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Title: McClure's magazine
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949
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Publisher: New York : S.S. McClure
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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usted, and then wentout. See, they are but partly consumed.There was intense heat in this hold, andexpansion of the water in all the tanks.Are tanks at sea filled to the top ? Chock full, and a cap screwed downon the upper end of the pipes. As I thought. The expanding waterburst every tank in the hold, and the cargowas deluged with water, which attackedevery lime barrel in the bottom layer, atleast. Result—the bursting of those bar-rels from the ebullition of slacking lime,the melting of the tallow—which couldnot burn long in the closed-up space—andthe mixing of it in the interstices of thelime barrels with water and lime—a boil-ing hot mess. What happens under suchconditions ? Give it up, said Boston, laconically. Lime soap is formed, which rises, andthe water beneath is in time all taken upby the lime. ( But what of it? interrupted theother. Wait. I see that this hold and thetween-deck are lined with wood. Is thatcustomary in iron ships ? Not now. It used to be a notion that
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poised on end in mid-air, with DECK and sponsons still INTACT, a bowless, BOTTOMLESS REMNANT OF mik CRUISER. 286 THE DERELICT NEPTUNE. an iron skin damaged the cargo; so the thousand fifty-pound kids—four hundred first iron ships were ceiled with wood. thousand pounds—all of which has disap- Are there any drains in the tween- peared, we can be sure that, sticking to deck to let water out, in case it gets into the skin and sides of the barrels down that deck from above—a sea, for in- here, is—or was once—one hundred and stance ? twenty thousand pounds, or sixty tons, of Yes, always; three or four scupper- the other end of the equation—glycerine! holes each side amidships. They lead the Do you mean, Doc, asked Boston, water into the bilges, where the pumps can with a startled look, that— reach it. I mean, said the doctor, emphatic- I found up there, continued the doc- ally, that the first thing the acids—mixed tor, a large piece of wood, badly charred in the tween-deck t

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