"THE ELECTRIC SHIP."

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1922, Page 12

"THE ELECTRIC SHIP."

Further details are to hand regardin the equipment of the new White Stai ■liner Pittsburgh, which is now running in the 'Liverpool-Queenstown-Boston-PhOadelphia service. It seems probable that the-vessel will come to be known as "the;electrio ship" A complete electric generating station is installed on board which. supplies over a thousand horsepower. The boat-lowering gear is electrically operated and there are no fewer than seventeen electric winches for the expeditious handling of cargo. The lifts, stores, hoists, engine room starting platform, sounding machines, and printing press are all operated by electric power, and co are the ■ bilge pumps, cylinder cover lifting gear, and the turning and lifting apparatus for the turbines. The culinary arrangements represent the last word in scientific development. The whole of the cooking is done by electricity. It supplies the heat for three' large island ranges, three circular roasters, a baker's oven big enough to keep the ship regularly supplied, and a host of sma-ller things such as radiant grilles, toasters, and griddle plates.' The current, too, works the dough mixer, the potato peeler, the ice rocker, the knife cleaner, the coffee grinder, and the bacon slicer. A separate electric \ installation is provided for cooking the food of the 300 of a-crew carried on the Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh has been ' fitted with Ray's Patent Direction and Revolution Indicator, the invention of Messrs. J. W. Ray and Co. 1;- nautical instalment makers ; Liverpool. It is for .use on Board ship, in connection vith the bridge aiw engine room telegraphs, and is arranged so that every motion of the .propeller ireprbduced on the bridge for the inspection of the commander, by means of ai> electric white-lighted area on the third thwartship dial of the engine rooiv telegraph instrument, priori a separate bulkhead bridge instrument, as may bi foilhd most convenient. The".advantages of this gear "will be obvious to all prat tical men, seeing that it places in tK hand of the commander in the first in stance a faithful reproduction of evpr;> movement of the propeller, and enableshim by inspection to see the: revolution;at a glance; further, in the engine-room it provides a revolution instrument for the engineer, which in these days of geared turbines with all taoving portions of the machinery cased in, is r. rery necessary portion of his equipment, and should be at any time misinterpret the orders given from the bridge, anrf give wrong movement to hiS propeller. /He is at once'warned before any possib'i damage could be caused by seems h'\> usual white lighted area chance to a :■<■■■: one, and under these circumstances pr?.: tically no time would be lost in cofr<?"i. ing this mistake, and obeying' the ord-: from the bridge . . a