The daily gazette., 1880-11-13
A Mile Of New ships.
RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE ATLANTIC
OCEAN FERRY.


NEW YoRK, Nov. 1.-The Assyrian
Monarch, the largest screw steamer hither-
to built at Hull, England, is expected
here to-day. She was launched last Au-
gust, and forms the first OF feet OF steel
steamships intended hereafter to play
between London and this port, the out
ward freight invited being passengers and
ordinary mechandise, and the homeward
bound ships looking for their cargo In he
constantly increasing shipment of live
oxen, which will be accommodated on
two decks, the hold being devoted to
grain in bulk, stored in iron bins divid-
ed longitudinally. The new ship,belongs
to the Royal Exchange shipping Com
pany OF London-to be known hereafter
as the Monarch line-who, in addition to
their existing feet Of st.am aud sailing
ships, are now building at Dumbaiton,
OH the Clyde, two sis .er ships, TO be call
ed respectively the Babylon an and the
Medean Monsrchs. A sister craft, the
Persian Monarch, was launched at
DuinUartol September o.
HER DIMENSIONS.
Sha Is of the following dimensions:-
Length, $50 feet breadth Of beam, ,43 feet;
depth Of hold, 32 feet 6 inche.. She has
four decks, the upper one OF teak and two
Of iron sheathed with wood and seven
water tight bulkheads. Her gross regis
ter is 3,3l6tons aud z, 1853 tons net. She
has four masts, the fore and main masls
carrying yards, large spread fore and
aft canvas being provided for the mizzen-
mast and the jigger. All her matches and
steam winches are projected BY break
wat~rsof iron with teak rail. This inner
bul ulwark is provid,e at intervals with
freeing ports, so that in case sea breaks
over and fills them they may be quick y
relieved of The water. The engines by
which the steamer is propelled are Oh the
compound surface condsnsing principle
and Of 500-horse power nominal, the
cylinders being of. .46inches and 81 inches
diameter, with a 81 inch stroke. Steam
is supplied by three double ended
cylindrical boilers, fitted with four Of
Fox's patent corrugated furn aces, and
VOL ks to a pressure of so pounds per
square inch. The engines are fitted with
patent reversing gear.
THE ENGINES.
Duling the trial on the measured
mile ut Witnernsea the engines ran at a
speed of fiom 55 TO 81 revolutions per
minute, the steam pressure being 7e
pounds and the vacuum 28 inches. The
Indicated horse power was $500 and
notwithstanding strong northeasterly
roll, which caused the ship at times to
labor heavily, the mean of the four runs
over tn. measured mile was 1855 knots
per hour.
The large saloon, which is a most
sumptuously furnished apartment with
sleeping berths beneath, as well as the
officers quarters, are healed with steam
! from the man boilers. Steam is sup
piled to six winches and a windlass from
: a very large donkey boiler placed in th'
tween decks. In the engine room ther'
are three large condensers capable o
supplying sufficient fresh water for 60(
head of cattle, for the emigrauts she may
, carry, and for the crew. There Is also q
large ventilating fan for supplying fresf
: air to the tween decks when the yesse
is carrying emigrants.
GREAT BRITAIN.
/ Twenty years ago in Great Britain
the largest steamers known (neglectinl
the Great Eastern, which was prodigy
of engineering skilD did not reach 35(
feet in length, 45 in readth, $500 toni
: in tonnage or 1000 horse power iudica
. ted. We have before us at this moment
a list of fifty merchant steamers sailing
in the year 1860, from Southampton
which the largest vessels then frequent
ed, and the list includes but ten ships o.
more than 300 feet in length, none o.
which reached the limits of size anC
power just given, and the whole o
which belonged Is two companies-viz.
a. Moil nI IN lar M
Oriental.
, At the present moment there are
ahoat and at work the White Stal
Liners, some of them of 445 feet in
length, As feet in breadth, and nearly
5000 indicated horse power the In
man Liners, comprising such ships as
the City of Berlin, 488 feet by A 1-2
, feet broad, and of about the same
steam power the Orient, of 445 feet
by 46 IA feet, and engines developing
5000 horsepower the Arizona, OF
about the same size, with still greater
/ steam power and speed and many
other splendid vessels but little infe-
rior to any of the foregoing.
AMILR OF NEW SHIPS.
@"And these grand steamers-many of
which reach the wharves of New York
with the punctuality ofrailway trains,
and would reach the Liverpool quays
with equal punctuality if they could
avoid the abominable sands that bar
the Mersey-are the forerunners of
still larger and more powerful vessels
now taking shape upon the banks OF
the Clyde and elsewhere. The new
steel Cunarder, the Servia, 500 feet
J long and 10, 900 horse power, is rapid
ly being pushed forward by Messrs.
Thompson, of Glasgow, while the Bar
row shipbuilding company, of Furness,
who have just launched the Furnessia,
of $50 feet length, for the Anchor line,
are busy with a new boat for the lnman
line, $50 feet long, to have gross ton
nago of 5000, while she is to steam
/ seventeen knots, to be known as the
City of Rome. The Guion's new liner,
Alaska, IN course Of construction in
John Elder & Co.'s yard, is to have a
gross tonnage of 6,409, with engines of
1900 horse power, while the North
German liner, the Elbe, built along
side, to trade between Bremen and
New York, is 1000 tons G. NJ, the en-
gine being 1900 horse power.
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