Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-09-23
SHIpBUILDING STRIDES.
The Great Progress Now
Being Made in America.
WHERE THE h. & H. 90. STANDS.

A Wilmington Plant Is One Of the Indus-
tries In This Line Of which the United
states Can Boast-The First steamship
to Cross the Atlantic Other Contracts.
Seventy three years ago the FIRST voy.
ages of a steamship crossing the Allan
tic were made by the Savannah, an
American vessel carrying the American
flag and manned by an American crew.
says a recent number Of the American
Shipbuilder.
THE Savannah was full-rigged ship,
$50 tons burthen, and was built at Cor
lear's Hook, New York. She was In
tended to be used as a sailing packet be-
tween New York and Havre, France.
The keel was laid In 1918, and the vessel
was launched August % Of the same
year She was equipped with one in
clined dlrect-acting. low pressure engine
Of ninety horse power, the diameter Of
the cylinder being forty inches
and the stroke FIVE feet The
paddle sidewheels consisted Of eight
radical arms, held in place by one
flange, and were ARRANGED TO close to-
gether like fan. They were finished
with a series OF joints 80 that they could
be detached from the shaft and taken In
on deck when circumstances required IT,
The wheelhouse WAS made Of canvas
stretched over an iron rim. The vessel
carried 10 tons Of coal and 20 cords Of
wood. Her total cost was about $50 900.
including engines and all rigging. The
first vovage.from Savannah TO Liverpool
was accomplished In % days. Of which IA
were without the use OF canvas. The
retlrn voyage occupied 90 days.
"There Is vast difference in the
design, dimensions, power and mode Of
construction of the Savannah compared
with those of the present day. The
strides that have been made In shipbuild-
ing during the east seventy and odd
years Is wonderful and the limit is not
yet. Notwithstanding the magnitude
Of the greyhounds the City OF Paris
and City Of New York, they will In the
near future be back numbers, both as 10
proportion and speed, and the construc-
tion Of their SUCCESSORS will not be wholly
confined 70 shipyards OF Great Britain
the United States Is going to take hand.
Our shipbuilding plants are unsurpassed
and n we can build war vessels that
are the peer Of all nations surely we will
be equally successful in the construction
OF transatlantic steamships.
"The United States can boast OF such
immense and complete shipbuilding
plants as the William Crhmp and Sons.
The Harlan and Hollingsworth company,
the Newport News Shipbuilding com.
pany, and Maryland Steel company
These firms have the most modern ma
chinory and facilities unsurpassed In
this or any other country. The William
Cramp Sons plant covers an area o
twenty-five acres In Philadelphia and hal
! a water frontage of 220 feet Th'
works employ over $500 men, aud havl
now under construction vessels of tota
. value OF over fourteen and half millloi
dollars.
The best Iron Steamship was Built Here
; The Cromwell Line steamer Hudson
was built by the Pusey and Jones com
: pany. Of this city, and when new wa
+ considered the best iron steamship II
, every particular, ahoat She Is a splen
, did sea boat and carries a very larg
, cargo in proportion to her tonnage
F. A Now Yacht TO he Constructed.
, Il Is reported that John d. Rockefeller
(; Of New York city, will have a stean
; yacht built, about the size Of the Cor
+, sair, from plans Of ]. Beaver Webb o
. 40 Broadway, New York. She will b
l. built probably in Wilmington.