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Show HISSES OCEI IN 1 PETROL-DRIVEfll BOAT I Captain Day of Detroit Ac- l complishes Unique Feat H Amid Great Perils. HAIRBREADTH ESCAPES I Beset by Storms, Fire and H Water Scarcity; Spectacular H International Race Planned. H Special Cable to Tho Tribune. LONDON. Oct. 22. Captain Day of ' Detroit has arrived, here, 'having ao eomplislied the unique and perilous feat of crossing tho Atlantic ocean in a pctrol-drivcn boat during a voyage from Detroit to St. Petersburg. Tho 'Detroit." tho name of tho boat in which this hazardous voyage wns made, was only thirty-five foot in length, and Captain Day, who was accompanied by C. C. ISarle, mate; Walter H. More-ton, More-ton, chief engineer, and Keith Ferguson, second engineer, took more tbau two months to complete tho trip. During the voyarro the four men suffored many hairbreadth escapes from destruction by storms, firo and scarcity of water. Mr, Earlo, in describing their ad-ventures, ad-ventures, said: TV left Detroit, S00 miles from evr York, on July 2. Our boat was fitted with a 16-horsopower engine. giving a maximum speed of nix and one-hulf knots. Wo j;ot to New York on July H, left twp days lator and arrived at Qucenstown on August 7. Prom Queenstown we went to Southampton, from Southampton to IH Ostend, Ostend to Amsterdam, thenc through tho canals of Holland to Brunsbruttel, afterward through thn 'H Kiel canal, and from Kiel direct to St Petersburg, arriving on Septcm-ber Septcm-ber 12. Wo left the Detroit at St. Petersburg, and after staying there a wefjk we cam a to London by IH steamer. jH New Record Set. Our boat was th first petrol-pro-pelleil boat ever to crosa the At- H lantlc: and furthermore. It mado a record both In respect of size and TM the time occupied. Only one other motorboat ever crossed the western ocean, and that was the !Low, in 1905; but It had a kerosene engine and took thirty-eight days against our twenty-one twenty-one from land to land. We carried ninety days' supply of provisions, Including canned goods. hard tack and bottled stuff. We had also sixty days' supply of water, but two days out from New York wo round that It had all been spoiled bv Home paint left In the tank. For the IB rost of the voyage wo had to exist ou the. few bottles of soda that wc had, and that was, perhaps, our greatest hardship. H After the fourth day out we had continually rough weather, hut the boat behaved very wall, except when the wind was abaft the beam, -when we had dlfllculty In steering owing to her pointed, canoe-llko stern. The engine never stopped, save when wo had to heavo to on account of the heavy weather. Fire Is Conquered. When wo left New York we had 1200 gallons of petrol on board, and H on reaching Qucenstown wo had 200 gallons left. Prom there to St. Pe-tersburg Pe-tersburg we used 400 gallons, making the consumption 1400 gallons for ths whole trip. Exciting experiences? Oh, yes. The night before we got to Queenstown wc had a fire In the engine room. Some petrol had spilled out of a prim-lug prim-lug can. and in somo way caught fire. We had to work energetically with our tlre-cxtlngulshers before wo got tho upper hand of It. When w got to Queenstown we were "all In." Questioned about the future of petrol-driven petrol-driven Atlantic liners Mr. Earie did not think that they would "ever ma-tcriulize." ma-tcriulize." But he added that ''heavy oil engines of the Diesel type will un-doubtcdlv un-doubtcdlv he need very extensively within the next few years.' He said that is the coming motive power for vessels of all sizes; heavy oil being very cheap, while petrol 13 going up in price all tho time, International Race. fl Next year Captain Day. who is tba piouocr of gmall motorboat racing on tho ocean, is to orgauizc au internation- ' al race from New York to Paris for boats larger than the "Detroit." Five competitors aro expected to start, two American, two French and one Eng- H lish, the latter entered by Sir Thomas Liplon. A start will bo made from Xow York H about tho middle of June, and the trip jH is expected to tukc from fifteen to six-teen six-teen days. The boats will start to-trot to-trot her, and race on oven terms, ax they will all be of the name size ami jH Captain Day has already organized H motoboat races from New York to tier- H miida, and New York to Havana, and bus given a number of cups for ocean H racing all over the world, several H trophies going to Japan and Xow Zca- H land. |