The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-24
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hoSqpEs-Eghteen guns, new ironclad stsamer.-
This splendid craft launched from The yard OF Wn'
Crump, Philadelphia, on the 9th instant She v tns
FIRST iron Clad vessel built at Philadelphia and never
there anything occurred At philadelphia in ship
launching the launch Of the fsnnsy 70 ex
cite much public interest as that which attended
the gliding OF the Ironsides into her native eie
nept She is the first iron-plated seagoing
war steamer OF large size built by the United
States government, and Is constructed from plans ana
specifications presented TO the Navy Department last
September by Merrck Sons OF Philadephia, who are
the sole with the government They in turn
contracted with Crump Sons also with the Bristol
Forge and Bronen Co.. PGsburg, for the four and
half inch plating reserving to themselves the contruc
ton Of the machinery and the general arrangement Of
the several parts The contract dated October Is and
The vessel is 70 be ready for stsam July rs Chief En-
gneer w. W. Wood OF the navy, superintended the ma
ehinery and plating and Naval Constructor Henry Hoo
the hull She is two hundred and forty feet long,
nyeght feet six inches wide and twenty feet Deep
being $50 TONS and having berth, gun and spar deck
the latter being shotproof Her frames are Of white
oak, nlled in solid and cauked, and tho
average thickness Of her sides is twenty inches
Tho iron plating commences at point four
feet below her water line and extends to her spar
deck The machinery consists Of two horizontal direct
ameter and thirty inches stroke, intended 70 make
eighty-fve revolutions per minute, and drive brass
four baded propeller Of thirteen feet diameter ana
eighteen feet pitch Tho boilers are four in number
{hsrzontal tubuar each seventeen feet front, eleven
fe deep and eleven feet high Of collective force OF
1900 horses The armament will consist Of sixteen
inch Dahgrsn guns the gun deck and two two
hundred FOUNDER Parrot guns the deck The port
holes win be closed by shutters i've inches thick.
xal thai mai. Az hi2 lie n
intended to sail well steam. she will have three
masts and be bark rugged, her topmasts and yards
beng so arranged that in action they lowered, and
lesve simply the three lower masts in view When in
action all the board protected from shot or
she'll and below the spar deck; the commander only
IL above that deck, and he occupies shopro iron
lookout, which rises above the spar deck. and
from which he all surrounding objects
and by signals communicate with the officers
below. Unlike the Monitor and Galena this vessel
can carry large crew. suf.eienty to board and cap
snre any vessel lmpenstrable TO shot and shell. she
win seek close actian, and by Of her iron prov
sink or by her heavy guns capture her opponent Hsr
light draft Of water sixteen feet will enable her to enter
al Southern harbors Even Moultre and Sumter
DO visited by her. and she may be able 20 make i'm
paesson those forts before they repossessed by
the United States. The country is mainly indebted to
Commodore joseph Smith, Of the Bureau Q: Yards and
- we'll as the which have preceded her. 1t by
his exertions that the money appropriated by Con
gresa and, President of the Board Of Naval officers
ronclad steamers, he has devoted much time to their
construction.
MAssACHusnrs-Eight guns-The United States des-
patch steamer Massachusetts will be ready to sail from
The Navy Yard Brooklyn about the 10th instant, to COM
municate with the North and South Atlantic blockadng
squsdrons taking the mails stores &c.-not going be-
yond Cape Canavaral.
NoxH CAROLINA, thirty -four guns-Recciving ship
This vessel has lately undergone thorough renovation,
and 10 trim and healthy craft as any receiving
ship in the Commander Meade is energetic
ocer and the greatest praise due him for the
ly which he has conducted the business Of the
ship, well tho great facility he has Afforded for the
instruction OF the sailors, marines and officers who
under his supervision Tho gunners class at present
numbors atty three of whom thirty three acting
masters, twenty masters mates, and under the
Of Leutenants Barrett and Bowen. Acting
Master Christopher George Taare is the instructor
Of the bread and small sword exercise, and
Patrick Doyle Marine the drI master of the
The Of the North Carolina present is tho best
have heard that vessel. There thirty
pieces, under the direction Of Mr.. Iale.
RocruitinS has been somewhat briskcr for the past
veekthe number of recruits the North Carolina at
present being hundred and forty There also
board this ship sixty from prize crews, thTty-six
belonging the Congress and twelve TO the Roanoke,
making total OF hundred and fortyeght The
ships numbers eighty five, independent Of the
oicsrs comprising fifteen petty officers, ten seamen,
sweuty ordinary seamen and forty andsmen. The ota
GERS OF the ship follows
Consmcader-R. W. Mead.
Liutzdss AMI Exscatise ogcer-H. c. Flagg.
Surgeon--Jas. Sa ldars.
ASH tant Surgon-W Y. Plant.
Pdvnsdsier-W. T. Marcy
Acting .saaer--wm. Pearce, E. Terril. J. C. Cham.
pion, A. NJ Keith.
Boofstcdis-E 4. Bell.
Gannsr-John Gaskns
Cdrpentey-Jcseph G. Myers.
Sailnscker-A W. Capeii
Master's Mats-F p. Meigs. r. Lincoln, D. 8. Barker,
Chas. Daunhowsr, John B. Waddles, a. w. McAlpine.
Tho North Carolina also has nty marines, com.
prising three sergeares four corporas two acting
porals, three musicians and forty-hve privates
RoASoKE-Ordsred to be iron -clad.-The work this
vessel progr essIng rapidly The holes fol
the spikes TO fastsn tho drilled, and the
plating was commenced on Thursday. Her upper deck
- also being caiked Only three plates have been put
go far She is TO be provided with three iurrets.
similar that Of the Monitor AS there Is great difficult
~ procuring iron 70 manufacture the plates, in all
probability she win not BE roady for four Eve
months. From the immense weight OF her armor is
impossible to come TO any estimate Of what her
Araught will be- but thing certain, she will be the
most formidable iron clad vessel ever foated.
sAMxE-forty eight guns-Slecp-of. war.-The frigate
Sabine returned TO tho Navy Yard last week from her
anchorage or the Battery onhe 30th ult she left her
noorings the yard under orders TO proceed 70 Hamp
Roads, to take part in the combined attack the
rebels Yorktown. and anchored in the North river to
proceed SIX O'Clock next morning the turn
Of the tide but her orders conntermanded by the
department receipt Of the intelligence Of the
Zion Of stronghold by the rebels BY direction from
the Ordnance Department, hsr heavylatery is to be
further improved eparsiory her departure and for
eonvenience deemed necessary FOR her TO go to
the yard Her present consists Of ono
FOUNDER reod Parrot pivot on her orecas
Sic one gh ne solid shot pivot gun quarter deck
eighteen short the spar deck, ten Dahgren