Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-28

ed States, steamship Michigan was built
in 1874, and, with her four Thirty
FOUNDER rifles and a recorded speed OF
ten and half knots has had the NOM
inal naval guardianship of nearly 5000
miles Of coast line, nearly equal to- the
whole length of the Atlantic seaboard,
for the past ffty-two years. In the
meantime Great Bnitain has rearedi a.
feet of speedy revenue cutters and 9TH
er civil service craft, easily available
for naval usefulness and i'm SO much
Of likeness in our own boats we are but
following the pace, she set.
The boats will be built Of steel
throughout, will be rugged as foEe-and-
aft schooners,. and will carry spread
of steadying sail only. Each vessel
will have single screw of manganese
bronze, ten feet in diameter, which
will be driven by vertical, dinect-act-
ing, trfple-axpansion engine, having
high intermediate and low pressure
cylinders, respectively, Of Twenty-Five,
thirty-seven and one-half' aald fifty-six
and one-fauTth inches in diameter, with
a uniform stroke of thirty inches, and
a turning speed of 100 revolutions a
minute when developing the required
indicated horse power of 1000 and i'm
ducing the contract spead Of sixteen
knots an hour. The recenh performance
Of the Gresham, sister ship, which
made seventeen knots with the promise
of more on the official trial, is fair
example Of what is to- be expected in
these later boats. Steam, at working
pressure of 100 pounds to the square
Inch, will be supplied in each boat by
four Scotch boilers of the return fire,
Rre-tube type, IN diameter eleven and
one-half feet by ten feet long. Each
boiler will have two three and One-half-
foot corrugated furnaces; and struc-
tural popularity Of the boilers will be
in the use of but two steel plates in
their longitudinal construction, by
which added strength with limited
number Il seams is secured. The boil
ers will. e worked from common fire.
room, and two large blowers, exhausting
directly into the ash pits, will induce
forced draught. By this means the
pressure under each boiler will be un-
der independent control, admitting Of
the most economical service when run
ming at cruising speeds. A steam cap
stan will raise the anchors and by
dropneumatic ejector will carry the
ashes from the fireroom and discharge
them overheard without tax upon the
fireroom crew, whose efforts are ctheT-
wise eased by mechanical facilities for
passing coal and slicing the fires when
under forced draught. The normal coal
supply will be about 225 tons, promis-
ing a radius of action Of 1000 miles at
cruising speed Of ten knots an hour,
An engine and dynamo Of sufficient out
put will generate the electrical force
for the numerous incandescent lamps
and the searohlight on the pilot-house,
by which the field of their usefulness
Is extended to night work. Commodious
and healthful quarters are provided for
the complement of about sixty persons.
The captains quarters will consist OF
forward and after cabin, two state
rooms, two baths, four locker-seat
berths and an Office. In the wardroom,
on the berth deck, there viii be eight
comfortable staterooms. four locker
seat herthN two baths, a louuging'