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manufacture of steel is 

 due the construction of 

 a vessel in which every 

 effort zvas made to avoid 

 steel. The Carnegie is 

 owned by the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washing- 

 ton, founded by Mr Car- 

 negie. She was built 

 solely from the funds of 

 the Institution, and has 

 been placed by the trus- 

 tees directly in the 

 charge of the writer as 

 director and managing 

 owner. The command 

 of the vessel has been 

 intrusted to Mr W. J. 

 vessel is classified as a "yacht" to facili 

 tate port entries as to customs, etc. 



CAMEL IN GARI : SHKIKII, ARABIA 



Peters.* The 



PRINCIPAL FACTS REGARDING THE 

 "CARNEGIE" 



Dimensions: Length over all, 1553^ 

 feet; length on load water-line, 128-1 

 feet ; beam, molded. 33 feet ; mean draft, 

 12 feet 7 inches; displacement, 568 tons; 

 registered tonnage, 246. 



Materials used : White oak, yellow 

 pine, Oregon pine, teak. 



Fastenings : Locust treenails, copper 

 and Tobin bronze bolts, composition 

 spikes. 



Anchors : Four of manganese bronze ; 

 total weight, 5.500 pounds. 



Anchor chains : None ; instead, three 

 li-inch hemp cables, each 120 fathoms. 



Sail power: Brigantine rig, 12,900 

 square f'^et of plain sail ; rigging, special 

 Russian hemp; all metal-work on spars, 

 rigging, and blocks of bronze and gun- 

 metal. 



Auxiliary power: 150 indicated horse- 

 power producer gas engine, built prac- 

 tically of non-magnetic metals, chiefly 

 bronze and copper and non-magnetic 

 manganese steel. 



*Mr Peters was the representative of the Na- 

 tional Geographic Society on the Second Zieg- 

 ler Polar Expedition, heing second in command 

 and in charge of the scientific work. Upon his 

 return he accepted the command in 1906 of the 

 Galilee, then engaged in magnetic work in the 

 Pacific Ocean for the Carnegie Institutipn of 

 Washington. 



Boats : Two non-magnetic 20- foot 

 whale-boats, one 16- foot gig. 



Cooking ranges and refrigerating; 

 l)lant : Bronze and copper. 



Cutlery : Mexican silver. 



Personnel : Scientific staff — 7 men ; 

 crew, 14 ; 21 in all. 



Naval architect : H. J. Gielow, of New 

 York; builder, Tebo Yacht Basin Co., 

 Brooklyn, under the management of 

 Wallace Downey. 



First vessel built non-magnetic. 



First sea-going vessel equipped with a 

 producer gas engine. In calm weather, a 

 day's run can be made, with auxiliary 

 power alone, of 144 nautical miles, at 

 total cost for coal consumed of $7. 



Her object : Sun and stars serve to- 

 shape a ship's course only when visible ; 

 the earth, however, by its magnetic 

 power, directs the mariner's compass un- 

 failingly, be it night or day, cloudy or 

 foggy. To reap the fullest benefit possi- 

 ble from this natural agency the Car- 

 negie is mapping out the magnetic forces- 

 as they prevail over the oceans, for the 

 good of all countries. Her mission is- 

 hence international. 



Thomas Hood, in his anuising ])ocin, 

 "The Compass with \'ariations," must 

 have anticipated the building of a Car- 

 negie: 



"They found no gun — no iron none 

 To vary its direction." 



Newspaper reporters have accused us- 

 of being so fastidious that the applica- 



