1883 Ships - HMS Phaeton, HMS Calypso, HMS Amphion, USS Amphitrite, Usc&gs Carlile P. Patterson, Olympian, SS Algoma (Paperback)


Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: HMS Phaeton, HMS Calypso, HMS Amphion, USS Amphitrite, USC&GS Carlile P. Patterson, Olympian, SS Algoma, Spanish gunboat General Concha, Alaskan, SS Oregon, USS Adelante, A. T. Gifford, SS Kurtulu, Italian battleship Lepanto, USS Terror, HMS Defender, Benicia, Japanese cruiser Izumi, USS Mohican, Japanese cruiser Saien, Brazilian battleship Riachuelo, SMS Lussin, Chinese cruiser Jiyuan, SS Doric, HMS Racer, USS Monadnock, Japanese corvette Tenry, USS Pontiac, HMS Royalist, HMS Reindeer, SS Olympia, HMS Rapid, USS Alameda, HMS Taiaroa, USS Viking, SMS Adler, Aorangi, HMS Imperieuse, TSS North Wall, French ironclad Amiral Baudin, SS Wexford, USS Urdaneta, HMS Waitemata, HMS Poneke, SS Daphne. Excerpt: HMS Phaeton was a second class cruiser of the Leander class which served with the Royal Navy. She was built by Napier in Glasgow, being laid down in 1880, launched in 1883 and completed in 1886. "The Phaeton has been tried in the Solent. At the previous six hour' full power trial of the Phaeton there was a difficulty experienced in maintaining steam from want of draught in the stokeholds. (Only the Leander of this class has been fitted with fans for forced draught.) The funnels were afterwards raised from 60 ft (18 m) to 68 ft (21 m) (the same height as those of the first-class cruisers), while the space between the firebars was increased. The effect of these changes at the trial was very marked, the engines being provided with an abundance of steam without their being any necessity for resorting to the blast. The trial was intended to have been for six hours, but during the eleventh half hour, the expansion gear of the starboard engine heated and snapped, and the run was brought to a premature close. As, however the machinery worked without any hitch of any kind, and was developing power largely in excess of the Admir...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: HMS Phaeton, HMS Calypso, HMS Amphion, USS Amphitrite, USC&GS Carlile P. Patterson, Olympian, SS Algoma, Spanish gunboat General Concha, Alaskan, SS Oregon, USS Adelante, A. T. Gifford, SS Kurtulu, Italian battleship Lepanto, USS Terror, HMS Defender, Benicia, Japanese cruiser Izumi, USS Mohican, Japanese cruiser Saien, Brazilian battleship Riachuelo, SMS Lussin, Chinese cruiser Jiyuan, SS Doric, HMS Racer, USS Monadnock, Japanese corvette Tenry, USS Pontiac, HMS Royalist, HMS Reindeer, SS Olympia, HMS Rapid, USS Alameda, HMS Taiaroa, USS Viking, SMS Adler, Aorangi, HMS Imperieuse, TSS North Wall, French ironclad Amiral Baudin, SS Wexford, USS Urdaneta, HMS Waitemata, HMS Poneke, SS Daphne. Excerpt: HMS Phaeton was a second class cruiser of the Leander class which served with the Royal Navy. She was built by Napier in Glasgow, being laid down in 1880, launched in 1883 and completed in 1886. "The Phaeton has been tried in the Solent. At the previous six hour' full power trial of the Phaeton there was a difficulty experienced in maintaining steam from want of draught in the stokeholds. (Only the Leander of this class has been fitted with fans for forced draught.) The funnels were afterwards raised from 60 ft (18 m) to 68 ft (21 m) (the same height as those of the first-class cruisers), while the space between the firebars was increased. The effect of these changes at the trial was very marked, the engines being provided with an abundance of steam without their being any necessity for resorting to the blast. The trial was intended to have been for six hours, but during the eleventh half hour, the expansion gear of the starboard engine heated and snapped, and the run was brought to a premature close. As, however the machinery worked without any hitch of any kind, and was developing power largely in excess of the Admir...

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