Sessional Papers, Volume 42H.M. Stationery Office, 1901 - Great Britain |
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11 smaller light 13 light 18 smaller Q.F. 31st March Admiralty April ARMAMENT August Average Number average ratio Boers BRITAIN-continued bullet canteens Cape Captain cent China Station Class Coast of Africa Commander Commissioners Committee Contract Contractors CRUISERS Date of Launch Dead Depôt Disease and Injury Displacement Tons Dockyard eastern side enteric fever examination expenditure EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE fire Gibraltar Greenwich Hospital harbour Hope and West Hyacinth inch Q.F. inch Q.F.C. Instruction Invalidings and Deaths January July June Launch or Floating Lieutenant light and machine machine guns machinery Majesty's Mean Force miles Naval Brigade Navy Number Invalided Price Q.F. 2 torpedo Q.F. 5 smaller Q.F. and machine Quinine returned Royal Marine Seamen shell ship Sick Daily small Q.F. guns smaller light Q.F. smaller Q.F. light steam Stoker System TORPEDO BOAT torpedo tubes total number trials vessels Victualling water-tube boilers Wei Hai Wei wounded
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Page 7 - Reduction to a minimum of danger to the ship from damage to boilers from shot or shell. (c.) Possibility of removing damaged boilers and replacing them by new boilers in a very short time and without opening up the decks or removing fixtures of the hull. These requirements are met by the water-tube boiler in a greater degree than by the cylindrical boiler, and are considered by the Committee of such importance as to outweigh the advantages of the latter type in economy of fuel and cost of up-keep.
Page 8 - To obtain satisfactory results in the working of the Belleville boiler, in face of the defects named in paragraph (9), more than ordinary experience and skill are required on the part of the engineroom staff. It appears, however, from the evidence placed before the Committee, that the Engineer officers in charge of Belleville boilers have not been made acquainted with the best method of working the boilers, and that which experience has shown to be most effectual in preventing the pitting and corrosion...
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Page 8 - ... has not been too dearly purchased. The evidence before them indicates that at the lower and more usual rates of combustion the Powerful type of boiler has given results as satisfactory as the economiser type. It is at the same time less complex, and free from the special risks of tube deterioration which have proved so serious in many cases, notably in the Europa.
Page 6 - The Committee do not consider that the Belleville boiler has any such advantage over other types of water-tube boilers as to lead them to recommend it as the best adapted to the requirements of His Majesty's Navy.
Page 6 - Yarrow large-tube boiler. (a) and (b) have also been tried in our own Navy with satisfactory results, and are now being adopted on a limited scale. If a type of water-tube boiler has to be decided on at once for use in the Navy, the Committee suggest that some or all of these types be taken. (5.) The Committee recommend that the completion of the...
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