Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1899-12-28
To BE LAUNCHED
ON SATURDAY
New Boat Will Be Christened
Grecian for the WinsOr
Steamship Company.
MISS w1NsoR THE SPONSOR

THE HARLAN AND HoLLINGS-
WORTH COMPANY. SHOWING
MANY LARGE CONTRACTS RE-
cEIvED - SEVERAL LAUNCHES
EARLY NEXT SPRING.
The steamship Grecian, which will
be launched on Saturday at o'clock,
is the fourth ship built at the works Of
the Harlan and Hollingsworth Company
for the Boston and Philadelphia Steam
ship Company, familiarly known as the
Winsor Line, the others having been
the Indian, Spartan and Parthian, and
is the eighth ship turned out by that
company during the year 1899.
The vessel will be christened by
Miss Winsor, daughter Of Alfred Win
sor, president of the line.
She is a three deck freight and pas
senger steamer, built to rate under the
United States standard for seventeen
years, and has tonnage of 2,4S3.0S,
and is of the following dimensions:
Length over all, 290 feet; between per-
pendiculars, 263 feet ~ inches; beam
moulded, AZ feet; depth, SO feet. She
will have a draft loaded of 18 to 20
feet, and carrying capacity of about
$500 tons. She has four water-tight
bulkheads, four matches, four side
ports on each side, four single cylin-
der Williamson winches; Hyde steam
windlass capstan forward and aft; two
steel masts, together with a steel deck
house, with accommodations for about
100 passengers. She has two electric
light plants, 200 lights each and is
inch search light, and has inverted
triple expansion engines; 25,4l12, 6S and
40 inches stroke, with four 12 by
1917 feet boilers, each with two fur
naces; 40 inches inside diameter, built
to sustain a working pressure of 170
pounds. She has built up cast. iron
wheels 10 feet in diameter, and Ellis
& Eaves induced draft. Her Bunker ca
pacity is 275 tons, and the boat is to
make a speed of 15$4 knots on an eight
hour trial. She has a Scotch donkey
boiler by 10 feet.
In addition to this ship, the Harlan
and Hollingsworth Company will
launch shortly two steamers for the
New York and Baltimore Transporta-
tion Line, three tugs for the Pennsyl-
vania railroad and ship for the Metro
politan Steamship Company.
GOVERNMENT WORK.
The work on the torpedo boat de-
stroyers Hopkins and Hull is progress
ing rapidly, and their hulls will prob
ably be plated up shortly.
The preliminary trials Of the String
ham were most successful, she having
made, without any effort to obtain
speed nearly twenty-five knots under
only two Of her four boilers, and prov
ing a very satisfactory sea boat ano
handling remarkably easy, making g
complete turn with her helm hard ovei
with scarcely any perceptible heel il
one and half minutes. 1t is expected
she will have her final trip early in
January and be turned over to the gov
ernment.
The Metropolitan Steamship Com
pany has a sister ship to the Whitne!
on the ways, to be delivered in th'
early Spring, and is now being rapid!
put in frame.
In addition, the Harlan and Hollings
worth Company has just Delivers
eighteen cars to the Seaboard Air Line
several to the Great Falls and Canadi
railway, and has just signed contract
for fifty-one New York Central ant
Hudson river cars, twenty-five for tn
Philadelphia and Reading, number 70
the Pittsburg. Lake Erie and Western
and the j. G. Brill Company, beside
much other foreign work.