Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-06-29

The YACHT NORTH STAn.-The London Times
Of the Sd notices considerable length the arrival
Of Commodore Fanderbilt's yacht, North Star, from
New York. Her appearance, construction, and
equipment, the editor says, present so many novel
and curious features to English naval men, that ma
ny opinions have been expressed as to her merits
The Times says:
"Most of the old tangled notions of builders of
English ocean steamers completely discarded in
the North Star; and, although it may be questona-
BILE whether the adoption of much of the Princi
pie OF The American lake and river boats into the
of transatlantic steamships in the of the
North Star, is in the long desirable, yet it is
tain that this beautiful ship is in the highest degree
worthy of attention, and that many points, particu
larly those in reference her model and water nes
are eminentIy calculated to convey useful hints to
builders and steamship owners on this side, who
Rave been repeatedly and thoroughly beaten in
the great race of steam navigation going on between
the British and American steamships. The external
appearance of the North Star from the absence Of
bowsprit and gurehead, and the abrupt termination
of the bow of the ship, which is quite perpendicu-
lar, is different from that Of any of the English
steamers, and is certainly foreign the ordinarily
received views cf shipshape appearance this side
The water. Her model is however, the perfection Of
beauty and gives promise to the highest speed al the
least expenditure of motive power. The public are
freeyNadmi!led board, and the ship is exhibited
by the officers with the greatest courtesy. The fit
tiDgs of the cabin the especial theme of adnra-
ton of Of The visitors, and it is difficult be.
lieve that any royal imperial yacht could be sup
pIl6o Win greater OF or
greater taste and elegance. With regard to the ma
chinery, although its excellence in mechanical
point of view is admitted by engineers, yet, it
aside all preconceived notions the desra-
biIity of working the canks at great elevation
deck board ocean going steamships, the English
marine engineers seem hardly disposed to recommend
the adoption of the principle. foreseeng that much
danger of damage and arrangement is hazarded by
having much top-hammer deck in heavy
weather The rigging of the ship is very slight, and
comes hardly under the denomination of jury rig
the Americans in all cases trusting TO the machinery
the propeIing power, and using sails merely for
the purpose Of steadying the ship in seaway."
The North Star would stay some ten or twelve
days at Southampton. 1t is stated that during one
twenty-four hours her log shows she three kun-
dred and forty-f miles, the greatest number ever
made by Atlantic steamer by fifteen miles in TWEEN
tyfour hours-the greatest before being that of the
Baltic, viz, three hundred and twenty-nine miles
The engines were stopped but once the voyage
the fourth day out-for fifty minutes, key up
She waeedfiven at moderate speed, her engines GO
ing h6 thirteen revolutions the up TO sew
entesn reyodions, the highest number The day of
arrival. Average steam seventeen tons twenty
pounds, with throttle valve one third open. The
coal consumed was Eve hundred and twenty. one
tons, OF about ffiy tons per day. The ship made
several times liIfesn knots by The log