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BREE OSS ERRNO oc. A OR 12 MARINE REVIEW. [January 4, LS TRAINING SHIP CHESAPEAKE. FIRST SAILING VESSEL BUILT BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IN FORTY YEARS—FAMOUS OLD VESSEL OF THE SAME NAME. The new Chesapeake, a training ship for naval cadets and the first sailing vessel built by the United States government in forty years, is illustrated herewith. The naval appropriation bill for the year ending June 20, 1898, contained a clause appropriating $250,000 for a composite training vessel, propelled by steam and sail, to be used for the training of cadets at the naval acad- emy. This act was after- ward modified by strik- ing out the word steam and reducing the appro- Ppriation to $125,000. Under the terms of this bill, Rear Admiral Hichborn, chief of the bureau of construction and repair, designed this model craft. She is constructed entirely of steel. The bottom is sheathed with yellow pine, 4 inches in thick- ness from the keel to 2 feet 2 inches above the water line, and cop- pered. The main bat- tery—six 4-inch rapid- fire guns—are on the covered gun deck, with four six-pounders, rapid- fire, and two one pound- ‘ers mounted on the rail and worked from the flush spar deck. A full ship rig is pro- -vided, the lower masts and lower yards being of steel and the balance of the spars of spruce. The bulwark plating in connection with the stem is carried out to form the bowsprit. The total sail area is 19,975 square feet, the vessel depending wholly upon sails for propulsion. ‘Boilers are cer and navigator, and an armory. At the extreme forward end of the deck are the water closets and wash rooms for cadets and crew. At the after end of the berth deck are the bath room and water closets for ward room officers. Just forward of the watertight bulkhead, bounding this space, are ten state rooms for ward room officers and then the ward room dining room, extending across the vessel. On the starboard side forward of the ward room dining rooms are quarters for the warrant officers; on the port side ward room pantry, paymaster’s office, sick bay, bath and water closet for sick bay and dispensary. Immediately’ forward of an athwartship watertight bulkhead in the center is the dynamo, with sky light extending to spar deck on starboard side, a refrigerating room and on the port side the distiller room and then the entire forward space is reserved for crew’s quarters. Store rooms are provided in the hold for all stores, including ammunition. Tanks are provided for 15,023 gallons of fresh water. Among the buats is a 30-foot steam cutter and a launch stowed in chocks on the rail, two 28-foot cutters, one 28-foot whale boat and one 28-foot gig whale boat carried on davits, and a 20-foot dinghy in the launch. Principal dimensions of the Chesapeake are: Length on load water line, 175 feet; breadth on load water line, 37 feet; mean draught, 16 feet 6 inches; displacement, 1,175 tons. This vessel was built by the Bath Iron Works of Bath, Me., and heads of the navy department, as well as the superintendent of the navy department, are highly pleased with it. : THE OLD CHESAPEAKE. The old Chesapeake is quite historical. A large force of workmen were sent to the forests of Georgia in 1795 to cut the timber for this fa- mous ship. Work progressed slowly upon the vessel. In December, 1795, the keel had been laid and part of the frames bolted together for raising. Upon the establishment of peace between the United ‘States and Algiers in 1796 work was suspended upon the Chesapeake, but upon the breaking out of the war with France in 1798 orders were given to again resume construction. She was launched in December, 1799, and began her ill-fated career. She made several trips to the Mediterranean to quell incipient wars. In 1812 the Chesapeake was fired upon by the British frigate Leopard and her masts and rigging were shot to pieces. A court martial followed this incident, and Capt. Decatur was placed in command of the Chesa- peake. The vessel pursued a varied career during the war and was finally taken by the British ship Shannon. Shortly afterwards she was taken to England. The British government having little use for her, she was sold to a miller, who constructed a flour mill out of her timbers. The old mill is still standing at Wickham. An order for fifty steel cars, which will cost about $60,000, is said to © have been placed with the Pressed Steel Car Co. of Pittsburg by the Con- PRAOTICN SHIP[OHESAPEAKE, U.S. NAVY—BUILT BY BATH IRON WORKS. fitted for supplying steam to run pumps, windlass, electric lighting plant, distilling plant, and refrigerating plant, and for heating the vessel. Each of the 130 cadets is provided with a locker for his clothes. A large galley, especially fitted for the cadets, is located amidships on the gun deck and convenient to the galley. At the after end of the gun deck is located the cabin, a state room for the cap- tain and spare state room, lavatory, offices for captain, executive offi- solidated Lake Michigan ‘Co., which is completing the Algoma Central a line from Sault Ste. Marie to the company’s iron mines in northern Ontario. The cars are to be of 50 tons capacity each. The Consolidated company has, it is claimed, an order to deliver 2,000,000 tons of ore at Sault Ste. ‘Marie by the opening of navigation in the spring of 1900. Probably there is no more truth in the order for cars than there is in this latter statement, which is absurd.