River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-12-23
BIG STEAMSHIPS.
Description of some Monsters OF the
Ocean.


The Great Eastern, 1876 tons, 1900
horse power, was built at London. be-
gun in 1854, and finished in 1853, by
j. Scott Russell & Co. Length, $40 feet
six inches; breadth of beam, eighty
two feet eight inches; depth of hold,
fortyhve feet two inches; owned by
Great Eastern Steamship Company,
London and Liverpool. 1t is difficult
TO state her precise cost, since the COM
pany engaged in her construction failed
soon after she was launched and before
she was fitted up, and sold the hull If
We remember rightly for 100000
much less than it had cost We
once saw statement that she had cost,
when ready for sea, $3.50, 900, but we
have no means of verifying the figures.
The total loss of money on this steam
er, up 10 1875, was estimated at
Il 100000.
Arizona, 5,147 tons, 200 horse pow
er, built on the Clyde in 1879, by J.
Helder & Co. Length, $50 feet two
inches; breadth of beam, 45 feet 4
inches; depth of hold, 30 feet Z inches
City of Pekin, 500 tons, 1000 NOM
inal horse power defective, 4,500), built
by Delaware Shipbuilding Company. of
Chester, Pa, in 1874. Length, 800
feet; breadth of beam, AZ feet; depth of
hold, 38 feet ) inches. Owned by Pa
eitic Mail Steamship Company, New
York.
City Of Toxic, 5,079 tons, 1000 nom
inal horsepower defective 4,500), built
by ]. Roach & Son, Chester, Pa, in
1874. Length, 4O2 feet s inches;
breadth of beam, 46 feet 8 inches:
depth of hold, 50 feet inches Owned
by Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
New York.
Germanic, 5,00S tons, 760 nominal
horse power defective $500, built by
Harland & Wolf, at Belfast, in 1871.
Length, 455 feet; breadth of beam, 10
feet inches, depth of hold, 80 feet :
inches. White Star Line.
Hooper, 1895 tons, 400 nominal
horsepower; built on the Tyne in 1878
by c. Mitchell & Co. Length, 33S feet
. inches; breadth of beam, 55 feet;
depth of hold, 81 feet inches. Owned
by Hooper Telegraph Works, London,
Faraday, 1905 tons, 500 nominal
horsepower; built on the Tyne in 1874
by C. Mitchell & Co. Length, $50 feet
1 inches; breadth Of beam, - feet 5
inches; depth of hold. 81 feet inches.
Owned by Liemens & Co., London.
There are also between forty or fifty
other ocean steamers ranging between
1900 and 5000 tons. The Hooper and
Faraday were both built for cable lay
ing, but are now employed in general
freighting business. The Furnessin,
launched at Barrow on the goth
inst, is the largest steamer
now afoat next to the Great
Eastern, but the cable kilograms an
nouncing her launch does not give her
dimensions. She is an Anchor Line
boat. The steamer Alaska, now build
ing on the Clyde for the Guion Line, is
to be $500 tons. Her owners say that
cher dimensions will be: Extreme
length, 500 feet; breadth of beam, fifty
feet, and depth OF hold frem main deck
thirty-eight feet. There will he 100
state rooms in the first cabin, and the
saloon will accommodate $50 passen-
gers. The second cabin will contain
births for fifty persons, and on the after
end of the main deck will be quarters
for 120 steerage passengers The Alaska
will have capacity for carrying 1000
steerage passengers if necessary. Her
engines will have greater power
than those of any vessel now sailing on
the Atlantic. Her boiler will be heat
ed by fifty-four different furnaces
The Alaska will, in good weather, be
able to cross the Atlantic in six and one
half days. She will carry four masts,
and viii be provided with two smoke
tunnels.
Besides the above, there are now build
ing the City of Rome, for the Inman
line, to be $500 tons; the Servia, for
the Cunard Line, to be $500 tons; and
the Catalonia for the same line. to be
the same tonnage. The White Star Line
have also new steamer building, to
he named Majectic, to be larger than
any of their ships now afoat.