The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-07-22
PROPOSALS.
Proposals for Building Side-yyheei
GunbOats.

VUlHE NAVY DEPARTMENT will. until the ao,b
Il day of July, receive propositions from ship-build
ers actually engaged in the construction of vessel.
for the construction of the hull of doubIe.bowed
side-wheel gunboa with rudder at each end protect
ed by the stems; the mass, rigging sails for fore-and
ait schooner rig and awnings; four boats, with all
their fittings and equipments complete; tanks for
1000 gallons of water with the necessary casks break
ers, buckets &C. The vessel completed in every re-
spect with all the fittings for sea service except ord
nance, anchors and cables. furniture cooking uten-
ss instruments, and stores, which will be furnished
BIZ the Movement.
The length of the vessel, including both rabbets on
a line feet inches above the lower edge of rabbct
O. me Keel, to be 2SS feet the extreme breadth 80
feet and the depth of hold from throat of floor tim
Der to lower side of deck plank IL feet The dispace-
ment to line feet inches above the lower edge Of
rabbet of bottom plank to be &c. 500 cubic feet The
size of the principal materials to be as follows,
sells Of this class Keel Of white oak "a BY 81 inches.
scarph fastened with 7 inch copper bolts; stem of
white oak, sided 10 inches and properly secured in
openings for rudder and TO keel with composition
metack; timber and room "a, 26 and % inches;
moor timber sided to 8 inches; futtocks 8 to s
inches; top timbers inches moulded in throat
IL inches. in biige 9 inches, at head 81 inches
Timber of frame close together. Space between
frames level with throat of floor filed in with white
pine. Main keelson of white oak 10 by Is inches.
fastened with two copper bolts In each frame of inch
Bilge keelson of white oak yellow pine fastened
with copper bolts inch in diameter under engine
hooks of white oak, sided ~ inches Diagonal braces
In two tiers 81 by inch amidships and BY 7l6 to-
ea or ns Sppef P By inch B
of inches wide on each side. Ceiling three inches
Clamps of white oak inches thick, three strakes II
inches, boted edgewise. Berth deck beams Of white
pine, sided 81 moulded inches, the four longest
beams to have lodge knees Berth deck plank white
plhe; upper aees beams OF yellow pine or white OAK
ard inches at the end One hanging knee at each
end of each beam, and lodge and lap kness between
the beams Hanging knees sided inches. the re-
naming knees inches. Waterways and thick strakes
OF yellow pine or oak, logged over beams, and fast
encd with inch iron. Deck plank of yellow pine
inches, if oak. 81 inches thick Spirkefting of white
oak in thickness inches Cardboard s.rakes of white
oak, Al inches thick. Bottom plank of white oak 81
incher thick. Wales of white oak, inches thick; in
width, y inches; square fastened. the bottom with
three treenails and composition spike; the gar
board strakes with two copper bolts and two tree
nails the wales. above the copper fastening, with
inch iron bolts and iron spikes butt bolts in dame
ter, inch. Copper fastening to extend up to feet
bottom sheathed with "a ounce copper to fee, inch
above the rabbet of the keel. The wheels will be
overhung, the guards made short fore and aft as
practicable, and the wbeehouse built in the usual
way. The buwarks to be of 5-l6 plate iron The
builders of the vessel will make the wood-frame for
the inclined engines securing II with wood knees and
to the keesons, and will do all the wood work neces-
sary in placing the machinery. The cabin ward
room, steerage and between decks, the holds bolts
steering wheel pumps, scuppers. capstans, hammock
rail, caulking. joners plumbing. painting, and the
other detail far the contract stipuates cover
Is to be complied in accordance with the usages Of the
navy.
The bidders need only send drawing showing the
shape of one half the vessel having the requisite
placement, as both ends alike and if they think
proper, plain model of the same.
The proposals must state the price for which they
will agree TO have the vessel ready receive the ma
chinery and launch her. for the periods of fourteen
sixteen, eighteen and twenty weeks respectively the
vessel to be fully completed in forty DAYS hereafter
or in twelve days after the complete erection of the
machinery.
The usual conditions of government contracts will
be observed. and pay ments win be made as the work
progresses and twenty per cent retained till the sat
isfaciory completion of the contract
The bids must be accompanied BY the guaranty re-
quired by law that II the contract is awarded it will
be duly executed. The Department the right
this advertisement if in its opinion the public inter-
est requires it.
The proposals must be endorsed Proposals for
Paddle-Whcel Steamers to distinguish them from
other business letters and will be addressed to the
Secretary of the Navy
Propositions will be received for similar vessels of
iron, or of iron and wood combined. jull7 2aw2w