The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-08-22
CITY OF PORTLAND
HERE FROM COAST
ONMA|DEN VOYAGE
Big Motor Schooner Runs At
Half Speed To Save Her
Fuel Oil

N motor schooner City OF Portland is
in the ofing on her first call here. She
rnchored late Saturday night, thirteen
and one half days from San Francisco
and sixteen and one-half from Astoria,
bound to Port Prize, Australia. This
is her maiden voyage,
When she will get away for Port
Pirie depends upon whether she can
obtain fuel oil for her BOlinder engines
here. None of the oil companies can
furnish the required grade, but there
are abundant supplies at Pearl Harbor
for the use of the K-class submarines,
and permission has been sought by c.
NJ. ThurstOn, assistant manager for the
standard Oil, through Capt. &. X. Clark,
commandant, for the City of Portland
to take $50 barrels at Pearl Harbor.
No oil whatever is to be obtained in
Australia, and unless she can hll her
tanks here the vessel will be forced to
run at reduced speed down and return
to the Islands with coal, which will
mean much slower voyages. A reply
il expected from Washington today. If
permission is given, the City of Port.
land will proceed TO Pearl Harbor and
sail thence for Port Prize, getting away
prODaDly TOMORROW.
Boiinder and Diesel engines require
Calol fuel oil, twenty four degrees
Baume, whereas ordinary fuel oil is
sixteen degrees.
das 100000 Feet
Hold and deck, the schooner has tho
big cargo of zoos, 1873 feet of lumber
She is l7Ol tons gross, 1869 net, 276
| feet long, 1873 beam and 1911 deep. She
feared from Astoria August 2, sailed
August 3, made San Francisco light,
| ship in sixty two hours, dropping W.
q. hewett, chief engineer of w. Il. Me
Cormick 4 Co, and proceeded to Homo
lulu. She had been expected only to
report to her owners from Honolulu,
continuing on her voyage at once.
Capt. Olaf johnson, master of the
ity of Portland, said that Gains and
ight winds were met continuously
throughout the voyage, with trades for
he last two days only, which forced
unning the engines at half speed all
he way. She needs strong winds for
Ter spread Of sail. Full speed would
aavc been used except for the neces,
ity Of conserving the oil supply as
much as possible. Had she had fair
Winds the vessel would have arrived a
lay or two sooner.
The schooner is the first big motor
vessel built on the Pacif, I'd the first
| big vessel in which Henry Lund & Co
rave installed BOlinder engines. The
other vessels to be built by the Nc
jormick company will be about $50
ons larger, Captain johnson said
Henry Lund, Jr., representing the Lund
firm, visited the City of Portland in
the offing yesterday.
though for $4,000 Miles
| Her bunkers hold 300 barrels. At
\ full speed she burns about twenty one
n twenty-five barrels n day, and four.
Teen or fifteen at half speed. She has
enough oil TO run her sixty days, or
bout $1,000 miles by engine alone. At
full speed, with engines alone, she can
lake about seven or eight sea miles
| IN hour. and with fair wind can in.
'rPase this to ten or eleven under sail
Her jiGger mast of hollow steel is the
Exhaust for the engines, and the yes
el presents curious sight when. the
! 'ngines are running.
At top speed the engines can turn
Up 225 revolutions minute, and each
revolution gives forward thrust OF
five feet three inches. Explosion OF
the oil is produced by the high TEN
perature Of the compressed air within
the cylinder, which is at q pressure OF
bout 80 pounds to the square inch
compressed air forces out the product
Of explosion and the returning piston
shuts off the air intake and prepares
For the other stroke.
Two Pour Cylinder Engines
There are two engines, each of -four
cylinders, $40 brake horsepower, $50
indicated, working twin screws There
il a smaller engine for the dynamo
which lights the ship, and later there
will be electric power for the wheel
There was not time to complete al
ietails before she sailed Steam fol-
the winchcs is supplied by boiler il
the engine room. Winches and boomi
re unusually complete aud large, and
quick discharging will be possible
j.. II. Knnnady is chief engineer
rev al told numbers twenty two
'Cven Of whom are in the engine room
i"ur engineers and three oilers.
If oil can be obtained here, Captain
Johnson expects to make Port Prize il
twenty eight days. If no oil can b.
lad, she will have to conserve her sup
by and run more slowly. Returning