The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-24 00:00:00

THE STEAMER GANGES.

There is now lying in Coburg Dock one of the lar"
powerful vessels which has yet been built for the nacv
gation of the rivers of India, namely, the steamship
Ganges. This vessel belongs to the Oriental Inlay-
ci
'Steam Navigation Company; and is commanded b
Captain Maynard, late of the Cape mail steamers, vlb°
is well known as one of the most experienced 9°l:
menders in that line, and whose intimate [Fcina.lll
ante with the African coast has no doubt indticeu9
the Oriental Inland Company to secure his servicee
in conducting this vessel to her destination. Th.,,
Ganges was built by Mr. Reid, of Port Glasgow, and 1:
200 feet long by 67 feet broad across the paddle-boxeras
She has been built expressly for towing barges fro
Calcutta to Allahabad. The Ganges is specially adapt.ea,
for towing heavy loads, and is propelled by two hi0,0.12_
pressure engines, with cylinders 26 inches in diameter
and 6 feet stroke. The boilers are on the locoraotii
principle, and the pressure of the steam is 120
per square inch. The boilers have been proved h:
bbyhydrostatic pressure to above twice the pressure ate
heel
which they are intended to work. The effective poee
of the engines is about 800 horses. The paddle-N5 14
larger
are 16 feet .in diaMeter, and the paddle-bards are
12 feet long and about 22 inches wide.
paddle-
high rates of speed, but a moderate di.
iumst as in railway
diameter of paddle-wheel would be moreetersunAiftable for
wheel is best for pulling heavy loan—s---ne..s
are invariably
locomotion, owtiiotnh,
swmhalelredrtihvien The engines of the
been made by Messrs. Fawcett,
Ganges, which have
first qualiy, and not
of the verY •
Preston, and Co., are wodhseeles.gi
been experienced in tany of the
made. The vessel, though very
even a hot bearingbleleaan.
trials which have t feet of water, with the
dra Wing
light, and only
of
coals on board, is very strong, and
exceedingly steady and rigid, great
taken to ensure department
every
' s having been
pain
mu of strength with the minimum of weight.
fullthe cra°anicPhlie:Yen-tis
the ize -engine answers the double purpose of
The • a water, and of affording, when requisite, all
pampui..
0.
additional lever
to the paddle wheels, in the event
of the vessel getting aground among the mud banks
donkey
which abound in the Ganges. The speed of the
steamer alone has been proved to be upwards of four-
teen miles an hour. The Ganges will be despatched
in the.early part of next month, and it is expected that
she will be plying on the Ganges in about foal
months. Several of the barges have preceded.hei in
other vessels belonging tO the company, and bay;
already arrived' ' India; where they will be 1311,.
together by the time 'the Ganges arrives out. 'llllw
difficulty of taking out a vessel of such light draft '-
the Ganges has been overcome by a most novel expe-
dient. A portion of one of the iron barges having bee:
inverted and fastened to the after part of the steamer :
such a manner as to prevent the waves from fining her'or injuring the machinery. This vessel has two fanne:
and presents a most' peculiar appearance as she a°';
lies in the dock, from the fact of the iron barges berm
inverted on her poop deck. All new enterprises in steam
navigation have great difficulties to surmount ; not only
re
in getting vessels themselves, but in getting suitsta
men for every department. The Oriental Inland Stele
Company foresaw this difficulty, and have selected tike
most experienced officers that could be found. All,ce
steam-timing companies now working in India t 4
been eminently successful ; and we trust that the Orion
Inland stestn.Conal%4 steamship Cfilfigeg'
ne
now under 'theable eiimicuintl of Captaiv Maynard' the
of the most successful, as she is undoubtedly one of
most powerful, vessels that have been built for the
towing trade on the River Ganges.

The Moniteur contains an Imperial decree orderios
the immediate execution of the works necessary for the
establishment of twelve additional lighthouses on
dif
ferent pacts of the French coast along the Atlantic'
#xPciPcil vltimatc4 a 4 11871,000 f.