FOREST AND STREAM 
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OCEAN TEST FOR LUNDIN POWER LIFE¬ 
BOAT. 
(Continued from page 183.) 
Azores, and have heard the stories many of these 
man had to tell of their experiences, but while 
most of these trips were made in boats unsuited 
for the occasion in a spirit of adventurous daring 
the Lundin power 'lifeboat is a boat that is built 
as a pure and simple lifeboat. Capt. A. P. Lun¬ 
din, whose ideas she represents, is a practical sea 
captain of many years’ experience at sea, and is 
no'w president of the Welin Marine Equipment 
Co., of Long Island City, N. Y., U. S. A., the 
builders of the boat, who make a specialty of 
building nothing but metallic lifeboats. Mr. 
Harry Broady, the manager, is an expert engi¬ 
neer who has carefully superintended this boat’s 
construction, carefully testing everything that en- 
Lundin Power Boat in Action. 
tered into her construction. Mr. E. Sivard, who 
is to cross in her, and Mr. H. Jansson are both 
competent naval architects who worked out the 
plans as Captain Lundin wished them, and inso¬ 
far as the ability of the boat to cross is con¬ 
cerned there is absolutely no doubt. 
Designed to live in the worst of seas, built to 
stand the hardest kind of knocks and bumps such 
a boat might receive in being lowered from a 
sinking liner, about the only accident that can 
befall her is to be run down by another vessel, 
and even then unless cut squarely in two she 
could not be sunk, for she is built, in her hull, 
like a metal box, all sub-divided, in her double 
bottom, into a number of air-tight compartments. 
The discomforts of a small boat are the great¬ 
est hardships her crew will have to face and 
this is considered so slight that Mrs. Signe Sivard 
is going to accompany her husband and see that 
the men folks get properly fed. 
The wireless outfit will be in competent hands, 
as Mr. H. J. Meldrun, who for several years has 
been in charge of the high power station at Cape 
Cod, has been selected by the manager of the 
Marconi Wireless Co. from a number of volun¬ 
teers to make the trip. 
The Standard Motor Co. will furnish a first- 
class engineer to watch the motor and an experi¬ 
enced sea captain will do the navigating. 
The Lundin will fly the colors of the Bayside 
Yacht Club forward, the yellow and blue private 
or house flag of Capt. A. P. Lundin at the main, 
and the Stars and Stripes aft. 
There are many unusual features about this 
lifeboat. She is built entirely of metal. The 
hull of No. 12 Birmingham wire gauge galvanized 
steel plates with all seams double-riveted with 
red lead and flannel laid between. The house 
part is of No. 18 B. W. G- with athwartship ribs 
inside and fore and aft ribs outside that greatly 
stiffen in. 
The hull is practically an oblong steel box 36 
feet by 10 feet by 4 feet deep flat on the bottom 
with a steel floor or deck 34 inches above the bot¬ 
tom. This 34-inch space forms a double bottom, 
which is sub-divided by cross bulkheads and fore 
and aft partitions into ten separate air-tight com¬ 
partments greatly stiffening the hull. Just aft of 
amid'ships in a metal box compartment a 4-cylin¬ 
der 6-in. by 8-in. 36 H. P. standard motor is in¬ 
stalled, equipped with an electric self-starter and 
belted to a dynamo which furnishes electric light 
and the power for the wireless outfit. Nothing 
protrudes below the boat’s bottom, the three 
bladed 27 in. diameter propeller working in a 
tunnel built in the after part of the hull. 
So stiff and rigid was the boat that when she 
was inspected and tested on July 15th by U. S. 
Supervising Inspector of the Second District 
Capt. H. M. Seeley and Assistant Inspector Capt. 
Keene, the boat was suspended at each end and 
104 persons were put aboard with no signs what¬ 
ever of bending. 
On each side of the boat as a protection when 
being lowered from a steamship’s side, pads of 
Balsa wood a foot thick, the whole length of the 
flat side of the boat, round out the apparent 
shape into a fair curve. These pads are clamped 
on by a number of wide steel straps hinged at 
the lower end so the inner surfaces of each may 
be kept well painted. 
Her bow and stern are full and rather blunt 
with a metal rudder hung outboard on the stern 
fitted with a tiller and, for the trip across, a 
quadrant and steering wheel. 
Over most of the hull a round topped metal 
house is built, leaving a short deck at each end, 
the ends of the house sloping inward, with two 
water-tight doors in each. Four double glass 
hinged portlights on each side give light 
and air, a separate hinged flap at the bot¬ 
tom of each permitting oars to be used 
even when the port itself is clamped down water¬ 
tight. A couple of automatically closing air vents 
in the roof permit the boat to be turned upside- 
down without admitting any water. 
Any fumes from the motor are carried out 
through a vent pipe in the roof over the after 
end of the motor box, fresh air being drawn in 
through the cowl forward and the dead air ex¬ 
pelled by means of a small blower, belted to a 
pulley on the main shaft at the after end of the 
motor. 
In the double bottom alongside the motor on 
either side are fitted 27 in. diameter Janney Stein- 
metz, seamless drawn steel tanks, each of 230 
gallons capacity. By the Standard system this 
gasoline is pumped up into a small reservoir tank 
fitted with overflow tanks back to the main tanks, 
so a constant level is maintained in the reservoir, 
insuring a steady supply to the vaporizer. 
For the voyage across the other air compart¬ 
ments will be stowed full of specially made two- 
gallon cans of gasoline. 
Drinking water is carried in two large steel 
tanks set down in the hull so just the tops come 
above the floor level. 
The wireless outfit is installed in a silence 
cabin built in at the forward end of the house. 
It is capable of transmitting messages 100 miles 
and of receiving up to 1,000 miles. 
THE ILLINOIS CASTING CLUB. 
The Second Annual Pork Chunk Casting Con¬ 
test will be held August 16, 1914, at Washington 
Park Lagoon. 
It is open to all members of clubs affiliated 
with the N. A. S. A. C. Winner to receive a 
silver loving cup presented by Mr. A. Bauer. 
CONDITIONS. 
Rod and reel to be same as used for regular 
accuracy bait events. 
Lines to be used by all contestants will be fur¬ 
nished gratis by the Illinois Casting Club. 
The club will also have a supply of pork 
chunks on hand but contestants may, if they pre¬ 
fer, furnish their own. 
Swivels to be used instead of hooks. 
Chunks not 'to be weighted. 
Dipseys may be used but if so must be hung 
upon the swivels. 
Total weight of chunk, swivel and dipsey not 
to exceed one-half ounce. 
Contestants will make 10 casts, two each, at 
60, 65, 70, 75 and 80 feet. 
Scoring to be for accuracy and delicacy. By 
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