Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-23 | Page 9 | U. S. Navy Last Coal Burners to Pass This Year

u. u s. s Navy L Coal Burners to o Pass This Y Year ear Only Three Orea Dreadnoughts Among Them the Utah Remain to Be Converted Con Con- Converted I WASHINGTON Jan 22 AP A new era In United Sta States e naval history history his his- tory will have fully dawned at the end t-of t the year 1927 when the archaic coal burning battleship born more than a a century ago through the Inventive genius of Robert Fulton will be a thing of the eventful past Three the Utah the Wyoming and the New York which In their daY days have consumed unknown un- un known qua quantities of coal remain to be modernized They will nave have anew a a. new set of Innards namely oil oil- burning furnaces to place them ona on ona a par with other rate first ships of the fleets When they are turned out of drydock they will mark fulfillment ful- ful Ulment of a program Inaugurated more than ten years rears ago when oil was determined more desirable asa as asa a ship fuel FIRST USED IN 1910 Disappearance of the coal burner Is a sequel to the fading of the romance which the sail rigged frigate Imparted to the main In 1815 Robert Fulton Fullon built for the navy the first fire eating monster monster mon mon- ster which churned its magical course out to sea spelling doom to the historic wind Nearly Neally a century later In 1910 the North Dakota first United States States' battleship to utilize oil as fuel was commissioned The trio of vessels to undergo reconditioning reconditioning re- re conditioning In the coming year are all more than ten years old The change of fuel consumption er with extensive overhauls In Boston Bos- Bos Boston ton Philadelphia and Norfolk navy yards Is expected to rejuvenate them OIL BETTER ALL ROUND Advantages of oil are found by navy offIcials In Its concentration of power In less ss mass than coal Its cleanliness and adaPtability for handling Oil has a higher combustion combustion com com- bustion efficiency and gives all ships greater cruising range Most of the newer oil burning battleships are electrically pro pro- Oil boilers generate steam which In turn spin turbines for the generation of electric current Submarines Sub Sub- marines of c course urse are electrically outfitted All the navys navy's destroyers destroy destroy- ers burn oil 0