Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-30


CONVENIENCE OF HER OFF,
GERS AND CREW-DETAILS OF
THE INTERIOR CONSTRUCTION
OF THE DEFEATED YACHT AND
OF THE GENERAL ARRANGE
MENTS FOR THE VOYAGE
HOME.
NEW YORK, October 29.-With her
sails bent and most of her stores on
board, the yacht Shamrock lies in Erie
basin ready to sail for the Clyde on
Tuesday.
Captain Archie Hogarth will be in
command, with Captain Hamilton as
navigator, and Captain Wringe as chief
officer. Forty-three of the crew are to
sail in the yacht. This number in
cludes two cooks and two stewards. The
rest of the crew will return by steamer.
Beside her big cutter which she car
ries on davits on the port side, the
Shamrock will have slowed on deck
two Berthon collapsable canvas boats,
a life preserver for each man on board
and plenty of life buoys handy to throw
overheard If necessary In addition TO
the big maintrysail, with a bonnet in it,
and the mizzen, which brails up against
the mast, the yacht is to carry large
forestaysail, also with a bonnet in it,
Jib and jib topsail and square sail
and raffe. The latter is a triangular
sail, which sets over the square sail.
No main boom is to be used. but the
mlzzen sheets out to a small boom. A
long, light spar of pine, waist high to a
man standing on deck, is shipped at the
forward end of the main boom goose
neck, and aft in an iron crutch. This
Is used as a life saver. 1t will stop a
man from sliding overheard to leeward
When the yacht rolls at sea, and it will
De well provided with life lines to as
slst the crew in passing forward and
ait. 1t is the intention of Captain Ho-
garth to sail as much as possible when
there is a breeze. The steam Yacht
Erin, which will convoy the Shamrock.
VIII tow her when there is no wind.
through the courtesy of Captain Ho-
garth an Associated Press representa-
i've was permitted to inspect the in
terror of the Shamrock while she was
being refitted for her ocean trip. Ex-
cepting perhaps in the Columbia. such
a combination of strength with light
ness of construction as exists in the
Fife yacht has not been seen in a rae
ing yacht in these waters.
Riveted to the seventy-nine frames
on each side of the yacht is a stout
steel fore and aft girder or bilge keel
son. Overhead but further inboard.
under the deck beams, is a lighter
steel girder, also running lore and aft.
These upper and lower Orders are con-
nected at intervals of about twenty
feet by solid round stanchions which
slant cupboard from above at an angle
of about thirty degrees. Between these
stanchions cross braces have been
placed, bolted at their junction in the
center to a square steel plate which
makes the whole rigid. This system
extends from the fifteenth forward
frame all the way aft on both sides.
There is no Skin" in the yacht, all
her frames and plates being visible
except where temporarily covered for
the Atlantic voyage. Heavy wooden
checks have been fitted between the
frames forward where the strain Of
pounding will come against the
plates in sea way. They are held in
place by long fore and aft planks bolt
ed down to the frames and bilge keel
sons Between the floor and the deck
beams overhead, there is q clear space
of ten feet During the races all wood
work except the floor was taken out
of the yacht. Now she is divided into
four sections An iron bulkhead has
been put in, making water tight COM
partment of the overhang at the stern.
The next section, built of light pine
planking. encloses a space about ten
feet wide by twenty-five feet long,
which is to be cabin and sleeping quar-
tiers for the captain and navigator.
There is a door on the starboard side
of the forward bulkhead of this tenn
porary cabin, and the companion lad
der, with its steps facing forward comes
down in the center of this compart-
ment.
The yacht has such great beam be-
low that it is necessary to cOnfine the
living quarters of the crew to a width
of about ten feet, to keep things from
taking charge when she labors in a sea
way. Ratings about four feet high run
fore and aft at the sides in the next
section. where the mess tables and
benches are placed and where the cook
ing is done. Forward of this the
crews hunks, made of skeleton gas
pipe, occupy the remainder of the space.
The forward part of the hold is reach
ed by hatchways and iron ladders.