Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-02-08
O|L.ENG|NED
Liners ASSURED

In connection with the shipping indus
try few developments. says Pail Mall
Gazette, have been more remarkable
! than the progress made with the use
of internal combustion engines for ma
rine purposes.
Up TO a year ago they were confined
, to small river vessels and yachts: to-
day there are building, ur about 10 be
built. with u view to classification In
I.loyd's Register. no fewer than twelve
ocean-going shirs which will be fitted
with oil engines, the largest Of them
exceeding 600 tons gross, while the
; fact that a mo'or-driven boat of $4,000
tons IL actually in contemplation sug-
rests that an even more notable adj
vancement IL about to take place.
The first vessels of size to be eqaip-
ped with such engines were the Van.
dial and the Sarmet, with n dead
weight carrying capacity of 700 tons
each. built In Sweden six years ago
for service between Robinsk and st.
Petersburg. distance Of $50 miles;
and the first big motOr-boat construct
led in This country was the Teller, OF
| 1869 tons gross, which was also the
first vessel of the kind to cross the
Atlantic, a passage which she success
fully accomplished not many weeks
ago Last year, also, the Vulcanus. of
Liz tons, was completed ut Amster-
dam. but these we're regarded.
Danish Enterprise.
4 Now, however, oil-engined boa s Of
liner dimensions are being got ready
for service. For the Danish East Ash
attic Company there was launched at
Copenhagen on November the Sec
landia. of 5000 tons. while sister
ship. The Jutlandia, was put into The
water recently on the Clyde. Each
vessel Is about 800 feet long, with a
beam of SO feet. the propelling ma
chinery consisting of Diesel engines,
capable of developing 5000 horsepow-
err
Both are to have three masts, and
the fumes from the engine-room will
he led up inside the mizenmast an
exhausted at height of As feet above
the deck, the siren on the mainmasta
being operated by compressed air.
There are also building In German
yards for the Hamburg American Line
two motor boats of G.000 and 5000
tons. aud II is expected that they will
be ready for sea-trial In January
While a similar vessel of 4,500 tons Il
in course of construction at West Har,
!, tlepool for Messrs. Furness, Witty 4
y Co. the first British shipping com
u pany to engage In such an enterprise
= on so large a scale.
I" A Serious Competitor to Steam.
D AS the most serious of the problem,
have already been solved, It is nov
confidently believed that the interna
y combustion engine will soon become
D serious competitor to steam propul
sion and, with the discovery and dc
u Nelopment of new oil fields, will /,
: some extent supplant II. There ar,
" no tunnels. no boilers, and no Goa
bunkers, the petroleum being store,
In tanks along the double bottom q
: the vessel, and conveyed by pumping
u apparatus to the motors, so that Their
will be an entire absence of smoke
y SCOT. and dir, caused by coaling as a
present.
H. Moreover the machinery space |
T. only about third of that which |
= necessary for stea mcngines, with tn
L. result that there will be more accom-
D. mediation for passengers and cargo
Another advantage Is that the engine
81 can be started In five minutes, as com
! pared with fifteen hours required [
50 raise steam with boilers.
Making Wlndjamners Pay.
In sailng-ship circles, too, the hop
l. appears to be widely entertained tina
l. oil-engines as auxiliary power ma
{ solve The problem of making WIND
TANNERS pay. At any rate. severi
French owners, In fnrtherance of thi
policy. have had motors fitted for tn
g purpose, and at Bordeaux lately tb
- five.masted banquet La France. of
800 tons dead weight capacity til
IN largest sailer In the world, wa
10 launched for Roucn firm. She
l. provided with two Diesel engines. d.
70 veloping 1,soO horsepower, and is IL
y tended for the transport of ore frol
New Caledonia to Europe. The sal
!" and motors combined are estimated |
. give speed OF II knots In favorab
weather. and when the latter are n,
n required the shafts are uncoupled an