A MONSTER STEAMER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 75, 14 May 1880, Page 3

A MONSTER STEAMER.

The managers of the Inman line of steamers are building a inoneter steamer to run between New York and Liverpool. She will be known as the City of Some. Her dimensions are to be as follows :— Length of keel, 546 ieet ; length over all, 590 feet ; breadth of beam, 52 feet; depth of hoid, 88 feet 9 inches; and depth from top of deckhouses to keel, 52 l^^eet. Her measurement will be 8300 Bbs, or over 2000 tons larger than the City of Berlin or the Arwill be over four. fifths of . Great Eastern. The of 8500 horse power, three of which 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 cany four large musts and three smoke funnels. A large spread of canvas can be set, which will enable the sceainship to make good time, if necessary, without the aid of the engines. She will be built of steel, with a don ole bottom and eleven bulkheads. Two longitudinal bulkheads are to be run through the engines and boilers' space. 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, bhe 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 Rome will prove the monarch of the seas.