THE MARINE ENGINEER; A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF MARINE ENGINEERING, SHIP, UILDING, STEAM NAVIGATION & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. EDITED BY WILLIAM GEORGE NEAL, Assoc. I.N.A., HON. M.I. MAR. ENG. Vol. XVIII.—From April, 1896, to March, 1897. London: OFFICE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS AND PUBLICATION, 3, AMEN CORNER, 1897. INDEX Carriage of Grain Cargoes, The, 50 Castle Mail Packets Company's Sad Loss, 137 Causes of Mysterious Fractures in the Steel used by Marine Engineers as Revealed by the Microscope, The, 49 Chemical Estimate of the Salinity of the Condensing Water, 49 Circulation of Water-Tube Boilers, 93 Collapse of the Dispute upon the Clyde, 273 Conditions of Safety now Generally Recognised for Ships, 275 Construction of Watertight Doors, I Conversazione of the Institute of Marine Engineers, 348 "Corrientes," Argentine Armoured Torpedo-boat Destroyer, 846 Deficiency in the Number of Men for Warships, 273 Discipline in the Merchant Service, 435 "Drummond Castle," The loss of the, 187 Duties of the Shipmaster, Legal Requirements, Disabilities and, 345 Engineers' Strike on the Clyde, 273 Experiments in Balanced Pressure Valves, 385 Extension of the Term of Workshop Service for Apprentices, 229 Feed and Circulating Water, etc., by Chemical Means, The Measurement of, 49 First Experiments in favour of the Roller Boat, 435 German Emperor, The, and the Institution of Naval Architects, 138 German Shipyards, Progress of, 94 Grain Cargoes, The Carriage of, 50 Hatch Coamings and their Fittings, 346 High Speed Steamers to the Channel Islands, 309 Improved Speed and Accommodation of Fast and Small Passenger Steamers, 309 Proper and Efficient Manning of the Navy, The, 185 Qualifications and Consequent Status of the Certified Engineer, 310 Regulations Proposed by the Board of Trade for Second-class Certificates for Ridiculous Development of a Trade Strike, 186 Roller Boat, The New, 229, 435 Rolling of Vessels in a Synchronous or Disperiodic Swell, 2 Salvage Appliances, Marine, 51 Satisfactory Settlement of a Strike, 273 Shipmaster at Home and Abroad, Legal Duties of the, 435 Shipmaster's Responsibility on Board Ship, 345 Shipowners and the Mercantile Marine Fund, 386 Society of Arts, Paper on the Bazin Roller Boat, read before the, 435 Some Geometry in Connection with the Stability of Ships, 2 Spherical Balanced Valve for all Pressures, A new, 385 Stability of Vessels under all Circumstances, 2 Status of the Marine Engineer as an Officer, 387 Strikes and their Results, 94 Stupidity and Tyranny of a Trade Strike, 186 Submarine Boats for Purposes of Warfare, 185 Success of the Water tube Boilers on the "Terrible" and "Powerful," 385 Sulphide of Iron, The Action of the, 49 Summer Meeting of the Institution of Naval Architects in Germany, 138 "Terrible," Trials of the Water-Tube Boilers on the, 385 Theory of Circulation in Water-Tube Boilers, 93 Theory of the Pitching Motion of Ships on Waves, and of the Stresses produced Adjuncts for Water Gauges, 395 Adjustable Screwing Stock, Winn's Patent, 281 Air Propellers, The "Bair 1-Thompson," 145 Allison's Patent Furnace Door, 237 Altona, Messrs. Possehl's Coal Wharf at, 187 Application of Wood-Carving to Ships' Decoration, The, 474 Ashton "Lock-up" Safety Valve, The, 18 Automatic Injector, The Buffalo, 59 Automatic Watertight Doors, 442 "Avondale Castle" Before the Launch, The, 355 "Avondale Castle" Leaving the Slips, The, 353 Babcock Boiler, Modei of, 84 Baird's Balanced Safety Gear for Bulkhead Doors, 401 "Baird-Thompson" Air Propellers, The, 145 Balanced Pressure Valves; A new spherical balanced Valve for all pressures, 349 |