THE NEVADA.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2548, 18 April 1871, Page 3

THE NEVADA.

As this vessel will visit Pert Chalmers in a couple of weeks, a description of her will be interesting. >Shc is registered at 1/ioyds, A 1 for seven years, o.( 0!) tons burden, built in New York in 11307, / f live o.ik, double pianked, -4 inches thick, iron stripped, 28(5 feet long, 41-foot beam, 26 feet (Epth of hold, four decks, including the spur-deck and coal hole, the height of the main deck is 8 feet, berth deck 7 feet, cargo deck (i feet ; the deck beams are strengthened underneath with braces. She has two masts, and can be brlg-rigsicd. The machinery was constructed with great care, and many roc mt improvements introduced. '! he engine is a vertical beam machine. The cylinder is 85 inches in diameter, with 12-foot [stroke of piston, and on her trial trip avenged X~) knots, and will average a speed of 340 miles per day when working up to full power, and is looked upon as the fastest ship on this coast. Standing aft upon the hurricane deck, and looking 286 feet forwaid, our Australian friends cxc’aimt-d that a lire of these ships would certainly command tho wh-de of the passenger traffic, and that one of tho c ships, appearing in Australian waters, would astonish the natives, and decide the question of subsidy at once. Kunuing along the centre of the deck are twenty beautiful staterooms, each having a close an I Venetian door opening on the deck, with windows 32 inches square. The state-rooms are aT double, with doors on either side, and patent ventilators in the top. Forward of these cabins are the (hiptain’s, Pur.-er’s, and Doctor’s rooms. .flight aft in the ladies’ sitting-room, well fitted up, private, and ventilated with several doors and windows. Forward of that is the genth. men’s smoking room, 16 x IS feet, littul up with a degree of comfort seldom ever found aboard of ships. Qn tlje mr,in deck is the grand salo m, 90 feet long hy 38 feet broad, 8 feet under tho beams. Oil cither side of the saloon is a row of state-rooms, opening on the deck, accomodating eighty passengers, ventilated, and in every respect the same as the rooms upon the upper deck, with two bridal chambers in the forward part of the saloon. The main entrance is spacious and airy, 40 x 2S7eet with large folding doors and stair cam, leading up to the hurricane deck. Forward of the main saloon, is the pantry, kitchen, officers’ mess and engine room, bath rooms, barber’s shop, c w and ice house and bar. Forward on this deck, the male portion of the third class sleep in standing pprtha .j the females sleep below in c -'bins. Tile deck is cleared of berths du.iug the day, and used for eating purposes. The berth deck, as far aft as the second cabin is occupied by third class passengers, and will altogether accommodate about 620. Abaft this, there arc some 40 well ventilated state rooms for second cabin passengers, with plenty of light and properly fitted up, The sleeping and other accommodation, such as washrooms, bath rooms, eta, come fully up to the .standard of first-class aboard the City of Melbourne, k?viitheii aft, are six 1- rgc, first-ci^s - staterooms, 12 feet by 10, fitted up with every degree of oomfo'.t and modern luxury, with bath rooms, etc. The means for extinguishing lire arc perfect. A n iron pipe, leading the entire length of the ship, on the berth deck, with some ten or fifteen valves, with hose always attached, and in the hold steam c n bo used with more effect than water.

The means for saving life are most effective —life buoys in every faulty hpafs fha,t j/il.( cpniain «&U passengers.