151 "We fast night announced that the launch bf No. 4 Gun-boat from the Kau-changmeaou Arsenal had been fixed for to-day and punctual to the time fixed, under the superintendence of Mr. A. G. Lambert, she took to her native element. Everything oft ssu except that, in the excitement of the moment, the trigger was Knocked away before the men engaged under the keel had quite completed their preliminary, work of remoting the shores, and one of two were consequently wounded, though. fortunately not seriously, we believe, by some falling wood-work.
No. 4 lies, in the water on a pretty even keel, drawing 7it. Sin. forward and Sft. aft.
fine looking vessel, more of a cor-verte than a gunboat. Having been ori-great ig capacity, font was intended ginally designed for Transport, she has she should be employed in carrying rice to Peking. This service having, however, been contracted for by a private firm, she was converted into a man-of-war. Her measurements we gave last night. She has engines of the direct acting type, of 150 nominal horse-power, working up to 540. Her boilers have been proved by hydraulicpressure 90 lbs. to the square inch, the working pressure being 30lbs. tothe inch: Ber calculated speed at the latter pressure Will be 10 knots, sea-going average 9 knots per hour. She is constructed to carry fourteen days coals.
At the same yard, a frigate is in process of construction, the keel having been alread) laid, and the stem and stern-posts fixed. It is expected that she will be completed in about 14 months, her engines and boilers doing already in a fe state of completion. She will be 243 ft. between the main perpendiculars, and will have 45 ft. beam.
for engines will be of the most approved pattern, direct acting, return connecting-type, calculated to work up to six times the nominal horse-power. All her machinery will be two: feet below the water line Her armament.will consist of twenty-four 48-pounder wrought iron rified guns, of Woolwich pattern, turned out at the Arsonal, and two 10-inch rifled guns of° the designs of Mr. G. X Lambert 'HI pattern. building from This three-decker is build
C. M.'sChief Naval Constructor. The machinery is constructed at the Arsenal from the designs of Mr. John Rolls, the Suintendent Marine Engineer. 'She will about 3,000 tons builders' measurement, Quite a gathering of native officials and foreign visitors was present to witness to-day's launch, and after its successful ter- Y; mination, the majority of the latter were courteously entertained at tiffin, by Mr.
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