Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-18
The Great Eastern.

The Great Eastern was designed by
Isambard Kingdom Brunei, Ese., +. K.
S. The ship and paddle engines are
building by Messrs. Scott, Russell & Co.,
at Millwall, on the river Thames and
the screw engines by Messrs. james
Watt & Co., Soho Works, Birmingham.
The principal dimensions Of the ship,
her capacity and pawer, are as follows;
Length (rather more than the
eipht of miIe.) $50 feet.
Breadth, 90
Depth from neck to keel, 90
Length of principal saloons, 400
Number of Decks,
Tonnage, 22,5OO tons
To carry Goals and cargo, $4,000
Nominal power Of paddle en-
gines, 1000 horses.
screw 1900
Number of cylinders of pad
die engines,
Diamiter of cylinders, "a inches.
Length of stroke, 14ft 6 inches.
Draft of water Qaden) 80 feet.
Qight) 20
To carry 800 LIST class Total Aooo
1900 1,2oo Sd passengers
Troops, without
other passengers, 10000
WeiSht of iron used in construc-
ton about 1000 tons.
The speed of the vessel is estimated
by Brunei at fifteen knots an hour, with
out diminution and without cessation, I'M
der any weather a speed which would
accomplish the voyage between England
and India, by the Cape, in from thirty to
thirty-three days and between England
and Australia, in from thirty-three tc
thirty-six days.
The mode proposed for launching the
vessel is as follows: In constructing the
foundation of the floor on which the ship
is being built, provisions is made at two
points to insure sufficient strength to bea
the whole weight of the ship when com
,pleted. At these two points, when thu
launching has to be effected, two cradle
will be introduced, and the entire fabri
will be lowered down gradually to low
water mark, whence, on then ensuing
tide, the vessel will be f1oted off.
One popularity of this ship is that he
deck will be flush, except for cabin en-
, frances and similar purposes, so that he
! great length will afford the passengers
; promenade of more than a quarter of
mile round the deck, which, from tn
magnitude of'the vessel, aught to be at a
times free from shipping water.
Intimately connected with the appear
ance of the ship, is her rig, and adde
hereto, her motive power. In no shi
i have the chances of accident been S
much studied as in the Great EASTERN
Her provision against such contigencie
1 may be thus stated: l. An inner an
outer skin in compartments 2. Water
J tight bulk heads ; 3. Ample masts an
sails; 4. Paddle-wheels 5. Screw pr
- peller.
10 With regard to motive power, the win
will be made available, and for this pu
% pose the vessel will be provided viii
: seven masts. The centre masts will
Il principal, these will be crossed by yard
d as in line of-battle ship; the 9TH
d masts will be smaller in size. The sal
% will be of an effective but simple cha
acter.
"a 1t is, however, in respect of its stea
O power, that this vessel will be most di
tinguished, combining, as it does, bo
- the paddle-wheel and the screw. II
d. engines are incomparably larger than al
S, hitherto made for mariner purposes al
IN their actual power will be far great
c. than their nominal power already state
ut They will be placed in different parts
lie the ship, and be entirely independent
re each other. The vessel will have t.
On boilers, and five tunnels and each boil
can be cut off from its neighbor,and US
or not, as desired. The boilers will
90 placed longitudinally along the centre
- the ship; and it will give some idea
NJ their generative power, when it is stat
- that every boiler will have ten furnac,
:. thus giving to the whole no less than o
hundred furnaces. The fuel to be us
will be anthracite coal.
- The paddle engines are direct, acti
,r- with oscillating cylinders, and are &C
IN structed on the disconnected princiE
at IN order that they may be used jointly
sw separately, so that both, or either Of t
paddle-wheels, can be put in indept
dent motion. The diameter of the D.
lat dle-wheels will be sixty feet.