The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-04
THE ARROW EXPECTED TO
STEAM AT LEAST FIFTY
NILES AN HOUR.
Millionaire Charles r. Flint is Construct.
ing Vessel That Will Have Phe'
nomenal Speed-An Ex-
traordinary Graft.
TT the shipbunding yard of Samuel

4 Avres & Son. Nyack. n. Y. there
Is being constructed for Mr.
Charles r. Flint. OF New York.
long narrow WASTED racer which Is ex-
pected to attain the phenomenal speed oil
nifty miles an hour That is an extra
ordinary gait. but this is 10 be an extra
ordinary craft.
Her peculiaritles are many. but the
most striking is the great disproporuon
between length and beam. With length
OF 1870 feet 4 inches this remarkable craft
has beam of only IL feet inches. In
fact she is nearly eleven times as long as
she Is broad. With engines whose ire
nendous horse power viii exceed that of
many an ocean liner, the entire hull will
weigh only twenty-five tons a weight less
than that of the main shaft of many
steamships. Designed for cruising in
sheltered waters. this craft will, never
theless, be capable of crossing the At
lantic, and, weather being fair, of crossing
II at a speed that would make the Lu-
Cania seem inert.
That 1t is possible to construct vessel
which will travel on water at the habit
ual gait Of ''limited" on land has long
been a contention OF marine architects
and marine engineers.
II was to prove in practive what the
DRY has long asserted that Mr.. Flint
gave out the contract for this yacht. He
wanted q vessel TO beat all others at fast
going, and with the deliberate intention
OF playing tricks with distances and time
he delegated to Mr.. Mosher the task of
drawing plans for a steam yacht in which
every usual feature is to be subordinate
TO high speed
The vessel is to be launched early in
May. She is to be ready for service by
June 1. Ayres & Son are building the hui
only. The Bethlehem Steel Company has
the contract for furnishing the shaftng.
the engines are being built by Lysander
Wright. Of Newark. and the boilers by
the Crescent Shiphuilding Company, of
llizabethport. These are to be of the
Mosher water tube type. Two viii be in
stalled in the Arrow. That is the name
Mr.. Flint has selected for his yacht. Each
boiler VIII have 1000 horsepower giving
1000 in all. They will furnish steam equal
to two quadruple expansion engines which
will operate twin screws,
Engines and boilers will weigh but a
little over thirty-one tons This, with the
weight of the hun, viii give the yacht,
when coaled and provisioned ready for
service. a displacement of about sixty
seven tons. She will have a draught OF
three and one-half feet, and will show a
freeboard Of five feet.
The normal bunker capacity will be six
teen tons, but arrangements will oe made
by which fourteen extra tons can Oe stow
ed in compartments other than the bunk
ers. This viii give the yacht steam ra-
dius of 5000 miles; that IS. she can steam
3.0a0 miles before exhausting her fuel sup
ply. on coal consumption of one and
one-half ions day, It Is estimated that
she can jog along at sixteen knots an
hour. and that an extra ton win give her
a sustained speed Of twenty-five knots an
hour. How much fuel she will consume
when going at fun speed remains to be
seen, but it is probable that at nifty
mle-an-hour gait she would exhaust her
maximum capacity within three days.
That the hull will weigh but twenty two
! tons viii be due to the fact that alum
| mum enters largely into the construction
All frames and reverse frames. deck
stringers. deck beams, bulkheaas and
/ coal bunker stiffeners are TO be of that
/ metal. The planking, keel stem and stern
/ post, flooring. guardraH, pilot house and
I companionways are to be of wel-seasoned
/ and selected wood. The rest OF the hull
win be ~ steel
/ THE Arrow is divided by six bukheads
! into seven water-tigh, compartments.
/ Eight feet abaft the bow is a COLTS IN
bBlNhcad, which gives a storage space for
/ fresh water. Directly ahaft this bulkheai
4 is the forecastle. This compartment Il
/ thirteen fee, long and VIII have accom-
/ mudations for twelve men, Adjoining this
/ IS a narrow store and messroom and ahaft
! OF that IS tho galley. space which shore
going folk wpuld call the kitchen.
Directly over the galley win be located
: the pilot house This is TO he twelve feet
/ ~ lcnGta vita seats on either side. ar
/ ranged $50 as 60 be- used when necessary
I as herfhs Tor tho accommodation Of two.
Ahaet thc galley is The hotter space a
I compartment thirty feet in length. and
4 arranged for two boilers, The cos. bum
/ kers uiiain This compartment aud next
I abac caays thc ensiuc room a space
. twenty feei SIX inches iu length Adi1ir-
iu< tan engine room is a pantry and aha ID