Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-16
QUEEN vTCToRIA'S NEW YACHT.

Queen Victoria may soon enjoy the
pleasure of cruise on her new yacht,
the largest ever built. The new royal
yacht, the name for which has not yet
been definitely chosen, but which
probably will be called the Prince AL
bert, is now so far advanced that it is
expected she will be launched next
March. The first keel plate was laid
December %, 1897, at the government
dockyard at Pembroke by Mrs. Wat
son, the wife of Capt. Burgess Wat
son, the superintendent of the dock
yard.
The British government has a re-
markedly well developed faculty of
keeping it's business to itslf. The
gates of the government dockyards
rarely open, even to British citizens,
and almost never to foreigners. Con-
sequently, although all Englishmen in
general and yachtsmen and naval
architects have been curious to know
what Queen Victoria's new yacht will
be like, ever since parliament appro-
priated money to build the boat. moth
ing is known except the meager de-
tails the admiralty has seen fit to give
out.
English curiosity became so clamor-
GUS short time ago that the admiral
ty decided to depart from it's declared
policy OF maintaining secrecy about
the royal yacht SO far as to give out
some of the principal dimensions OF
the vessel. The new yacht is to be
$50 feet long and so feet beam. Her
draught is to be Is feet and her dis
placement is to be 1900 tons. This
will be by far the biggest yacht ever
built. William K. Vanderbilt's yacht
Valiant, which has passed muster for
pretty good size1 yacht, is small by
comparison with Queen Victorias
new peasure craft. The Valiant is
only 1872 feet long, 80 feet beam and
16 feet draught. Her gross tonnage
is 1923. Howard Gould's Niagara is
still smaller, being 272 feet in length,
80 feet beam and 16 feet draught.
The new royal yacht is as large rs
the cruiser Baltimore, larger than the
New Orleans and much larger than the
German emperor's yacht Hohenzol-
lern. The Hohenzollern is nothing
more than protected cruiser, arma-
ment, protective deck and all, with
quarters fitted up for the emperor.
The British royal yacht, on the other
HAND, will have none of the qualities
of a cruiser, but will be a yacht pure
and simple.
The hull is to be of steel, sheathed
with wood, and covered with copper.
She will be provided with double bot
toms. She will have three tunnels
and two masts. Speed is to be In
an important consideration. The ad-
miralty has deigned to inform British
taxpayers that the yacht is to have two
sets of tIple-expansion feur-cylinder
engines, driving twin screws and hav-
ing an Indicated horsepower of H.
600. The high-pressure cylinder of
each engine is to be 261a inches in
diameter, the intermediate cylinder
441a inches in diameter, and the two
low-pressure cylinders SO inches in d.
ameter, all having a stroke OF SO
inches. Steam will be supphed by IS
Belleville boilers, working at a pres
sure of 800 pounds, which will be re-
duced at the engines to $500 pounds.
The CRATE area under the boilers will
be $40 feet, and the heating surface
will be $4,000 square feet. This ma
chinery is expected to drive the vessel
through the water at speed of 20
knots an hour with the engines max
ing 140 revolutions a minute.