Anew twin-screw steamer of 300 tons reg., built of mild steel to the order of the China Navigation Company for the West River trade, was successfully launched at 3.30 on Saturday afternoon from Messrs. Farnham and Co.'s Cosmopolitan Dock. Her dimensions aro:—length, 148ft., beam, 24ft. 6 in., depth, 8ft. 6in., and draft, off. The engines are also by the same construc. tors and are the compound surface condensing type of 500i. h. p., steam. to he supplied by one boiler with a working pressure of 120lbs. he craft when leaving the ways wan christened the Wuchow by Mr. J. C. Bois, head of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, agents for the owners, and on taking the water was brought up by a wire and hauled alongside the Dock for completion. On the one side of the Wuchow's way large pontoon in course of construction for the Hung On Company, and on the other, the keels of two river steamers to be built for Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg and Ca.
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