hartlepool history logo
close button

Joseph Chamberlain - Trial

TRIAL TRIP OF THE s. S. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN

Northern Daily Mail August 5/10

On Saturday, the handsome steel screw steamer Joseph Chamberlain, built by Messrs. William Gray and Co., Limited, for Messrs. J. and R. O.  Sanderson, West Hartlepool and Cardiff, was taken for her trial trip.

The vessel has been built to Lloyd’s highest class, and is of the following dimensions : Length over all, 361ft. 6in.; breadth, 50ft., and depth, 25ft. 11in, description of the steamer has already been given.

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.

Those onboard Messrs. John Sanderson, R.O. Sanderson, Frank Sanderson, Mrs. John Sanderson, Misses H. and K. Sanderson, and Mrs. H. Robinson; Alderman Butterwick, Messrs. G. And H. Coverdale, Mr. H. Middleton, and Mr. Thos. Trechmann; Messrs. C. P. Sanderson and Oliver, who have superintended the construction of the ship and machinery; Mr. James Innes represented Lloyd’s Registry, Captain J. E. Murrell, the shipbuilders, and Mr. J. B. Williams, the engine builders.

The trial was a highly satisfactory one, a mean speed of 11 ½ knots being registered.

 

 

 

               

 

 

 

 

 

 

Related items :