Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-04-11

aud cables-no less than twelve thousand tons ut
iron Her deck all is six hundred and ninety
feet long its breadth eighty feet and across
Tie paddle boxes one hundred and fourteen. Her
depth is eight feet Her asurement is twenty
seven thousand five hundred tons. She will carry
eight hundred hrst-cass passengers, two thousand
sccond-class and twelve hundred brdle class besides
her officers aud crew, amounting to four hundred
She will also carry seventeen thousand five hundred
tons cargo and freighted 1t IS believed that she
may be propelled across the Atlantic at the rate Of
from seventeen To twenty miles an hour. Thus even
the minimum rate of speed would take her from the
Chesapeake Bay 10 Milford Haven in less than light
days; and the marimum rate in less than six and a
hnlf
The Great Eastesn is 50 built that by a singular
combination OF ribs and webs, She is nearly AS strong
rs though she a solid block of forged iron She
il double pHnked throughout--the inner skin three
quarters of an inch thick aud the outer one an inch
The panks, OF iron, employ less than three mil
lions Of rtves, of an inch diameter to eonfne them
10 their places. She Is divided into ten large per-
iectly wntertght compartments ofsixty feet Ia length
either of which would float her.in of serious ac-
oidcnt TO the others
What would such structure have to apprehend
from the dangers Of the sea between the Chesapeake
Bay and Milford Haven't OF coast there would be
none whatever TO encounter. Running south Of f2o
with ccbcrgs she could scarcely come in contact
aud if she CHANGED 10 strike one the blow she would
receive, however severe, could not send her down
With thirty feet OF her height always above the ocean
level waves could not harm her. To break her in
two would be almost ns difficult to break in two
The back bone OF the Allegheny. Old Neptune would
behold IN her the triumph Of science over his hth-
erto worldwide recognised majesty in his own brny
domnn In this connection it may be remarked that
the length OF the longest waves is computed nj six
hundred feet their extreme altitude twenty eight
feet, and their average only seventeen.
When the Great festera started on her first voy-
age, fears entertained that, if she encountered
no other obstacle, she would almost certainly he
severed on account OF extraordinary length, upon
the first formidable wave which she attempted to
cross. She was two hundred aud thirty six feet
longl In July, Is15, being about to return to the
United States from the Continent, wrote to friend
III London to procure birth in the Great ByttaiH
which WAS soon To proceed on her first trip to New
hork. By return post he urged me to abandon the
notion OF cmbarkihg in her, opinion generally
prevailed that She WIS too long 10 get across
the Atlantic !" She three hundred and twenty
two feet long Doubts aud prejudces have been
gradually disappearing in the presence of successful
performance, until such is the confidence felt in the
safety of long ships that the Persi of three hundred
and ninety feet length would monopolize the pas
senears OF the Cunard Line it she were capacious
,ayaph to accommodate them
iHe TrcH EdYter7 will have the capacity to carry,
with four thousand persons, twenty five thousand
hnlcs of cotton or fifty thousand barrels of flour,
ten thousand hogshehds of tobacco. The power of
her engines combined Is three thousand horse, British
eetimntc. She will have at her command paddle
wheel, stcrn-whcel, and sails that il propcI
ling agent should chance to be disabled, she would
have two others upon which to rely to move her to
her Destination Her architect expects to succeed in
making her thoroughly hfeproof Hence, COMPARE
lively, she well he submitted to no sea risks. Life
mud property ahpard of her viii be almost secure
rs in strougly-built dwelling. passage from the
Chesapeake Bay 10 Milford Haven will be but little
more perIlou' IN such vessel than passage across
the ferry from New York to llohokeu. Nor would
persons subject 10 sea-sckncss voyaging in her prob
ally be submitted 10 that aggrnvatng malady, eX-