The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-11-14
BAr41ESHIp 1owA'S RECORD.
She Makes Trial Trip Averaging 1927
Knots an Hour.

Knots an Hour
Philadelphia, Nov. 1S.-The big sea-
going battleship Iowa returned here
this evening from her builders trial trip
off the Delaware Capes. The trial was
essentially an engineers trial to give
the ships builders an idea of the power
of the engines and the way in which
they worked and the speed developed
was a secondary consideration. Never
theless, on a two hours burst of speed
this morning the ship averaged 1877
knots at 112 revolutions. This is .27
more than the contract speed of the
vessels calls for and that the Iowa is
capable of better time than this was
shown when she was occasionally
spurted up around the 17-knot notch.
The result of the trip was in every way
satisfactory to Edwin S. Cramp, who
had it in charge for the builders.
The Iowa sailed Tuesday noon, reach
ed the breakwater that night. The
government was represented by Lieu
tenant Doyle, ordnance officer, station
ed at the yard, and Assistant Engin-
eer Pickerel
Wednesday the ship ran off-shore
twenty miles and was steamed four
times over the ten-knot course between
the two lightshps on Five Fathom
Bank Shoal The engines were given
a good limbering up and at 95 revolu-
tions, 1415 knots were made. On We'd
nesday night the Iowa anchored within
the Capes and went out again Thursday
morning, She was run straight off
shore for sixty miles and 11G reyolu-
tions of the screws We're maintained.
The result of the run Thursday was
satisfactory to the engineering depart
ment and she returned to her anchor
age inside the capes on Thursday night.
night.
This morning MIR. Cramp determined
to test the ships speeding abilities a
trifle. Under forced draught she was
driven for twenty miles off-shore and
then was headed landward again. A
strong gale from the northwest met the
ship as SHE headed shoreward, but she
met the rising waves stiffly. While, as
all battleShips do she took some water
aboard and the spray flew all over her,
| she rose far more buoyantly to the sea
than does either the Indiana or Massa-
| chusetts, and there was not near the
| weight of water coming over the bow
as either of the vessels in a heavy sea.
I The Iowa, however, Is a deck higher
| than the Massachusetts, and Indiana,
| and was built to take long cruises in
| deep water.
| When the Iowa passed into the Cape
| this morning after her run off-shore
| she had averaged 1921 knots at 112 rev.
| olutions This was very good per-
| formanee, considering the class of coal
! used and the comparatively shallow
4 water which makes ship "squatt''
/ and drag and thus retards her speed.
| The indicator cards have not yet been
| worked out, but it is estimated the en-
| gines developed IL, 900 horsepower
| which is 5000 more than was developed
! by the engines of the Indiana on that
| ships official trial. No requirement of
| horse power Is exacted in the ships
| contract, but she must make a speed
| of eighteen knots on her official trial
| For every quarter knot made above
this her builders will receive premium
of $4,000.
The Iowa ran up the bay and river
on single tide this afternoon. She
| still lacks all her guns, but these have
| been finished and some of them are "
| ing in the wharf at Cramps and the
| balance are being shipped rapidly. II
is expected that the ship will be ready
| to go on her official trial trip about the
middle of February, and by that time
she will be so nearly completed that
| she can go into commission in March