The Osceola times., 1886-09-18
UBMARlNE BOATS.
Wonderful Engines for the Blowing Up OF
from Clad War-Vessels.

Wonderful Engines for the Blowing Up ot
from Clad War-Vossels.
The Goubet submarine torpedo boat
is Of iron, 10 feet b inches long, 8 feet
3 inches wide, andj feet l0l inches
deep, including the lookout dome
The weigh, Of the boat, with its water
reservoirs empty and without the crew,
is 3,19j pounds Q,45o ktlograms), and
its displacement when submerged is
1906 pounds in sea water GS0O hters).
Its buoyancy is, therefore, $50 pounds,
and the boat is submerged by the weight
OF the crew and the water admitted to
the reservoir
Each man requires about 400 liters
(ourtecn cubic fgcD Of air per hour.
To provide for this a reservoir contains
air at a pressure of fifty a,mosphcres, in
sufficient quantity TO last the crew of
two men for ten hours. The clrbonic
acid and other acids are absorbed by
chemicals, and an air pump expeIs the
foul air.
To drive the boat at It's maximum
speed of > knots power of y kilo-
grams l.553 IL. P.) is srelGircd, and may
be furnished by q Siemeu- motor, work.
inc from accumulatoys. CThiS would
necasstatea weight Of 1000 pounds for
motive powor)
There is no rudler. but q universal
Joint i'm the screw shaft permits the
screw 10 move through an arc of 50 de-
grccs on each side.
In submarine boats IL is essential that
the trim should be very exact rs other
wise the motive power might cause the
boat to jump out of water or dive 10
unsafe depths. To maintain the trim in
the Goubct boat there is q water-tank
at each end of the boat connected with
a doublo-acting pump, which draws and
delivers in opposite directions, accord
inc to the direction of motion Of its
operating shaft This shaft ends in a
crown wheel, which may gear with
either of two wheels on a shaft at right
angles To the first. and revolving CON
sfantlv in the same direction As long
as the boat remains with It's axis hor-
izontal, The pump is motionless, but on
auy change of the axis a pendulum
throws the pump into gear with one Of
the two wheels on the second shaft and
water is pumped from the lower to Che
higher tank, bringing the boattoa q level
axis.
The torpedo is carried outside the
| boat and is secured by. bayonet-catch
controlled from the inside. On arriving
under the enemy the torpedo Is released
and rises by its reserve of buoydncy un-
/ I'll il catches on the vessels bottom by
/ spikrs. with which its upper surface IS
provided. The torpedo boat then with
| draws, maintaining its connection with
the torpedo by unrccling wire. Wien
| the boat is at safe distance the torpedo
is exploded. -
The boat is also provided with a small
torp,do, which, whom released, rises TO
| the surface and eNplodes. forming sig
nal which, by It's noise and the color OF
| IFS flame, calls attention TO the boat and
indicates the depth at which it IS Inc
torpedo may also carry up telephone
| wire.
A LARGE weight is attached to the bot
tom of lhe boat by screw aud nut and
NAV be released at any time, thus per
hitting the boat to rise.
In case the motor breaks down there
is an arrangement for working two
oars. which habtually trail alongside.
Thcso oars fold longltudinally. When
| in use they open at the stroke and close
at the recover.
~ attach a vessel the boat proceeds
alone the surface until it Is thought
necessary to dive, whom the captain d.
reefs the boat at the enemy by the sigh'
yapc: the other maintains the course by
compass. and the boat sinks by ann l.
ting water to the tanks.
II +, stated 800 Of these boats were
ordered for Russia in 1881, and that nifty
were delivered in 1888. The early form
of the boat was driven by manual power
-Nmitcll GG.rtc.
In China twopeople OF the same sur
name are forbidden TO ntcrmarry' lna'
.nst he hard on the Chinese Smitr