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Mary Baird (1911) - a general history

Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, Tuesday, May 16th, 1911:
LAUNCH OF THE s.s. MARY BAIRD. Yesterday, Messrs. Craig, Taylor, and Co., Ltd., launched from their Thornaby Shipbuilding Yard, Thornaby-on-Tees, a handsomely-modelled single deck screw steamer of the following dimensions, viz.: 306ft.by 45ft. by 22ft. 6in. moulded.
She is built of steel to the highest class in Lloyd's registry, under special survey, and has poop, bridge and topgallant forecastle; water ballast in double bottom fore and aft, and in peaks. She is equipped with patent steam windlass with quick warping ends, steam steering gear, five steam winches, and “Riley” patent donkey boiler, telescopic masts, and all the latest improvements for rapid loading and discharging.
The accommodation for captain and officers is neatly fitted up in deck-houses amidships, the engineers being in a deckhouse alongside the engine casing, and the crew in the forecastle.
Her engines have been constructed Messrs. MacColl and Pollock, Ltd. , Sunderland, the cylinders being 22½in., 36½in., 60in., by 39in., with two large steel boilers working at 180 lbs. pressure.
In addition to general trades, the vessel is also specially adapted for timber carrying. The vessel has been built to the order of Messrs. J.W. Baird and Co., West Hartlepool for the Baird Shipping Co., Ltd., under the superintendence of Mr. Wm. Graham, M.I.M.E., consulting engineer and marine superintendent, of West Hartlepool.
As the vessel left ways she was gracefully christened the Mary Baird, by Miss Baird, daughter of the managing owner.

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