The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-09-15
Launch OF the steamer suchiI.

Tho iron steamer suchl wss launched yesterday amer
two o'clock, from Bells yard At tho foot OF Bous
ton street, East river large number Of Spectators
crowded into The yard appointed hour arrived
when two O'Clock came there were about . thousand
people assembled. me ways creased and
everything carefully removed that might in.
pede the srsshor sud course Of the ships rrst and
last overland march. me tide almost full, and sli
temptBgly approaching 10 receive ber daughter, whsn
signal 10 heard, followed by another then afeS hammer
stroses ard cheer, and the suchl slises softly aod
swiftly 70 the water, and grAcsfay towards
middle Of the un her course interrupted by tug
boat, and abe n taken 20 the Neptune Iron Worss,
al the fcot q Eighth street There we're about 200
people on board when the veessi w>s launched, and
on landing they expressed themselves plessed with
their cruise In the suchn. Nesry hAE the CON.
psny who board the such wheu she ras launch
ed entered the Nepune IRON works wbcn sue retained,
and psrtook of collation. prepared there for ther use
IoAsm ana sentiments complimentary " toe o"ners,
builders, Sc OF The ship vere then drank, AID soca
hour passed ssreeaoly away.
rue spchn an ron vessel Of 2to tons burden. she Is
lt0 feet lorf and 90 feet vide Her dcph nom her deck
70 The bottom of hold only feet svd her present
dram Of water II only Twelve inches Her gres4cs dra,
when laden, only sixteen or eghleen lncoes when she
u ahcas she seems 70 rest like board upon the water.
Sfe will have two nsined engines Of 120 horse power
each sno ts csiculaisd that she viii be able 70 steam
from Ten totweiye miles hour The 5uchil was built
by Messrs. Bosrdmsn. HoIorook Co, and her compo
neut pafh were Manufactured NJ the Nsptune Iron works
and hueo tosetber in the yard from whence she was
launched, at the foot Of Houston street She was com
need forty three days ago. and hnshed the day she
was launched. she built with three bulkhesds,
making four water tight compartments, and
she ~ well strengthened throughout BY stsnch.
cons. she was built for the Tehnsntspec Company,
70 be placed on the new route between New or.
leans and California She II built In the peculiar manner
already mentioned In order that she may navigate the
river Goa, zacolos, which from Sucn near the Pa
cfc) Mexico across 10 knnsulan, the shores Of the
Gull OF Mexico. This crooked well ~ shallow
and IN order 10 countcrect this circumstance the Suchs
engines made 10 conversely 10 each other when
necessey thai while OF her paddle wheels turns
in one direction, the other may revolve In the opposite
and thus the steamer be wheeled srouad bend or
promontory almost In instsnt There are already two
other steamers this river engaged IN the service OF
the Iehusntepec Company and these with line OF stages
VIII form the connecting link between the Gull OF Mexico
and the Pacific by which there viii be, is believed,
eight days and thousand two hundred miles saved by
every one who travels by this route nstssd Of that
via Panama. The line viii be fortnshtly one a. the
commencement, and subsequently u may become week
ly one.