One of the Oldest Steamers Docked in Shanghai 'The Shanghai Dock Ca. tock into their Old Dock on Sept. 12 one of the oldest steam vessels afloat. She was originally named the Tungus and according to Lloyds' Register of Shipping was built in 1840 by the Nevsky Shipbuilding Ca. Leningrad.
She is about 180 ft, long, built of iron, and has been in continual service on the China coast. The hull design and construction, we are informed, still bear eloquent testi-many to the skill of her builders, who certainly must have been the pioneers of iron steamer construction so far as Russia is concerned,
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