Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1928, Page 26

26 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C SEEK T0 OVERCOME | [ nemea semsor | ‘UINDERSEA PERILS Navy Department Fits Re-i gently Salvaged Submarine | klor Experimental Work. ctivities instituted as a result of the disaster which befel' the submarine S-4, when it was rammed and sunk in a collision with the Coast Guard de- stroyer Paulding off Provincetown, Mass.. last December are detailed in the annual report of Rear Admiral J. D. Beuret, chief constructor, Navy De partment, made public yesterday. He sa that the S-4 has been fitted out f experiments designed to provide ways | of correcting the problems which prov- ed difficult in the rescue and salvage operations following the disast The vessel is scheduled to leave the Portsmouth, N. H. Navy Yard today ¥ and to arrive off New London, Conn. | o, Hestings, now judge of the Muncipal tomorrow, where the experiments will | Court in Wim'gt.n, to be Unied be conducted. In his report, Admiral|states Senator to succeed T. Coleman Beuret says that the main engines | gy Pont, who resigned last week have been removed and the apparatus| S Jeft on board has been concentrated | in two main compartments, so that | boat for the fittings removed gives a three of the main compartments may |sufficient rescrve of stabili be flooded at will to simulate conditions | mit the instalation of such de on a damaged submarine. | as it may be desired to test. An es The vessel is fitted with flooding | cape lock and a single-action hatch arrangements both for the main ballast lar to those on the V boats have fanks and for the main compartments | been installed on the S-4, he says, for which have been prepared for flooding, | more complete trials than are practi- also with air-expulsion apparaius and | cable on a submarine in service, also ballast pumps operated from' the stor- |a single-action door of the type on the age battery, So that it may be sunk V boats, but of a design considered and raised as required in connection | practicab'c for the S_boats with tfie experiments. Sample lifting eyes have been install- The substitution ed, also special coamings to permit the &&@@fi@&@@@&% Free Auto Parking in Fireprooj Garage For Patrons of Our Downtown F St. Store DOVER, Del., December 11"(#).—Gov. Robinson yester: appointed Daniel ballast low in the “tcst of two diving bells of somewhat | different deslgn. It also is proposed to install such additional devices as may be indicated by the tests to be con- | ducted tomorrow, or by further study of the thousands of suggestions which were receivea following the sinking of the vessel. He 'says that there will not be a speciai test of individual com- partment air connections. as it is not | considered necessary. These now are | being installed on the submersbles in Salvage Pontoons Supplied. He points out that the Navy Depart- ment has already adopted the policy of | providing a submarine rescue vessel in each of the submarine operating areas, | and each of these vessels is supplied | with a set of salvage pontoons, the total | lifting capacity of each set being suffi- cient to raise one of the S boats when | completely flooded. An additional sup- | ply of hose and other salvage equipment | in excess of the quantity that can be | carried on board the rescue vessel is | being provided at a convenient station in each submarine operating area. ‘ Indications that the construction de- partment will be ready promptly with plans for any new vessels that Congress | may authorize is contained in the re- | | port, which says that a considerable | amount ork was undertaken on | plans of vessels incuded in the building | program before the Ilgeis'ators | Designs for light cruisers 32 to 36, the | first_group of proposed new cruisers, have been carried through the prelim- inary design and model basin experi- | ments and contract plans are practi- | cally completed. The characteristics for the design of the first airplane carrier included in the program have been sottled and contract plans are under | way and preliminary studies have been | made of destroyer leaers and sub- | marines, with a view to deciding on the | characteristics of these vessels. Serious Problem Outlined. Admiral Beuret also calls attention to | a very serious problem which would face | the Navy in the event of war, notably | the falling off in the number of people | available for naval construction work, | and he urges an increase in the number | of officers asigned each year from among | the graduates of the Navay Academy for post-graduate work preparatory to their entrance into the construction corps. | The number of men in civil life trained | as naval architects is limited, due to | the relatively small amount of ship- | building under way, and experience has | shown that the demand for men in this profession increases greatly on the approach of war, due to the increase in merchant shipbuilding. At the time of the the World War, he adds, very few men of this training could be called from civil life without risk of interfer- ing with important merchant ship | building under way, and the situation | would be even less favorable now than | | at_that time. | | In this connection. he points out that | carlier in the year the draftsmen at the | Washington Navy Yard employed on | of new vessels were examined. Since war-plan work were transferred to the bureau and organized as a unit of the i THE LOUVRE 1115 1117 F STREET design section, which has materially facilitated their work. A complete revision and consolida- tion of the general specifications for use in the conversion of merchant vessels to naval auxiliaries has been completed and plans have been pre- pared for conversion of several types of vessels. The work previously under- taken has been concerned mainly with the plans and specifications necessary for the conversion of merchant vessels actually in service, although some plans the passage of the merchant marine : act of May 22, 1928, the number of plans of new vessels submitted for ex- amination and comment has materially increased. The high cost of trying to maintain an old Navy in the prime of condition is indicated by the chief constructor, who says that the amount of money ex- pended for the repair of vessels has in- | crease don an average of $440,000 a year for the last five years, and, so far as this can be determined, the increase in the amount of repair work required is cue to the gradual increase in the average age of the vessels in the fleet. 40-Year-0ld Powder Good. RENO, Nev. (#).—Prof. J. 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