A MONSTER STEAMER.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1931, 3 May 1880, Page 3

A MONSTER STEAMER.

The managers of the Inman line of steamers are building a monster steamer to run between New York and Liverpool. She will be known as the Oity of Home. Her dimensions are to be as follows:—Length of keel, 546 feet; length over all, 590 feet; breadth of beam, 52 feet; depth of hold, 38 feet 9 inches ; and depth from top of deckhouses to keel, 52 feet. Her measurement will be 8300 tons, or over 2000 tons larger than either the City of Berlin or the Arizona. She will he over four-fifths of the size of the Great Eastern. The engines will be of 8500 horse power, with six cylinders, three of whioh are high pressure and three low pressure. There will be eight boilers, heated by 48 furnaces, and the vessel can be propelled at the rate of 18£ knots an hour. She will carry four large masts and three smoke funnels. A large spread of canvas can be set, which will enable the steamship to make good time, if necessary, without the aid of the engines. She will be built of steel, with a double bottom and eleven bulkheads. Two longitudinal bulkheads are to be run through the engines and boilers' spaoe. These will greatly decrease the danger of the vessel sinking in case of a collision. The top decks are to be of the best teak. No expense is to be spared in making this magnificent steamship perfect in every respect. She will have the highest classification of any vessel in the Liverpool Red-book and in the British Lloyds. The Inman people expect that the City of Home will prove thi monarch of the seas.