A NOVELTY IN OCEAN STEAMERS.
The aew ocean steamship invented by Captain Moraland, of the Cunard steamer Bafavia, is being built uear New York by the American Quick Transit Steamship Company, of Boston. She is composed of t
wood, lias a tirl.'e-twck, no masts, an nothing on deck oxcept a pilot-house ventilators, and r.lic mioke pipe. Tb length ig Joljft, the breadth of beam i 22" t. the depth of hold 16-Jft, the dnu';>;"i for waul is s*ft, and aft 10£fb. Tl, capacuy is 512 tons. She wi'l have thve screws ; the main one of four blades, am of such pitch as to be capable of a speei of tbivjy knot 3an hour. The others wil be fitted in the stern, behind the plates and will be used in case of accident when the plates will be used to steer with, T >e .>es, boi'er and machinery are oJ eu.irely new design, and capable o: developing enornoas power. Tt>e sreamei will be called the Meteor. The inventor.' s<y she wi'l re vo 1 unionise ocean steaoishi't con&L.'UC.'oii.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 9410, 25 May 1882, Page 3
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177A NOVELTY IN OCEAN STEAMERS. Temuka Leader, Issue 9410, 25 May 1882, Page 3
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