COAL BURNED ON A BIG ATLANTIC LINER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1895, Page 4

COAL BURNED ON A BIG ATLANTIC LINER.

Not a little gueeswork has boon gone through by many as to the probable quantities of coal which are daily shov. oiled into tho furnaco mouth of each big Atlantic liuoi'B us tho steamers Paris, Now York, Campania, undi.ucani?. 'leu yeavs ujro (accordino to a writer in Cassia's Magazine) 100 tons o day wero considered a mott piodigiouß consumption, little likely to be exceeded in the years to como, and wonderiug oomment there was in plonty that bo vast a quantity should flud a legitimate outlay, Since then, however, the public miud has been educated up to higher figures, and statements of two aiid even three hundred tons a day huvo ceased to attract moro tljan passing notice, Three hundred and fifty tone, in fact, are said to bo burned on tho Pariß and tho Wow York in every 24 hours, but of the Lucania and Cam. pania no particulars have evor been given, :o that an approximate based on what is known of tho power equipment of these ships is all that can bo offered, Twenty eight thousand horso power has been itßeumod to be the amount that ouch of these vessels .require to pi opol them at tho great speeds which they maintain. Added to thiß power of the main ongines must bo the appreciublo figures represented by ihe host of auxiliary engines an i pumps which aro necessary adjULOts and which, with tho steam-heating system aud hot water apparatus, help to swell tho steam consumption to fcuch a degree tbnt ft total allowance of, say ICiib of steam per hour for each of the 28,000 horsc.posyer, may be taken aa quite within the mark, Allowing, then, to a boiler performance of B,b of steam por lb of coal, which cannot bo fur wiong, wo huvo a coal consumption of 2ib pnr hour for each horse |.tiwer, or 56,000 equivalent to 600 tons per day.