The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-15 00:00:00

STEAM NAVIGATION.
THE SCREW PROPELLER v. PADDLE-WHEL

Under this head, we find a well penned' article in the fin
number of The Bristol Magazine, a small neat literary

literature

necoute deservedly popular in the _ __ ,
It may be surmised, the facts and arguments add
to what may be termed the splendid success of Mr. I
Smith's admirable invention tor the propulsion of stt

ships, by an entirely new and ingeniciusrapplication cf the
Archimedean screw, as recently exhibited in the Archimedes,

a vessel, the construction, machinery, and performances of
which while she was at this port last year, we noticed at con-
siderable length, after having accompanied Mr. Smith in his
experimental trips on the Mersey. The Archimedes has
since performed a number of highly successful voyages, par-
. ....

sessing that perfection in construction whicli experience will
enable the inventor to arrive at in vessels to which the screw
may be hereafter applied, has dread/ established a reputation
which has given pause to those who have hitherto regarded

oubtless induce proprietors
of new steamers, in the exercise of a wise direction, to weigh
well the advantages held out by the screw, as compared with
the unwieldy principle which has so long been exclusively

ter, and

The writer of the article alluded to introduces the subject
by some pertinent remarks on the extreme caution with which
raise to Mr.

lie appear disposed to yield any

and the reluctance shewn to-diger

track by the builders of nevi stew
" As we are all more or less iut

same that s

t of the A

medes and he

performances will not be unacc

as the writer of this article has hiMself travelled some thou-
sands of miles by sea-going steamers, and has otherwise had

opportunities of acqurring much general nautical informa
. .

is observations probably w

not be thought either

" Et/cry one, we believe, on seeing a steam-vessel of the
sual construction for the first time, with her huge and'un-
3ightly paddle-boxes, is struck with the awkwardness of her

protuberances, destroying the otherwis
of her proportions, ar

beautiful symmetry

'deformity ; and that the ye

not in that state of

regards her exterior,which

the invention will Ultimately admit of : but those only who
have been at sea on board such a vessel, in bad weather and
head winds, can be conscious of all the evils and inconveni-
ences attached to them. That in .such cases the paddle-

boxes offer considerable resistance to the wind, and propor-
tionately retard the progress of the vessel, is self-evident ;

'eaks upon

frame of the vessel to tremble from end to end? Sor

away, carrying With them passengers and cattle;—(many of
our readers will remember the case of the Albion off Lundy,
about five, years ago ;)—indeed, we have ourself more than
once been m storms when a portion of the paddle-boxes was
shattered ; and our only surprise has been that the vessel
continued to go ahead at all, against the hold which both

was even
.proposed (and we bel

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