MOTOR-DRIVEN NAVY.
THE REPORTED ADMIRALTY PROJECT.
(BY THE NAVAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE LONDON "DAILY TELEGRAFHL.")
The Portmouth Evening News has given currency to a report, which it claimed was based on excellent anthority," to the offert
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH, 1910
I has yet been made. Now the engine power of↑ the sost battleships is 27,000 horse-power, ar nine times as great as that contemplated in the German cargo vessel.
DIFFICULT OF BELIEF.
It is erosedingly difficult, therefore, to believe that so huge à siride is likely to be made. The battleship with internal combustion engines will, no doubt, come all lo good time, and probably before many
have passed; but there seems to be no evidence that sho can be built at present. Whether, when she does come, she will
ongines of
As to the disadvantages of all fool in itselfit is perhaps too early to speak The fuel when carried in the double bottoms, as at present, is not dangerous in pesca time, unless the ship should ground and form it up into the boiler roma-as has happened. With bailers abolished this denger would be abolished too. It has been efter pointed out that a man of war at present relies on the armagement of her coal bunkers for a reasonable share of her protection. This protection would, of course, be gone and a danger substituted for it if the side bunkers
Wwere. Alled with oll,
be driven by reviprocant considoration,
liable to
to suporsession
that the Admiralty is on the point of ordering kind is author
Perhaps the gravest disadvantage to Great a battleship to be laid down which will be driven by interant ones bustion engines. It is not When the marine motor, as we know it to Britain, however, from the adoption of oil fuel today, shall have been perfected, it will remain would be that we would lose the great benefit definitely so states, but the inference seems to
After a reciprocating
ting engine comparatively of our exclusive supply of the boat smokeless coal. At prosent we hafe in this respect an he that one of the battleships of the current extravagant ssion by a' turbine type of gaadvantage over all other navies, the greater!
of power. It will on that account be year's programme in implied. The first of these, necording to existing arrangements, is
suging just as with the past five years or little because ont coalfields are at home, With oil to be laid down in January next.
mere the steam turbine has superseded the steam fuel we would be thrown to a large extent on whether any such develop reciprocating engine. It
the The question us to
foreign market. There would not only be is to question,
open
the danger
of the supply being interfered with ment is possible in the present state of engineer- therefore, whether the Admiralty would in any at its source by a prospective enemy, it would
น
science is one for engineers. This much must he admitted, that for many years past the age think Bt to make to enormous an experiment motor driven fast liner and heary man-of-war with gas engines of existing type at a time when also be the case that our naval fuel would have the threat of their being rendered obsolete by to reach us from overseas, becoming this com The advantages to have been freely discussed.
the adroat of the gas turbine is real and paratively vulnerable in time of war. be gained have been stated over and over again. imminent. From a consideration of these points Rather more than two years ago drawings of a battleship without funnels were laid before the it may be informed that the Portsmouth correspondent has probably mistaken a piens Institute of Naval Architects, and the project aspiration for a statement of fact. described in an interesting paper. This was af the
timo of the Rattler's
er's trials, and the idna then. most in evidence was that the obnoxious frinnels should be got rid of by using a produser
Sreco that date engiz,oors have looked rather to the substitution of oil fact for coal, and
pointed out that the gas ongine
if) proper, enfficient power could be devoloped by means of it, would give far greater advantages than could be had from any installation of producer
Вате
OFFICIALISM IN PRACTICE,
gas plant, The belief that the future lion with remaly, if sizo was the constant, either o the following
ADVANTAGES OF MOTOR PROPULSION, Of coures the advantages to to gained from the use of internal combustion engines would be rory-grant. If spoed was to be the constant, the ongine-room waights would be much reduced, and, in an increased proportion, so would the size, and consequently the cost of the ship. speed could be attained, or a vastly inerend radius of ention should that bo judged
perhaps the armament necessary-ur
the weight be remembered, however, that saved would be low down in the ship, so that it is by no means certain that soy such addition of waight could bo medosto the armament, which high above the water line. is now placed very In any case it
cloar
that
amator-driven ship would not need the large engine and boiler room complement which steam engines and boilers de mand; and, complement whi
It is already possible, says the Globe, to fors- east the sort of things that will happen when the harcanorats are fully established in their ralo. The sins of the War Office, the Adzsiralty, the Local Government Board, and the Treasury are already sufficiently notorions; the villain of little is the self-styled
story is Intelligence Department of the Board of Trade. An English merchant received an order from a firm in s s foreign capital. Ho the standing of the firra in question, and was informed that the reply could not be given directly, but only through the medium of the
thep
the At this point, Board of Trade. "Int
Intelligence Department appears on the scene. It was no part of the business of the British Consul, it wrote, to answer questions as to the repute of foreign firms-which, it may be
Bome form of gas engine, to the exclusion of could be proportionately augmented. It must wrote to the British Connal, to inquire us to:
пор firmly established. Such great marino ongineers as Sir Willian White and Sir John Thornycroft, to mention no others have asso olated their names with it, so that the general attitude has for some time, prst Leon one of... expectanes.
PETROL OUT OF THE QUESTION,
It must be pointed out, however, that up to the prosent there has been no perfectiance that would justify an experiment costing two mil lions of
I public money. Enormously fast motor-alm Witsre most important of all, the observed, is hardly a satisfactory regulation-
Grew
are
other
in
Ho
ho
vay:
oil fuel would be a speedy and but on this particular mattor the Departmont proceeding, instead of the laborious and possessed certain information which it would if desired The merchant wrote bank boats have been built, notably by Sir John filthy task coaling is. It will be a
gain import Thornycraft; but these are patrol-driven, and when a ship can simply go alongside. A jetty or that the information was desired. It was, in have a forti af bull imponsible for a man-of-wer. bank and til leveold to with fuel through a pipe. fact, because he desired it that he had deed for It may be taken as certain that patrol both on the score of danger and because of its oxocsaivo The gain in time, and above all
letter in the ordinary ordinary will be an inestimable advantage in time sand cost, is quite out of the question for large of war, Also it is reasonably cortain that it Had the merchant an agent in London to Dion-of-war Indeed, if the report of a fow
will be possible to take oil fuel on board safely whom they could impart their information winks ago was true, it would seem that petrol is at sea, a thing, which, despite that exercise of verbally? If not, had ho a telephone over which to be abolished for use bren in submarines much lagoudity, has never come feasible with the Intelligence Department could speak to him! We come, therefore, to heavy oil fuel, a far coal. The absence of smoke and of vulnerable The merchant bad ne agent, but he had a tele-
As our funnels
odvantages. obvious
gave the number-officials can more probable source of power.
the abolition
be expected to be put to the frouble of Motoring Correspondent points out, the Diesel Lastly, the claim is that
would greatly faceman oil engine, barning a heavy oil, is believed to of faigels
be for about seven hours ove have a great future before it. Engineers say ares of fire of the gans. It may
to generate vory
vory high powers for stine fact remains that purposes,
to the present it has not been so used. A up cargo
liner of 9,000 tons is at present being built by Mossra. Blohm & Voss, of Hamburg, for the Hamburg-America Line, which will be agicut step in advance of all previous praction, Bat oren this ship will have only 3,000 horse-powar, developed by two sets of engines, and abore all she is not yet complete. In Eng land no similar experiment on even that scale
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PLAN OF YOKOHAMA
PLAR OF KOBE, AND.
PLAN OF FOREIGN SETTLEMENTS, TIENTSIN.
TREATIES WITH JAPAN
Great Britain, 1894; Duties Convention
Russia, Agreements as to Corea; United States, Extradition Trasty, 1993; Great Britain (Allisooo) 1995; Russia (Pesos
Treaty, 1905
TREATIES WITH COÈEL Japan, 1876 Japan Supplementary, 1878; Japan, 1901 and 1905, United States, 1898; Great Britain, 1895.
TREATIES WITH ŠIAM. Great Britain, 1856, 1999 and 1939, France, 1893 and 1904; Japan, 1993; Russia, 1899. Grost Britain and Prano,,Bismois Frontier. Gront Britain and Russia, Railway Convention
1899,
Customs TanoPYA TRADE REGULATIONS China, Japan, Siam, Corsa,
LEGAL DOCUMENTA Orders in Council for Government of H.B. M's Subjects in Chian sud Cores, and in Sisa Ruiss of E.B.M.'s Suproms and other Coucke in China, žu.; Tables of Court and Consular
tor of the Colony of Hong Fees: Charter
kong, Malay States Federation Agrosmat Tabs of Hongkong Court Fees; Almir. alty Bules, Foreign Jurisdiction Act: Rega lations for the Consular Courts of United States; United States Consular and Coart
Bales of Court of Consuls of Shanghai Fees: I Chinese Passenger Act; Hongkong Lleander Trade Marks, and Lettora Patent Fees, Fort Regulations for Chius; Harbour Begulations for Japan,
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