board had cause to remember
the. The signal was repeated by the
station at Mount Wise, but before
acted upon, and certainty very long
been, possible to send out tugs, it was
,
on board the Iron Duke, the hand-
out were not used, and the 40. horse
work. Before, however, it could get
had to be let flow into the drain pipe,
'aped out in three or four minutes.
slightest danger. Instead of the
' until the Iron Duke was in the
her trial, her engines working
;o. When she returned to the
signal station at Mount Wise
ti signalled, in reply, that her

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