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HOLT MOTOR SHIPS.

THE TANTALUS."'".

Although Mars, Alfred. Holt & Co. havn as yet no motor ships in their fleet, the three vesels of this class which are now under construction to their account will. staten Lloyd's List," when" com- pleted, afford them some extremely valu.... able and interesting Information relating to the respective merits of various types

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THAT NAVAL BASE AT

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NO SOUND REASON FOR EXPENDITURE.

JADMIRAL, SER PERCY ACOTT IN THE

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My attention has been called to various expressions of opinion as to whether, with our present state of high taxation and The first vessel to be completed, will be our large number of unemployed, it is the Tantalus. She is due to run trials in ¦ absolutely necessary for us to build doeks the course of the next few weeks, and wilijat Singapore; to accommodate our new be followed by the Medan, in which a battleships, the construction of which will 3,000 h.p. long-stroke Burmeister and practically give to the Chinese labouring Wain Diesel engine will be fitted. Inciden. class nine million pounds of our tax tally, this is the largest motor of its type payers money. that has ever been built, The third ship

1 hove collected some of the opinions is to be equipped with Seatt-Still machi and the advocates of this expenditure ap nery, and is now under construction at pear to find it as difficult to invent a Scott's Yard on the Clyde, The Hedon sound rason for imposing this extra and the last-mentioned ship are normal burden on our taxpayers as they do to enrgo vessels of about 10,000 tons dead-answer my question: What is the was weight, but the Tuntains is considerably of a battleship?" larger and is equipped with high-powered. machinery. She has a leadweight of Admiral Sir Archibald Moor considers about 18.000 tons, the gross tonnage being

tais expenditure as justifiable, his reason slightly over 8,000. The length is 477ft being that we must be prepared to ope then saft, and the londed draught rate in the East with capital abips, and we must therefore have'a base in those will

be in the neighbourhood of 99ft.

waters.

LARGEST D. AND W. ENGINES.

Admiral Sir Cecil Lambert, asks how the battleships are to be got to Sign- pore and what are they going to do it they can get there.

Admiral J. G. Armstrong considers that naval base at Singapore will be a great asset for the future

The hull has been constructed by the Caledon Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Dundee, but the propelling plant and a good dent of the anxillary machinery has been shipped from Copen hagen, where it was built by Burmeister and Wain. The two engines installed are

Admiral Mark Kerr considers that a big incidentally the largest that have yet been constructed by that firm, although they ship base at Singapore will be of no use; are in most respects similar to the standard that it will be sheer waste of mones 3,000-b.p. Harland and Wolff motors, of Adirral Sir Edmond Slade considers Which so many examples have been install, that the advent of new navni Powers in vin British motor ships. The normal the East renders it imperative that we power of the engines is developed at a should have a strong force in that part speed of about 113 r.j.m., and there are of the world. eight cylinders 740 mm. bore and 1.150

· Admiral Sir Percy Scott considers that mm. struke. There is no novelty in the when Japan is defended with modern design, and the reversing system and the weapons our ships will not dare to go whole of the valve mechanism are similar near her coast any more than they dared to that fitted on the smaller standard to approach the German shores. engines. The only departure from ordi-:

nary practice is the provision of two "Admiral C. E. Hunter considers that we separate three-stage high-pressure injrequire a base for big ships at Singapore tion air compressor on the end of ench because in later years Japan wil be a

main crankshaft, instead of the sing menace to Australia. compresor which is more usually adopt.

ed.

Mr Lambert, M.P.. regards making a | base at Singapore as madness.

Sir Percy Scott thinks that Australia, with modern weapons will be quite able to In the arrangement of the auxiliary take care of herself and will not require amchinery in the engine room, there are any of our obsolete battleships. certain differences compared with the Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt, P., con- method adopted with vessels built by Harsiders that a base at Singapore would as- land and Wolff, and equipped with sist the Admiralty in the defence of Aus- similar propelling motors. The question tralia, of the provision of auxiliary air compres sors to maintain the supply of starting and manœuvring air is the subject of much debate ning rugineers and ship builders, In the British vessel it is almost universal instal two electrically-i driven compressors for this purpose, each Major-General Seely points out that the driven by a motor of about 180, to 950 Secretary for Air declared, Jadgel hy h.p. The Scandinavian practice for some every standard of defence our Air Force years past Has per to rely upon one is not strong enough." He calls attention Auxilidry, and this is all that is provided to the fact that the Admiralty wish to in the Tantalus, the two-stage compressor, apend 93 millions on a deck at Singapore. delivering air at about 250 16. per mure "Mr. Darbishire, M.P., who knows inch, being driven by an etrctric motor of Singapore well, says this dock will cost 150 B.h.p.

20 millions instead of 03 millions.

Mr. Asquith "considers the proposal as wholly unwarranted by any proved neces sity,

Mr. Amery (First Lord of the Admi- ralty), as ati inducement to get millions

The electrical generating plant is divid ed into four units, each comprising a 130 bhp. three-cylinder Diesel engine, of golden sovereigns out of the British coupled to a 100-k.. 220-volt c.c. dynamo. taxpayers to give to Chinese labourers, The other elretrical machinery in the tells us that apropos gotting out new engine-room includes the usual duplicate battleships to Singapore, submarines pumps for the supply of cooling water, as have affected the free movements of well as the lubricating cil, general service, the never fael transfer, and other pumps. The Admiral Sir Cecil Loley Lambert charac winches on deck are all electrically ope terises this statement as the greatest con- rated, while the steering gear is of the tradiction of all positive fact for which electro-hydraulic type.

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THE "BEDON,"

The Medon, which was launched from Sir. Cecil Lamiert states that there was Palmer's yard early in February, and not a movement, there was not an order, which will be completed soon after the there was not a single act of the Navy Tantalus, is notable for a simple engine which was not affected by consideration room arragement. She is too ft. in length, of the submarino nenace.

Well Sir Cecil was n Lord of the Admiralty during the war. and a part of his duties was to prevent our battleships trom being destroyed by submarines

with a beam of 52 ft., the displacement I quite agree with Sir Cecil, but who on a draught of it. 6 la, being 11,370 are we what do we know about it in com. tons. The single propelling engine of parison with Mr. Amery I 3,000 h.p. is of the long stroke type, and is designed to run at a speed of 85 r.p.m. The right cylinders are 749 mm in diameter, with a stroke of 1,500 mm., and, unlike the abgines of the Tantalum, there is only one air-compressor driven off the crankshaft. Moreover, the auxiliary air compressing set has been entirely eliminat. ed, but provision is mad for charging the air-starting battles from the electric gene rating' plant.

Who am 11 We, 1 happeurd to be during part of the warhead of the anti. submarine department: my business was to destroy them; so we both of us ought to know something about whether sub- marines affected the free movemicals of the

Fleet or not.

What we certainly know is that, despite There are three dynamos, each driven. by a 150 hp, three-cylinder Diesel engine, our efforts, we did not prevent & certain When the vessel is entering or leaving port number of battleships and other ships the only time when a considerable supply from being sent in the bottom of the manoeuvring air is needed-the electricalan iyyubmarines. I suppose Mr. requirements on the ship will be met by Amery does not consider sending part of one xenerating plant. Either one or both the Fleet to the bottom as an interfer- of the remaining ants may, if necessary,ence with their fre movement, and poss be brought into action, and by a simple bly, he will tell us that the battleships arrangement the injection air compressor (excepting, of course, those that were sent on each of these plants can be made to to the bottom) ran away to Lemnos for change of air, not on account of sub- charge the manoeuvring air reservoirs.

This is the first time that such a system marines affecting their free movements! <

has been used on a ship.. am, as it allows, cheaper auxiliary, plant, i will, no doubt, be copied in the future if it proves

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is a small steam-driven compressor fitted in the engine-room, but, this is only an emergency plant, and with an extremely Pmited output, not intended to be brought into action unless the whole of the compressed air supply on the ship were

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