The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-06

his chief officer have worked incessantly TO get
her into perfect seagoing tIim and she will
start next week in better condition than she has
ever before commenced a voyage. By very
simple apparatus, invented by Captain Ander-
son, every part of the bottom of the ship has
been thoroughly scrubbed; and how much this
was wanting may be judged from the TACT that
in many parts the mussels were IN clusters of
more than two feet thick upon her. Getting
rid of this rough, shapeless mass from under
her entire length will add at least a knot an
hour to the vessels speed.
OTHER IMPROVEMENT.
can the boilers have been thoroughly cleaned
and repaired IN every part, and the paddle
engines, by very simple contrivance, can be
disconnected in less than four minutes, so that
by gong ahead with one and astern with the
other the Great Eastern can be turned in her
own length, as on pivot In picking up or
graphing for cable this facility will be Of the
very last Importance to the operations,
sTowAGE OF THE CABLE,
"All the cable is not yet on board the great
ship. Ihe Amethyst is now discharging into the
aftermost tank, and all the cable she has will be
Coiled away this evening. The IriS, which LETT
Greenwich yesterday with the last instalment OF
electrical rope, will finish her task by Thursoay,
on which day there will be no less than two
thousand four hundred miles of cable on board
the Great Eastern, OF which seven hundred and
forty-eight miles is part OF the old cable OF last
year. This ls slowed, as heretofore, in the three
immense iron tanks built up from the main
deck, one forward, one amidshIps and one aft
of the vessel The weight OF these tanks and
the water in them is upwards OF 1000 tons, and
IN addition the Greu Eastern will carry $500
tons of coal, 500 tons of telegraph stores and
machinery, and 1000 toIs OF cable-a dead
weight cargo of more than $4,000 tons In all,
exclusive Oi engines, RIG, and all ships fittings,
which will amount to nearly as much more.
THIS, however, only brings the vessel down to
her fair lOad-lne-in fact, into the perfect trim
in which she left last year, when the utmost
swell of an angry Atlantic sea could do little
more than make her dip occasionally among its
rugged burrows.
THE SUPPLY OF COAL.
at has been thought advisable however con-
sidering the Great Edstern'S depth in the water
and the somewhat shallow channels she will
have to pass on her way TO the rivers mouth,
not to put all the Goals in her before she leaves
Sheerness. AT Bearhaven, therefore, 2500 tons
will be taken on board before she starts for
Valentia, and after joining the shore end,
steams away on her adventurous voyage across
the Atlantic. Except then in this matter of
Goals, she will leave the Thames completely
equipped.
THE PAYING-oUT AND HAULING-IN APPARATUS,
''Among her stores are twenty miles of
gIappling-rope of the most powerful kind that
can be made, and equal to a strain of thirty
tons. She also carries five miles of rope equal
to strain of eleven tons, with quite a collection
of buoys, grappling-lrons, slip ropes, etc. But
at the stem and stern are fitted two powerful
little engines made by Messrs. Penn, each of
which works up to 80-horse power. These are con-
nected with the paying out and hauhDg-in appa-
ratus. Both these latter have been slightly i'm
proved since last year, and have been made as
light as possible, consistent with the work they
have to do. Certainly, the hauling-in powers of
the engines are likely to be much in excess OF
what is required to be done. Last year their
Efforts fell short of what was necessary.
THE CONVOY.
"With the Great Eastern on Saturday next
will also start her Majesty's steamship Terrible,
twenty.one, and the steamers William Cory,
gh/gaaaT oh, Of -
nearly one thousand eight hundred tons burden,
and all, with the exception of the Terrible will
be amply supplied with buoys, buoy ropes, Crap
pling ropes, and graphing irons similar to those
ON board the Great Eastern The Med,Cdy will
take also three hundred and fifteen miles OF last
years cable, with ninety-one miles of the mas
sive rope to be used in crossing from Newlound-
land to the shores of the American continent
The WaRiGm CORY takes the tremendous iron
coil which is to form the Irish shore end, which
is no less than thirty miles in length and weighs
more than Two hundred and fifty tons, or about
eight tons TO the mile.
PROGRAMME OF OPERATIONS.
''The programme of operations now decided
upon is briefly as follows:-The Great Eastern
is, as we have said, to proceed TO Bearhaven on
Saturday next. There she will take on board
her final stores of coal, and while so occupied
the new shore end from Foilhommerum bay will
be laid from the WuSGm Cory. When this is
completed-and the operation is likely to last al
least two days-the Great Eastern will come
round to Valencia, and after having made the
splice, will at once commence the great work o.
laying the main cable. Last year it is iancieC
that the speed OF the Great Eastern was occa
sionally too great for safely paying out the rope
This time, therefore, her rate OF gong will bt
| absolutely limited TO below six knots. AT thu
| speed il will occupy eleven or twelve days tC
| complete her labors from Valentia Bay TO Heart
| Content.
During the whole time of the operation tht
| new instruments will be able to send signal
through to Valentia at every hour, stating LLt
| latitude and longitude OF the great ship, thu
weather, amount of cable paid out, etc. Ordi
nary news and messages likely to interest thos
at sea and isoateds from the rest of the world
are also to be sent in reply from Ireland to tn
| Great Eastern.
"Vessels have already been sent out to New
foundland with three thousand tons of coal, ant
| supposing the expedition to be successful, tn
Great Eastern will take these on board and re
turn TO the spot where the cable was so unfortu
nately broken last year. This is to be grapplet
tor, and even if six weeks or two months ar
consumed in the efforts, grappled for till found
If the end is got to the suItace, OF course tn
usual splice will be made with the portion
which are now slowed on board the Great raster
and the William CORY, when the big ship vii
again return to Hearts Content bay and lay tn
remainder ON her passage.
Thus if all goes WE'LL the month of Septeu
ber, at latest, will see us with two lines of telC
graph to America, and both of which, whe
once down in deep water, are likely to renal
in order for years to come. The arrangement
made for raising the cable of last year are a
perfect as can well be imagined. We shall dt
| scribe them and other matters of much interei
connected with the expedition on an early day