Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-10
NV STEAMSHIP OREGON.

steamship Oregon, building
'ua .hs Gaion Line Of transatlantic
~ =. r;ll bs the largest. most costly,
e'',, y s,,obably fastest ship in the service
- -. msrcantila world. A partial de-
lotion Of her, as follows IS gwen by
Is anticipated that she will be
=. 81, y her trial trip about midsum-
rads ~ ua she is intended tn excel in
~, au .hs fastest ship now aioat. She
p'so ~. ha much larger than tue Alaska.
vi W. anoines are to indicate no less
h' hs1 Gn1 horse power. She will have
ssan losc screy. as we understand. about
- ~. ~. in diameter, with pitch OF near
a.S.s; - ssst Steam will he supplied by Y
FpIeesa saeh with furnaces 3 feet 6
nlsisd diameter. the CRATES being a lit
ncass ars, 6 feet long. We may compare
70 o'V. m,,b the Alaska, which ship has s
~ Nv. W." vith 6 furnaces each, of about
po a,,e size. Comparing CRATE areas,
w "a ~ that the aggregate surface IN the
noon a will be l.5i2 square feet, divld.
v's Y su,onc ~ furnaces, while that OF
Z (. Alaska is 1,l34, divided among 81
sanaces. - As the Oregon Will burn
ul1 N lhs. of op,l per square foot
= crate Der hour, her consumptlon 10 "a
wl,, not be much under 300 tons,
~ ~ .lIowino that each ton of coal evap
~ 90 tons of water. we find that no
%o' :ass ,ban 3 100 tons of steam will pass
s,ouch her engines every "a hours. A
..rs 10 feet square. to hold 2,foo tons
.s.n Ina,sr must he nearly 10 feet deep to
s.s.ant ,be water from running over the
r rres n the tank were fifty feet square
~ wa.sr would stand 3S feet 10 inches
In in il. If the water were supplied
town allowing 4 cubic feet or %
s,llons rer head per dav,it would suffice
e. . nopuIation of 24,0O0 souls; 6. 90
sons OF air will pass through her fur
,acea representing a volume of lI4,-
NlOI) cubic feet through n pipe IL feet
i;nShes diameter. This volume of air
.onld flow at the rate of 13 8 miles per
honr a strong breeze to walk against.
iba total weight of water evaporated on
s1e rou across the Atlantic will not bs
q, short of three times that of the
whole ships cargo, engines and all. We
Gye these figures to enable onr reas;ers
toform soma idea of what 1900 horse
nver means; and we may supplement-
ihem by adding that it is equivalent to
lelIlTtons lifted foot high every min
ste. or the same weight lifted LAO feet
h q hours. Assuming that She makes
a knots an uour. or, omitting fractions.
a0.s feet per minute. the thrust of her
ereg-thst is to saw the force pushing
kr through the water-will amount to
oysr 81 tons. or about as much as 20 of
hs most powerful locomotive engines
d England would exert if all were pull
mo at her together. Among the other
diffrnltiaa which crop up when We have
b deal with such enormous powers AZ
these rlgures represent. we mention that
oi getting the coal to the fires. We see
hat in the case Of the Oregon no less
than 800 tons day. the full load for n
coal train of 80 trucks, will have to be
handled every ~ hours. IL the ship
we're at rest, the problem would not be
sasy Of solution, but it becomes very
hard indeed to deal with in rolling
and pitching vessel. All is done. Of
course, that can be done in arranging
boilers aud bunkers to Accommodate
each osher, but il is evident at a glance
that ont of total quantity of, say, 2.5N
tons sof coal, great deal must he slowed
N considerable distance from tho fur
naces 1t does not appear that any me-
chanical device has vet been hit on in
hs way of railway which an
mers better than the existing ar
mngements, by which the whole of the
work is effected by sheer manual labor"