Langholm

LAUNCH AT WEST HARTLEPOOL

Northern Daily Mail, April 1/11

Yesterday, Messrs. William Gray and Co., Limited launched the handsome steel screw steamer, Langholm, which they have built for the London and Northern Steamship Company Limited, Messrs. Pyman Brothers, London, managers. The vessel is of the shelter deck type, and will take the highest class in Lloyd’s Register. Her dimensions are: Length over all, 395ft.; breadth, 53ft.6in. ; and depth, 25ft. 5in.

The saloon, staterooms, captain’s, officers, and engineers’ rooms, etc., are in houses on the bridge deck, and the crew’s accommodation forward.

The hull is built with deep bulb-angle frames, dispensing with hold beams, and leaving large clear holds, cellular double bottom, and fore and aft ballast tanks. Ten steam winches, derrick tables and out-riggers and double derricks, steam steering gear amidships, hand screw gear aft, patent direct steam windlass, large horizontal multitubular donkey boiler, fresh water distiller, steel grain divisions, stockless anchors, telescopic masts, boats on deck overhead, and all requirements for a first class cargo steamer.

Triple-expansion engines are being supplied by the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders, having cylinders 25in., 41in., and 68in. diameter, with a piston stroke of 48in., and two large steel boilers for a working pressure of 180lbs. per square inch.

The ship and machinery have been built under the superintendence of Mr. R. T. Rutherford, on behalf of the owners, and the ceremony of naming the steamer Langholm was gracefully performed by Miss Dorothy Pyman daughter of Mr. F. H. Pyman, J. P., London.

TRIAL TRIP OF THE s.s. LANGHOLM

Northern Daily Mail, April 1/11

Yesterday, the handsome steel screw steamer, Langholm, built by Messrs. Wm Gray and Co., Ltd, to the order of the London and Northern Steamship Company Limited, (Messrs. Pyman Brothers, London, managers), had her trial trip.

The Langholm is of the shelter deck type, has been built to Lloyd’s highest class and is of the following dimensions: viz, length over all, 395ft.; breadth, 53ft.6in, and depth, 25ft. 5in.     

Triple-expansion engines are being supplied by the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders, having cylinders 25in., 41in., and 68in. diameter, with a piston stroke of 48in. The cylinders have very large port openings to insure an easy passage of the steam, and so obtain the maximum energy from it. The main condenser has been specially designed to maintain a high vacuum in all seas, whilst special attention has been given to insure a high temperature in the boiler feed water.

The engine-room auxiliaries include a number of duplex pumps of the builders “cemew” type, and also one of their large “cemew” evaporators.

Steam is generated in two large steel boilers adapted for a working pressure of 180lbs. per square inch.

Special attention has been paid in the design and construction of the vessel and machinery to insure the utmost economy in fuel and upkeep, and the special features named above, will enable the maximum amount of cargo to be carried a fair average speed on a very low consumption of coal.

The trial being witnessed on behalf of the owners by Mr. Creswell Pyman, there being also present Mr. R. T. Rutherford, under whose superintendence the vessel and her machinery have been built; Mr. James Innes represented Lloyd’s Registry; Mr. Arnold Jones the shipbuilders, and Mr. Maurice S. Gibb, the engine builders. Captain Arkley was in command.

After a preliminary run along the coast, the vessel was put upon the measured mile at Whitley, when a measured speed of 12 knots was obtained.