The Tatung, the most recent addition to the fleet of the China Navigation Ca, which arrived here recently, went down river on ashore trial trip on Monday morning, with a few guests on board.
The Tatung has been built by Scott and Ca. of Greenock and is a steel twin screw steamer, and may be called a sister ship to the Ngaxkin with some improvements. Her principal dimensions are:—Length 286 feet, beam 43 feet, depth of lower hold 13 feet and main deck cargo room 10ft. Gin, She has tive bulkheads and three water ballast tanks with a capacity of 320 tons. Her displacement is 2,125 tons and her registered tom She has three decks, the steel, the others wood, mostly pine, the promenade deck, which is covered wit awnings, are the bridge with Chadbu telegraph, the wheel house in which is Muir and Cardwell's steam steering gear, and speaking tubes; atthe back of the wheel house are the pilots' cabins. On this deck there are eleven skylights giving light to the saloon, engine room, cabins and Chinese saloon, and leading down to the Chinese booby hatch with broad ladders, so that in case of fire, the passen; can rush promenade deck instead of crowding into the alleyways. On this deck also are four boats, a number of large water Kongs and a tank for sanitary sod bath room purposes, while hanging round the railing are some two dozen life: buoys. On the deck below this we find aft the Chinese saloon in which are nearly two hundred bunks, the sides of the saloon having glass windows. There are also twelve first class Chinese cabins with from three to four bunks in exch, and the Chinese galleys and sculleries. Forward of these on the port side are the officers' and engineers' cabins, all the foreigners except the captain havin, their rooms close together. On the starboa side are the foreign bathroom, and some other rooms, the baths being supplied with water and steam. Then forward is the saloon with four cabins and two berths in each. They are well furnished and plainly, but substantantially upholstered, while the floors are covered with oil cloth and the rooms are supplied with steam heaters, as fre all the other cabins and the Chinese saloon. Forward of the foreign saloon is the captain's room, and forward of this again is a combined steam capstan and windlass by Clarke, Chapman and Ca. On this deck, handy for the foreigners, are " number of
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