Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-12
The Great Eastern.

The Great Eastern.
The telegraph has announced the arrival
in New York, of the Great Eastern steam
ship, after passage from Southampton of
nearly eleven days. Her time was moth
ing to boast of, but the first trip of a new
steamer is rarely criterion of her powers,
the machinery being new, and her officers
very cautious to prevent possible accidents
from undiscovered defects. The number
of passengers was small, although the pri-
ces were no higher than by regular lines.
Most people were doubtful of the success Of
the experiment and disliked to risk the pas
sage. The passage up the harbor of New
York to her dock was made with the
greatest ease, the leviathan answering her
helm as easily as a smal pilot boat. The
following is description of this monster
steamer.
The iron steamship Great Eastern, now
commanded by Captain John Vinehall, was
built at Millwall, on the banks of the riv-
er Thames, England, from designs plan
ned by the late Mr.. Brunei The work Of
construction was carried on by Messrs.
Treadwell, of Gloucester, under the super
intendence of Mr.. Scott Russell. She is
the largest vessel affoat, her hull measur-
ing about seven hundred feet in length, six
ty feet in hight, and making burden of
twenty three thousand tuns. Thirty thou
sand iron plates have been used in her
construction, each plate weighing the third
part of a ton, and requiring one hundred
rivets to make it fast to its fellows.
She has ten steam boilers, which are
heated by one hundred furnaces. The
cylinder of every engine in the Great
Eastern is six feet in diameter and weighs
five times as much as the great bell of
St. Paups Church, London. Her screw
propeller is twenty-four feet in diameter,
and the diameter of each of her pad
die wheels is fifty-six feet. The principle
suit of saloons in the Great Eastern is
four hundred feet long, and promenade
round her deck affords walk of more than
three quarters of an English mile in ex-
tent.
The latest survey of the ship gives
registered measurment of eighteen thou
sand nine hunnred and fifteen tons.
This monster ship combines steam pow
er in both shapes-scrcw and paddle
with sailing power. To furnish the for
mer she carries eleven thousand tons of
coal, and when driven by the wind, with
all sail set, she will spread out SIX thou
sand five hundred feet of canvas.
She has six masts, and two of her
screw prcpellers, each sixty feet long, both
being attached to her guards aft.
A longitudinal sectional view of the ship
shows: aft the aperature for the screw,
with cast-iron Strengthening frame suppor-
ting the screw shaft. Above are the cap
STAINS, worked by shaft from auxiliary en-
gines. Aft of capstans are the cast-irou
bits for the chain cable. Then comes the
screw shaft and its pedestals, and auxilia-
ry engines for working capstans and for
turning screw-shatt at moderate velocity,
should it be necessary to disconnect the
screw-engines from the shaft if the vessel
is under canvas. Above this are cargo
room ships stores, &C., and next the screw
engines of Messre Watt & Co.; above
which are capins and berths for engineers.
Again, we find six pair of boilers for
screw-eugines, with the steam-pipes leading
thereto; above and on either are the coal
bunkers, between each set of boilers above
are some Of the principal saloons, with
berths on each side of the ship; and on
deck is the captains cabin. Near this are
the paddle-engines, and above are the en-
gineer's and stokers' berths, &c.
Then we see auxiliary engines and boil
ers for working capstans forward, with a
shaft and gear to work at any required ve-
loeity. These engines are also for pump
ing water from the double sides of the ves-
sci when necessary. Above is the gas
work.
There are four pairs of boilers belonging
to the paddle-engines, of Scott, Russell &
Co., and the steam-pipes leading thereto.
Above and around coal bunkers. On the
second deck, and in front of the funnel, is
the ladies' cabin; and from that to the pad
dle-engine room is the drawingroom on
deck, under which are some of the princi-
pal saloons and berths on the other side.
The steamer is lighted with gas made
on board, and as she traverses the Allan
tic the electric light flickers from her mast
head, signalling her course and approach
to her fellow travelere of whatever dimen-
sions.
She has capacity TO accommodate four
thousand passengers, eight hundred of
them being "frst Glass;" and if employed
as troop ship she could, ina case of grave
emergency, carry ten thousand soldiers.
We append, as matter of much inter-
est, and for purpose of future reference,
condensed table of the exact measurment,
size and capacity of the Great Eastern.
The principals dimensions of the ship, her
capacity and power, are as follows:
Length (rather more than the
eighth of a mile) ). $50 feet
Dieauln IS
Depth from deck to keel. 60
Length OF principal saloons---- 400
Number of decks
10 carry Goals and cargo. 10000
Noinihai power OF paddle engines 1000 horses.
screw 1000
Nc! No. OF cylinders of paddle engines
Diameter ofeylihders 74ipcbes
Length of stroke i4ft in
Draft of water (laden) . 30 feet
QighD 80. 20 ~
f:sSS i;sSS q q Total 1000 p,;:se- s:;..
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