Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-08-22
THE ROANOKE.
( Sewalrs Big Wooden Ship TO be launched
/ at Bath Monday Noon.

Barn. Aug. 2l.--Tle ship Roanoke
the finest that money and skill
labor can produce, and the
largest ship ever built of wood in the history
shipbuilding be launched from the
ward of Arthur Sewall < Co.. Bath at high
twelve today. Monday, Aug. 10.
The registered measurements of this hige
beauty are, length 3il.2. breadth 1872
depth 2n2, height under spar deck 30,
gross tonnage :,j39 .U&. net 3i00.43 tons.
She has a keel of white oak of the best
selected stock, it is sixteen inches squarr.
two tiers. Her frames are also of white
oak. The planking is of yellow pine j
inches thick with garboartis measuring :
inches in thickness.
The ceiling. which is also of yellow pine,
is II inches thick in the lower hold II
inches between decks, her water ways and
lower decks Iixlf inches, two strake-
locked down over the beams. lower he
tween deck II inches thick ceiling and |
s,rake. water ways locked down.
Two strakes of lock strake l2xl4 inches
locked down between decks l2xli locked
down. two ,trakrs She has three hanging
knee .trakes measuring loxli inches. lower
deck beams II and 20 inches square be-
tween decks hanging beam l2xif inches.
She has about 100 beams measuring " feet
in length on one deck.
Her decks are also of yellow pine. She
his thoroughly fastened with locust treenaiia
and bolted and edge bolted. She has
stringers locked up under each deck and
the decks locked over the beams.
Her spars are massive sticks ot oregon
pine. She has four masts each OF which
is ~ inches in diameter and over 80 feet
in length. The other spars are of IKE
giant proportions. Her sails are OF the
hest quality canvas and she will spread
thousands of yards of il when all are set
, Her rigging must necessarily be first ctas'
and as strong as there is male 10 support
such an immense pressure. Her bo"-spiri'
il of steel AMI was cast ut the Bath iron
Works: it measures GS feet in length.
Tn. cabin is large. AIRY and well ar
ranged. in fact it is royal in its finish ana
furnish. 1t is finished in qnartered car
thronyhout Entrance Is gained to II hi
passing through coach house the sides o'
/ which are nearly all windows so that one
can see almost any part of the vessel with
out going on the deck outside
/ The captains room, light, airy and
commo,lious apartment, opens from the
cabin. and the furniture within is also OF
oak. Then there are spare rooms bati
room. etc. all finished in this same princelS
manner. In the after cabin of which ".
have lust been speaking il large oaker
buffet built into the bulk head, and set viii
a rich French plate glass mirror. The hool
of the cabin will be covered with a heavy
Brussels carpet.
of course her forecastle has been care
fully fitted up for the convenience OF the
men and her cooks galley has been sup
nEed with the best range AMI cooking uten
ssi,s IN he found. The wheelhouse asterT
of the cabin is also worthy of mentor
for here the helmsman can stand un
exnosetl to the weather ami guide tiit
movements of the big beauty IL she bounds
alour over the waves of old ocean.
TO manage the craft about forty mef
will be required, and she will be commanded
bv Captain Joseph 7. Hamilton and Il
/ designed for the California trade
Her master builder has been Miles NJ
Merry, who SAYS that neither time or money
has been spared to make her as near per
fec,ipn as possible. and she shows It, too
{ Her accommodations are as fine as those ol
any vessel ever built in this city and ar'
I such as beft craft as perfect as Is thu
/ Roanoke.