The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-10
INCIDENTS OF THE RAISING THE WILTON.

a few days ago they began putting
their way out of the harbor of Lules,
lhcaYn5d down the coast to Stockholm
1t took several days for the trip, for
she made only six knots an hour. but
she came the whole distance by her
own propeller, and on the bright sum-
mer afternoon, with the swedish eolors
at her masthead instead Of the unioh
lack of her former owners. she came
steamfng into Stockholm, the most re-
nnarkable vessel that ever went ahoat-
There was much gayety on board on
the way to harbor after the party had
inspected the ship all they Wlsneu- anu
many we're the bottles of champagne
that we're emptied and many the CT
CARS smoked and hearty the speeches.
that we're made over the success OF the
venture tllis opening of q new III IN
the life Of the sea-
The boat is now in a dry dock in a
Stockholm ship yard being oNelip7rr]7H
When Captain Neiburg, in charge OF
the raising of the boat, was pCoto-
sraphed at Luela's he stood even
| though short man. head and Shout
ders above the pump. The cdiS5on and
timbers afforded ample room for the
pump 20 Work-it would sit easily on
a small center table. It moved so
smoothly when at work one would
hardly realize it was in motion 1t is
OF 39-hcyge power Twelve men only
were employed in the preliminary work
| of raising the boat. ard the five hours
! pumping finished up their labors.
ANOTHER REMARKABLE PUMP
4 And vet perhaps even more wonder
( ful was the recent raising of the Swed-
( ish steamer Sodra SVeriga, a ship which
! ran on TO the reefs of the Baltic coast,
an hours ride south Of Stockholm
( about two and one-half years ago. The
! boat vas Sunllen in 200 or more feet of
water, far too deep for any diver 70
work without peril Of his life. a Swed-
( ish engineer. Mr.. 2. 4. Wales. turned
( his TALENTS 10 use and invented huge
! tube of steel about four feet in diam
! eter which was let down by the boat g
side There were windows of heavy
{ plate glass in the tube so that work.
men on the inside could see the form
of the vessel. Various appliances were
put in use, SO that chains and tackle
could be attached to the boat, ana little
by little a firm graphing contact was
! made Above the boat huge floats Of
timbers were made, from which 20
work. The tackle was fastened and
the boat was slowly hauled out of the
ouze toward shalloWer water, in which
divers could operate with safety.
For six months. from October, 1886. to
some Tune IN NlGICu. loJt, luc Tiny III tit
pump was working on the inside CT the
boat, to keep the water down, or up, SO
the work might proceed. It IS a De
! Laval pump agdin-thiS man seems to
nave a hand in about every enterprise
in Sweden. The pump is smaller than
the one which drew the water from the
Wilton. So light is it that one man
moved the table on which it re5ted with
ease
$500 REVOLUTIONS \ SECOND.
It has only fye-horse power, but II
makes $500 revolutions per second. II
the case of the Sodra SVeriga the use
of the steel tube, combined With the
pump, solved the still more important
problem of deep sea raising. The en-
gineer who invented the apparatus ex-
poets now TO be able TO raise boats thai
are at least 500 feet deep in the ocean
When he came to apply for a paten
for this really wonderful invention he
could not get it, because of the very
simplicity of the mecnandsm-there wa.
no such thing as patentiHg steel tube
J So his invention must go free to the
world.
!. BY the raising of these boats, thu
Wilton and the Sodra Sveriga, tn,
Swedes have demonstrated their seE
power in a new way The possibiIitie.