An Important Period in the History of Shipbuilding When Iron Struggled with Wood for Supremacy The report we published Inst week of the dry-docking of the str. Tungus,, from which emerged th fact that she is 88 years old, must have come as a shock to a very great number of people who imagine that they are well ac~ quainted with Shanghai, Probably, however, it is quite excusable on their part never to have imagined that there should be such a link with the past among the odds and ends of shipping which frequent these waters, for in truth most of the type we have in mind, numbers of them apparently afloat only by an effort, are not of the character to excite any undue curiosity. One for two, we know, have fallen from high estate, but the majority of the small, indiscriminate fry do not give the impression of ever having been much better than they now fare, and intended only for dodging into the wayside ports of the coast and picking up an odd assortment of cargo. When, however, quaintance is made with the str. Tungus we find ourselves faced with an entirely different theme to contemplate, and realize that more senses that one she is his-
Clydeside were sent to Russia to engaze in shipbuilding.
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