| Show 1JIE QUESTION OF SHIPS for tile Groivinff Confidence r c 1I Uli the l > c of Auxiliary Steam s II III Power I New York Sun several weeks past rumors have for floating about the lower end of the efl I tilt effect that a company of mer to L tv t haMbeen formed to build a fleet rit i filing ships with small steam f 1r d 1foiir nrto shove them along when the j i wer failed or was adverse No definite I I1 Inl cuas were given and when mer I were questioned no one was able > nts r lfoc1te the company One merchant Nlihe scheme is practical I A line of iqze sailing ships with moderate J e plying between New York Tmipower i 1 ivcrpool would prove a paying in 3ient but if that statement were 1 mde on the Maritime Exchange it would hiFiieu 1 at The maritime people ought to know Yes but let me give you the figures The immercilmimit produced a very old LTi back pages of which eer the were Moil with notes and calculations Then v continued crimps I ought to modify my state > nt lJr siying that a fleet of such ves plying = between American and British H t would pay because it might be pennies advantageous to send to Balti ire or some other port for a cargo but > lommg as common sailing vessels can I arTy grain p and cotton out of this port Irthout loss the modern sailing ship can 1 jit with great profit cording to Lieut Maury a ship and to Liverpool from New York is Cabled to lay her l course for eightytwo d cent of the time and when on her am passage she has fair winds sixty mper cent of the time The rest of the jae lie is obliged to tack by winds that 1 cther slant or dead ahead The same Lonty gives to the outward passages a January to April to ten degrees jrt of Cape Clear 2287 miles of fair sil 4M miles of slant winds and 76 dead ahead and he gives a record I j ships which covered the distance in I jjrerase of 19 days and 18 hours It m calculated 1 from this 41 1 > ncalcu ate rom s that these n averaged the 2287 miles in twelve J at eight knots an hour that they r d GOO miles on a long log and a short at he t knots an hour in five days to er the 4G9 > miles by chart thatthey Led 201 miles at five knots an hour in < L and sixteen hours to cover the nty Six miles and that they were Jnied twentysix hours It is fur t Jrulated that out of the twelve of fair wind the ship averaged eight sail at 99 knots an hour during i tune no steam was needed With jute steam power it is fair to pre z1 that with light fair winds they the-y ship would make seven knots an i Mie could therefore cover the rJes which would carry her to the tli mile of her course in 2 days she would have 469 miles by chart nt winds which she could cover in ays by sail and steam at seven knots our and if she were allowed fours s m dead ahead winds she would I 1 the remaining 76 miles of hero L > her-o in Is huurs or in all 14 days the pas ae instead of 199g The rage of the return voyages of those ket ships under sail was thirtytwo With moderate steam power it J 1 have been reduced to seventeen average sing of time on a round would be twenty days by steaming en days on the round trip In other is the sailing ship which had the r of a tug on board of her would as good time as half of the steam inning out of this port The cost moderate auxiliary power would h properly constructed machinery the value of six or eight tons of Baring each of the sixteen days she ader steam A small increase in unber of the crew would be neces iut the great saving in time as ired with sailing ships and of fuel spared with tramp steamers that 2 svwhere from thirty to forty tons qnvard a day would more than make difference The carrying capacity 1 sailing ship wovId be slightly re 1 by the introduction of machinery lJY a hundred tons of coal for a pas but the capacity of the auxiliary X l ship would be way beyond that of tramp steamers Of course the jurv would receive the freight rates Ijfetcamerb l after she had demon iV > d ahitity to make steamer time lhr los 6f thirtyseven old CaJjfornia 1iias in 1852 showed an average pas of 124 days from New York to San N co The twentynine best pas averaged I 11 daysThe average American ships in 1850 was 187 t by examining the logs of these fuMound 1 that by sacrificing all a for 250 tons of cargo and the I Jta J t of it a moderate steam power could be reduced to seventy 1Jwvcntyfwe days fcvdont you do it then a with money cannot be made to 4 yu the matter just now but it i has done in several cases There is he k uendoa Captain Tucker which 1 described long ago She is now itulirly between Buenos Ayers j wlv f York making the passage regu T13 lIes > than forty days or about > llirds of the average sailing ship P She is a very profitable invest c The Louis Buck built by Cap i cJJatnls II Woodhouse of New Haven Mutable coasting schooner The 1 tV t I Schooner Jeanie belonging n I Vindicislcr Coj of this city J 10en making money for her owners I j nw she was launched in February ilp Pacific whalers out of Sino Sin-o are all fitted with steam n wIt L w-It has stood in the way of auxil i m Tper for the past eighty years o f lack of a proper method of pro the > ship At present a two Hciev1 that stands perpendicular T 1 lt stcrI post when not in use is Jt device known Commodore Jroposeg I l to use swinging or per iding doors to close the two r crw when it is not in use and aSi t all POSsibility of drag There 4 t > tl many shipbuilders coming to l iUJon that auxiliary steamships ti the freight of the future and > em are two of Baths best 1lnen It |
