COALING WARSHIPS FROM COLLIERS IN HARBOR. 137 



EARLY PAPERS ON COALING WARSHIPS. 



A most exhaustive paper, entitled "The CoaUng of Warships," was 

 read before the American Society of Naval Engineers by Commander J. R. 

 Edwards, U. S. N., and published in their Journal of February, 1901. 



Another paper by Commander Niblack, entitled "Colliers and Coal 

 Stations," was published in the Proceedings of the United States Naval 

 Institute in 1904, in which he gives the capacity of some of our coaling 

 stations as follows : — 



At Frenchman's Bay 10,000 tons. 



Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H 10,000 tons. 



U. S. Navy Yard, Boston, Mass 12,000 tons. 



New London, Conn 10,000 tons. 



U. S. Navy Yard, New York 9,000 tons. 



U. S. Navy Yard, League Island 3,000 to 5,000 tons. 



U. S. Navy Yard, Washington, D. C 3,000 tons. 



Port Royal, S. C 5,000 tons. 



Sitka, Alaska 5,ooo tons. 



Naval Station, Tutuila, Samoa 5,000 tons. 



In contrast to these eleven modern coaling stations our new colliers 

 carry 12,500 tons of coal each, more coal than at any of the above coaling 

 stations. Every one of these colliers is equipped to discharge coal at a rate 

 exceeding 1,000 tons of coal per hour. Such colliers cost about a milHon 

 dollars each. They are perfectly equipped floating coaling stations. They 

 can go anywhere. 



