The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-09
WCToR,A'S NEW YACHT.
1t Will Be the Largest and Most Costly
Pleasure Vessel Afloat.

From the New York Sun.
Queen Victoria may soon enjoy the
pleasure of a cruise on her new yacht,
the largest ever built. The new royal
yacht, the name for which has not yes
been definitely chosen, but which prob
ably will be called the Prince Albert, is
now so far advanced that it is expected
she will be launched next March. The
first keel plate was laid on Dec. %, 1897,
at the government dock yard at Penn
broke by Mrs. Watson, the wife of
Captain Burgess Watson, the superin-
tendent of the dock yard.
The British government has a re-
markedly well-developed faculty of
keeping it's business to itself. The gates
of the government dock yards rarely
open, even to British citizens, and al
most never to foreigners. Consequently,
although all Englishmen in general
and yachtsmen and naval architects
have been curious to know what Queen
Victoria's new yacht will be like, ever
since parliament appropriated money to
build the boat, nothing is known except
the meagre details the admiralty has
seen fit to give out.
English curiosity became so clamor
GUS short time ago that the admiralty
decided to depart from it's declared pol
icy of maintaining secrecy about the
royal yacht so far as to give out some
of the principal dimensions of the YES
sci. The new yacht is to be $50 feet
long and SO feet beam. Her draught is
to be IS feet and her displacement is to
be 4,600 tons. This will be by far the
biggest yacht ever built. William X.
Vanderbilt's yacht Valiant, which has
passed muster for pretty good sized
yacht, is small by comparison with
Queen Victoria's new pleasure craft.
The Valiant is only 1872 feet long, So feet
beam and 16 feet draught. Her gross
tonnage is 1923. Howard Gould's Nj
agara is still smaller. being 272 feet in
length, 35 feet beam and 16 feet draught.
The new royal yacht is as large as the
cruiser Baltimore larger than the New
German emperors yacht Hohenzollern
The Hohenzollern is nothing more than
protected cruiser, armament, protec-
tive deck and all, with quarters fitted
up for the emperor The British royal
yacht, on the other hand, will have
none of the qualities of a cruiser, but
will a yacht pure and simple.
The hull is to be of steel. sheathed
with wood. and covered with copper
She will be provided with double bot
toms. She will have three tunnels and
two masts. Speed is to be an import
ant consideration. The admiralty has
deigned to inform British taxpayers
that the yacht Is to have two sets of
triple-expansion four-cylinder engines,
driving twin screws and having an in
dictated horse power of 1000. The high
pressure cylinder of each engine is to
be 261a inches in diameter. the inter-
mediate cylinder 441A inches in diameter
and the two low pressure cylinders So
inches in diameter, all having a stroke
of 80 inches Steam will be supplied by
IS Belleville boilers, working at a nres-
sure of 800 pounds, which will be re-
duced at the engines to $50 pounds. The
CRATE area under the boilers will be $40
feet and the heating surface will be
$4,000 square feet. The machinery is
expected to drive the vessel through
the water at a speed of 20 knots an
hour with the engines making 140 revo-
buttons a minute.
Recently the progress on the yacht
was delayed by strikes. but men are
now working overtime to make up for
it. Only the best artisans to be found in
the United Kingdom are employed. The
vessel will have orlop. lower. main, up
per and foracastle decks. 1t is estimat-
ed that by the time the royal yacht is
in the water she will have cost E237 ,533.
Although no information concerning
the arrangement fitting and furnishing
of the interior has been given out it
may reasonably be surmised that her
ma 'esty will be fairly comfortable on
board. since it is estimated that the
furnished yacht will cost $500, 900; or
in round numbers 81 900 600