The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-19
BUILDING THE BOAT.
Morans Actively Engaged on the
Government Contract.
NAVAL INSPECTORS COMING,
Site Selected for the Yard and Piles
Driven for Workshop-A Fiye-Fooe
Model 10 Be Made.
NAVAL INSPECTORS COMING.

There are many signs Of coming activity
IN and about Moran Bros foundry, and
Drepzrauons are making for the beginning
OF work on the government torpedo boat.
Assistant Naval Constructor Spear. who
IS To have charge OF the inspection Of the
hull. is expected today. and already mail
has been received for him here forwarded
from Mare Island. Assistant Engineer
W. w. Bush. who has been detached from
the torpedo boat Gushing. VIII have charge
OF the inspection OF the machinery, and in
a letter received BY Robert Moran yester-
day stated that his relief was due at New
port, r. /. November IS. and that he ex-
pected TO be westward bound two days
later. Engineer Bush IS well known in
this city. as he was here in the SOS as one
or the engineers TO locate the Seattle, Lake
Shore & Eastern railroad.
Mr.. Moran Is busily engaged at present
arranging the preliminaries for building
up ship yard. I'VE are now making our
orders for material" he said yesterday,
but while il is on the way here we Will
go forward with the construction of nee
essary buildings. Our office is nearing
completion. and today I assigned 10 the
upper floor. which will be used as a draft
ing room, l. II. McMurtrie and l.. l.. Me-
Allaster. Mr.. McMurtrie, who IS TO have
charge of active construction in the yard,
is an experienced man ar the business, and
ment OF the MARYLAND Steel Company, at
Sparrow Point. Md. Formerly he was
connected with the Columbia Iron Works
and Dry Dock Company, at Baltimore
and has taken part in the construction OF
several vessels OF the present navy. At
present he is working on drawing of tor
pedo boat No. s, as the vessel TO be built
by US has been called. made on scale of
three-quarters of an inch 10 the foot, and
showing the lines. Mr.. McAllaster. naval
architect of this city. will supervise the
drawing office work.
I'VE have decided to locate the main
building directly south OF the foundry. Ii
viii face east and west. and the torpedo
boat win be put I'D just TO the west OF the
building, and viii be placed on a launch
ing grade Of three-quarteTs of an inch TO
the foot. We have already driven all the
piles for the foundation Of the new build
ing. with the exception of fifteen or
twenty. and we stopped that part Of the
work because our supply of piles gave out.
Another boom viii ARRIVE tomorrow,
when the remainder Of the piles will be
driven.
THE upper part OF the main building
Will be used as a mould loft. in which plans
of the vessel will be laid down full siZe
and all the frames viii be made from the
mould loft plans. The plans will be so ac-
curate that they Will not deviate from the
torpedo boat when at last il has been built.
On the lower floor will be furnace thirty
feet in length, to be used for heating the
frames. and directly IN front of the fur
mace door will be a bending table 25x5o
feet and made Of fifty sections each five
feet square. We have already made three
Of these sections. The frames will be
heated in the furnace until the softened
iron will bend like a whip lash. and then
they Will be taken from the furnace,
logged down on the table, and by means
of a series of movable pegs will be bent as
desired.
I'm the pattern shop we are about 10
complete a model of high and intermedi-
ate pressure cylinders for one of the en-
giues. and we will also build a model of
the torpedo boat, its length TO be five feet
Probably sixty days will elapse before all
these preliminaries have been completed,
but by that time we will have a ship yard
well equipped, and the work will go stead
ily en- until the contract is completed