The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-26
new YACHT TO Be
LIKE A DESTROYER
Biggest Of Motor Driven Craft
Is Being Built for W.
Earl Dodge.
TO HAVE THREE ENGINES

Next summer. standing on the cliffs
at Newport. landsmen will zee what
they will no doubt take for a new
smart torpedo boat destroyer. dashirE
into the harbor. and unless she ONE
near enough for them to see the New
York Yacht cluh p%ennant and W. Earl
Dolge's signal swapping In the breeze.
they may never correct their impression,
for such a craft will be Mr.. Dodge's new
triple screw motor yacht. o building
from designs by Tans. Lenoiuc 4 Crane
at the George l.awley & Son Corporation
yard at Neponset.
The new yacht is now well urder way
and should be completed the early part
OF the summer. She will BE- the most
heavily powered motor yacht anoat and
will also be the largest in point OF ton
mage. one or two other boats are
slightly longer. but are not so heavil!
constructed and have not 30 great beam
and draugh,. and therefore, In the true
sense. she is the big boat.
The new yacht will be 40 feet :
riches over all i3o feet water line. %
feet = Inches beam. II feet . inches
depth and : feet draught. She will lie
driven 10y three six cylinder Speedway
motors OF II inches bore and /? inches
s,rokc. developing about 500 horsepower
each. The va h; viii be fast. although
she il heavily constructed, for nothing
has been skiTped TO attain speed. as
she is primarily to he used for offshore
work. The owners idea In having the
three motors, - that when running the
boa. FROM New York 10 Newport all
three can he looked up and she VII
then serve as a fast ferry while for
cruising along the coas; ard oNshore
work. TWO motors will he used and for
watching the races and Just puttering
around only one engine will ne used.
Even one. however. would give her .
GOOD speed.
Iler general lines are those OF the
rudcrn torpedo boat dcstroyeIs. having
rlumn stern and raised fore castle deck.
Tnc designers have altered her from
THIS general tNpr, only by sl'ghtly chang
Ing h"r stern. as II is universally adj
'n.ttei that the destroyer type OF stern
Is not good TO look upon. They have
therefore evolved an ellip'ical steamship
stern. compromising it to suit this par
ticular boat.
equipment tn" boat viii ne the last word
in naval ar hi'"cture. She will OF course
IL" hut!t IL steel. All her frames and
plating az" Of the highest tested ma
''r!tl ard are galvanized, TIE same
type of construction used IN tho DESTROY
ers has been used throughout this boat.
sivins her great strength and easy sea-
'",nI "o'"'H ~" mas seven "atertlght
ou'"'e'us 'ie' ""cN houses are also or
steel. The deck * OF white pine and
all deck trim Is Of teak.
Sl. ..ts 49,
.n' p'op""i! WIZ nave the most COM
- "'o'"f phneit or any yacht
aioa'' III auu'''oh 70 the three large
"I'i" c"s'''es' 81" mas a /. kiiowatt gem
.t"lo' "' LOT 'he Ienis' rams auNiliary
pumps anu eie'.r'c switches TOT hoist
~ !. ooals' ~ ana IN additlon 10
VIE, wiz n'Ne : hiio~at' combination
:. Iui,''ns 'ne ar compressor b''Ge
p."Po ""u o'ne' "uNinar'es' She VIII
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i'''s'h storage batteries win lou Ceil
."P"V''s' S"c VIII ne heaten py eiec-
'c,.s'
"ne VII nave q one ton ice machine,
Wlul u I'rse refrigerator IN the hold'
u'Nlutu mo TWO compartments ana as"
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h'a'i,h' : 'anao'e OF turning out %
p"unus . d",, me pumps are or course
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n"r S"'''',' 'ahN capacity ~ IN"
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r'".us OF -'"oo h',Ies' elahilhg he' ="
20 10 w" "'ler sac gong TO
an" .lel'' VI" 'he AZORES thence TO the
H'-u'.cIr''e"n her plunp'hg II or tne
'a'eSt open W" she mas TWO large
sr'N'H ,ahNs VI 'he STACK. or 100 gal
.'"' '',"' NV '"' ."' freSh wafer Sys-
,'fl ana 'he o''tr Tor SAT- water baths,
Nep' 'o'''h"a'E 'u'' ny auNii'ary pumps
'Ile OF Her large man engines was en-
"'''''' al 'ne '"hi"rtla EApoSit'on ana
announcer az tnr recent Motor boat SHOW
mere III New N"F"'
I'm VIII carry . - root owners
'"ui'h' WIN Il SP'"h or ABOUT 10 mixes
an h"uI u !" '"nt crews iaulch and a
poN-r diNghN. NJ IN" small boats are
hulId'llS al S'abiIrN =. Inc Onward
crew ; l"ll'i, daNi can be used IN the
d't'r power dinglN davis socket to &C.
'n',''l'"hat' = - i""' sen Bright dorN.
"hl'i VIII !" taken ON southern trips
AVA nSrh f"r LANDING ~ the SURF at south
N'hr'l''u ports "h"r" the yacht Will
no nNtltlf trilIEp naNf WlntnI