...working, and because of small units the space for accessibility is increased rather than diminished. The fact that water-tube boilers raise steam quickly...New York would have developed at least three knots more speed and the navy would have been spared a controversy. I think the Colon would not have gotten...

...boilers during the blockade of Santiago capable of raising steam in half an hour. Coal need not then have been used to keep all the boilers under steam...fight if she had been fitted with water-tube boilers and the Indiana might have kept up with the Oregon which had steam on all her boilers. The higher steam...

...W. Melville, USN, shows the situation on the subject in the minds of competent engineers. He says : "The fact that water-tube boilers raise steam quickly...New York would have developed at least three knots more speed and the navy would have been spared a controversy. I think the Colon would not have gotten...

...have had during the blockade of Santiago boilers capable of raising steam in less than half an huiir. Coal need not have been used to keep all the boilers...New York would have developed at least three knots more speed and the navy would have been spared a controversy. I think the Colon would not have gotten...

...Santiago, boilers capable of raising steam in less than half an hour. Coal need not have been used to keep the boilers under steam all the time ; the " Massachusetts...the "Indiana" would have kept up with the "Oregon," the "New York" would have developed at least three knots more speed, and the Navy would have been spared...