| Show SCOTT RUSSELLS great iZAT 67 STEAMER the new number of the quarterly review has an article articie entitled the triton and the minnows 1 de dex doted to a wholesale laudation of this leviathan whose dimensions are illustrated by some borne curious examples it is said that ten watertight water tight bulkheads bulk heads 03 63 feet apart divide the ship transversely whilst two long iong longitudinal iron walls wails feet apart trav traverse erse feet of her length if we could take Mir arts hotel and drop it into one of these take Far farrantes rances and drop it into the second take borleis Mor leys leis at charing cr cross 0 ss and fit it into a third and nd adjust the great western hotel at paddington and the gre great at noi nol t thern thorn h ern at kings kino cross gross into compart bompart ments four and five we should get some faint idea of the accommodation to be afforded each compartment will willbe be a distinct hotel with its ts splendid saloons upper and lower of 60 feet in length its is bedrooms bedro its kitchen and its bar the abil bi sip bip is destined be it remembered to ca carry t fi in st class 2000 second class and 1200 1 lii lil third t 1 cias clas I a s passengers geis making a total of guess ii independent of the crew the th e total length of the vessel will be feet to make the capacity of these figures better understood it may be stated that neither gosvenor grosvenor G nor behr beby belgrave belgrade W a ve square could take the great eastern in berkeley square would irely barely admit her and when rigged her mizen bacia would project some distance up davis street whilst her bowsprit if she had one would hang a long iong way over the marquis of Lans downes garden she is the eighth of a mile in length and consequently four turns up and down her deck will afford the passengers a walk ot ol a mile iler her width is 83 feet the width of pall mall across her paddle paddie boxes her breadth is feet and if she had bad to steam up portland place she would scrape the houses on each side this ibis floating town will be propelled by three powers paddle screw and sail her paddle wheels 56 feet in diameter or considerably larger than the cir clr circus C us at Ast leys will be propelled by four engines the screw is 24 feet in diameter and the four fans remind the spectator of the blade bones of some huge antediluvian monster its shaft is feet in length lerith leri lerl 0 th and weighs 0 60 tons taus the ship slip will mill be pulled IMI jed led and alid nihed in its couise conse like an invalid in iii a bath eath chair and bails sails vill will only be used with mith a strong wind ind in the direction of her co course sav a breeze edin s 1 v 4 1 ii illo pi pk r h b r fr f r wh h sae sue is pi rare tare j jre rc lili mili ai al ra niss ciss and aud am square yards of cam cai cal as dg As speaking trumpets ia would be useless a vessel essel of the dimensions of the great eastern a sema Bema semaphore will be used to signal to 1 the helmsman by day and a system of colored ii ii hab ha 1 i ih i h J alir ile lip jn leei i will wit be communicated avith by the tiu elech ic tn tc terail grai rall gral rali h i A stand ird compass ii mill ill iii be placed upon a stage forty feet in height and the helmsman will either read off the points eints through a transparent card illuminates illuminated like a clock front or the tile i ilav 1 I 1 the tilo ledlie icila will be pi 1 i I 1 down a loii 1019 tibe t ibe upon a c rd belov be iov lov so iii 0 us 4 t L a aad cd the tile necessity ot of the helnm in 1001 IDO r up and to obviate obi ia te the dilli culty which b be felt in fo fois 7 S her ten anchors will weigh 55 tons her 80 fathoms of chain cable 98 tons and her ca capstans p aid and ald warps it pa U t i 1 ti T 53 to tons toas is ol 01 apalia ces for lank tank lii iii ig lr jes jos j s gas 11 NN ja ll be in on uil hr bo ird ard and laid on to all parts of the shil shi alid aia the electric elec tiit light will be fixed at the Lias th id the operation of launching v i lit iii be as great a novelty as the veasel teasel hersell herbell notwithstanding that her weight when that moment arrives will be no less leas than tons she is to enter eiter t the he water broadside on oil by means 0 of an inci inclined ined plane which is the reason chy hy she sha is buil bull building din parallel to the river albion |
