Show THE LARGEST STEAMER IN THE WORLD A new screw steamer called the himalaya said to be the largest in the world arrived at southampton from london a few days P previous to the dailig of the arabia and average averaged id during the trip 14 miles an hour hoar drawing 15 fe feet et of water forward and 18 af aft t she has a flush deck and if a person walking up one side of it and down the other travels over her length seven times he walks a mile the funnel funne Fis is 24 feet in circumference and is scarily noticed on the deck A person at one end of the deck hallooing hallowing hallo ever so loud could not be heard distinctly at the other end relays of officers will communicate the orders of the commander to either end of the ab ship 1 ap 0 on the platform where the commander is is batio stationed ned there are a series of bells to communicate with the engine department nearly passengers berths are on boach board of hey he of which are fir first B t class with rooms as large as those thos 0 at hotels passengers c can dine luxuriously in the saloon the fittings up of this steamer are superb an and d the upholstery work is most expensive all the curtains cost three guineas a yard 1 and the dam damask ask five guineas the ladies saloon is a large elegant and commodious apartment with servants room and bath room adjoining the Ili himalaya malaya is is an iron ship and cost about she would wo uld have cost much more had she been built of wood the engines are the direct acting tru trunk ink engines such as were fitted into some of the screw line of battle ships they work beautifully and will give immense speed the himalaya will b bring gibraltar within three days distance mayta six days and nine days she would take 2000 soldiers a distance as far as the gape cape of i good hope in about three weeks and 2000 emi emigrants arants to america in a week the himalaya is tons register equal equal to over tons burthen and is ig of t the e most extraordinary length of feet 9 inches the leneth of keel is feet breadth of beam 46 feet feat 2 inches depth of hold 24 feet 9 inches 0 these proportions when contrasted with the dimensions of other ships give a great advantage particularly in length to the himalaya for example the duke of wellington of guns although of greater beam and depth is inferior in length by 92 feet to the himalaya the screw steamer great britain is feet long or 40 feet shorter than the himalaya while the american clipper ship great republic recently destroyed by fire was only feet ion long or of 47 feet less length than the him himalaya f aya although the himalaya exceeds in so large a degree the length of the duke of wellington yet she is inferior in tonnage to that ship the due being tons or about tons larger than the himalaya the superior burthen of the duke of wellington is produced by her enormous breadth of beam which is 60 feet and her depth which is 57 feet forward and 65 feet aft both these qualities ties be being in indispensable le in zin ships of war to enable them to carry their i deevy arma of artillery with the r requisite supplies of ammunition stores ac the cylinders of the engines are of 34 inches diameter with a aj 3 feet stroke and the revolutions per minute are from 50 to 60 the screw is a two bladed one on the old principle nei i of 18 feet diameter with a 28 feet pitch and weighs nearly seven tons the vessel is full ship rigged and the masts adars spars and sails which have been supplied alii d aie are those suitable to a clipper sailing 0 ship of 1600 or 1800 tons |