New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-04-15
NUMBER I |. !. 36
Commerce and comm, .l.,laaalo,,.

TIE MONARCH or THE DEKr- IFie 6iyeat stsnu- I
ship sLesiattat il the aye of grest stearner4
The Persia is modern HondeF. and yet sbe i T,in.
utiye in proportion when compared to Tie Ieviathan
The Mistress Of the Seas as some of the London
journals call her, is built entirely oR iron, i'll e shane
Of plates, securely fastened together with riyes.
She has a double side fore and aft, al the way np
to within few feet of the taffra. She has also
double decks. BY this means great bnoyancy and
strength is impaired to the vessel as the space be-
tween the decks and sides is filled with air. She is
built in eight compartments all air and water tight
Her registered tonnage is % 600 tons with capacity
for coalin addition oifrom l209G to 600 tons Her
draft of waterWhen loaded will be % feet and when
unoaded Is feet. Her average speed Is computed at
% knots or miles per hour. She will be propelled by
gigantic screw % feet in diameter fonr paddles and
by sails Her number of asts will be seven, three of
which will be crossed with yards, and squarerigged
as in lineofbattle ship, and the other masts will
have fore and aft sails. Her number Of boilers will
be ten, five on each de,and each having ten furnaces
She will carry in addition to sufficient complement
of small boats mo less than eight small screw steam
ers each Ito feet in length placed, four each side
of the vessel.
The steamers will land and embark both passen-
gers and cargo The passengers bertlis are placed
on both sides the entire length of the ship The num-
Der Of decks is four and the height Of the principal
saloons, which are in the center, is 15 feet. The
number of passengers she will be able to carry is 800
inst class 800 second class and 10000 troops with
6GD 1eGE,
Of beam So feet, depth from deck to keel SO feet
aggregate length ofsaoon 400 feet Her commander
will be Capt Harrison. with a crew Of in all ineI-5
ding seamen, engineers, stokers, ete from $50 to 900
men consequently with all on board she will COM
prise within herself apopnlation Of large town, on
even city, say 10000 persons. Nearly 1000 men
are employed in her construction. The contract
price for her building is fs20000. There are then
expenses Of her engines and the fittings yictaai
ing, etc. The mere expense Of launching her into.
the water, when completed, will be no less than
100000, as hydraulic power will have to be usedfor
the purpose, and the machinery employed be of PEE
culiar construction. She will enter the water broad
side on. y, -~>'5E 5:.4" s2$s9
The principal dimensions Of the ship, her capacity
and power may be usenlly repeated in mere details
as follows: Length, $50 feet; breadth, s3 feet ];
depth from deck to keel, 81 feet; aggregate length
ofprncipal saloons, 400 feet height Of do feet :
number ofs decks, 4; tonnages25 600 tons carries
of Goals and cargo, Is 900 tons; nominal horses
power, screw, 500 horses do paddles 1000 hor-
ses cylinders OF screw engines 4; diameter of cylin-
der in inches, 81 length of stroke feet cylinders
Of paddle engines, a feet diameter of cylinder IN
inches "a: length Of stroke IA feet6 inches; draft
Of water Qoaded,l 2s feet: do. ght) Is feet car
res of first class passengers 900 Do second class do
| $500; do troops with field equipments, 10000:
weight of iron used in the construction Of the shin
| 1000 tons. # y& Y t,j ~. 34S5 - St8 9#
Her deck isito be flush except for cabin entrances
and similar purposes So that promenade more than
| twice the length Of the Great Britains deck will
/ be available for the passengers. S5
The floor of the ship is perfectly fiat, the keelbeng
turned inWards and riveted to the inner ships keel
These several skins are joined to each other by long
tudinal webs girders formed of plate and angle
IRON Thereare seventeen Of these webs on eachside
Of the ship (which run the entire length of the vessel
and they are placed at such distances as to extend
upward at intervals of about three feet from the keel
to the main deck, and they are again closed up ID
length varying from twenty to sixty feet. Thus tbs
outer and inner ships are joined together by means of
great number of Watertight webs or cells of extra
ordinary strength, giving the vessel rgdty as
has never been communicated to ship before. The
main deck is treated in the same manner fora width
Of twenty feet each side. and iron girders bind one
side to the other so that the entire vessel becomes,
as it were beam of strength, and the whole tabric
may be denomnated web of woven iron the rivets
forming the fastenngs and the webbed or honey-eomb
| cells becoming an indissolube structure. The conn
parments between the outer and inner skin will hold
5000 tons Of water ballast should it be required. The
web plates are Of inch iron and the outer and nna1
! skins are Of three-quarteri inch iron.
The vessel will have twenty ports on the love-
deck, each five feet square, to receive railway wagons
She has, also sixty ports on each side two feet si1
inches square, for ventilation and an abundance
dead lights. The lower ports are ten feet above th
| water when the shin is loaded.
One great difficulty which the Leyiathan will laho
under will be the few great commercial ports in tht
world, to enter which there is sufficient depth o
water to enable her to pass on in safety According
to a recently published statement. she cannot CONT
within eighteen miles of New Iork-and would theI
have to discharge her cargo at an Insignificant place
| by the agency of lighters. The only northern por
she can visit and which has depth Of water enougl
to float her when laden in safety, is said to be Port
land Me. -.Ws -