Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-21
THE MONTEREVS SECOND TRIAL,
Engines Of the Coast Defense
Ship Again Tested.
Net Single Hitch in the Working of
Her Machinery.
Tho Only Fault Found Is the Flooding
Of the Deck When Under Rapid
Headway-The Contractors
Well Satisfied.
By the Asso ciated Press.l

BY the Associated Press.l
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20.--The new
coast defense vessel Monterey was given
her second trial run on the bay today
preliminary to her official trial trip,
which is expected to occur within few
days. No attempt was made to force
the engines to their full power. though
greater speed was developed and for q
greater length Of time than during the
preliminary run yesterday. The Monte
rey was under way today for FIVE houra
and during the greater part OF that time
the furnaces were worked under forced
draft and the engines made an average
OF 130 revolutions per minute, the
maximum being 1856. There was not a
hitch in the machinery at any time dur
ing the run. The engines worked
smoothly in every particular, and there
was no occasion to slow down or de-
crease the power they were developing
Tor the purpose OF making adjustments
or alterations.
No effort was made to obtain an ac-
vessel developed, owing to the fact that
the question OF speed does not enter
into the requirements of the contract
between the government and the Union
iron works, the chief requirement being
that the vessel shall develop 5400 horse
power. A patent log was in use during
part of the run, and several observa-
tions which were made by means of it
fu1ioak tod anooI of hokuoop 10 md I Q
knots per hour. Shore bearings were
also taken, but were not regarded as
accurate. These indicated greater
speed, the highest estimate being 14.2
knots.
The run today had partly the appear.
ance of an official trial, owing to the fact
that all the members of the naval board
who will conduct the official trial were
on board.
The members of the trial board are
Rear Admiral George Brown, Captain
Louis F.. Kempf, Chief Engineers Geo.
f. Kutz, j oseph Trilley and George j.
Burnap, Lieutenant Commander Edwin
@. Pendleton, Lieutenants James W..
Carlin, r. F. Nicholson and George w.
Dinfeld and Assistant Naval CoHstruc-'
tors David W. Taylor and Albert W.
Stahl.
The members OF the board OF naval
engineers who will take the data upon
which the computations for horse power
will be made were also aboard today,
with the exception of one officer,
Chief Engineer George w. Magee.
The members of the engineer
board who were on the Monterey were
chief engineers George F. Kutz, Joseph
Trilley, George j. Burnap, Albert G.
Engard and Robert w. Mulligan );
Passed Assistant Engineers Charles p.
Howell, William Row botham, George
d. Strickland, William P. Dunning,
Howard Gage, Andrew M. Hunt and
Thomas IF. Carter, and Assistant En-
gineers Scion Arnold, Emil Theiss and
William G. Herbert.
The contractors were represented by
Henry 7. Scott, president of the Union
iron works; Expert Engineer w. X.
Eckart, Chief Engineer Robert For
syth and E. T. Morris. Nl
The vessel was in command OF Cap
tain Charles Winan Goodall, with Will
lam Field as first officer, both Of whom
served in the same capacities on the
trial trips of the cruisers Charleston and
San Francisco. i
The vessel left her moorings about IL
O'Clock and headed for a point between
Goat island and the San Francisco side
of the bay. By the time she had passed
the eastern end of Goat island her.en-
gines had been worked up to over 100
revolutions, which gave her an estimat-
ed speed OF 10 or IL knots. She soon
began to show that her low free board
was calculated to make it decidedly un-
comfortable on the forward deck. The
water commenced to run over her bow,
andlit grew in volume as the speed was
increased, until right at the point Of
her bow there was asteady stream pour
ing on her three feet above the deck.
She was heading for Red Rock then,
with clear passage way, and the en-
giries continued to work faster and fast
or, until they attained an average of 1870
revolutions. With the engines working at
this rate the volume of water which
was pouring over her bow increased un-
til there was torrent rushing over the
forward part OF the deck for distance of
80 or 40 feet back Of the hawse pipes.
The wave submerged the flagstaff in the
bow to point four or five feet above
the deck, but the depth OF the wave rap
idly decreased as the water rushed over
the hawse pipes. The main volume OF
water was just at the point of the bow
where the ,hawse pipes, covered by inn
mense iron hoods, are located, and these
with the large anchors which were se-
cured on both sides OF the hawse pipes,
formed breastwork which caused the
water to bank at that point. The wave
was broken up before it reached within
10 feet Of the forward turret and ran of
the sides without caueing any food near
the turret, though there were email
streams running along the sides for q
considerable distance back Of that point.
The bay was smooth and the vessel
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