launched by the Dock and Engineering Ca.
Dock & Engineering Con, Ltd, successfully launched from "their" " Pootung Shipyard en Match 27 the new steel twin screw ste. Hsin Yang Maru built to the order of Messrs. Nisshin Kisen Kaisha for their passenger: and cargo service between Hankow, and Ichang. The vessel is an improved type of the "Tang Yang Mara" built and engined by the! Dock Company for the same owners two years ago. She ig 246 ft. lon by 40 ft. broad and designed 1,000 tons deadweight on draft, and constructed" under the survey" of the Japanese Govern-surveyors and British Corporation and will be classed in this Society for their special river class. On the saloon deck a large an luxuriously appointed saloon with four two berth state rooms is place Forward for first class passengers, lo amidships are five two bert, bins for Chinese first class and five four berth cabins for Chinese second class passengers, also room Jor Chie com ds and, pilots: and lation, for 152 Chinese class third passengers is placed aft.
On the ridge deck are large comfortably: appointed rooms for the captain, officers and engineers aft of the wheel house, The propelling machinery structed in the Dock Con-pany's workshops consists of two sere triple expansion surface condensing: Cnigines, supplied with steam fro tone large and one small eylindi ultitubulay Boilers fitted—wit Tiowden's system of foreed draft and built to survey requirements for a working pressure of 200 Ili, Yer sipuare vertical feed contact feed a separate combined get a: uniating, feed, bil sanitary pumps driven by vertical engine. electric generating set dr npounel steam engine. soarchligh:
Imojector, Hastic's steam ste gear one and Eapstan on salon deck for and} yes capstan on saloon deck aft. Immediately after the launch the sheerlogs at their machinery: wi where the heavy stalled and the vessel completed far service,
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