The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-21 00:00:00

LAUNCH OF THE HYDASPES SCREW

STEAMER.

On Saturday afternoon another of those splendid 1,800
ton screw-ships, built by ;Mare and Co. for the General
Screw Steam Mail Company, was launched from the
extensive building premises at Orchard Wharf, Blackwell.
The chairman of the company, Mr. Ellis; the manag-
ing director, Mr. Fox, M.P. ; Captain Ford, Mr. P.
Holt, M.P. ; Sir W. S. Harris, and many naval officers,
were present, and admired the quiet business-like way
in which the noble structure was sent into the water by
Mr. Waterman, Mr. Mare's naval architect. She was
named the " Hydaspes," by a niece of the worthy chair-
man, as she glided off smoothly and gracefully into Bow
Creek, amidst the cheers of the assembled spectators.
She was afterwards taken in tow and immediately floated
round to the East India Dock.
This is the fifth of that class of vessels that Mr. Mare
has sent into the water, and it is worthy of remark as
reflecting the greatest credit on British skill and enter-
prise,t
that this is the fifth ship that has been built
within the last twelve months, and three of them are
now actually employed in conveying her Majesty's mails
to India—namely, the Queen of the South, Indiana, and
Calcutta—whilst another will be ready to embark the
mails at Plymouth for the Cape and Calcutta on the 15th
of next month. The public are frequently surprised
with paragraphs detailing the mighty enterprise ot
Yankee ship. builders and the extensive orders ot Ame-
rican steam Companies ; but if English writers, and
naval men. too, would only look at home and within
halt-a-dozen miles of London they would see greater
reasons for public wonder and professional admiration.
We do not think that the fact has a parallel in the his-
tory of shipbuilding in any country, that for one com-
pany, one shipbuilding firm, has in the course of twelve
months launched 9,000 tons of ships, and has nearly
built 3,600 tons more. This is a truth which is stranger
than foreign exaggeration or fiction.
The Hydaspes will have engines of 300-horse power,
by James Watt and Co late, Bolton and Watt.
We ne,ed scarcely add, that Mr. Mare received the
congratulations of the company for launching so speedily
so fine, a noble-looking, seagoing craft, and that t,he,
company was complimented on the great and useful
addition to their excellent fleet of screw-steamers.

WILLIAM w
,__ ORDSWORTH:It bas been prop._
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pm" a memorial to the poet in the church now re-
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certain
and where he received the first elements of his educa-
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in his grey hairs and honours, be often stood and com-
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associated with the pqrent's-history. intended to
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great five-light east widdow of the chancel should be a
" memorial window," filled with Scriptural subjects, and
inscribed to the memory of Wordsworth.
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