The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-01-18

Nor QUITE A LAUNCH.--lt was int nded Yesterday
morning TO have launched the longest steamer nthe
world; but from some cause, perhaps the cold wea-
Their, she would not bulge an inch from the stocks
Neither the Jacob Bell rthe Mutual Safety, the
latter very powerful tug boat, could get her TO
move from the place where her keel was laid
This made the intended launch sad affair. Ten
thousand men, women, and children had collected
IN William H. Browns snip yard and vicinity, to
witness the sight. They covered every shed ,house
steamer, boat, fence and post, and presented one Of
the most animated scenes we ever beheld. The
morning was beautifully clear but rather cold Every
one OF the ten thousand therefore, had either very
cold feet or intentionally cold hanIs. Yet they
all remained gazing at the steamer for full two hours
expecting every momentto see hcr start
We never saw such an immense concourse of
people at launch. Not near so many saw the
Kamschatka dip into the liver, and there were hun
dreds less at the laur.ch of the frgate Savannah
from the Navy Yard. And those present yesterday
were fashionable people, who ride in carriages and
have servants to drive them-or rather to drive
their horses. II would be difficult to get such a
class OF People together again to witness the mere
sliding of vessel into the water.
The steamer which ought to have been launched
isa remarkable one. She is six feet longer than any
other vessel in the whole world-longef than the
great iron steamer building in England for Captain
Hoskins, of the Great Western. Her burthen,
however, Is only one thousand tons. This is ex-
planned thiswise 8.
Extreme length on deck. $50 feet.
Extreme breadth of BEAM. ......,. 80 feet in.
Extreme depth Of hold. g feet 9 in
She is like an arrow-remafkably sharp and beau
tifully formed and must go through the water with
great speed. Such promenade deck as is presented
In this boat has never been seen. 1t exendsfor and
aft, and while standing q. the stern poet the bows
are nearly out of sight. Her dining room will be
three hundred and ten feet long, and there are to be
two rows of state rooms. Altogether, her hull will
far surpass any thing Of the kind set seen in the
world. @
1t is said that she lsto be fitted with two OF VIM
A. Lighthan's horizontal half beam marine engines,
called fcrty.eights, with twelve foot stroke. Hell
wb> els are be 32a feet diameter 2i feet face with
dip of % inches. Her shafts and cranks will be of
wrought iron. She is to have four boilers and
half feet wide and eighteen feet long. The whole
length of the engines, from bulkhead to bulkhead,
will be forty-eght feet over all, by the diameter OF
the cylinder in width.
These engines of Lighthars are superior to any
ever introduced in steam vessel They have all the
advantages of the present beam engine-al the adj
vantages Of the square and crossed engines in stress
and strain-al the advantages Of the incline engine
from the incline ofits connecting rod from the beam
to the crank, and all the advantages of the horizon
tai engine, from having horizontal cylinder, lay
| ing horizontally in the bottom of the vessel, ane
working longtudinally with the strength of the hull
They can have any length of stroke, and are suita
Bile for any depth of hold.
Such is the new steamer. She is to be called the
Empire, and will run between here and Albany. i
is expected that she will make the passage in sever
hours or less.
Another attempt to launch her wllli be made a
ten o'clock this morning 1t will undoubtedly b
successful