Penolver - Launch

LAUNCH AT WEST HARTLEPOOL

Northern Daily Mail, May 18/12

Today, Messrs. William Gray and Co., Ltd., launched the handsome steel screw steamer, Penolver, which they have built for Mr. Richard B. Chellew, of Truro.

She will take the highest class in Lloyd’s Register, and is of the following dimensions, viz.: Length over all, 361ft.6in, breadth, 50ft., and depth, 25ft. 11in., with long bridge, poop, and top-gallant forecastle. The saloon, staterooms, captain’s, officers, and engineers’ rooms, etc., will be fitted up in 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, seven steam winches, steam steering gear amidships, hand screw gear aft, patent direct steam windlass, large horizontal multitubular donkey boiler, steel grain divisions, stockless anchors, telescopic masts, with fore and aft rig, boats on deck overhead and all requirements for a first class
cargo steamer and for Admiralty transport work.

Triple-expansion engines are being supplied by the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders, having cylinders 25in., 40 ½ in., and 67in., 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. John Chellew and Mr. R. B. Roberts, on behalf of the owner, and the ceremony of naming the steamer Penolver was gracefully performed by Mrs. G. H. Baines, West Hartlepool.



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