The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-05 00:00:00

THE NEW SCREW STEAMER PHBE.

The advance of improvement in the construction of
merchant, vessels is in no instance more strikingly
developed than is shown in the building of auxiliary
screws in the present year. We have had occasion
to take notice of several lately, which have attracted
admiration, but in no instance have the lines been
finer, or has the model elicited more general satisfaction,
than in that of the Pheebe. This fine vessel, of 600
tons register, and 150 horse-power, was launched on
Saturday last, from the building yard of Messrs. Alexander
Denny and Brother, of Dumbarton—who appear rather
favourite builders with our Liverpool shipping friends—
and she certainly does them every credit, as she promises,
from her peculiar model and greater proportionate power
than some of the steamers lately built, to equal any of her
predecessors in the Mediterranean trade. Although remark-
ably yacht-like in appearance, still, for strength of con-
struction, her builders have challenged all cotnpettors.
Ller plates throughout are double rivetted, and she hus a
larger scantling than any other steamer we have seen.
lier commander, Captain P. P. Brenan, who is also a
large proprietor, expects to have her in Liverpool this
month, when she will be laid upon her intended station—
namely, Malta, Syria, Constantinople, and Smyrna; and,
from an experience of upwards of twenty years in this
trade, we doubt not he will make the most of her.
She is the first of an intended line of new iron screw
steamers for the Levant, under the management of Messrs.
Preston and Watson' of this town, who, ragardless of
expense, have adopted all the most recent improvements
in naval architecture; and who, seeing the daily increas-
ing demand, are, by this means, securing a prominent
position in the Turkey trade.
Messrs. Tiilloch and amity, of Dumbarton, are putting
the engines into the Elccbe, and, on close examination,
they have been pronnunced one of the compactest and
neatest jobs of the kind ever turned out of the Clyde.
She is 175 feet long ; 26 feet beam ;, 15 feet deep ; is
barque-rigged ; of a pecuiiar rakish appearance, which is
improved by her bow being planned so as to appear high
out of the water—nearly straight, and particularly light;
an improvement for which we are indebted to her
practical commander, Captaba. P. P. Brenan. Her
screw has only two blades, but it appears particularly
strong. She has comfortable houses on deck, for the
officers and engineers, and she has also a bath room on
deck, which is deservedly appreciated as a great luxury
in trading to oriental shores. Her cabins are large and
capacious ; the berths airy and commodious ; and their
ventilation, comfort, and elegance, is very superior.
The ladies' cabin is a drawing-room in miniature—
is elegantly furnished, and has also a comfortable bath.
room attached. She is divided into four airtight corn.
partments, and is calculated to carry 650 tons of goods.
and 220 tons of coals, bisides twenty passengers. From
the energetic character of her agents, we prophecy that
success to the Phoebe which her spirited originators
deserve.

A very stout-looking female havhis been stopped by a
Glasgow watchman, her iimdinate rotundity was iamnd to
be produced by the bodies, of 49 low *pi wpm lawk
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