The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-22
MACHINES TO COAL WARSHIPS
GREAT THINGS EXPECTED OF OUR
NEWEST NAVAL STATION.

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GREAT THINGS EXPECTED OF OUR
NEWEST NAVAL STATION
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Mammal fabof-Ihe Dewey hut enc Of
the Many Big Works Planned There.
Coaling Q battleship In the tropics with.
out the aid Of manual labor in five hours
is the record that is to be made when tho
new naval station at Port Olongapo on
subig Bay in the Philip mes IL finished.
The drydock Dewey, which arrived there
only o short time ago after q most unusual
trip across seas, Is part Of the station.
The plans involve an expenditure OF eto,-
ing facilities are the principal features,
although they win cost only about o third
OF the total expenditure. Besides tho
drydock and the ooaling plant there will
be eight big buildings, each more than
q city block in length and half as wide,
which viii be used as shops. There win
be quarters for men and officers detailed
to be at olongapo and q big recreation
ground. The harbor will be 30 heavily
fortified that It will be impossible for any
enemy to make q successful attack from
the Goa.
Tho ooaling plant Is by all odds the most
Interesting part Of the shore plant. There
arc to be six units, all in duplicate. Each
unit is made up of a steel and concrete
wharf, a storage shed Of 5000 ton capa-
city and GOAL handling apparatus consist
ing Of belt conveyors and large travelling
cranes, with clam shell buckets for unload
ing ~oolliers. The capacity Of the storage
shed on each wharf Is sufficient to coal four
to six large ships. Each unit will cost
approximately half q million dollars.
The whole construction win DO massive.
and not q bit Of wood will DO used. This
is chiefly for the eason that In the Philip
pines the teredo or white ant honeycombs
timber construction 70 rapidly that its
life 10 very short. Each wharf VIII be $50
feet long and 40 feet wide, and that viii
be plenty big enough to berth the largest
battieship. The deck Of the wharf win DO
~ inches thick along the outer edge, where
the load Is hea West, and n inches tn toward
the shore. A concrete retaining wall IL
being built along the shore and the decks
Of the wharves will be built right into this
retaining wall at the shore end.
These wharves will be supported on
pillars Of concrete 4 feet 0 inches in diameter
and the front row OF pillars win 60 down
very deep. Those out near the extreme
sea end Of the wharf will 60 down 30 feet.
The first Of these wharves was started
four months ago and Ia expected 10 be
finished early next year.
Erected upon the wharves are the oon-
veying systems. The machinery on each
wharf will be capable Of taking 200 tons
OF GOAL an hour out Of the hold Of q collier
and putting II in tho stora 90 shed which
lies parallel to the wharf on the shore. The
work Of putting GOAL In a bettleship can be
done AZ least twice as fast, because the GOAL
be. deposited In the ships bunkers With
the assistance Of gravity.
Along the outer edge Of the wharf there Il
an elevated bunker running the entire
This is divided Into compartments
Of about 10 feet each. Each oompert-
ment Is thus q small bunker with q sloping
and o door near the bottom on the
side. The four belt oonveyors
carry GOAL In q steady stream through the
shed on the wharf to the wharf bunker.
the main Set line takes tie coal and dis
tributes II to any Of the compartments On
the main line. Thus coal can be brought
from any place IN the storage shed to any
point along the outer edge Of the wharf
without the direct use Of manual labor In
any way, and any bunker on q warship
can be filed independently of the others.
When the doors of the separate wharf
bunkers are opened the coal slides down
by gravity through chutes into the ship.
Coal is taken from the Golfers by means
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top OF the wharf bunkers. each provided
with a clam shell bucket carried on an arm
projecting over the ship. The GOAL il
dredged out Of the collier as mud Is scooped
up out Of harbors; ~Conveyors carry 1t
a o1s to the F to- afso shsd: Ahshe apparatus
An interesting feature OF the electrical
system Is the ~thermcstatio fire alarm ap-
In the storage shed, whereby a
fire In any bunker in the shed is at onoe
INDICATED on a board w n the ofioe
electrically given the bunker can b
BY q powerful pumping system.
The storage shed OF each unit will be q steel
building $50 feet long and $50 feet
plans ms viii SH1'i Be a ." model q 't their KIND Rs '1 snd
constitute when completed the finest
naval coaling station east OF Suez." /
While the dry dock Dewey and the coal
plant are the most important single
Of the Olongapo naval station,
there will be mnumerable auxiliary build
lngs and engineering works. The yard will
q wide area, and transportation for
material and the like will be provided by
q complete system Of narrow gauge rail-
ways. The main line will run along the
shore between the s~torehouses and shops
On the one side and the main repairing
piers. Of which there will be three, on the
other. ON terminal OF this line will be
near the anchorage Of the Dewey. Spur
will be run from the main line into
each of the shops and ~storehouses and out
on TO sach pier.
The shop outlay includes eight large
buildings. There are two machine shops,
q blacksmith shop q carpentry and pattern.
making shop, . sheet metal shop and foun-
dry. There are also eighteen other
important buildings In the ~storehouse
aside from the coal storage. Each
81 the repairing piers Ia to be 500 feet long
90 feet wide, and each will take two
warships at one time.
Provisions for quartering the many
officers and the force Of men comfortably
necessarily received much attention
the plans. A recreation ground fully
equipped for baseball, tennis and other
sports will be located on q peninsula near
,he temporary anchorage OF the Dewey.
The Dewey will lie Just OFF the main pier
y this recreation ground.
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