The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-07

problem OF rolling az sea has been
in the minds of British ship builders
for many years, and innumerablc eX.
periments have been made and de.
vices tried by them As was pointed
out i'm these columns yesterday, the
invention which has been placed on
the German steamer is merely the
elaboration of an invention of Sir
Philip Watts. Herr Frahm's device
has, in fact, been watched with much
interest, not only by shipowners in
this country, but also by those who
have been working on similar lines
for some time past. In reply to
query on this point the famous
Wallsend builders, Messrs Swan,
Hunter q Wigham Richardson from
whose yards the Mauretania came,
stated yesterday: 1T is true that
Herr Frahm, of Hamburg, has inn
proved the anto-rolling tanks system
originally fitted in a British warship.
Similar tanks are, however, fitted in
the Cunard steamship Daconia, now
being completed at our shipyard, and
will have the same result in prevent
ing any heavy rolling"
Mexican Oil Fleet.
Extensive preparations are being
made by oil companies to import
enormous quantities of crude petro-
leum into the United States from
Mexico. The Magnolia Petroleum
Company, which recently entered into
contract to furnish the st. Louis,
Brownsville & Mexico Railroad with
one years fuel supply. the minimum
deliveries to be 100000 barrels of oil,
has ordered material for several steel
storage tanks to be erected at points
on the Gulf coast for the purpose of
holding oil that the company will
bring in from Tampico. The Texas
company is also preparing to estab-
lish a large oil tank at Port ATkan-
sas, which will be used as the chief
distributing point for the crude petro-
leum that it is arranging to import
| from Mexico. The Texas company
/ will soon place a fleet of oil tank
! barges and steamers in commission
/ between Tampico and Port Arkansas.
The Guyton Oil Company will also
import large quantities of oil from
, Mexico. 1t will erect large storage
tanks at Port Arkansas.
Fast Steamers for Spaniards.
Two steamers ordered by the Span
ish Transatlantic Company from
Messrs. VIM. Denny & Bros, Dunbar
ton, for the South American service
will have a speed Of between II and
IS knots. They are to be driven by
a combination of two sets of recipro
eating engines and a Parsons low.
pressure turbine, the former actuating
the two outer or wing shafts, and the
latter the center shaft. The design
of the machinery will be generally
similar to that supplied by Messrs.
Denny to the Otaki and Rotorua, be-
longing to the New Zealand Shipping
Company.
Passing of Famous Warship.
The passing of the British battle
ship Royal Sovereign into the list of
vessels for sale closes another epoch
in naval history, for that vessel at
tracted almost more attention in the
naval world when first launched in
1891 than did the dreadnought of a
generation later. The Royal Sover.
eign has always been considered the
prototype of the modern battleship,
In her design Sir William White crys
tallized various IDEAS which had pre-
viously expressed themselves imper,
fectly and tentatively in such ships as
the Nile, Benbow, Devastation, Hero
and that freak of the monitor type
the Hecate. With the Royal Sover.
eign the high-freeboard battleship
came to stay. The type was wildly
criticised as unseaworthy, Slight
notifications, however, rendered
these ships the most stable gun-plat.
forms of their day, and all navies cop
led them as extensively as the later
dreadnOught
Russia's Harbor Improvements.
The Russian journal Rossya pub
fishes the details of bill, which the
ministry of commerce has laid before
the council of ministers, for the eX.
penditure of the sum of 1000 rou,
bles on investigating the possibilities
Of improving the harbor accommoda
ton along the littoral of the Pacific
Ocean, with a view to assisting the
general economic development of the
outlying territories of Asiatic Russia
in the Far East. The investigations
will comprise: % Examination of the