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re MARINE REVIEW. Late Capt. A. W. Reed. Announcement was made in the last issue of the REVrEw of the death of Capt. A. W. Reed of Sheridan, N. Y., and in the accompanying engraving a good likeness of this much-respected vessel master is presented. He was among the best known and most successful of lake ship masters and was held in the highest regard by associates. Although his home was at Sheridan, N. Y., to which point the remains were taken from Cleveland for interment, Capt. Reed has for several seasons past been in charge of vessels of the Corrigan fleet controlled in Cleveland, and was a member of the local branch of the Shipmasters' Ex- celsior Marine Benevolent Association. The Steamer W. H. Gilbert. The arto-type illustration contained in this issue shows the handsome steel steamer W. H. Gilbert, built by F. W. Wheeler & Co., West Bay City, Mich. She is 328 feet keel between per- pendiculars, 345 feet over all, 42 feet beam and 24 feet 6 inches molded depth. She is fitted with Worthington independent con- denser and air pump, and has three Scotch boilers built by Wickes Bros., 12 feet diameter and 12 feet long, carrying 160 pounds working pressure. There are gangway ports and line shafting for handling package freight, and the boat is in every way fitted out with the latest improvements in naval architect- ure, including electric lighting apparatus. The cards shown herewith were taken on Lake Superior August 29, steam being 158 pounds, vacuum 24% and revolu- tions 78. 'The total indicated horse power shown is 1,736.2. On August 31 the Gilbert made the run from Detour to the river (including checking on the shoals outside Fort Gratiot) in 15 hours and 32 minutes, an average of 14.47 miles per hour on the Sault draft; average engine turning 78 per minute. The slip observed was only 4.3 per cent. The engines of the Gilbert, built by the Frontier Iron Works of Detroit, are of the three-cylinder triple expansion type, with cylinders 23, 37 and 62 inchesin diameter and 44 inches stroke, arranged with the high pressure cylinder in the middle. The high pressure engine is fitted with a piston valve operated by the Joy valve gear as improved by the Frontier works. 'The intermediate and low pressure engines are fitted with slide valves operated by link gear, the valve of the intermediate en- gine being double ported and the low pressure treble ported. The valves and ports throughout are calculated for a piston speed of 700 feet per minute. The pistons are made unusually deep, the intermediate and low pressure being 12 inches at the edge, while the high pressure is 14 inches. Thecrank shaft is in two sections and is 124% inches in diameter, with journals 20 in- ches long. The crank pins are 12%x12 inches. The thrust bearing has had special attention and is secured rigidly to the bedplate of the engine with five collars running In a bath of oil. The bedplate is 24 inches deep. The main journals are so con- structed that the brasses can be slipped from under the shaft without jacking the shaft up, and the upper and lower brasses are interchangeable. Lubrication is furnished to the main journals from the under side by large compression cups 'Placed on the starboard columns, two for each journal, in addition to the usual cups on top of journal. All pumps are independent. Improvements in matters of detail, which count for so much with engineers, are very numerous, and these engines have been the subject of much favorable comment from engineers, on ac- count of the attention given to accessibility and room. Nothing is crowded and yet everything is compact. The chief draftsman of the Frontier Iron Works, Mr. H. lee. M.E.P. 28.25* |1.H-P 522.9 a LP. Vice Po oe 1. H.-P. 635.4 ------ Penton, from whose hands these engines come, has a practical understanding of the need of attention to detail, having served for a number of years as chief engineer of some of ~the best lake steamers. Duplicates of these engines are being erected in Mr. Samuel Mather's whaleback Pathfinder. "The American Yacht List for 1892," published by Thomas Manning, 45 Beaver street, New York, is now ready. It isa handsome work of 477 pages, and great care having been used in its preparation, it is a most valuable book of reference, re- plete with reliable information. 'The work contains a complete Jegister of the yacht clubs of the United States and British pro- vinces, with list of officers, addresses of secretaries, names of yachts, official numbers, signal letters, dimensions, designers, builders, ete.; summary of yacht club regattas and races, giv- ing courses, starters and results; also rules of measurement and time allowances of each club, alphabetical list of owners and facsimiles in chromo-lithograph of club flags, and private signals of owners; international code of signals and weather signals,