THE STEAMSHIP MACGREGOR.
The Macgregor, the first steamship intended for the Mail service between Sydney and San Francisco, is a .screw steamer of peculiar proportions, 300 feet long by 36 feet beam. She carries a large deck house amidships, and has four masts, two forward and two aft the funnel. Steaming is her strong joint, and the only square canvas she carries is limited to foresail and mainsail. Her sea-going qualities are highly spoken of and she is adjudged to be a most comfortable ship in all weathers. She is steered from forward of the funnel, her steering apparatus being worked by steam and hydraulic power, and, notwithstanding her great length, she is moved swiftly and surely as a yatch. The Macgregor was constructed specially for a well-know shipowner of the same name, in Leith Scotland, for the China trade, in which she has had a brief but successful career. She was launched in 1872. Her compound engines, have high and low pressure cylinders, the former being 80 inches in diameter and the latter 46 inches. There are four boilers, with furnaces to each boiler, and the average quantity of coal consumed it about 25 tons per day. If the best Webb coal is procurable, the consumption is from 20 to 21 tons, and with either quantity she can steam on an average 11 knots, with a pressure on the boilers of 60 lb. to the square inch. The nominal horse-power of the engines is 350, but capable of being worked to a much higher figure. She is propelled by a four-bladed screw, 13 ft. '6 in. in diameter, with a 25 ft. pitch and a 42 in. stroke, and the number of revolutions is modestly stated at 50.
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Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1138, 2 January 1874, Page 3
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289THE STEAMSHIP MACGREGOR. Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1138, 2 January 1874, Page 3
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