The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-18
THE RUSSIAN STEAM FRIGATE

In week or ten days enc of the most substan
tial and splendid steam ships in the world will
be launched in this city.
This steam ship, or steam frigate rather, is
owned by Nicholas, Emperor of Russia. She is
of immense size and has been building since last
spring. Her dimensions are as follows:
Length of deck, 900 feet.
Length Of keel, 210 "
Breadth, SO "
Full depth, 24A &c
Tonnage, 1900.
She Is constructed of live and white oak, but
mostly Of the latter kind, weighing, we believe,
about fifty pounds to the cubic foot. She will
draw, when launched, ten or eleven feet of wa
ter and NO more. But when her engines, and
boilers, and guns, and all her machinery and her
fuel, of which she carry about eight hun
bred tons, are in, sho will probably draw five
feet more.
The model of this great war steamer was
drafted by two officers of the Russian Navy,
known for their scientific and nautical know
ledge, and she has been built by Mr.. William Fl.
Brown, an experienced shipwright of this city.
She will be noble specimen to send abroad
As she now appears en- the stocks, all rugged
ship-shape, one is struck with astonishmcnt to
behold such magnificent vessel. Her model,
for steamer, is superb, and perhaps one per-
feet was never before conceived. And it is by
such practical combination of strength, with
beauty and symmetry, that we may expect to go
ahead Of all the rest of the world in ship build
ing Heretofore our shipwrights have not been
guided SO much by science as by experience and
a practised eye. But, nevertheless, American
ships have surpassed those of every other nation
in most every quality.
No vessel of the kind that has ever crossed
the Atlantic, is like her. She is superior to the
Western, the Queen, and the President. Her
bows are sharp-her stern is round-her bend is
gradual and symmetrical her wheel-houses are
low aud barx hole
ance is rich, attractive, ana man-cfwar-like.
Her bows are set off with large spread double
headed eagle, and her stern ditto--beneath which
are the cabin windows. She has three masts,
which, together with her rigging, are ve'y Light
This will contribute, in great degree, to her
speed against head winds. Large unweldy
spars are decidedly bad when winds are unlavor-
able Her internal arrangements will be very
neat, chaste, and beautiful. Her cabins are tt
be fitted up somewhat in the style of our packet
sbips. with the same kind of woods and 80 forth
Ali the compartments bClow, for officers and
seamen, are 10 be spacious and airy. Her anna
nent is to be very formidable. She can discharge
at every broadside more than four husdred
hounds of shot She will mount sixteen fifty
four and thIrty-two pounuers on the second deck
and two ninety-six Founders, called by Il . hu-
name. death Dealers on the upper deck, wlIief
IL flush fore and aft-a clean run of 220s feet
Her engines are making Ivy Durham & Brown
,np. and will be about 800 horse power. 'fheJ
viii be equal to the ship, for no expense IS to b.
spared in having them perfect What her spseI
will be is of course not yet known We car
only guess that she will go pretty fast, IL no
faster.
Her launch will be well worth, seeing.
will be a SIGHT such as is seldom offered to oui
view, and we therefore advise all who can to b'
present We will give notice when it is to taxi
place-.S 4. Herald.