The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts . the largest and most powerful ice-crusher inthe world. She is 305 feet over all, and has a capacity of eighteen loadedfreight or passenger cars. She is built rounding on the bottom and isdeeper aft than forward. Her engines are of horse-power, being thelargest on the lakes, excepting those of the North Land and the NorthWest. She has a propeller with diameter of 12 feet, and an auxiliaryscrew of 10 feet diameter under the prow. These are operated at a speed offrom sixty-five to eighty revolutions a minute; and when driven by
The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts . the largest and most powerful ice-crusher inthe world. She is 305 feet over all, and has a capacity of eighteen loadedfreight or passenger cars. She is built rounding on the bottom and isdeeper aft than forward. Her engines are of horse-power, being thelargest on the lakes, excepting those of the North Land and the NorthWest. She has a propeller with diameter of 12 feet, and an auxiliaryscrew of 10 feet diameter under the prow. These are operated at a speed offrom sixty-five to eighty revolutions a minute; and when driven by thistremendous power the boat is forced ahead, the bow climbs up on to theice, the suction of the forward propeller draws the supporting water fromimder the ice, the boat crushes it down, the current from the forward screwtosses it one side, and the Sainte Marie moves steadily on her way with amaintained speed of eight miles an hour through ice two feet thick. Inmassiveness the construction rivals that of a warship: the boat is practi- 16 THE STANDARD THE by Bell. cally solid timber below the water line; and the hull is complete)} sheathedwith a casing of riveted steel. The fame of the Straits of Mackinac ice-crushers has gone abroad. Rear-Admiral Makaroff of the Russian Navy was commissioned to study theSainte Marie in service; and the Czar has had built two boats after herplans, one for Vladivostock and the other for St. Petersburg on the Neva. Light-houses seen from Mackinac village are: To the southeast—BoisBlanc Island fixed white light. East—Round Island white light with redflashes every 20 .seconds. Southwest—Old Point Mackinaw (MackinawCity) red flash every 10 seconds; and west of this—McGulpins Point fixedwhite light. Geography.—The general direction of the Straits of Mackinac is eastand west. Mackinac village faces southeast. Opposite in the southeastlies Round Island; beyond that is Bois Blanc Island. Southwest isMackinaw City, on the n
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