Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-18
THE ACUSHNET HAS TRIAL
READY TO ENTER THE REV
ENUE CUTTER SERVICE.
Given Trial Trip in the Lower Chesa
peake Bay-Wiu Take Place
Of the Dexter.

The new revenue cutter Acusnet. built
at Newport News, was given her trial trip
last week In lower Chesapeake bay and
the vessel will be taken to Baltimore
to be made ready to go into service on the
New Bedford station.
Those who witnessed the trial were
Capt. W. E. Reynolds. commander of the
derelict destroyer Seneca; First Lieut.. c.
E. Johnson, First Lieut.. of Engineers
John E. Derry and Constructor John Q.
Walton of this city. The new ship is a
modern steel hun propeller steamer and
is electric lighted and equipped with
an evaporating plant. When she goes in
service she will carry a crew of seven
officers and thirty men.
She is 152 feet in length over all, $50
feet inches between perpendiculars, ~
feet nodded beam. outside depth 16 feet
4 inches, displacement to mean draft of
II feet, TIP tons. Her engine is of the
vertical inverted direct-acting triple-eX-
pansion type. Her hish-pressure cylinder
is 10 inches. intermediate 21A, and low
pressure A inches in diameter, with a
3O-inch stroke OF piston, ana ner INDICATED
horsepower Is 1000.
The Acushnet has two water tube boil
ers, with a working pressude of $50
pounds of steam to the square inch. Her
crate surface is 125 feet and her heating
surface is 4,S0O square feet.
The Acushnet will take the place of the
old cutter Dexter, which has gone out of
service and will be sold to the highest
bidder.
The new revenue cutter service tug
Dewey, on her way from Baltimore to New
Orleans, where she will be stationed, had
rough time from Hampton roads to
Charleston. at which port she Is for re-
pairs.
The report Of the commanding officer of
the tug states that on the evening of
August 10, when the vessel was off Frying
Pan shoal lightship. she was struck by d
heavy sea that broke In port on the
port side of the wardroom and flooded
the vessel. The crew succeeded in fore
ing back the glass of the port. without
further damage. AS soon as the repairs
are completed the Dewey will resume her
trip to the south.
An executive board of the revenue cut
ter service, consisting Of Capt. ]. L. Sill.
Capt. B. L. Reed and Capt. j. H. Brown.
Is in session at Arundel Cove. Md. the
station Of the service, examining the pa
pers of the line officers recently ordered
before examining boards in various parts
Of the country for examination for pro-
motion. The examination and marking Of
the papers will require a week or longer.
amined: First Lieuts. F. A. Lewis, s. B.
Winram and ]. G. Ballinger. Second
Lieuts c. F. Howell. w. H. Munter, ]. l..
Maher, w. A. O'Malley. Eben Barker and
Third L10utS. r. "A. NICHOLS, u. r. SelQer
and G. H. Jones.
boat from the revenue cutter Apache
was the means Of rescuing three persons
from the launch G. w. Weaver. which
had been run down by the steamer Kitty
knight, in Baltimore harbor. The col
lision occurred August IL, not far from
where the Apache was lying. The launch
was. swamped and the four men were
thrown into the water.
The boat from the Apache was the first
n1h hn M rn
picked up The fourth was drowned.
Later the boat from the Apache towed
the sunken launch into shoal water, where
1t can be raised.
A boat crew from the Apache. under the
command Of Second Lieut.. p. F. Roach
was one night last week sent to the aid
OF the yacht Irma. which had caught fire
while lying near the cutter in Baltimore
harbor. The fire was caused by gasoline
and the men had great difficulty in ex-
tinguishing 1t, having to go overheard
several times to avoid the flames. The
fire was at last put out
In letter to Lieut.. Cairnes, command
ing the Apache. the owner Of the vessel
says that the work done. by the revenue