Southern Utonian | 1888-02-24 | Page 2 | A Steam Catameran

A steam catamaran A novel craft is being built in montreal it is a steam eleam catamaran each of the cigar shaped hulls being of steel sixty five feet long iong and built in two compartments one being for water ballast and the other for coal oil which will lie bo used for or fuel two vertical engines will f furnish ur the power to two propellers which are so eo arranged that they will lift themselves out of the way when the hulls strike floating feinting ire ice or other obstacles the boat can bo be taken apart and packed on oil a ship and is intended for whale and wal us hunting in theartic the artic regions it will carry a gatling galling gun and a powerful electric battery cleveland leader