Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-13
rHE QUESTION OF SHIPS.
forthe Growing Confidence
Ees",,nc Use of Auxiliary Steam
lh Power
New York Sun.

New 1Oih Gun
,ovoral weeks past rumors have
FOL ooting about the lower end of the
been h tSe effect that company of mer.
ely 10 ir been formed to build fleet
tlals, saiIing ships with small steam
Of lou' 20 shove them along when the
po"ggis or was adverse. No definite
VIVA , liars were given, and when mer-
lir. ntS we're questioned no one was able
tD 5Iaata the company. One merchant
@ lSTbo scheme is practical. A line of
IN si7p sailing ships, with moderate
DIsS mower. plying between New York
Ne 5 TiTIprpool. would prove a paying in
'1 ..a n,, but if that statement were
J s9n on the Maritime Exchange it would
R. iTb5 maritime people ought to know"
.yos but let me give you the figures. :"
tho merchant produced a very old
i in, tbe back pages OF which were
E Ssj With notes and calculations. Then
h. continued: =,
Perhaps | ought to modify my state
,nt by saving that feet of such YES
. li, nv,ing between American and British
Sl - would pay, because it might be
a,atimes advantageous to send to Balti-
s,ra or some other port for a cargo, but
Ionc as common sailing vessels can
,, ,r,S Grain and cotton out of this port
s Kim loss the modern sailing ship can
5t with great profit:
lc,ordng to Lieut.. Maury, ship
4 srnd TO Liverpool from New York is
,sbIed to lay her course for eighty-two
a,r rent of the time, and when on her
.4rrn passage she has fair winds sixty
nm npr cent of the time. The rest of the
ame she is obliged to tack by winds that
-ppither slant or dead ahead. The same
---boritv gives to the outward passages
hmm January to April, to ten degrees
r..t Of Cape Clear, 2,287 miles of fair
rnls. 469 miles of slant winds, and rs
8 niles dead ahead, and he gives a record
+ :. ships which covered the distance in
IN average of 10 DAYS and Is hours. 1t
Ia been calculated from this that these
Fins averaged the 2,2S7 miles in twelve
hS at eight knots an hour; that they
aael COG miles on a long log and a short
meat five knots an hour in five days to
aver the 400 miles by chart; that they
liked 2Ol miles at five knots an hour in
me dav and sixteen hours to cover the
y.1nty-six miles, and that they were
-almed twenty-siX hours. 1t is fur
.r calculated that out of the twelve
.D Of fair wind the ship averaged eight
N. sail at go knots an hour, during
tch time no steam was needed. With
,lerate steam power it is fair to pre-
me that, with light, fair winds the
gage ship would make seven knots an
u She could, therefore, cover the
miles, which would carry her to the
eth mile of her course in 215 days.
she would have 469 miles by chart
ant winds, which she could cover in
lays by sail and steam at seven knots
our, and if she were allowed four
5 in dead ahead winds she would
e the remaining IS miles of her
Tse in is hours, or in all IA days
i the passage instead of 1879. The
bragg OF the return voyages of those
ket ships under sail was thirty-two
f.. With moderate steam power it
Id have been reduced to seventeen,
beverage saving of time on a round
would be twenty days by steaming
een days on the round trip. In other
1ls the sailing ship which had the
T OF a tug on board of her would
lie as good time as half of the steam
summing out of this port. The cost
lsmoderate auxiliary power would
With properly constructed machinery,
- the value of six or eight tons of
turing each of the sixteen days she
emder steam. A small increase in
mmber of the crew would be neces-
y but the great saving in time, as
lTared with sailing ships, and of fuel,
compared with tramp steamers that
anywhere from thirty to forty tons
upward a day would more than make
3he difference. The carrying capacity
The sailing ship wovld be slightly re-
1et by the introduction of machinery
llsay hundred tons of coal for a pas
.a, but the capacity of the auxiliary
ding ship would be way beyond that Of
be tramp steamers. OF course the
HILLARY would receive the freight rates
-l to steamers after she had demon
sated ability to make steamer time.
The logs of thirty-seven old California
-lierS in 1852 showed an. average pas
ss%dl24 days from New York to San
.andeo. The Twenty-Five best pas
ages averaged III days. The average
3I American ships in 1850 was 1879
Ta but by examining the logs of these
%,5s1E found that by sacrificing, all
%-Mm for $50 tons of cargo, and the
~ 5T Pare Of it a moderate steam power,
Sr Usage could be reduced to seventy
~" ap5 eyenty-five days"
~, gly don't you do it, then?'
Ven with money cannot be made to
Iva mo the matter just now, but it has
Es1 done in several cases. There is the
4 Mendoza" Captain Tucker, which
SaH described long ago. She is now
sIs regularly between Buenos Ayers
aeT York, making the passage regu-
y .1 In less than forty days, or about
SllrdS Of the average sailing ship
a5e: She is very profitable invest
GT The Louis Buck'' built by Cap
'ames II. Woodhouse Of New Haven,
P99ftable coasting schooner. The
II4laS ted schooner "Jeanie" belonging
L. Winchester & Co., of this city,
Ogen making money for her owners
H4 C She was launched in February,
sn.: Inc Pacific whalers out of San
s ,Vyi'co are all fitted with steam now"
rna' has stood in the way of auXil-
T{o%er Tor the past eighty years 2"
sI,~ lack Of proper method of pro-
Ill.,; The ship. AT present a two
st screw that stands perpendicular
"e Sternpost, when not III use, is
rD 'SI device known. Commodore
proposes to use swinging, or per-
5jaS Gllng, doors to close the two
n Nav screw, when it is not in use, and
sc went all possibility of drag. There
c sUIu many shipbuilders coming to
M c s,nvus slon that auxiliary steamships
GoS T'' !; The freight of the future, and
oapSS r ulem are two of Baths best
H.. ~ her New Husband Can Do.