The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-03-14
HAS
RADIO SIGNALS
The Nantucket, Now Under Con-
struction, viii Be Most
Complete of Its Kind.
VESSEL TO USE OIL AS FUEL
Most Modern Mediums for Sending
Warnings of Danger to Mariners
Being Observation-Disclosures
Devices Success.

Washington, D. C.-"Light vessel
No. 100" is being constructed for use
at Nantucket shoals, MASSACHUSETTS.
1t is to be the most complete boat OF
the kind in the United States and Will
be an Improvement on Light vessel NO.
1O5, now in operation at Diamond
shoals, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
Light vessel 100 is being built at the
plant of the Bath Iron works, Bath,
Me. 1t was launched October q, 1922,
but is still in the hands of the build
ers. 1t Is of steel and has a length
over all of 131 feet 4 inches, with a
nodded beam of 80 feet and a dis
placement of IT'S tons and a draft OF
IA feet 4 inches in salt water. The
vessel is steam propelled, using oil as
fuel, and is fitted with all necessary
pumps and auxiliaries. 1t will have
two steel tubular masts, each sur
mounted with a lantern using cleo
tricity as illuminant, operating through
a flashing device for the characteristic
light.
Modern sanitary and heating con-
veniences have been provided for the
crew. Radio fog signal devices Of the
latest improved type are being in
stalled.
No. 105 Is 147 Feet Long.
Light vessel No. 105, now in opera
ton, is up to date in every way. Its
general dimensions are: Length over
all, lat feet; length between perpen-
diculars, 121 feet 6 inches; beam, ~
feet; depth at side, nodded, IA feet
Q inches; mean draft (salt water), IL
feet 7 inches; displacement, 1925 tons;
indicated horsepower, 400.
The Nantucket vessel will be a twin
to the one at Diamond shoals. 1t Will
bear the name Nantucket In large
white letters.
The ship is Of the se~lf-propelled type,
single screw, driven by a ~fore-and-aft
compound engine. Steam will be sup
piled by two boilers, using oil as tue.
1t will show a flashing light from a
375-millimeter lens lantern at the fore
mast head the illuminant being acety-
lene gas, controlled by an electric
flasher operating the gas burners n
giving the light a characteristic dis
tinguishing 1t from other lights on the
neighbOring coast. This apparatus will
be In duplicate, with a lantern on each
of the two mastheads, SO that h other
light may be used in emergencies.
The Nantucket vessel will be
equipped with a steam chime whistle,
a submarine bell and an automatic
radio fog signal, making three distinct
fog signals or mediums for sending
warnings of danger to the mariner.
No. 1O5 was the first flagship of
the lighthouse service to be equipped
on construction with the radio for
To Have Refrigerator Plant.
The Nantucket, or No. log, will be
provided with. comfortable quarters
and modern conveniences, including q
refrigerating plant.
The bureau of lighthouses expects
great results from radio fog signals,
and the equipment on No. 100 for that
will be the last word In that
direction.
Three radio fog signal stations In
the vicinity of New York were placed
commission by the lighthouse serv-
ice May 1, 1921, these being the first
installations of the kind in the
United States.
The system of navigation by radio
Erection signals Is based on the equip
lent of selected important lighthouse
md light vessels along the coast with
for sending radio signals Of
imple and definite characteristics dur
ng a fog or thick weather by means
4 which a navigator provided with a
ado compass may take bearings to
,uide or locate his ship, although no
bject is visible. +,