The new Tungsha lightship, built by the Shanghai Engineering, Shipbuilding and Dock Ca., was Isunched at the Company's works on Monday afternoon. There was no formal ceremony of naming the vessel, but 'a number of Isdies and gentlemen were present by invitation to witness the launch. As soon as the tide ceased to rise, the signal was given and the last remaining supports being removed, the vessel glided gracefully down the ways and took the water without the slightest hitch. After the launch the company adjourned to the Manager's office, where the usual toasts were. honoured. The Tungsha, which is intended to replace the Netwchwang, which has done duty since the old lightship was condemned, is a composite vessel her frames being. of steel with teak planking. Her dimensions are: length, 110 feet between perpendiculars; length over all, 119 feet; breadth, 25 feet; depth 13 feet 6 in. She has been constructed mainly with a view to strength and ig strengthened by a steel sheer plate in. thick by 21 inches in depth, and strong bilge plates to which the bilge keels are secured. The keel plate has a thickness of of an inch, with a width of two feet. The fog siren will be worked by two 9} brake horse power Hornsby-Akroyd oil engines, with 6 in. by 10 in. air compress sors. The light will be of a different character to the one shown up to the present, a dioptric occulting light being substituted for the present fixed one. The Tungsha has been entirely designed and built by the Engineering and Shipbuilding Ca., but the machinery both for the light and fog signal has been procured from home by the Customs.
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