Identifier: americanengineer69newy (find matches)
Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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no apparent reason why the Indiana, on a long run, should not be capable, if desired, of maintaining her position alongside of or ahead of the Royal Sovereign. The Americans, in fact, adopted that ratio of boilers to engines in this ship, which could have readily been adopted for our larger second-class cruisers. The larger American battleship, the Iowa, has very nearly the same dimensions as the Tria Smatilelia, of Russia, and the Jaureguiberry, of France, and at 24 ft. of draft has a displacement of 11,240 tons. Loaded to 26 ft. she has nearly the same displacement as the Russian vessel and our Nile; and judging from what is said of her by English experts, she appears to be a very formidable fighting ship.Her engine power is calculated at 11,000, as much as ever could be realized in the Nile again, and her engines are much smaller than the Niles; but she has just one-third more boilers, with similar furnaces, but placed in much larger shells, Commodore Melville being obviously alive to the vari-
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IMAGE: Belpaire Boiler for Class P Locomotive, Pennsylvania Railroad. -<o M H O5 oa o as a ua: O O <a. Vol l.XIX. No. 7) AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 3 ation in boiler design necessary for the Safe and successful use of forced draft, a point I hat may possibly he studied at Whitehall some day. With three engines large enough for the power that could be developed in any of our later ships by their own Staffs, even for a spurt, and boilers superior both in size and design, it seems as if she would be perfectly safe as against any British ship, if it was not convenient to light. The Americans, with the Alabama in mind, have devoted serious attention to cruisers, with results of the first importance to us. One of these cruisers—the New York—is persistently referred to in this country as something between the Blake ami the Ktiyar, an idea that is quite erroneous, As usually described, she is simply a reproduction of the Blake, floating at her normal, or trial, or if you like, speed-premium-earning draft of 23 ft. 3 in., her displacement being 8,1

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