The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-17
TRIIL OF INDIANA.
The New Battleship Made an Excellent
 showing.

ship Indiana was given a preliminary run over the official trial course to- day and so successful was the trial
 that when the boat reached the upper
 end of the course MT Edwin S. Cramp
 decided that it was unnecessary to
 speed her back again. The Indiana got under way at S:30 a. m, from Bos-
 ton light and started down the bay
 to Cape Ann. At S:45 the ship was
 going ahead at full speed, and when about seven miles from the starting
 line the forced draft was turned on.
 The course was from Cape Ann to
 Boone Island, a distance of 31 knots
 and was marked by six can buoys at
 an equal distance apart of 6,2 knots.
 The starting point was crossed at 1O:3O.
 1O:55, the speed between the two buoys
 being fifteen knots. The third buoy
 was passed at 11:20, the speed between
 the second and third buoy being 151
 knots. The fourth can was alongside
 at 1l:43, the speed between the third
 and fourth being 15.75 knots. The fifth
 buoy was passed at 12:07, the speed
 between the fourth and fifth being 1564.
 The sixth and last buoy was passed
 at 12;32 the speed between the fifth
 and sixth being 15:17. The average
 speed for the run up was 15:31.
 Although the Cramps expected to do
 fftnnrn
 than pleased with the showing she
 made on the run. The tide was run
 ming against her rather fast and cut
 off by a4 of a knot. There were two par
 ticularly noticeable things developed
 in the run. One was the absolute ab-
 sence of the usual vibra tion the
 powerful engines of big ship make and the other was the bow wave cast
 off by the ship. The torpedo tube in
 the bow threw up quite a wave, but the bow of the boat itself cleft cleanly through the water and the lateral
 waves, instead of extending many feet on each side of the ship did not extend
 much further than fifteen feet, and
 then they converged sharply inwards and clung to the vessels side, leaving
 no side wave at all
 When MT. Cramp found that the ship had done so remarkably well on the run
 up he concluded not to push her on the way back. The forced draft was taken off and eighteen minutes were consum- ed in turning. The ship passed the first buoy on the return al 2:15, and she logged back at an easy average speed of 13.3 knots, passing the last buoy on the return trip at 3:l3. The engines of the Indiana are, with one exception, the finest that have ever been turned out by the Cramp company The engines of
 the cruiser New York were the most perfect that had ever been previously built by the Cramps, and those of the | Indiana worked as well as did those of | the New York on her trial trip. The engines ran as smoothly as if they were engines ran as smoothly as if they | had been working for months and not | the slightest heating of any of the cross heads or journals was observed. The | average revolutions of the screws on the run up was 12S and the maximum 131. | The steam pressure was 159 pounds and | the air pressure in the fire room was one inch of water. Ninety-two hundred horse power was developed. This is ] 200 more than the amount for which the engines were designed.
 1 The run of the Indiana from Philadel- l phia to Boston in the nasty head seas she met and this run under high pres
 sure vindicated the title of American naval constructors and American ship wrights as the best in the world. For eign critics have declared that the In diana would be top heavy and that she would roll herself to death in any sort l of a sea.
 l Never were prophecies more complete | 1y refuted. The Indiana, with the heav-
 jest weight of armor and guns above wa 1 ter of any ship in. the world, rides the seas like yacht. The sea was smooth, 1 but the long swell that is always felt on the ocean, was running. To those
 standing on the deck of the ship there was no more motion perceptible than is | felt in crossing a river on a ferry boat 1 The Indiana anchored a night off Bos- ton light.
 1 Thursday the boilers and grates will | be given thorough cleaning and on Friday the official run will be made. | In to-day's run the best handpiclled l Pocahontas coal was used. Although none of those connected with the boat 1 will make any claims it is not unlikely | that she will do sixteen knots on her of ficial trial.