The morning call., 1892-12-29
IN: ROUGH WATER.
Another. : Day of Trial for
{. ;. 81: !. the Monterey.
HER BOILERS BEHAVED WELL
She e.Will Ge On the Drydock To-Day
= !; !. : TO Have the Pitch of Her Pro-
=. 70: :..........:: :: !. |:-< pellers Altered.

:: ANOTHER: Of. the preliminary trials Of tie
q 1coast: I'd defense vessel Monterey was made :,
Yesterday with. results that proved her ex-
-:celleht qualities under different conditions
= from til Csc of the. fore Z ding zones. -.
=: SHE started from The. nion ,Ifon Works
: soon: after 10 O'Clock in:tiie morning and
Return ed about ha}f-past four in the after
noon, During this interval she made four
complete revolutions of the course from
!: Hunters Point to. Red Rocks or a total dis
tance of nnety-six hiNes..a -: Il
-: SO: successful had been her performance
on: Monday last that the contractors had
:. Geternined 10 turn her: over to the Gov
2. .ernnent: local board for an official trial
! Yesterday. y.*but after steaming for three
J: h ours they decided that it would be forcing
IN alters more: than was necessary, and that
II would be best to defer the final test until
= later day.
=. There. was more of a swell than was ex-
peTlenced ON the prior trials ana the bay
- was rot as smooth as on former occasions.
:" a. shghtteSt was, therefore. possible as TO
the action of the cruiser during rough
weather or in high Sea, and, as there was
:: a considerable swell entering through the
: Golden. Gate. careful observations were
made as Ito her actions under such circum-
: .stances.:- - - :.
:, a swell, OF aboutl0 degrees was observed,
= which was aceentuated somewhat from the
high speed at which the Monterey was
.. driven The action Of the vessel under
these circumstances indicated her perfect
: adapta bHity TO weather ordinary swells
For several hours; the speed of the pro-
pellers, was kept up to above $50 revolutions.
Decas 0nallY this was exceeded, but it was
.. determined not to force the speed until the
machinery had good chance of warming
- up, :or,.in other words of adjusting itself.
"A greater number of revolutions could
easily have been. made. as the steam pro-
: duced in the boilers was at all times far in
: excess of the amount con sumed. The ma
= chinery worked beautifully aud with per-
= feet smoothnesS. and not heated bearing
nor the slightest accident was observed dur
ing the six or more hours that the Monterey
:. was under way. - -
=: Notwithstanding her brilliant perform
g. ances tile experts of the contractors decided
to pcs tpone the official trip and MAKE some
alterations before suOjeetihg the vessel to
the hpal and decisive trials. They have
: decided to alter the pitch of the two pro-
peileTs and to decrease it from their pres
ent slope AS speed Is not an element of
- the trlal and the total Of horse power de-
;Yeloped by the engines is the important
factor. they have made up their minds to
Monterey will be placed upon Hunters
Point drydock to-day and the four blades
- OF each propeller taken of and altered a.
:. designated. This will necessitate a cessa-
ton OF the preliminary trials. her, the
- alteration to the propelleTS is completed an
ether preliminary trial Will be made and
then the official trials will begin.
:: Yesterday speed of fourteen Knots was
maintained for several hours. Owing to
the swell on the bay the waves over the
bow was FIVE feet in height during the
greater part Of the time, but this body of
water cleared the deck long before the
=. forward turret was reached There was
.alsGa wave that arose about foot over
=. the stern caused from the action of the
pro Dellers.
- Henry T. Scott, George Dickey and W.
f. Prescott of the Union Iron Works
accompanied the Monterey. and the entire
othclal board was present The express
- sions OF the board were guarded, but they
were evidently pleased with the way the
:: Monterey was aetiDg-espeeialiv so with
: the manner the Ward tubular boilers were
= behaFingi Steam was gotten up in them in
;: lone hour and main tanned at pressure of
- .16O pounds during the entire day. 1t
r requires atieast three hours to get up steam
IN an ordinary boiler. so that the per-
, fOrmance of the Ward was ensidered an
astonishing success.
The displacement Of the vessel was 40O7
tons, tfi1e over the requirement. and her
mean draft was ID feet inches. She was
weighted down in the sternin order to make
her Steer. better and also TO decrease the
amount of water which pours over her bow
WHEN SIZE IS running al Dl80 speed. a
quantity of pigiron aud coal was piled on
the after deck and this weight gave her a
freeboaTd of about forty inches forward
and twenty inches aft,
This improved her steering wonderfully,
and also probably had the effect of keeping
the water down forward, as the wave which
came over her bow, with the engines max
ing $50 revolutions. was not much higher
than that of a week ago with the engines
making T30 revolutions.
The average height of the wave at the
very point of the bow was five feet above
the deck, but occasionally the water was
piled up foot higher than that, though the
depth rapidly decreased as the water flowed
\ toward the forward turret and ran off the
sides. Considerable disadvantage was ex-
perienced from the fact that the vessel had
lot free course Of deep water on which
TO run.
AS before stated, the vessel will 90 on the
" drydock, and the present pitch of the pro-
pellers, which is Il 15 feet, will be decreased
10 about II 12 feet The blades of the pro-
Dellers are so attached that this alteration
can be made without difficulty, and with
but little delay.
The Monterey will probably come off the