The Yuensang, or "Fountain of Life," the new addition to the fleet of the Indo-China Navigation Ca, ved here on Saturday. She is a siste lp to the Leesan, and was built and engined by Messrs. Hall, Russell & Ca. of Aberdeen. She is built of steel and is 250 feet long, wich 36 feet beam and 16 feet depth of hold and 1,050 registered tonnage. Her enginco are triple expansion of 200 horse-power nominal, and she has two single ended boilers. The cylinders are 21, 33 and 54 inches diameter with stroke of 39in., and she is classed 100 Alat Lloyds. She is constructed to carry 2,000 tons dead weight ona mean draft of 18 feet, and her speed on the voyage vut averaged 10} knots on a consumption of 154 tons of coal per day. On the trial trip her speed was 12.2 knots per hour, and on the passage out she proved herself an excellent sea boat, while her engines worked very smoothly.
The Yuensang has two steel pole masts and 8 teak decks, the spar deck extending from the bridge to themainmast, abreak occurring here to permit of cargo being worked at the main hatch. On the spar deck are the wheel house, chart room, some skylights and six boats with Leeman's patent lowering ear, Under the spar deck, on the main feck, are the saloon, which is aft, and the officers' and engineers' quarters, all of these being amidships on the port and starboard sides; the galleys are on both sides of the funnel, while the coal bunkers have ventilate which are against the engine room casing. She has three hatches on the main deck and four on the tween deck, and her sides are Fition to Napier's stenmuvindlass and high pierced with eight cargo ports. In ad-
speed capstan, she has two steam winches for working cargo or for working the ship.
The saloon is nicely fitted and will accommodate twenty passengers. The woodwork is teak which is painted white and the officers' and engineers' cabins are light, cool and well ventilated, and for the cold' weather they have steam heaters, with a stove in the saloon. Among the spplisnees are Chadburn's patent telegraph, (she can also steer by hand), Sir William uir and Caldwell's steam steering gear, 'Thompson's compasses, and' Cooper and Wigzell's sounding apparatus.
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