The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-02-14
The Arcade-EGAN & co.
Have Opened
THE FASTEST STEAMSHIP IN THE
WORLD,
with the Finest Display OF Goods
ever shown in this Kingdom.

Captain Charlton, interviewed by
a reporter of the "Melbourne Tele-
graph" with respect to the extraor-
binary passage of the Ormuz from
London to Melbourne CT days CD
hours), is reported TO have said,
Eyes she is the fastest ship in the
world for long distances. There is
nothing afoat that can come up to
her, and this run will not be beaten
except by herself. And, mind you
this, she has made the passage under
singularly adverse circumstances,
for from the time we crossed the
equator until we reached here there
has been nothing but strong head
winds and high seas to fight against.
Well, yes, / did have instructions
about this voyage, of course. Every
commander has instructions. But
we started with the intention of
showing what was in the Ormuz, and
though we have made the fastest
passage, still, had not the weather
been so bad, we should have been in
Adelaide easily on Thursday morn
ing, instead of in the afternoon.
Then Captain Charlton goes into
figures. "You see it is simply an
equation between speed and coal. |
think in saying she is the fastest
ship anoat l made the reservation
for a distance. Now the Umbria
and the Etruria are the Atlantic
flyers, and for that voyage they
would beat me. But supposing they
came to Australia, and we started
level, they would go ahead and get
q long way in front. But after they
left Alden they would have to stop
here" (and Captain Charlton places
his finger on the chart at spot
somewhere in the middle of the In
dian OCEAN, "to coal. While they
were waiting l should pass them,
and get into port perhaps day OF
more before them. Now, we have
not taken any coal since we left
Alden, and we have covered Gill
miles since then. If the Umbria
tried that she would have to fill hel
holds with coal instead of cargo.
No, cannot tell you what coal we
burn, but you can make it out fol
yourself. We are $500 horsepower.
and the consumption is LIB. Gone
pound and six-tenths) per horse per
hour. This is very small-mucl
smaller than that in any large
steamer atloat. OF course, you un-
derstand that / mean that, taking
into consideration the power OBJ
tanned, the amount burnt is les
than on any vessel. The Admiralt,
experiments failed to bring the rat,
down lower than rs, so we hav
beaten that. With regard to tn
run, our best day, was on the 5t
November, when we recorded Az
miles for the "a hours. That wa
at the rate of seventeen ana hal
knots, but we kept up sixteen RICH
through the voyage. I will explain
what | mean by an equation between
speed and coal. After doing tina
40 we might have piled on the coal
and driven her hard, and if we hat
done so then we should have got t.
King Georges Sound perhaps twelv
hours before we could have obtaine,
fresh supply to go on with. s.
you see the whole thing is reduce,
to the very finest degree of nicely
You have to take everything unde
the sun almost into consideration
and proceed accordingly. After tina
big run, though, look how we fel
off Che points to the chart again
,, You see here $50, 1874, 339, 1927
= 354, 381, $40. That brings us t
J King Georges Sound. The hea
winds caused that falling off. Ism
; it enough? you ask. Certainly not
She is good for $50 miles day, an
she ought to do it, II we had any
: thing like luck"