| Show t I The Largest Oil Tank 1 1 1 IJ 1 I < Steamer In I the World rcopyrlsht IS1S3 Chc ter Pn I cb UIIo blggepl oil tank teanllr In tho world nil bo launched I her next June Tie Itoach shipyards will build this steamer for the stantJrd Oil company It will cost about S20000 and It Is I to be completed by the let ot October Its capacltj will be SO 0tt gallons of oil In other words on every trip It will carry oil enough to nil 0 000 000 lamps and keep them burn In 12 hours At the present export price of oil the cargo tvlll he worth a little less I than 0000 The ship was dontanod by John Haug tie Standard Oil company s engineer whose headquarters are In Philadelphia It will have nome unique features Heretofore oil tank ships have been built with nil the storage room forward and the tuel bolle and machlnry aft The new ship will have tanks both fore nnd aft and the machinery Ihe quar ten for the men tic vt III be amidships An Ingenious contrivance will protect the oil from rwslula contact with fire by leakage There will be n well he tcn the oil tanks and the engine > room aft and another between the oil j 1 tanks forward and Iho boiler room These it ells will bo filled with water I Fach well will le capped with a small I tank on deck It there shoul 1 be 1 any I leakage of gas or oil the escape will bon bo-n r t the well tank on Iho deck Ir inn lie t pumped out from this sma 1 tank without with-out danger In any event tho oil or 0 gas escaping will not penetrate laterally e lateral-ly hut will rise t Anolhr rmarkble tntur or the new ship will be n fuel oil tank four feet rl ep nxt the boltom extndlng trom one end of the ship to the other H 19 I A Intended to operate tho ship with fuel oil If possible iJl If this proves Impracticable W = Im-practicable I there are coal bunkers t W which will hold an ample suiply of fuel The experiment with fUel 1 oil I will deli tl tad watched with great Interest by men I Interested In transportation It wan l1ed oome time ago on a tanle t amr 1 but unsuccessful The navy de art rnent has been testing It also nnd with f A bulkhral i running through the ship t longitudinally will divide the tank space In half In each side of this bulkhead bulk-head there will be water tight partitions t I parti-tions three forward and three oft I tvhlch will roako the number of tank I divisions It Tlesc will vary In depth I with the shape of the vessel the email I clt being 11 feet 6 Inches deep The largest tank will hold 14000 gallons of al largt 011 tank targe now In service f j In the handling of < II there Is I great r I n xperl i ence whIch a workmBn nt the Hoeh ohlpyard hd 1 Ith tho teamer Stanl i Atd Jen It w being tronformellnlo 11 barge IIInItd Ihl A tnk had bn allowed to tand mpty for a nnmbr of da nnd Ihn haJ ben pumpeil tull ot watr to drlv out all the a A Ory IIlthl nphtha had stuck In the main when the tanks were emptlel It was pumiel with tho water Into the tank where It clung to the skin Whn the first workman ds I sccnded Into the tank with n Inftip then the-n tr < m this naphtha exploded tearing tear-ing off part of tho deck ana Injuilne tl mnn irlously Tu provide against pitching and shiftIng shift-Ing of the oil exinnslon tanks will be built on deck These tanks will ha 81 feet 0 Inches deep They will connect with the tanks below through smill openings and as the oil In the hlg I tanks expands the suri lus will be forced upward up-ward Into the decks tanks Thus the lower tanks will be full at all times and tho pltthlnL and tosilnz of the 011 speed It will have a length of 2S < feet oter all nnd 10 feet bam Tho boilers will develop about 1 C09 horscpovver and the ship Is t expected to make li knots nn hour An oil tank steuner must be built with the greatest cntc On other ships of Iron the rivets which plerco the hull can be left to rust tight In an oil ship every outer rivet must be calked or tho oil which Is very penetrating will leak The walls of the compartments too must be made tight or a 1IHI crude oil leaking Into a tank ot naphtha might spoil It All this care In the construe tlon ot Ihe ship Is I what makes It so coatly for Its size The appearance of the ship will not differ materially from that of any other freight vessel The declt tanks IS feet wide will be Joined together ao that they will lave the appearance of elevated ele-vated hatchwail fore and art In other respects the ship will be of the stereotyped stereo-typed form outwardly Th mn who ship on an oil tsnk tamr have a Iry unlloaant xpprl nc Tho tumes from the oil are dl ngreable at all Imes Then they muat exprele the gratut care In the rot dllng of nr and thy are r-ot prnlt ted to atrlk a atehi to mok out NCW OIL TAVh SHIP 11111 be eonnned to the ahallow tonk I1bovo aeh ot the dek tonk I III b pro vldcl 1lIh a larl vnt hatch through wbleh tho 100 frum tho oil can ease ape In calm weathr ea-se hatches wll1 be rald TI tonl on the oil ship wll1 be filled through large main laid on Ih dock and below It ThIngs re will be tour Olen Th-Ings In the chief maln < n forward one art and two mldhlp Th hlp being moord at the 011 company dock the doCk tnn 111 b eonneetd with the main by Ih 1Iezlbl 1110 and nlln on the dock will pump the 011 Into Ih main Val v opnlar trom the mnln into the tanks will be controlled trom the deck and the oil will be turned Into one tanl after another until the hlp Is I loaded There will bo pumping n glnes on the ship to empty the tanlc The new ship will not bo built tor aide thlr Ieeplng room amldohlpa A Incle park IgnIting the vapor trom the tank would hlow the dp Co plce In aplto if this danger bowoOr thre hll bon only one lIrlou acrldnt to a tank steamer nnd that tv as due to nn unloldabl happening Llghlnlnj atruek tho ship oRIIlng the 011 to eX lode on 1 wreck the vel The storage tank tor tuel oil provldi In Mr Hauga design will Ie rona bl tr trom dangr from lightning or any othe attack from nltliout and I will remo the objectl hrtofore raised to the uso of ptr01um a tu1 on chips of war When this qutlon was debated In the Brltll pnrllamnt In ISJI It was claimed that Ihe u of fuel oil vtonM add to the danger of attack at-tack trom an nmy hut with the 011 itored below the water line there woul b e no danger that n shell cOl < I each It |
