Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-22
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The ocean Steamers OF the Future.
New York Sun.
At the launching of the Aurania,
the last addition to the Cunard line,
Mr.. James r. Thomson, one of her
builders, made some predictions re-
garding transatlantic steamers of the
future. The changes and improve
ments he anticipated are not novelties
of which we have not before heard,
for all of them have been discussed of
recent years; but what MI. Thomson
said Is worthy of special attention,
since he Is one of The most successful
and most conservative of the Clyde
ship builders.
The first step in advance, he pre-.
dioted, would be twin screws instead
of the single screws. Next, instead
sixteen, seventeen and even thirteen
knot ships, we should have ships going
at q speed Of twenty knots an hour,
and these vessels weuld be for passen-
gers only. For the c~srrying,,of freight
steamers specifically adapted to that
work would be provided, and the pas.
senger steamers, unincumbered with
cargo, could be better fitted for speed.
The passenger steamers, Mr.
Thompson thought, would make so
per cent more trips than are now Gus.
tomary, and 80 earn for the companies
running them greatly increased profits.
They would, indeed, be Atlantic
ferryboats, which would not be de-
tained at the wharf by the loading and
unloading Of oargoes, but only Iorg
enough to get coal and supplies and
passengers aboard.
The Atlantic steamship of the fu-
ture, he also prophenied, would have
no masts, the twin machinery 80
largely increased the safety of the YES.
sci that the necessity for an auxiliary
propulsive power, such as sails, would
be no longer felt.
Finally, he thought that twenty
knots an hour would be the limit OF
speed with vessels of anything like
reasonable dimensions; that is, unless
some radical changes were made in
the method of obtaining the propelling
power E.S-EoS
Those are prophecies which even O
very conservative ship. builder can af.
ford to indulge In, for the indications
are thst we are rapidly proceeding tc
their fulfllment. The Alaska made
twelve round voyages last year, sew
eral of the runs out of New York be.
Ing made In a little over seven day.
each, and one of the return runs last
Ing only six days, eighteen hours ant
t~hirly-seven minutes. The Stirling
Castle, turned out last year by thu
same builders, Messrs. John Elder &
Co., has scored q speed of 18 4 knot,
an hour, and has proved herself tn
f~leetest vessel ever engaged In tn
, China tea. carrying trade. The speet
Of the channel steamers Brittany an,
Normsny is recorded at II 20 knots
. The North German Lloyds steame
I. Werra has attained a speed Of II Q
3 knots an hour. Still greater thing
are promised for the Oregon, of tn
), Guion line.
+" 1t will be seen, therefore, that al
n ready we have very closely ~approache
k the greatest speed that 1t Is practica
BILE to attain with our present machir
cry, according to DR.. Thompson.
is true that to attain the additions
70 two knots Is not an easy matter, but
., very difficult one. To do 1t we sha
need to push still further what hs
re already been slowly carried forwar
almost to the maximum, and to attai
10 the end there must be q separation b,
tween the freight and passenger steam
Of ers.
ly But such q separation would q
Q. more than contribute to the attaii
ment Of the additional speed, desire
or and practicable. 1t would tend to Il
III crease safety. There would not !
the excuse for neglecting safety pr
W cautions that there Is now, when pr
30 vision has to be made for the oarg
at In the passenger steamer, running
SO an enormous speed, the first requisi
10 Is to secure safety, and that this Q,
DO assured within reasonable limits
NJ not denied by ship wrights, though
he attain II more money than is now spe
n must be put In the ship, freights mu
ut be sacrificed and increased wAarfa
no incurred.
If A great step toward the desired en-
tic we believe, will be the building
is steamers for passenger carrying alon
nd But meanwhile we need an. intern
OF tional system of fog signals to prevel
n the collisions TO which so large a sha
re of the disasters to steamers at sea a
a due. Ocean travel Is far more per
a Gus than it ought to be at this peril
ne Of high development, and the DANCE
ID. incurred are due not to necessity, b
10, to the causes which are preventsble.
Dc. From the beginning of this year
1t. to the middle of February $50 shi
nd wrecks were reported, an Increase
cd l48 as compared with the oorrespon
re Ing period of 1882.
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