The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-11
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Local and General News Of ships
and shipping.

The steamship Iris is expected about
Saturday from Antwerp to load naval
stores for the other side. 1t is the
intention Of the Antwerp Naval stores
Company to seek general cargo for It's
outward bound vessels before a great
while. or at least other freight than
naval stores, which now forms prac-
tically the only class of freight car
ried 1t is understood the line will
touch regularly at London on its voy-
ages to Antwerp. During the past
few seasons the Antwerp Company mas
carried a considerable amount of cot
ton seed oil and other products. and
the idea is to extend its business along
this line. so that it will not be entirely
dependent upon the naval stores for
cargo.
Information was received by Mr..
James NJ Dixon from Baltimore yes
terdav that the schooner Orlando V.
Wooten, which was blown ashore on
Hatteras in a recent gale, and so re-
ported in the Morning News, would be
lowed into Baltimore by tugs. The
schooner sailed from Savannah some
two weeks ago, lumber-laden for%Balti-
more Her cargo was put aboard by
Mr.. Dixon The vessel was blown
ashore, and wrecking tugs hand to
abandon her The wind shifted later
however, blowing off shore. and the
vessel was then f1oated. She is one
of the neatest schooners that ever
came to this port, and those who know
her will be interested to learn that she
has escaped.
The German Emperors schooner
Yacht, the Meteor, will have steer
ing apparatus which has been specially
designed for the yacht by G.. D. Loud
treasurer of the Edison Manufacturing
Company of Boston, which is thus de-
scribed by the Transcript
THE new steering gear works with
wonderful ease-in fact, a child can
manipulate it without difficulty. There
is also not the slightest lost motion.
on the fore and aft screw, one-half of
which is forward and the other half
aft of the rudder-head, work the con-
Meeting straps. The outside diameter
of this triple-thread, screw is ~ inches,
the pitch of the screw being u inches
The connecting straps are of Norway
iron the traversing nuts being of gun
metal. Some idea of the power of the
steering gear may be gained from the
statement that a sample pouring of
the cast iron III -Lne IQQueE-HsAu cast
ing stood tensile test of 81 1907 pounds
to the square inch before breaking.
the test having been made by Prof.
f. F. Miller of the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology.
The rudder-head swivel-box is made
of gun metal. while the rudder-head
| is of steel, 315 inches in diameter. The
| rudder-post has a rake of thirty three
| degrees. The ball-bearing supports for
the rudder-post rest on thirty-two steel
| balls, running on case-hardened steel
plates, with four adjusting screws,
which provide for the wearing strain
on the rudder nintles.. The gear is
ALSO provided with two taffrail boxes.
| one forward and one aft, with rubber
springs. IT takes five and a half turns
of the wheel to turn the rudder from
hard up to hard down, fortv-five de-
grees in each direction.
"While the steering gear proper is a
! piece of mechanical perfection, the
| landsman WILL perhaps, be more at
tracted to the wheel, which is certainly
a thing of beauty. 1t is fifty-four
| The hub is of highly polished brass
| There are ten rosewood spokes, the
| felloes being of teak and the rim of
ebony. Where the, kingspoke passes
through there is inlaid in the rim the
coat of-arms of the German Emperor
done in gold and silver. On the re-
manning part of the rim at each spoke
is set the German cross. The tip of
the kingspoke bears the German crown
in German silver, while the tips of the
remaining spokes bear plain caps of
the same metal. The wheel alone was
made at cost of $500"