New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-19
AMERICAN IRON SHIPS.
TIE PROGRESS MADE IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
IRON PROVED 10 BE SUPERIOR 10 BRITISH.

THE PROGRESS MADE IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
IRON PROVED 40 BE SUPERIOR 10 BRITISH.
IRON TIE Philadelphia Lsigsr
The American steamships IN course OF con-
struction at Cramp Sous shp-yard the Phladet
phia between tns port ana Great Britain are buit
OF American iron, made In our own state n Is OF AeT
lean IRON that the other iron steamships the Del
aware from kaiyhn's Point 10 Chester aud Wilmington
constructed This industry commenced under or
eumsanccs OF greas dscOuragcmeut, has grown 10 %
OF commanding Importance as we nave recently
pointed out ia these columns. lt required high gree
considering that az the time when those SHIPS were
placed upon the stocks cost from 20 to 80 per ce more
10 build steamers here OF American IRON thn u cost l9t
iron ships OF equal carry Ing capacity butt IN Great bf
ain and was with these cheaper ships mat our Liverpool
ness and ship builders had the courage ouce tnn
the difference IN the cost o. producing non steamers ~
material IN Great Britain. The difference now Is hoI
than 10 10 Is per cent, ana u IS 1Ae purpose o. vac
following observations TO show hat ne American l9n
ship, through the superiority OF Pennsylvania slip
metal, is worth lar more than The difference OF cost
y few weeks ago the steamer Wilmington oil C.gaes
line, built at Wilmington, Del. Of American IRON rah
with great force upon reef OF the Florida coast W'
Seventy ~ the length Of the ship was ON te Fee
where II pounded" Tor - hours every tiuio the 80
was thrown overheard the ship thus hshtened NIs
backed OF, and she went her way to H. d', ~cto
the heavy pounding she had gOne through When
aground the had den ed ANA bugcd soiuc o. ho
plates, not one OF them Was broken, ana oh' HuV,
them IN any degree cracked \ small patch Was an tlas
was immediately required when sue tooH ~ @ q,
u
Cramps Shpyard 10 have the dents taken ohl vi u
iron plates. THIS i all that happened To the Ais'
built ship whose plates OF at least that pofuh oi tI
subjected 10 ihe strain, are OF Pcnnrl Nduiahade 'o
The plates were simply bent out ot shape, anu "a
slightly damaged that tney were rerOlled c'd Au" ~,
baek again. Tue great tenaClly OF tue IRON resisted
tremendous pounding" ON Tho reef for more thl TO-" a.,
"A day without breaking 10 Is this inYaluaOle QIa.y
which the owner OF Delaware River Dulll sup rs tV
his additional IS per cent OF cost. .t,
Now, let look the other side or the queetsoiu,,
some time in January the Brtlshbuilt iron s.e"IsItg
Potomac ran into neld of lee m the Horseshoe,
low city, and the lee cut rlgnt through the ron
OF her bow aud Wedgcd ifsclt last m the open Idcu
Thls sufficiently tells be story OF the difference DolN'
the cheap iron OF The British built ana oar 1V
manufacture. But there Is more 10 tell, Tor the Lar
ware River built iron steamer Gull stream s u'
vessel than the Potomac plunged through tho s'V nj
field that had out through the bow OF the POtOibao'
hauled the Potomac out section OF une OF theso
tured British plates taken nom the Potomac -
undergoing repair, shows that ~ Is quite 'shois 80
brittle the fracture having something OF the al
OF cast iron. Plates OF That quality are MOI "V' ,s,
much by $40 ton as the iron Ia our DelaMaiV 's-
built ships. Tut they ae dear at any Prise. IL su.bns
ferlOr, brittle, aud cheap lrOu were ustd IN Nv ,ars
built ON the Delaware, Ouf ships would cost 10 'ahle
than the ships built On the River clyde Ihc I0u $50.
vessels of the Pennsy wanna line, now at OIsinr nd
yard OF the same strong, tenacious h'N,,". ne
almost unbreakaulo Peun,y wanna IRON, 81 "H' ' 10
places of the Niiiniu,toh "'.c haH, Ml,u ..taS-
~ A0ars' pounding VA l.lv flVrdA rvei s''A""'