The Indo-China Steam Company's new st-amer Lai Glasgow by the London Shipbuilding and Engi ant intended for the cargo of about consigned to the owners of the voss-l. The vessel came up river and took up moorings at Messrs. Jardine, Matheson' Pootung Wharf, and our repres took the opportunity to go board a d inspect the steamer. A ves-el discharying coal ts not exactly the place in which one would chose to spend a summer afte won, and at such a time a ship ix seen at its worst, but, in spite of coal dust and noise, the inspection of the steamer proved most interesting.
'The Laisung is a stea! screw steamer of 3,459 tons' gross and 2,924 tons' net mea-urement, and 350 normal and about 3,000 indicated' horse power.
She is fitted with electric light thro) out on the double wire syst-m, stalment being by the Mess: s. W.C, Martin and Ca., of Glusgow. The electric wires are on the term system, there being no splicing of wires. "AM the wires in the and stoke hold are eased in piping, other parts of the ship are covered with lead casing. The ship's engines are of the inverted triple expansion, surface end toba of the latest pattern, with cylinddors of 263 in., 44 in, and 72 in, diameter, and 48 in. stroke. The ship has two large single-furnaced boilers 19 ft. 6 in, in cham-ter and one double-furnsced boiler, for supplying stean for the winches, eti ft., Sin, in diameter. The shell plates are Ty inches thick with rivets of inches, The furnaces are Deizhton's patent and havea mean diameter of 3 ft. 10 iv. The forced draught. system is by means of ~piral lo flames are re' ned in the boiler tubes ostend of jossitg through. Tu the engine ruin several ments were to he noti Railton and Campbell's ringed and corrugated filter Ly which all water filtered before being into the boiler; a foed-water heater, by means of which the temperature of the water is raised to about 200 degrees by: fore entering the boiler; 4 waste stean condenser, which converts all Waste steam into water and retains it te the—buile a Weir's evaporator, which toms of water per liers and a suction pump for the ballast tanks and pilyes are all by Messrs. Lamond Ca,, of Paisley; the last-mentioned pump raises' 100 tons of water per hour. The Laising carries ten saloon passengers, bu: can accommodate ie than a thousand natives, The officers' cabins are all on the upper deck and are as c-pletely fitted as modern stea
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