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Show "5 CAPE" HATTERAS SHOAL. 5 Steuch Lightship Set to Guard This Ocean Graveyard. Bailors sny that there are two grave i Tarda In the Atlantic, one oil Sable I Island and the other nt Capo Hattcraa The wrecks that trcw tho ecu hot torn around the llttlo piece of land be tween the (lrniul banks and the main I land are mostly caused by the dense fogs that prevail most of the year misleading tho skippers westward and eastward bound, until too late they find themselves upon the rocks. Fog Is only a lesser peril of Hntteras weather. The cope Is know the seven sea over as the worst of storm centers. The fury of Its winds, tho sweep of Its terrible ter-rible cross-seas and the treachery of Its lurking shoals are a byword In the mouth of every deep-sea sailor. It Is here that the government has Just set the new nnd powerful lightship, No. 72, stanchest of Its kind, to warn ships from the Invisible perils of tho coast. The dangers of Hatterns are generally gener-ally unseen. Even In fine weather the water at high tide entirely conceals the reefs of Jagged rock upon which many a ship has beaten herself to pieces, But flno weather Is rare thereabouts Seldom does the sun rise clear upon the low sand spit running far out Into the ocean. Every storm that reaches tho coast seems to s'cek out Hattcraa 'tot the display of Its greatest violence. TJurlng a northeast or southeast gale Its rocky, seaward stretching ledges turn the ocean currents Into a vortex; and then there Is no spot In tho oceans of the world more to be feared. Tremendous Tre-mendous crou-scas rlso and sweep the , f. waters for many miles out to sea. A -' im)TeaMUtUra.starm,,'ofrton ojjejids.Jt Influence between two and thrto "hua-" dred miles outward. ttnr In tli N.lslor. If the reefs of Hatterns wero situate. at a different point on the coast line be cape would not have Its evil reputation. repu-tation. Hut they Ho In wait at the most easterly point of the South Atlantic At-lantic coast, nnd vessels bound to and fro between southern ports and such cities as New York and Philadelphia, Us well as tho fleet of steamships which load at gulf cities for Kuropo and coal at Norfolk and Nowport News, must pass close by Tho cape Is also close to the direct route between South Atlantic Atlan-tic ports and dreat Britain, and If a ship captain loses his reckoning even by a few miles he Is liable to come dangerously dan-gerously near It Since the Drat American monitor went to the bottom of the sea ort Cspe ilstteras hundreds of crafts, from tho fishing smscks to the liner, have been Its victims, and thousands of lives have been lost In Its stormy waters, noal-lilng noal-lilng this constant menace to the navigator, navi-gator, the government has spent millions mil-lions of dollars trying to And something some-thing -which will give suitable warning to ships. Time and again lighthouses have been planned, and the work got-ten got-ten well under way, but sooner or later, often after months of work, the treacherous treach-erous quicksands have engulfed the most solid foundsllons and sometime a single nlgbt of storm hs demolished the structure. Floating buoys of varl-ous varl-ous kinds have been tried, but these have also been aulckly washed away. After careful consideration, the United States lighthouse board decided to have a lightship constructed which would be strong enough to withstand ' the heaviest seas and provide Illumination Illumina-tion which could be seen at a long dis-Unce dis-Unce on the stormiest night. rlni Sblp f.""' The first ship tried wasn't of sum- clently heavy caliber The artillery of the seas was too murh for her. and one night she wss torn from her moorings moor-ings and landed high ond dry on the beach, the crew Just escaping with their lUes No 72 had Just been finished fin-ished and was sent direct to Hatteras She Is much larger than the other vessel ves-sel and tho workmen In the yards at Qulncy, Mass. where she was built, had orders to put the very best male-rial male-rial Into the hull and machinery and to take time enough to drive every bolt and rivet home She Is 112 feet In length and quite shallow, being about 20 feet In depth The hull, made of the best steel U divided Into five watertight water-tight compartments by bulkheads of the same material, so thst If the water should All three of these, the other two would keep her afloat. Tartly to strengthen her hull, she Is given three decks built almost as strongly as those of a warship In order to resist the tremendous tre-mendous strain when rocking In the waves. Tho quarters for the captain, officers and crow are on the main deck, while the coal bunkers nnd other supplies sup-plies are below. As the officers and MASSIVE ANCHOR WINDLASS ON NO. 72. men must remain sometimes for five or six weeks without seeing anyone or being relieved, the government bos STANCHEST LIGHTSHIP AFLOAT, tried to make their surroundings as homelike as possible Steam heat nnd electric lights oro provided In each cabin, and tho furniture, fur-niture, carpets nnd fittings would be a credit to a mansion, The ship Is equipped with refrigerating apparatus, and has also a plant. tor , distilling water so' that on ample supply of Ico can bo maintained In tho summer months as well as an abundance of pure water. Anchor asil lli Mkl. To hold the lightship on her station powerful apparatus was provided She has what Is known as a harbor anchor, weighing 2,000 pounds, large enough for an ordinary liner This Is connects I by a chain whoso links nro Hi Inches thick, calculated to stand a strain of 79,000 pounds. Uesldo the anchor, there Is what Is known as a wedge sn-chor, sn-chor, weighing 350 pounds, which works as a sort of steering gear to keep the vessel head on to the waves In a heavy storm, tn order to giro her plenty of room to ride the waves, 720 feet of anchor chain Is provided. The anchors are raised and lowered by steam, the ship being equipped with special engines. Electricity furnishes fur-nishes the Illumination for the lanterns which are arranged upon two steel maats at a height of SO feet above the water line. Each nut contains a cluster clus-ter of six arc lamps, each of 100 volts On a clear night their rays can be seen a distance of twenty miles, while tn stormy weather It Is calculated that the captain of a ahlp ten miles distant can ace them through his field glasses, as they have an attachment which produces pro-duces a vivid flash every half minute. The electric current la generated by a aet of powerful dynamos operated by team engines. No, 72 la provided with steam as a motive power. In case she should break loose from her moorings. Her engines are as large as those In an ocean tug of the first class and, It Is believed, will enable her to battle successfully with average northeasters. She Is equipped with a malnsatl, forsall and Jib. principally to steady her In a gala of wind. There la no danger of her being mistaken for any other craft. The l Iters on her aid, nre about ten l.-s in height and on a clear day etn bi seen at n distance of several miles Is themselves |