The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-17
LAUNCHING SHIPS BOATS.
r,rvsy METHOD WOW ~ VOGUE
,ONDEMNED BIZ JOHN HrSLOP.

They Can't he Got Ahoat In Bad Wca-
,,.r or with n ship Badly Iistod-Nsvni
Architects and Marine Engineers Hear
:, New Way to Coal Vessels at Sea.
m. .syeuth general meeting OF the Society
=, Xov, Architects and Marine Engineers
I'm Yesterday In the hall OF the American
sasis,v o, Mechanical Engineers In West
S.i,t,.arst street. John Hyslop. in paper on
.S,,eastions as 70 Improved Appliances for
,.u,cn. NJ ships Boats" said that any prog
80. toward better. methods, any effort to
,.,,oduce improvements. to be success
.I must not only be well devised
.,d practically adapted to conditions. but
.ns, be aided by an aroused public feeling.
e. d.yice or devices at present insured
.hy,v TO get boat a6oat promptly " at all.
:, RAD weather. or with ship badly listed.
n, Hyslop spoke OF having gone over one oil
~. largest tran A. Atlantic ste amships recently
,'ois on which a boat had been on occasions
INTO the water in two aud half minutes
r, IN. question. what they could do II the
.,,so, was rolling or listed. the officers replied
"Wo know we could not launch them at ALL"
NJ. uys,or says In excuse" Tor dwelling on
mood Of improvements: The writer feels
.,rrslled to s,ate that he has stood four dill
t.tsrt times on ships decks when II has
besh necessary TO .aunch boats 70 save NE.
an VI
endd eract,vey carried out. On the last and
SaNst sast. Gus OF these occasions. II was most
Ssttes. ng t. SEQ loo men. women ana chii.
I'm waiting through 10 to- 10 minutes, each
!'s.r IT, m mute narrowing the limit OF life to
oSsrtwo.thlrds OF that mum Der. only one boat
e %ar of s ssE CIR Is esn fhps ens
s,renuous efforts attended in some instances
I'm serious injury to workers. and ceaslng
oily when workers anu passengers were suo-
ms ,Ttsr referring to the devices liz use he Ia
obliged 10 cohellle .ns yre eis,l,. mean an
E.,stSr are not improved upon. and II II
.nnuId ever again be my misfortune To have
M, snp ard distance may admit q my sw mining
ssnora. as otherwise ! would rather put my
. n :sa nS,Gh Or b pnIs or W a. ahssn,ns
ioMs properly anoat in any short period OF
time. ..c.i,., Vail. n, d.. ~ sn.,.
.,rN,Her tod OF an experiment he made in
tis hartor with "A tug towing a sloop. the OBJ
,est teIng to transfer coal IRON the tug to ne
toSei Vessel whl" on their course. lie SAID
Shear pU.es were mounted on the tug aud
hl-rss on the mast of the soop the distances
"'t ss, the points snile.. rS Sps'Oy penn
q the ca6e aft the mast was held held
ortJwng cone dragged in the sea nehlna the
,'oop 4 carriage grIpred to the upper Part
ISr, s-rSei to carry bags Of coal over from
sloor 10 TUG. As the experi ment was pertoi med
10 a storm 10 photographs we're taken ne
a. nm was so severe hat the sioop shipped
w,ter over the tow. and both boats rolled and
pitched very badly In spite oil this the tags
III coa were conveyed across tie space AS
though the sea was smooth the sea anchor
syrying perfectly to act a. compensator,
maintaining a constant tension on the endless
,,rofgeM Dckie read a paper on The In
creas lng Comp ications in Warships and How
SmIl-r Arrangements ID gnt be Aiontet.
The increasing complication and multiplying
diversity OF function sought 10 be reached by
n mechanical contrivance-, he said. had become
POSITIVE dread to the officer responsible Tor II
q lTerutIng In the proper way.
Other papers were read by Engineer CHIEF
George ". ileylie, L. >. v. on Causes for
United States Navy" Naval Constructor J. J.
Woodward, L. ;; ". on The ELECTRIC ants OF
the Battleships kearsarge and Kentucky" Ii.
+ Norton on Beam Formula APPLIED to a
Vertically Stifened Bulkhead, with Some Re-
sults !" and Naval Constructor Lloyd Banksou,
Ihasap.aka