He had been in the service less than four months. JENSEN was from Brooklyn, N.Y., where his father, Andrew Jensen, lives. He had been in the naval service about two and one-half years. PHILLIPS, the fireman, who was badly injured, was from Washington, D. C. He had been in the service eight years and ten months.
The boiler explosion on the Delaware, which belongs to the first division of the Atlantic fleet, recalls a similar accident that occurred on the North Dakota, a sister ship of the Delaware. In a four hours' endurance test in November, 1909, when a seven-inch tube in one of the boilers burst as the vessel was off Cape Ann, speeding at over twenty-one knots an hour. Two firemen, a coal passer, and a water tender were badly scalded, but no lives were lost. On Sept. 7 last there was a more serious mishap on the North Dakota, three of her crew being killed and thirteen badly injured through the ignition of fuel oil in one of the compartments when the vessel was near Old Point Comfort, Va.
The worst boiler accident in the history of the navy was that which came near destroying the gunboat Bennington on July 21, 1905. This explosion was due to the excessive pressure in one of the boilers. Sixty men lost their lives. The boiler was hurled back upon another boiler, causing that one also to explode.
On April 13, 1906, two officers and eight enlisted men of the battleship Kearsarge were killed in a gun explosion. This accident was similar to the one that killed three men on the battleship Iowa a few years before.
On July 14, off Cape Cod, Mass., a powder charge in one of the 8-inch turrets of the battleship Georgia prematurely exploded, killing eight officers and men. One of the officers was Lieut. Caspar Goodrich, a son of Rear Admiral Goodrich. These
are not all of the accidents that have beset the navy in recent years, but they are the most serious.
The accident on the Delaware, occuring on the return from Europe of the fleet, brings the number of vessels disabled during the homeward voyage to three, the others being the dreadnoughts Michigan and South Carolina, both of which lost propellers and were compelled to head for Hampton Roads for repairs instead of proceeding as scheduled for the drill grounds off the southern coast of Cuba.
The Delaware was expected to arrive at Hampton Roads tonight, but she was delayed by fog, and probably will not report there until tomorrow. She was spoken indirectly by wireless and reported
"hung up in the fog."

The New York Times New York 1911-01-18