Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-21
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g Washington. D. C., Dec, -V.-- | DiSss there is an unexpected delay the big dry dock Dewey. under tow of theI colhers Glacier. Brutus and Caesar. will leave SOlomon's lslond, in the| Chesapeake Bay, tomorrow and pro sceed by way of the Sues canal toI Cavite. Orders to this/ /enect have been issued by the Navy Department.
 The experiment. of t5Sins the huge
 dock halfway arounf the world is|
 the most notable fe4ei its kind ever
 undertaken and as eonsequence tle|
 success Of the vefare will be watch
 ed with keen inffst. The task is
 one of magnitX and delicaey. but
 lhe officials c/he Bureau Of Yards . Docks l<he Navy Department, urfc- 0r0/,direc supervision 3he sfaoeer..rksf have been made. be, lis..e .h4- 4 can be accomplished lthou, # 3al danger of the dock founie. q
 Tic t9wil- will be done by the gov
 fer and the colliers Brutus and Caesar
 being esignateG as the boats to make
 the tow. The colliers are both pow-
 erfnl steamers. and before entering
 the. naval service were employed as merchantmen. the Brutus having been tfE Norwegian steamship Peter Jeb-
 bd Caesar the British steamer King
 1T. Both ships are of the same Heed-about ten knots an hour. The Sessels have been equipped with spe- cial towing apparatus SC construcJed as to keep the towing lines at the same tension al all times and to pre- vent any heavy straining on il Tn a seaway.
 The totaaT distance from Solomon s Island te the Philippines is something over F c09 miles. and as il is not expected I days tow will exceed 100 miles il will take over four mon,ns to make the trip. The route decided upon is from Chesapeake Bay to Ma deria and thence to Manila anG| OlongapO, the new naval base where the dock will be permanently located.
 On the way to it's destination the dry dock will not make a single port of entry, as in such a case a tonnageI would have to be paid. As it is, the| government will be obliged to pay tolls amounting 10 nearly 25,00o to1 take the dock through the Suez canal En route the supply ship will make several ports in order 10 get coal and supplies and to let the home gov erument know how thing are going, but the Dewey will never be placedI in harbor until the Philippines arel reaehed.
 When the Dewey starts on is tripi the towing vessel will be from 20J0l To 5000 feet in front of her, the twol vessels, of course. being lconnected by a tow line. The reason a. HneI this length is needed is that in squally there will be no danger of the dock and the collier being smash ed together, Ordinarily the dock wiIlI be taken along with. it's body 6-toI N0 feet in the water. But when the bAd weather comes on it will be sub meEged So that it will draw 2S feet orr More. When this low down, be- saulS of it's great weight. the dock viii bA practically motionless and vii se a huge anchor to tne collier and tuS-
 Com imanded Harry H. Hosley, .U. < N is to be in general command ,f ,be expedition. On board the dock itse1, will be crew of eight pAen Inder- command of j.. D.. Wood a ,,e,t an tug master Of Norfolk. Fori he Purposes of the trip the dock Sha5 ,esen equipped with g. comforta1ye eabi,l and with small boats and wire less telegraph apparatus.
 Tlle Dewey was built at the Spar ,owst Point plant of the Maryland sfeSl company. The general dimen- rioTls of the dock are: Length, 500I feeh; width. 134 feet; extreme height e2> feet; weight, 1000 tons. The dock contains 50 water-tight compartments. ~5 that there is little possibility of fEe waves beating in such holes as ,,Foald cause it to founder. The tow ing cables are one and one-half mics long and are the largest steel ropes Tn the world outside of some of the. great suspension bridges.
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