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294 Steam Ship "Shawmut"
Built at Sparrow Point Maryland
by the Maryland Steel Company
for the Boston Steamship Company
Launched in Summer of 1902
Cost $1,000,000 dollars (1 million)
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Length over all 505 feet
Beam 58 feet
depth of hold 48 feet
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Has a gross tonnage of 9606 Nett
Tonnage 6196.
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She has capacity for 18500
Tons measurement freight and
carries 1200 Tons dead Wieght
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She has 9 Hatches on deck
and 24 Cargo Winches
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In addition to her 2 regular
Masts, she has 6 derrick masts
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Her Bow anchor Wiegh 6 Tons
Each with 150 fathoms of chain
weighing about 50 Tons Each
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Haudraulic Steam Steering Gear
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2 Triple Expansion Engines
and Twin propellors
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Came here in August 1902
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Copied from daily Colonist
August 12 1902
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Steamer Princess Victoria" 295
Built by C. S. Swan & [and] Hunter at New
Castle on Tyne England in the fall of
1902.
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Length between perpendiculars 300 feet
Beam (Extreme) 40 feet 6 inches
Depth (Moulded) 18 feet 6 inches.
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Has Watertight Bulkheads and a double
bottom.
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Dining Saloon can accomodate 90 passengers
Has large house on Hurricane deck 245
feet long.
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Machinery built by E. & [and] N. Hawthorn Leslie
& [and] Co. [company]. Consist of 2 sets triple Expansion
Engines, working on 4 cranks and
balanced. Cylingers 24, 40, 47 1/2, 43 1/2
inches, with a stroke of 33 inches and
are Expected to develope 5500 indicated
horse power. She has 6 single Ended
boilers Each 11 feet long x [by] 15 feet
diameter, working at a pressure of
160 pounds to the [square] inch. She is
Expected to make 18 Knots per hour
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Steamship "Pleiades"
Built by Maryland Steel Works at Sparrow
Point Maryland in 1900. Steel Vessel.
431 feet long, 47 feet Beam, 23 feet
depth of hold. Net measurement capacity
6740 tons. Carries 5350 tons Dead Wieght
Copied from Colonist Janry [January] 11 1903
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