Show WAR SPEEDS UP COALING SHIPS S hap hs no mo port in dafid as well equipped as ag pew kew york to handle work SAVING SAM IN TIME IS SHOWN high speed coal dumpers and lighters simplify work tons can be loaded in six hours neit ne york war lug ban speeded up coaling of ships in the port of 0 new york until no other port in the world at the present time Is as well equipped to handle this important task tash so fast has become the coaling of big vessels that enormous liners like the imperator can have their bunkers filled to their capacity of tons in 10 16 hours the reason for the increased speed Is largely high speed coal dumpers and fuel lighters each one of the latter Is able to give a ship 1000 tons of coal in eight hours an achievement due mainly to special coal elevating machinery but ships requiring 1000 tons or less ess are in the big majority whether transatlantic or coastwise trade la Is considered dered and it Is not essential that for such ships there should be a loading device separate from the coal barges to enable a continuous stream of barges to ply to and from coal dumping stations in a single day for the average vessel a total ot SOO tons Is usually sufficient and this means that a ship of this sort may discharge a cargo and take on a new one all in the course of a single day with the adoption of the modern lighter it Is an easy matter to load coal while the cargo Is being unloaded and a new one taken on one modern modem high speed lighter can coal three buch auch ships in an eight hour bour day this development of modern modem lighters is equalled equal led by better facilities for transferring coal from cars to barges ruge huge steel dumping machines now take up a 50 ton car bodily el elevate lt it end and empty its contents into the barge by tilting the entire car on tile the side a great improvement over the process of unlocking ft a trapdoor in the bottom of the car and letting the coal slide through these machines have a capacity of tons tona each a day saving savi da of time to the here is shown by comparison with cardiff the english port where the largest tonnage of english coal is loaded for export in loading a vessel for example the english shipper r uses a railroad car of ten or twelve tons while the american uses one of fifty to ninety tons capacity so that the cardiff docks must discharge from five to ten carloads to every one discharged in new york in order to min tain the same speed carried by steel colliers steel colliers ply between boston and hampton roads a distance of miles each one of these ships Is capable of making a round trip every week and transporting 35 tons 0 coal a year A vessel of the same tonnage however carrying a cartoof cargo of coal from cardiff to a port miles away would take a week at cardiff to load its cargo and another week at its destination ti to discharge it thus new york laden ships can make three trips to one for a cardiff laden vessel such things as these are what places p aces new york as the greatest port la in the world and makes american coal operators feel that there Is a great opportunity port unity for exporting american coal five different companies within recent months have established fleets of specially designed carriers on the theory that with our tremendous coal supply and superior port faculties facilities it |