The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-30

the kind in the world, will be rs follows:
Feet. Inches
Length over all ,................... l2S
Length on load wnier linc-........,.... ll5 D
Beaui, nodded. ,....... ........... ~ .
Beam, over plating .-.........,.......,. 70
Bcain, over all ..,..... ~ IL
beam, on load water line ............- 10 (?
Deep load, drnught cNtrcmc--...... 10 y
Depth nodded At frame 42......- IA g
Tons
Displacement 10 load water line S5i
Displacement per inch, at same...-............ 81
The hull will DO steel throughout, with
high free board, and OF extra strength and
stiffness 10 Withstand the vibrations Of the
machinery when the vessel is driven at
her utmost speed. The Lighthouses will
te OF iron and all exposed equipments and
windows on deck will have steel guards or
shields, so that the vessel will be able 10
60 right up TO a burning pier and stay
there fighting the fire. Six travelling fire
screens will be put in which can be moved
along the rail into any position, and DO.
hind those firemen can remain and direct
the play pipes.
There will DO four fixed water towers
with swivelled MOBILES, and each will be
capable OF throwing stream four inches
in diameter for distance oil over four
hundred feet In any direction ut will.
following hose connections
On tho forward headers or freplugs,
twelve 81 inch, two . inch gates or hose
couplings. o.
On each OF the two side headers, six 81
inch aud one q inch gates.
On each of the two hftcr headers four
! Inch and one inch gates.
The boat will be equipped with every
.gl....
the water fronts and for distance OF two
thousand feet In shore.
In lis elaborate account Of this "Sa'a-
mander to Fight Fires" the New York
Herald snys
alt IL u question as 10 whether the Firc
| Department officials are themselves fully
alive TO the capabilities 81 this new boat.
She will be nothing more nor less than q
collection Of silent geyscfS, scientifically
arranged aud ready 10 be SGT oil in any d.
reciion at any time.
"Sho will be stationed at the Battery In
readiness to respond Instantly 10 alarms
from either the tast or North Rivers, and
IL IL calculated that she can easily run IA
/ far M Forty-sccond street on either river
inside OF twenty minutes, reckoning her
speed at twenty miles an hour. which she
is intended TO log. Her pumps are TO be
10 arranged that they will work indcpcnd-
entity Of each other, and all or n portion OF
them may be used nj one time. Hence,
Chief Bonner, who Is enthusiastic over the
boats possibilities, says her pumps will
never be out OF service. as ono set may b.
repaired II necessary while the others or,
In action.
"By means Of her steam steering gear
which will throw her ruddcr from one ex
IRENE 10 the other In an incredibly shor
space Of time, the vessels motion can b,
directed almost as readily M those Of I
rowboai, while her eight-ioot after scrcv
propeller, travelling on n knucklc jIin
from tho main shalt and affixed 10 III,
ruddcr, winging with Il, will greatly a'
sis, her In feeling her way among hi !
aud In narrow slips by these appliance,
the vessel may be turned comp.eiel'
around In her own length. II is said. o
be made 10 move swiftly either backward
or forward along tortuons channel.
"lmagine the fire steamer entering up0l
the scene Of a fire where two river pier
are ablaEc, one on either side OF her. 81
would charge into the slip with her crey
Of twenty men, each at his post, and ri
the word n continuous volley Of waite
s,reams-thousands o. gallons per minut
would be projected from what may b
STYLED port holes, extending along he
ratings, from stem 10 stern, on both side
OF the ship. Her appearance then woul,
not be unlike that OF n man-oi-war In nc
ton, water being substituted for powder
All Of tho vessel being steel there will
nothing 20 take fire. AMI there will b. n
Lighthouses In the way 10 hamper III
work OF the fircmcn.
"In coming 20 closer action the grca
swivel nozklcd stand pipes on deck will b
brought into use. lloso connections ca
be made nj the port holes 10 carry stream
far away up the piers. The stand. DipC
will throw water In any direction. on
being placed on top OF the plloi-hOuse In
position that will enable the firomen
look over ordinary obstacles aud 20 dire,
! their work iniclligcnlly
"Chici Bonner says that two 81 the vel
sells pumps will each iofco Eve inch Hireal
, n distance OF 900 feet through those nozzl,
! or 5000 gallons Of ynor per minute
, These figures show thai tho two pumT
would discharge fifty t6hs Of water In sixl
minutes. A pretty good IRE II must NEED
DO 10 stand up long before them. Noihin
like this service IL knOgn 10 the Chic
i who says the pumps Nlll be- the large
! ever constructed for SUIT purposes for az
, city.
J CAS- the ere RIGGS hol,ef and hotter III
new boat will not have % flee 10 a dislan,
for safety. The big non screens, whic
are arranged 10 travel aljng her rails, wi
! be slid into their placct, nhd behind the
shelter tho hrcincn will pursue the
labon. These screens ap 70 be OF ~
thickne@cs Of metal, with an air spa'
: between, and their adoption on the ne
; boat u another stride 10 the art Of hgh
ing fire.
"And finally when the fro becom'
unbearably hot, 20 that both men or boz
8 begin 10 suffer, there remain the spra
pipes about The vessels jeek 10 be Gale
Into use. These arc 20 designed that
win he tho matter Of a moment 10 drcnc
the ship with fine spray from stem
, stern, cooling the heated metal work
the craft and making The lot Of the ir
men happier one.
, Looking at the now boats fire hghtlf
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