The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-03-08
DRESSING A ship. !.
A Man-of-War Wears More Than
One Suit of Clothes.
INNER AND OUTER GARMENTS.

secides les Coat o: Arror Pixie II Has
Special Set OF UnGereiothes to Pro-
test the Vital Parts Of Its Anatomy.
Mineral Wool Mufflers
NOR plate. as everybody knows. but
every body does no1 know that they
wear undergarments which are pro-
dueed chiefly from cocoanuts. Your
most powerful. man-oc-war IS really .
very delicate object and requires
special underclothins so that some
vital parts Of It's anatomy may not be-
come too cold and so that other equal
y vital portions may not become too
hot.
From stem to stern. which IS another
way Of saying from head to toe. your
enormous superDreadnousht IS envel-
oped in an undersarment placed in
nediately behind its topcoat or armor
plate This is its special mackiatosh.
or. rather. waterproof. which acts as q
protection from Ere as well Us water.
In the ordinary way Il shot pierced
the side Of oattleship water would
pour IN st the hole and possibly the
ship might sink. but this Is obviated
BY providing backing to the arnor.
Great secrecy IS kept n the various
navies regarding the material used and
its arrangement
In many Of the latest battleships.
however. the coating IS made Of cellu-
lose which again IS obtained from the
fbroos cocoaare rin6. Cellulose pos
sesses the peculiar property Of swell
ing Immediately II It comes in contact
with salt water. Therefore the moment
that water pours in at hole at the
ships side the ceIlulose almost in
stantly expands and 50 closes the aper-
trre. OF course the cellulose IS es-
pecially treated in order to render 1t
areprooc.
A ran-of-war has IS vitality enoz-
moosly diminished Il certain portions
Of it become too cold. N much the
same way as its human tenants Ac-
co-ding.y its boiler and steam pipes
are clothed With Jackets" In some
cases the jackets are made Of ordinary
b.anket,ns. others Of 6b.ous ciay-liSe
composition OK even Of close grained
wood. In general the material used
for ships underclothsns Of this de-
script;on consists Of mineral wool
However,. the s-est ship IS more Ike
II to suffer from the effects OF heat
than from those Of cold There IS a.
ways the danger owing to the newer
type Of machinery employed that the
powder magazines may get too bot
In the latest men-ot-war the stores
are surrounded BY thick coating Of
mineral wool. Mineral wool, by the
way, has nothing whatever to do with
wool, as It consists Of o mass OF snowy
threads Of Kind Of glass. It IS made
BY blowing jets OF high pressure steam
through the furnaces IN the nanu1ac-
ture Ct iron and steel.
Enormous quantities Of this strange
variety Of wool are used On board for
the purposes Of urde7clothiaS the bulk
heads and the more delicate portions
Of the ships body. This Invaluable
substance acts equally well as a pro-
tec.oS from heat and from cold II IS
such a remarkable noncondnctoc OF
heat that It IS Used foS covering the
refr;se-ators and the cold storage
chambers and therefore the explosive
stores
IN the dockyards all men who are
employed in packing the mineral wool
IN the spaces on the ships are obliged
to wear masks. This IS to prevent the
sharp needlelike particles from being
inhaled and 50 causing chest troubles
OF fssal character.
The ammunition roons themselves
are kept cool By refiseratins plant
2n addition TO being clothed in ninera!
wool, the same applying to the ammu-
ostSon passages The wool IS also
hacked between the double bulSheaos
which separate the boiler spaces from
the other portions Of the vessel Alto
rether the uses Of the mineral wool on
board are extremely numerous Even
reindeer hair Is to be met %ith On
board IN the capacity Of particular
sort Of uadercloehinS. This natefia!
IS very ENTHUSIASTICALLY lighter than
cork, for instance-and it IS not so sub
ject to decay. For this reason among
It's many uses It s Of great value as
aTing tor the LIE broys- - Boston
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