Djerissa - Launch

LAUNCH AT WEST HARTLEPOOL

(Northern) Daily Mail, April 10/10

To-day Messrs. William Gray and Co., Ltd., launched the handsome steel screw steamer Djerissa, which they have built to the order of Messrs. Frank C. Strick and Co., Ltd., of London and Swansea, for La Tunisienne Steam Navigation Co,. of Paris.

She will take the highest class in Lloyd’s and is of the following dimensions, viz.: Length over all, 362ft., breadth, 50ft., and depth, 25ft. 11 ½ in. ; with long bridge, poop, and top-gallant forecastle.

The saloon, staterooms, captain’s and officers’ rooms will be fitted up in the poop and the engineers in houses on the bridge deck, and the crew’s berths in the forecastle.

The hull is built with deep bulb-angle frames, cellular double bottom, and large aft peak ballast tank, ten steam winches, steam steering gear amidships, hand screw gear aft, patent direct steam windlass, large horizontal multitubular donkey boiler, stockless anchors, telescopic masts fore and aft rig, boats on deck overhead and all requirements for a first class cargo steamer, including Porter’s patent derrick sockets for dealing with heavy lifts by combining the ships ordinary derricks.

Triple-expansion engines are being supplied by the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders, having cylinders 24in., 36in., and 64in. Diameter, with a piston stroke of 42in., and two large steel boilers for a working pressure of 180lbs. per square inch worked under Howden’s system of forced draught.

The vessel has been constructed under the superintendence of Mr. Archibald Walker, on behalf of the owners, the ceremony of naming the steamer “Djerissa” was gracefully performed by Miss Robina Hunter, eldest daughter of Mr. Fred W. Hunter, Hartlepool.

    

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