Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 18, 1898, Page 7

th .. a a — { THESE SHIPS ARE FOR WAR Non-Combatant Vessels That Serve the Men- of-War as Floating Hospitals, Helpers, etc.—Are Never Fired Upon. fhe finest cf our fighting ships, with all their boasted self-sufficiency, their manifold mechanism, and their com- plex provisions against accident or mishap, are really helpless creations the moment their coal supplies become exhausted. Nothing could be more sally distressed than a great hip wallowing aimlessly in a her powers of offense intact seaway but paralyzed, like her great body, for want of energy or its correlative, coal; her great eyes blind for want of elec- trical force; her lungs fouled by taint- ed air because of her halted blowers; her whole body either feverish or chil- led, as the weather dictated, for want of circulation or proper respiration; and her complement athirst for need of h heat to transform that tantaliz- ing sea water into drink. Such a thing is distinctly possible, and it is against even the slightest approach to a like condition that we have taken ample means to provide. 1e modern, heavy fighting craft s between eighty and ninety en- ous sorts, aside from those occupied in propelling the ip; and, under normal circumstanc- it is quite safe to cay that at least fifteen or twenty per cent of all steam generated is taken up in their service. of them are vital to the fighting iency of the vessel; but there are of them, such, for instance, as engine ‘orkshop, the distillers, erating plant, which may ixiliaries of secondary im- and it is the purpose of the vernment to run these accessories on half-time, so to speak, and to leave just that much more energy for other needful purposes. To this end, ted up the repair ship, the distiller ship, and the refrigerator ship, while to the colliers has been relegated the common service of supplying coal to all craft distant from ready bases and the engineer-in-chief nis utmost to make them cap- en directly more we have fi f suppl} has done k able. The Repair Ship. pair ship, fittingly named the known steamer f the Merchant and Miners’ ; Balt and Boston. e ship has been placed some- ke eighty 0 ols and ma- and toc el is a ver- loating we There are » bending rolls, and punching and | aring machines that can bite right olid steel. There tings of con- drills and s enough to of that de- complete reconstruction urge engine. There are pipe cut- bolt cutters, forges and grind- and there is a good-sized cupo- y the melting of sufficient metal make a pretty hea asting. There are a number of blowers to supply the several forges and to draw foul air between decks and to send it rd through the red-mouthed ven- s above. There are also evap- stillers of a capacity output of quite 10,000 tween kshop. almost manded in the ors and ¢ 1 to a dail eqt gallons of potable water—several times more than the needs of the Vulcan could demand. A supplemental elec- tric plant ha iven excellent lighting facilities through the ship, but prin- cipally in the workshops on what is termed the third deck, The purpose of this craft is manifest. She is to follow in the wake of a fleet— her great coal capacity g’@ing her a wide radius of action, and she is to supply fresh water to the other vessels and to make then and there all possible which might otherwise take the ships miles and miles away to some naval station. A broken spindle might render help- Jess two great guns; but a few hours’ work on the Vulcan would remedy the trouble; and even less time might place the engines of one of our torpedo boats in trim after a considerable break. At the close of an engagement, the wounded vessels could hasten to her cr she to them, and such work then be done as to place them back in the line of battle, once more a formidable | menace to the foe. The mission and the usefulness cf such a craft can not be overestimated, when every pound of coal must tell its tale of work well done in our defense. It is a very modern adaptation of that wise saw, “A stitch in time saves nine,” and a typical instance of the great value of a traveling base of repairs. The Distiller Shir. Tie distiller ship, now named the Iris, was the British steamer Menem- sha. Unlike the Vulcan, the Iris will make no repairs, but will be devoted solely to converting the ocean’s brine into drinking water; and to this end, she will carry a very large supply of coal and will have four up-to-date dis- tillers of considerable capacity. These distillers or evaporators will each con- sist of three elements like the modern triple expangion engine, and are in- tended to utilize the steam with the making good the loss of fresh water consumed by the boilers, that the use of salt water must be obviated and the formation of a troublesome scale of salt—difficult to reach—may be guard- ed against in the ship’s boilers proper. The hygienic value of sufficient fresh water can not be overestimated when the rigors of warfare are aggravated by the elose confinement of shipboard in the tropics; and it may even be the purpose of this vessel to lend its boun- ty to the military branch of the ser- vice. Poisoned wells and tainted streams need not be feared under such cireumstances; they can be avoided. The Refrigerator Ship. The refrigerator ship Supply, for- } merly the Illinois, of the American line, will be used as a traveling base of fresh provisions; and the tax on the refrigerating plants of the fighting ships will be eased to just that exent. The Illinois was originally built for a passenger ship, but was later relegated to the transportation of cattle and beef to England, still as an adjunct to the American line. In that capacity she necessarily had an extensive system of cold storage,and this has readily adapt- ed the vessel to our present needs. She will carry tons of ice and fresh proven- der of all kinds—but especially of a vegetable nature—the surest safeguard against disease in the tropics, and with her extensive coal capacity, her own distilling plant, and her ample burden, she will prove an exceedingly efficient part of the fleet. The government is much emphasized by the record of ev- ery war. As far as possible, the Solace has been made to meet the more press- ing needs of the service for which she has been called into requisition, but she is not that perfect craft suggested by Surgeon-Gen. Van Reypen and care- fully planned by the chief constructor, There is one commodious elevator in- to which the sick and wounded will be carried from either side, and then rais- ed or lowered either to the large, airy operating room, or to the deck on which they are to be housed. The stateroom accommodations already in the craft have been readily adapted to hospital uses, and there is ample room between decks for additional cots. The convalescents will be carried above, where they can be in the fresh air while under the sheltering cover of wide-spread awnings. Steam cutters and large barges will facilitate the easy transportation of the injured and sick, and a well-known apparatus peculiar to our service will lift them from the boats and swing them inboard and onto the rolling cots that carry them to their immediate destination. Every- thing has been done to contribute to the efficiency of the vessel and the com- fort and convenience of all on board, and there is every just reason to be- lieve she will prove herself invaluable from the common point of hygienics and humanity—for a fighting ship is a cruel place for sick or wounded after a heavy engagement. Although all these vessels will strict- pi } \s vi i VA) me Yucca aan, He i faseanec eh fil BV AY Seema SOME NON-COMBATANT SHIPS OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. | most economical expenditure demand- ed in the output of a total supply daily of at least 60,000 gallons of thoroughly palatable drinking water. The operation is simple. Each of the evaporators consists of a cylindrical steel boiler containing a coil of piping surrounded by cold sea water. The steam is supplied to the first coil di- rectly from the ship’s boilers. That steam raises the sea water to the boil- ing point and gradually evaporates it in that way. The steam thus generated in conjunction with such of the origin- al steam not condensed in the first coil in the operation, passes into the coil of the second evaporator, repeating the operation in connection with the sea water there, and finally merging with the steam raised from the salt water in the third evaporator and passing to- gether into the condenser. The con- densation from the first two coils is caught by traps and carried off to the tanks: In this way the latent heat from the first steam from the boiler is economically absorbed by the three stages of salt water, and a higher per- centage of performance is attained than is possible in a single-element evapor- ator. After condensation the water is carefully aerated and the result is a thoroughly palatable water devoid of that flatness generally characteristic of condensed sea water. ‘ A sediment of salt—the residue of the ocean brine—gradually forms upon the coils of the distillers, and these evap- orators are so arranged that this scale can be readily removed. On the other ships their distillers will be worked as far as possible only to the extent of making provisions for one or two more vessels of the same sort. The Colliers. The colliers explain themselves, and, being boats of fair speed and great car- rying capacity, will form the principal supply links between cur fighting craft and our base of supply. As carefully as our coal will be used, still hundreds upon hundreds of tons of it will be used daily to keep the ships always ready for instant service and prepared to meet the enemy at any moment; and the safe conduct of their precious ebon burdens wiil be a matter often demand- ing good, cool judgment and no mean skill on the part of their commanders. In war time, and sore pressed as Spain is, coal is worth its weight in gold, and a collier will prove a nugget worthy of a good, stiff cha® and a moderate tus- sle, and the captain that can dodge such a foe and run his cargo safely into the intended haven will be doing just as much good, perhaps, as the skipper that sinks a foe. The Ambulance Ship, The ambulance ship is the naval sis- ter of mercy, and will minister wholly to the sick and wounded of our officers and seamen, or, if need be, the stricken of our army of occupation as well. The Solace, formerly the Creole, of the Cromwell line, has already begun, pefhaps, the duty for which she was hastily prepared; and what it means to transport comfortably and hastily the wounded from the feverish tropics to some more temperate haven beyond the boom of guns and beyond the exciting reach of war’s alarms is a boon very CHARGING, TorPEDO =a Wasaga EE = — (> ie ? L Auncning [0?PE00 Foon ine. pak THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.— AN AMERICAN TORPEDO BOAT IN ACTION. YT ly avoid the enemy, still, in their way. they are just as vital to our success as those that take their places in the line and bear the brunt of battle; and any man might be proud of the duty en- trusted him in their command. R. G. SKERRETT. Exports and Imports. The exports of merchandise for the month of April aggregated $99,426,469, an increase of $21,177,674 as compared with the same month last year and for the ten months ended April 30, $1,025,- 426,681, an increase of $125,497,435 com- pared with a similar period of 1897. The imports of merchandise for April were $55,923,658, a decrease of $45,398,- 748 compared with April of last year, and for the ten months ended April 30, $511,187,186, a decrease of $89,008,058 compared with the same period of 1897. RECENT INVENTIONS. To prevent the slipping of wheels 01 electric cars on grades a pair of sup- plemental rails is placed inside the main rails, with grooves cut crosswise | in their surface, to. engage toothed wheels mounted on the shaft. Dressmakers will appreciate a new sewing machine attachment, consist- ing of a U-shaped frame attached to the back of the table to support a cloth basket, which prevents the work from pulling or getting on the floor. 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