THE DALLAM TOWER.

Evening Star, Issue 3775, 31 March 1875, Page 2

THE DALLAM TOWER.

It will be remembered that the ship Dallam Tewer arrived in Hobson’s Bay last year in a dismasted and crippled condition. Tenders were called for the complete equipment of the ship, and the work, to all appearance, was Mtisfaotorily performed. Her lower masts and lower yanls, including her upper topsail yards, we J® built of iron by the Messrs Langlands, and the vessel was enabled to proceed to sea after receiving a complete renovation, which cost upwards of L 9.000. From Melbourne, she sailed for Port Chalmers, the port to Which she was bound on leaving London. At Otago she loaded a cargo for London, Where she arrived afterapaverage passage. Shortly after her arrival in England, Lloyds held a survey of the ship’s spars and rigging, which were condemned, ; and the whole ■> fabric was demolished, . the Colonial workmanship being declared ‘ infinitely inferior to that of the Home country. Accordingly, the owners were again submitted to another great expenditure, i everything being taken down and ■ new material substituted. Her Melbourne masts were declared to be too taut and weak, although her mainmast measured 18in. more in circumference than the one which replaced it. Other faults were stated to be that the strengthening bands of the masts were inside the cylinder instead of outside, that the angle iron was too frail, and that her spars were too lofty, and the yards too long. The height of her new masts is several feet less than the Conner ones, and her yards are also diwirnwhad, All theyards below the top-gallant ones are of iron, and every spar, rope, and stitch of canvas now on the ship was used for the list time during the voyage just concluded. Whether or not a prejudice against Colonial workmanship had anything to do with Lloyds’ decision is of course hard to say, blit it is a woliremembered fact that ah Auckland-built vessel, named the Novelty, sent a few yea;s ago to ■ London for classification,'returned to Now Zealand without , the desired ‘‘ Al at Lloyd’s ”oh her papers. '