Tilemachos Voyage History

LAUNCH AT WEST HARTLEPOOL

Northern Daily Mail, April 29/11
    
Yesterday, Messrs. William Gray and Company, Limited, launched the handsome steel screw steamer Tilemachos, of 6,200 tons capacity, which they have built for Mr. George C. Dracoulis, of Bralia. She will take the highest class in Lloyd’s register, and is of the following dimensions, viz. : Length over all, 367ft.; breadth, 50ft. 8in.; and depth, 24ft. 3 in., with extra long bridge, poop, and top-gallant forecastle. The saloon, staterooms, captain’s, officers, and engineers’ rooms, etc., will be fitted up with houses on the bridge deck, and the crew’s berths in the forecastle.
    
The hull is built with deep frames, cellular double bottom, and large aft and fore peak ballast tanks, six steam winches with return exhaust, steam steering gear amidships, hand screw gear aft, patent direct steam windlass, large horizontal multitubular donkey boiler, shifting boards throughout, stockless anchors, telescopic masts, with fore and aft rig, 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., 40 ½ in., and 67in. diameter, with a piston stroke of 45in., 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. C. L. Ryder and Capt. Gratsos on behalf of the owners, and the ceremony of naming the steamer Tilemachos was gracefully performed by Madame J. Riso, Cardiff.

TRIAL TRIP OF THE s.s. TELEMACHOS

Northern Daily Mail, May 30/11

The handsome steel screw steamer Tilemachos, built by  Messrs. William Gray and Co., Ltd., West Hartlepool  for Mr. George C. Dracoulis, of Bralia, had her trial run yesterday to the Tyne, where she takes in her first cargo.
     
The vessel has a of capacity 6,200 tons, and her principal dimensions are : Length over all, 367ft.; breadth, 50ft. 8in.; and depth, 24ft. 3 in.
    
Triple-expansion engines have been supplied by the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders, having cylinders 25in., 40 ½ in., and 67in. diameter, with a piston stroke of 45in., and two large steel boilers for a working pressure of 180lbs. per square inch.
    
The owner Mr. George C. Dracoulis was on board, as were also Mr. C. L. Ryder and Captain Gratsos, who have superintended the building of the ship and machinery. Mr. A. McGlashan, junr., represented the builders of the ship, and Mr. Wm Reynard the engine-builders.

After adjustment of the compasses, the vessel was headed for the Tyne, where she arrived after a splendid run, her average speed as registered by the log being 12 ¼ knots, and the performance of both ship and machinery giving great satisfaction to all concerned.