STEAMER OF NOVEL CONSTRUCTION.

Auckland Examiner, Volume III, Issue 141, 12 March 1859, Page 5 (Supplement)

STEAMER OF NOVEL CONSTRUCTION.

The following description of a. new steamer is from the Boston (U.S.) Journal: —

Brown and Lovell, the well known shipbuilders at East Boston, are constructing in their yard a small steamer which is to be propelled'in a novel manner. She is built as an experiment—the inventor being.furnished with funds to construct her by some of the leading shipbuilders in. this city. The hull is fiftytwo feet long, and thirteen feet wide at thestern, and tapers gradually to the-bows, which are very sharp. She is five- feet deep. On deck she will have a cabin nineteen feet long. She will be worked by an engine of 12-horse power, to which will be attached the propellers—one at the stern, three feet in diameter, to work in the water; and one at the stem, eight feet in diameter, to. work in the air. The air-propeller is attached to a shaft which connects it with engine and also with the waterpropeller at the stern. It is supported by a. post at the stem. Both propellers will be worked by steam. The smoke-pipe will liet horizontally on the- deck„ The inventor is. confident that by this arrangement he can. easily get twenty-five or thirty miles an hour out of this craft. We understand that the invention has been tried on a small boat in our harbor, and has worked admirably.