NEW YORK AND ITS NEWEST FIREBOAT.

NEW YORK AND ITS NEWEST FIREBOAT.

乔治·b·麦克莱伦纽约的最新fireboat, built by the New York Shipbuilding company, at Camden, N. J., has had a most successful speed trial on the Delaware river. Her contract requirements called for the development of 500-horsepower on 140 pounds of steam. She exceeded that by ninety-horsepower, which gave her an average speed of thirteen miles an hour on a continuous run of four hours. She steamed down the river twenty-seven miles, making a quick turn at full speed off Edgemoor, about eight miles below Marcus Hook, and came back to her pier at Camden, N. J., without having slowed down once since the start. This performance for a new boat was considered remarkable. At Race street, Philadelphia, she had a trial of her fire pumps alongside the Chester and Wilmington steamship pier, while the Philadelphia firemen testing their hose at a new pumping station looked on. The McClellan’s stream from a four-inch nozzle attached to a monitor on the top of the pilot house spanned the water space between her pier and the next one north, the Savannah line, and reached clear across that to the next slip, where the Philadelphia fireboats Samuel H. Ashbridge and Beam Stokes were lving. The principal dimensions of the George B. McClellan are: Length over all, 108 feet; on water line 104 feet; beam, twenty-five feet; draught, nine feet extreme. She is ntted with a fore-and-aft compound engine, with cylinders seventeen and thirty-four inches in diameter, respectively, and twenty-four-inch stroke of piston. She has two large and one small fire pump, with a total capacity of 7,000 gallons a minute. Three powerful streams can be thrown from the main monitors, two of which are on the upper deck, forward and aft, and one on the lower deck in the bow. Hose can be stretched and operated at a fire that is 3,000 feet away from the boat. The largest nozzle is four inches in diameter.

乔治·b·麦克莱伦纽约的最新fireboat, built by the New York Shipbuilding company, at Camden, N. J., has had a most successful speed trial on the Delaware river. Her contract requirements called for the development of 500-horsepower on 140 pounds of steam. She exceeded that by ninety-horsepower, which gave her an average speed of thirteen miles an hour on a continuous run of four hours. She steamed down the river twenty-seven miles, making a quick turn at full speed off Edgemoor, about eight miles below Marcus Hook, and came back to her pier at Camden, N. J., without having slowed down once since the start. This performance for a new boat was considered remarkable. At Race street, Philadelphia, she had a trial of her fire pumps alongside the Chester and Wilmington steamship pier, while the Philadelphia firemen testing their hose at a new pumping station looked on. The McClellan’s stream from a four-inch nozzle attached to a monitor on the top of the pilot house spanned the water space between her pier and the next one north, the Savannah line, and reached clear across that to the next slip, where the Philadelphia fireboats Samuel H. Ashbridge and Beam Stokes were lving. The principal dimensions of the George B. McClellan are: Length over all, 108 feet; on water line 104 feet; beam, twenty-five feet; draught, nine feet extreme. She is ntted with a fore-and-aft compound engine, with cylinders seventeen and thirty-four inches in diameter, respectively, and twenty-four-inch stroke of piston. She has two large and one small fire pump, with a total capacity of 7,000 gallons a minute. Three powerful streams can be thrown from the main monitors, two of which are on the upper deck, forward and aft, and one on the lower deck in the bow. Hose can be stretched and operated at a fire that is 3,000 feet away from the boat. The largest nozzle is four inches in diameter.