The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-04

Grand Duke Constantine eldest brother of the Gear.
was largely due to the fact that sho is an example o.
novel system OF construction which 1t % MS WORK
to bring into practical The yachts gross pur-
den is 200 tons. and her displacement with COATS
board for i've days is tons The precise iines
which she has been planned were settled Is tho re-
suit of "a long aud careful system OF trials under
taken by Dr. Iideman OF the hoyai poca asa % III
Imperial Russian Navy. The plans were then SUP
mitted to and approved by the Grand Duke cohstah,
tine, after receiving the assurance that the Vessei
could be constructed in the form determined
by the Amsterdam experiments with sPeeu
of at least fourteen knots. The vessel is
now being built under tho supervision of Captain,
Goulaetf, of the Russian imperial service OF haVai
architects The new yacht VIII be palace raises
enormous hollos stoel turbot. The lines or
the turbotshaped raft on which the palace VIII DO
built sweep round IN front into pointed DOW or
beak at the sides they expand so as to give VIDE
and spacious area to tho back which the super
structure is to be raised at the stern they AGAIN
153 feet. more than three.fths Of the length which
is 80 feet The depth of the hsh-like RAFT IN tle
centre is Is feet and the water line is only feet
above the lowest point. At the stern, however.
small depression, making draught OF IL feet IN all.
is effected to give the screws water TO work ill., This
part of the ship may be lifted to cross shaows such
those for instance ut the mouth OF the Dnieper,
on the way to Nicolaief, by flooding the fore con-
partments, and arrangements for quickly effecting
properly called. Stability is given by breadth
and weight. The bottom has a Hat area of l45oo
square feet At the edges the surface trends out and
upward all round the ship toward the water line.
But the ordinary water line is reached,
change is made i'll the direction OF the curves. Tho
outward slope is succeeded by slope inward.
which continues till the perpendicular depth OF
eighteen feet has been given to the whole substrnc-
1t gradually rises to this all round, and in tho
middle of the back OF the fish there is wide fiat.
space of about fifteen thousand feet Such Is the
floating raft which the water palace or
the Gear is TO be borne. not on a bats back like
Ariel dolphin like Aron. but on light steel
turbot full of The will be stored, for tho sake
of safety. in innumerable close compartments. The
object of the upper reentering slope will be easily
understood. The wash or tho waves against
straight overhanging wall encounters a resist
ance. i'll overcoming which the waves shake to and
fro the vessel which thus opposed them. But they
will run up the yacht, and so lose their force
before reaching the upper structure In view OF the
failure which has overtaken ingenious attempts
already made by more than one eminent engineer
to steadness at SEA for the comfort OF pas
sengers for certainty of aim in it may not be
prudent to write over-body of the attainment OF
stability by the which have just been de-
scribed. But the Popoff ironclaus are found to be
very steady. Those persons most concerned speak
with absolute confidence or the yacht, and the
experiments of DR.. Tdeman at Amsterdam with
solid paratin models will be supplemented in few
days by small steel model of the yacht, twenty
three feet long, which.s nearly ready at Fairfield.
The yacht herself will next June receive her engines
while lying in Messrs Elders spacious dock at their
works after her launch and will be ready in the fol-
lowing month for her trials in the estuary Of the
Clyde and the North Channel to be succeeded by her
trip, with illustrious party on board. to the
Black Sea.