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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 249, 20 October 1874, Page 2

lßOHCfAl*v— An ironTS*rt^iiwrly 5 000 tons burden, const! uc ed bj M^sr«3>u<»|>eon & tfonvor Millwall, for the Peruvfatt, Government, and which has n f;r som^-iiine in c mrtfe' of building was j&jftHjmptid to be launched at, the, last; "spriog tf^^BiK, owing to eom^ sripposed. defect iu the vr»f§i\t, only moved a fw feet jand ihm becime sta>iou"j-iry v ,ST-he vesstiTTS'ilited with two wr.ts, bat^.'.of^%ti.ich ere already aim •h£fi!.U|.d »n4J^»ny / c)€yj^hft.4ron plate* are fixed on tbtf.Bide>. "TKe rtSdf«j[.e*7'i** on board, and th&^screfr fixed to t, 'so that the pressure'Oojhe ways.it earfVeadily be conceived, amoun&eo- toaJ#f thousands of tons Weduesdiy la«t being the day ofthe highest springs,, another attempt was made to launch *PiC vessel.' The way . »ere fresh s^ver*l "powerful, hydraulic rami wtre fixed in position, and the assistance of; atverauugsr were procured. . When t H^f_rs*ftlo'£ork-tj.e vessel moved isome chiance down the ways bnt then stuck fasti As the vessel now iit's, 'with about 40 feet of the Y <tem injecting; be. otd the ways- tbe strain < A npbDTli'ef hnh'is'very great, and the'result is t<msji#fo HdtAHatShel wate*c flows in and out ot the hull through various crevices at the ebb pad-flow of.the tise. [A iate teleqpmfliYs that it is impossibi*? : to .move tbe "vessel without taking h^r to puces, and that y ef.e was iu*tfred for hef launching in the sum of "£250,000 1