August contains the following account of the launch of a new steamer for P. and O. Company:—On the 24th Auguat a steatner named the Carthage, built for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, by Messrs. Caird eud Ca., was Inauched at Greenock. Her measurements are these Length, 430 feet; breadth, 44 feet 5 depth, 35 feot (woulded); tonnage, 5,100 gross meastrement. The ship is a duplicate of the Rome, Iaunched by the came builders for the P. and 0. Company on the ith May. The large contre-house amidships includes smoke room and music-room, and fro it got to the main saloon underneath, and aft on each side of the rooms, ko.
high rate of speed, and with that view very powerful engines are being prepared for They consist of four cylinders, having natroke of five feot, with surface condenser, centrifugal and other pumps, &e. The crank shaft, which weighs 30 an will be se are constructed of steel, and li be about 90 Ihe. Fuel will be admitted by no fewer than 30 furnaces, and the sloke will be carried away by two funnels, She will he fitted with four masts, and has short poop ant forecastle. The best appliances for loading and discharging cargo, for pumping, for extinguishing tire, for steering, &e., will be put on beard the Carthage, and the engines will have all ti wt recent patents starting and reversing, and for controlling them in stormy weather, As the steamer glided into the water she received her name from Mrs. Sutherland, wife of ti and managing director of the Po: Oriental Steamship Company.
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