"ملف A/5 مصائد اللؤلؤ بالخليج العربي" [و‎‎٢‎٩] (٦٢/٥٧)

ASK FOR CATALOGUE NO. 94, WHICH GIVES FULL INFORMATION
COVERING 44 WOLVERINE " MARINE ENGINES.
WOLVERINE MOTOR WORKS,
BRIDGEPORT, CONN., U.S.A.
Formerly Grand Rapids, Mich.
" KIITY WATTS "
45 feet Launch used in the Pearl Industry at Mergui, Burma, India.
Engine, 42 H.P., using kerosene (paraffin) for fuel. See page 6.
WOLVERINE MOTOR WORKS
BRIDGEPORT, CONN., U.S.A.
Gentlemen: Broome, Western Australia, June 18, 1914.
The boat is away out on the pearling grounds at present at work, and may not
be in Broome for some months. It will interest you to know that the boat in which
your 14 H.P. engine is installed capsized in a hurricane last month. We were fortunate
enough to be able to salvage the boat. You will be pleased to hear that though the
engine was under water for a week, beyond having to clean it up and recharge the
batteries, it was uninjured, and is running splendidly since the accident.
23 ft. by 6 ft. Launch owned at Port Chalmers, New Zealand. Equipped with
5 H.P. "Wolverine" engine, making 7 miles per hour. The owner states that the
engine runs better on kerosene (paraffin) than on gasoline.
Albany, Western Australia, June 21, 1914 i
Gentlemen:
We might say here that we are rather proud of our craft with your 22 H. 1 '
engine. Our boat is called " Wolverine," is 50 ft. 6 in. over all, 11 ft 4 in. beam, with
3 ft. 6 in. draft, and we can get ten miles an hour out of her on benzine and about the
same on kerosene.
BULLETIN No. 24. a.
WOLVERINE
" Quin
Phos "
of the
Royal
Queensland
Y.C.,
Australia.
Mergui, Burma, India.
Gentlemen:
Enclosed is a snap shot of our launch "Kitty Watts," 45 ft. by 9 ft. 6 in.,
riding at mooring at Quoin Island. Am sorry that I have none better at hand, but if
this is not suitable will get a snapshot of the launch "under weigh." This is a very
bad time to take any photographs, as the monsoons are now on.
As regards the work the boat is doing, would say that she is out every week to
Mergui and back. The r ound trip is 1 00 miles, and in "fair_weather she does the .trip
frorfTthe Island to Mergui f50 miles) in five hours. During the present monsoons she
has taken as much as 5 days to do the same trip, owing to having to put up, not on
account of breakdowns, but bad weather and high seas. Last year during the pearling
season, the boat had to go to the pearling grounds about once in two weeks, the round
trip being 140 miles. The boat has done about 8,500 miles, roughly, up to date, and
the motor is as sound and works as well if not better than when first installed. The
engine uses kerosene (paraffin) for fuel.
I am not a motor engine expert, but I am a mechanical and electrical engineer ; and
from my experience in the mechanical line, 1 say, "Give me a 'Wolverine' motor
engine which works like a clock and as regular." I cannot say enough in praise of the
motor engine in our launch, except that it is a credit to the makers both as to its
simplicity in understanding its workings as well as to its reliability and precision in
action. (42 HrP. motor.)
The Motor with the Bore and Stroke
5 H.P. "SPECIAL" OUTFIT
Combined COMPRESSOR and PROPELLING MOTOR especially designed for
and adapted to the
PEARL FISHING INDUSTRY
Equipped
with a
14 H.P.
" Wolverine "
Engine.