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iE PEM OY g SR ee a AD MAR fees Published every THieolk at Vol XXVIZ yt 'eat Wade Bidg' by "the CLEVELAND, ©., AUGUST 28, 1902. O.Marine Review Ptib. Co. TRIAL TRIP OF THE MAINE. _ Philadelphia, Aug. 24--The battleship Maine has again been tried and not found wanting. . The big vessel, reached her dock at the Cramp yard early this morning after having proved for a second time that she is the fastest craft of her class afloat. The official report of the Maine's final trial trip was telegraphed to the navy department by Capt. Train, president of the trial board, as follows: "The trial of the battleship Maine successfully completed. The mean speed, uncorrected for tidal errors, 17.96 knots." It is stated that the corrected figures for tidal allowance may make a slight change, showing a greater or less speed. The test of the Maine took place off Cape Ann on Saturday. For four consecutive hours she raced over the sea, maintaining throughout a speed, which when tidal allowance is completed, it is confidently asserted will.reach at least 18.3 knots. The trial was remarka- ble in many ways. First it was run under regular service condi- tions with unpicked coal and an ordinary crew of stokers. Again no special preparations were made to. force the last inch out of her. "IT would rather get 18.3 out of her as I feel sure we did," The Battleship Maine on her Trial Trip. said E. S. Cramp, yesterday, "than race her at 19 knots over the course. What she did on Saturday she can do any day." The Maine's contract calls for 18 knots an hour for four con- tinuous hours steaming. At 11:27 a. m. on Saturday the great craft swung past the first marked boat off Cape Ann, going then at a 17.61 clip, and this in face of head wind and sea. Past mark boats 2, 3, 4 and 5 she sped and on one leg in the zone of most wind and currents she fell as low as 17.23. As she cleared the last boat, No. 6, her helm was jammed hard down and. back over the course she flew as if in determination to make-amends for the outward run. "Every leg on the return journey showed better than 18 knots, the next to the last at 18.7 and in the final burst over the line at 18.95. As the Maine passed the last stake boat she was immediately put through her side paces. "Hard starboard" to "hard-aport" the helm was reversed and for an hour the big vessel cut a gigan- tic figure 8 in the ocean, turning completely in little over twice lier length; and 'handling so easily that 'it could scarcely be credited that the giant hull was drawing 23 ft. 6 in. of water, the displacement . being |.12,350: tons. - In. 10, seconds she 'was ! 7 a ay Vv nip Ce A RM IY ay Scn gid : | REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. Subscription $3.00 year. Foreign $4.50 year, Single Copy Io cents. No. 9 brought from full speed to a stop and then in 1 minute 3 seconds she was sent from full speed ahead to full speed astern. The propellers during the main trial raced through the water at from 122 to 130 revolutions per minute. The machinery throughout worked without a hitch save in one trifling instance. This was in the final test when the anchor was dropped by let- ting it run free. It went down charmingly but when the order was given to up-anchor the hitch came. In some way the chain slipped on the winch and almost an hour was spent in trying to get the matter right. Finally a tackle was put on and it was hoisted aboard. The old Maine, which the new vessel replaces, had a dis- placement of 6,080 tons. The new Maine, when full armament is aboard will have displacement of 13,500. The former did about 17 knots, while her builders are confident that should occasion de- mand the latter can, under forced draught, make the 19.95, which was the top notch at her builder's trial. Dr. George R. Parkin, principal of upper Canada college, and organizer of the plans for bestowing the Cecil Rhodes scholar- (From a drawing by Nicholas J. Quirk, Chicago.) ships, has this to say of J. Pierpont Morgan with whom he re- cently crossed the Atlantic: "He is a most interesting man, a man of a remarkable personality, great breadth of view and sound common sense. The line of thought that he is working on is very interesting. For instance, he says: 'Here I went out a month ago on the Oceanic, carrying 300 passengers, when she might as well carry 500, and with only half a cargo. The same day an American liner goes out with fifty passengers instead of 300, and with half a cargo. The Oceanic might as well have car- ried the whole number and half the cargo. Two thousand tons of coal burned cn one trip is simply wasted. So it is with all the lines; there is a tremendous waste, and if I can stop that waste it will be better for everybody; better for the workingman too. 7 ; The London, Brighton & South Coast railway has decided to use a turbine steamship between New Haven and Dieppe. It is expected that she will be ready early next year.