Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-11-09
THE SAN JUAN LAUNCHED.
tiided From the Ways at the Harlan g.
Hoilingsworth Yards.

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| A new departure marked the launch
| OF the New York d Porto Rico steam
| ship San Juan at the Harlan & Hol-
llngsworth Co yards Saturday. A trip
was used, being an arrangement which
disperses with the work of saving the
string piece. The balance is a 40.
pound weight, so arranged that when a
blow is struck the trip falls and the
entire arrangement drops and the hoat
| is released. A similar arrangement is
used IN other large shipyards through
out the United States and some Of the
large battlesbips have been launched
IN this manner.
Miss Louise Adams Ceballos, daugh-
ter of j. NJ. Ceballos, the president of
the company for which the San Juan
is being built. christened the boat,
using bottle encased in the colors of
the firm with flags neatly embroidered
Miss Cebailos will receive the neck of
the bottle and tie covering neatly
mounted within few weeks from the
local firm. This is customary with
this firm and is always highly appreci-
ated by those upon whom the honor is
conferred.
Tho launch was under the direct
supervision of Master Ship Carpenter
William Harman, and was decided
success, the boat leaving tie ways at
II. Oh O'Clock, p. M, ard was back at
the wharf in Is minutes. The new
device worked like charm,
Many guests were present including
the following from New York: }. Nj.
Ceballos, president of the New York &
Porto Rico Steamship Co. Miss Louise
Ceballos, Robert Hewitt, Edward
Jatfray, j. NJ. Mossman, r. A. @.
Smith, Mrs. Charles Dudley Arm
strong, Mr.. and Mrs. Archibald II.
Bull, Mr.. and Mrs Ernest NJ. Bull,
Mrs W. A. Higgins, Miss Evelyn X.
Bull, Mr.. and Mrs. j. d. Clark, Mr..
and Mrs. Amos D. Carver, M. L But
Ter, Mr.. and Mrs, d. J. Gould. Henry
q. Woodruff, Miss Daisy, Woodruff,
Miss Violet Woodruff, Mr.. and Mrs. A..
NJ. Guthrie, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry T.
Knowlton, John f. Berwind, Il. ".
Parsons, John Englis, +. M. Dunbaugh
and II. s. Hayward.
The San Juan is designed to carry
the maximum amount of freight on
the smallest coal capacity and is of the
following dimensions Length over all,
335 feet; length between perpen-
diculars, BIT feet; length on water line,
80 feet; beam moulded, 42 feet; depth
at centre 10 main desk, 10 feet 10
inches; depth to spar deck, 27 feet s
inches; depth at side to spar deck, O
feet 91a inches; depth to main deck at
side, moulded, 10 feet; draft loaded, 10
feet; gross tonnage, 3,503; net, 2,S19.
Her engines are direct tri-compoupd,
with inverted cylinders 2i-3S-62 inches,
az in stroke, Steam is supplied by two
Scotch boilers IA feet 6 inches diameter
II feet long, fed Ly six furnaces 4s inches
diameter, built TO stard pressure of
1870 pounds. She has six water tight
bulkheads; four matches; four winches !;
Hyde steam capstan; Hyde capstan aft |;
two steel masts; electric light plant
for $50 electric lights; five-ton evapora-
tor; five tanks 5000 gallons capacity I;
bunker capacity $50, tons; carrying
capacity about $500 tons. There are
to be accommodations for 72 first.class
and 20 second class passengers and she
is built to sustain u sea speed of II
knots an hour. She is tastefully fitted
out with hardwood and has every
modern convenience.
Immediately after the launch en-
ployes of the company laid the keel for
the tugboat Wilmington, which is to
be built for the Pennsylvania Railroad
Co. The keels for the other tugs will
also be laid at once.