No additional force was
required for the Engineer department of the ship. I inquired of the
Chief Engineer what make of engine they used and he replied that it was
the Hammond & Co. Rotary Engine and added: "We are indebted for this
engine to a countryman of yours named Leonard Hammond, who perfected it
so that at present it is in universal use and has revolutionized the
industries of the world by its saving of fuel and the low price at which
it call be manufactured, so that it has consigned every other make of
engine, reciprocal and turbine, to the scrap pile, and of the most
notable benefits derived from it has been in the shipping not only in
economy of fuel, but also in the small space they occupy so as to give
more room for cargo and in the almost total absence of vibration, and in
the battleship from their being on the propeller shaft at the stern far
below the water line."
The battleships remain for ten months of the year in the rivers and
harbors, where the officers and men are kept busy dredging, building
levees, wharves and breakwaters, and they take a cruise to different
parts of the earth during the months of December and January, and during
that time engage in gunnery practice.
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